Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-03-03
WISCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

dII0T d year S Illness, 1uQuCSQ Dy HIS
having been gassed while in France.
He was 20 years old and was mem
Der of Teddy Budlong post, American
I Legion.
! Lawrence college annexed the Wis
consin state oratorical contest in the
victory Of Karl Trever, junior, award
ed first place in the contest held at
Beloit, in which Ripon, Beloit and Car
roll colleges, besides Lawrence, were
represented.
Lawrence college takes pride in the
fact that one of its most popular pro-
fessors, DR.. d. O. Kinsman, head of
the department of economics, is being
doomed as a candidate for mayor of
Appleton Dr. Kinsman has nation
al reputation as an economist and
drafted the present state income tax
I law.
A series Of robberies which have
baffled Hartford authorities for sew
eral weeks were cleared up with the
arrest of Dean Denning, 10 years old,
and the discovery Of truckload of
loot hidden on the Kellar farm where
Denning was employed Denning later
pleaded guilty in court and was held
for trial under $1,000 bond.
| Superior police located an alleged
wholesale moonshine manufacturing
plant in the old Val Blatz brewery
warehouse, seized more than 100 gal
Ions of the alleged liquor, three stills
in operation, % 50-gallon barrels of
mash and arrested Christ Hanson, 81,
and L. Johnson, "a, as the owners.
Two large truck loads of the materials
conf1scated were taken to police head
quarters.
Wisconsin furnished 124,814 sol
diers, sailors and marines to the ma
tional forces during the World war,
a revised report made public by Col.
Byron T. Beveridge, assistant adjutant
general, shows. Of this number 109,-
698 were in the army and 1916 in
the navy and marines. Milwaukee
furnished the greatest number of serv.
ice men with total of 25,802 of
which 21.496 were in the army and
1906 in the navy and marines.
Rural carriers of Rock county will
make an appeal at the state conven.
ton to be held at Wisconsin Rapids
to ask the postoffice department to-
have the cross roads as well as the
trunk lines kept in repair and patrol
led The carriers at their annual
meeting in GAINESVILLE went on record
favoring patrolling of the cross roads
which they travel. Condition of roads
this time of year were described as
remnants of a volcano" H. A. Pal
mer, GAINESVILLE, oldest rural carrier
here, was elected president.
Increase of seventenths of l per
cent in the number of persons en-
ployed in Wisconsin factories and
mines was noted by the state indus
trial commission during January, al
though the total wages paid to en-
ployes decreased 6.5 per cent and the
average earnings IA per cent. The
principal increases in number of en-
ployes was found in saw mills and
planning mills and in factories and
machine shops. Decreases were shown
IN stone crushing, quarrying and I'm
fishing, pig iron and rolling mill prod
ucts, furniture, meat packing, confec-
tionary and light and power.
In 1859 Henry Vogel of Monroe paid
taxes amounting to 81 cents on the
house in which he still lives. This
year he paid $4810 in taxes on the
same property. In the sixty-three
years that he has occupied this house, |
taxes have constantly risen until they
are .ninety-four times as large as the
first payment In 1868 the tax had
gone up to $4.06. In those days there
was one Waterman, string of oil
lamps on the street to the depot, no
pavements, no electric lights, no city
water and practically no expense for
school teachers or city or state gov
eminent.
Frederick L. Mcbride, %, confessed
on a train speeding back from Akron,
Ohio, where he was arrested, that he
murdered Edwin Thielen, his 24-year-
old chum of Racine, on the afternoon
Of Nov. 20 as Thielen brought his
car along the German settlement road
near the Frank Wentz farm, about /
three miles out of East Troy, where
McBride's fiancee lived. Throughout
the afternoon and until dusk, Mcbride
said, he drove about the countryside !
with the body covered with a robe
in the back of the car, finally dump
ing the body into Miracle creek, three
miles from Palmyra. Desire to get
money with which to go away from
East Troy, where he said he was be- /
coming submerged by lies about his
fortune in the east, and where a we'd
ding doomed near, was said by Nc
Bride to be the motive which drove
him to commit the crime.
Licensing of all engineers operating
in Wisconsin will be proposed by a
bill which will be presented to the
1923 session of the state legislature
next January, following acceptance by
the State Engineers society of reso-
luton to that effect at the annual
meeting of the organization at Madi-
son.
Peter Fisher, aged 70 years, one of
the most prominent attorneys in
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