Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-02-24
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

A course in sheet metal working is
to be added to the curriculum of the
Amigo high school and vocational
school. Equipment and materials are
being received.
Brig. Gen. Edward F. McGlachlin,
Jr., Stevens Point, commandant of the
army war college, Washington, has
been selected for appointment as a
major general to fill the vacancy in
that grade to be created by the volun-
tary retirement of Maj. Gen. William
G. Ham, Mar. 81.
Preliminary estimates of the Wis
consin tax commission indicate that
the 1922 taxes on street railway, light,
heat and power companies will be
even greater than in 1921, when they
were Is per cent higher than in 1920.
The commission gives the probable
rate for 1922 as $2119 per $1,000. The
rate in 1921 was $2106 per $1,000.
Manitowoc's city owned water and
light plants showed a profit of $4,000
during the year 1921, according to a
report which has been filed with the
state commission. This profit was
shown on a rate of 8 cents for light
and 5 cents for power with 8 cents
for heating. The water rate is also
lower than in many cities Of the state
A Wisconsin man has been placed
in command Of the special service
naval squadron in the Caribbean sea,
and Central American waters. He is
Rear Admiral N. G. Twining, Monroe,
who for the last nine months has been
naval attache at the American en-
bassy in London, During the World
war Rear Admiral TWining planned
operations of the American naval
forces on duty in the war zones.
Eight flremen were overcome by
gas, and damage of close to 100000
to building and stock was caused by
a fire which ragged in the Kornhauser
Co. department store, Madison. The
fire is believed to have been started
by defective electric wiring. 1t began
in the basement, where huge amounts
of paper were stored, and spread
rapidly to the first floor of the build
ing, destroying $135,O0O worth of stock.
Construction of a new railroad be-
tween Merrill, Lincoln county and
Star Lake, Villas county, a distance
of more than 100 miles into new
and undeveloped section of Wisconsin
is planned by the STANCE Lumber com.
pany, the land commissioners have
just been informed. Before granting
an application for right to cross state
lands in building the new road, the
commissioners requested additional
information from the lumber company,
concerning their exact plans.
The persistent bowling of a timber
wolf outside his cabin at Plover, Mara
thon county, brought death to the wolf
and was the indirect cause of thel
death of the VOLTS executioner, Otto
Rupnow. Rupnow took his shotgun,
located the wolf in wooded area
across from his cabin, and killed it.
On the way heme, the trigger caught
IN a barbed wire fence, causing the
gun to explode. Buckshot shattered
the left side of Rupnow's face, caus-
ing instant death.
Within the last few months the FL
deron Guernsey club of Elderon, Shaw
ano county, has sold eight car loads
Of grade Guernseys, four to Colorado,
one to northern Minnesota, one to |
northern Wisconsin, one to Kenosha
and one to Pewaukee. The shipments
reached S11,500. Officers of the club
claim that the demand for grade
Guernseys is unlimited A. ]. Plow-
man, one of the leading members of
the organization says that dairymen
are beginning to learn that the Guern-
sey cow is one for both quality and
quantity when it comes to giving milk
and is very economical producer.
John A. (Dogskin) Johnson was re
leased from Waupun prison after serv-
ing ten years and six months of a life
sentence for the murder in 1911 of |
7-year-old Annie Lemberger, a crime
which Gov. Blaine is convinced he did
1ot commit. The prisoner went free
On orders of the governor, committing
MS sentence. Six months investiga-
ion into the probable circumstances
the crime to which Dog
skin" pleaded guilty, and for which
Martin Lemberger, father of the girl,
was formally charged with man
slaughter Jan. 5, brought Gov Blaine
% conclude that there is only one
act that stands out clearly, and that
S that Johnson did not murder Annie
Lemberger." Although charged with
in connection with her
1eath, the father pleaded not guilty
md availed himself of the statute of
limitations, causing the case to be
lolle pressed. He had been accused
If killing his daughter with a beer
bottle during a drinking party at his
home when she failed to obey him as
as he wished.
All gambling devices at Wisconsin
airs for the coming season will be
abolished as a result of action taken
n Fond du Lac at the annual conven-
ion of the Wisconsin Fairs associa-
ion. The fair men were unanimous
y in favor of doing away with the
I'D games of chance.