Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-07-14
WISCONSIN news
Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

The forty-frst congress of the Wis
consin Skat league will be held in
Green Bay Sunday, Aug. s.
Theodore Zwickie, rs years old, OF
Sharon, Portage county, lost his life
by drowning in the Big Plover river.
Miss Georgia A. Fisher, deputy in
the Monroe county register of deeds
office, has announced her candidacy
for that office.
Miss Nora G. Egan, Highlands new
postmaster, won appointment after a
years political battle with four mas
culine opponents.
Miss Helen Ley, 9-year-old musical
prodigy of Fond du Lac, is astonishing
audiences throughout the state with
her unusual rendition of many diff
cult works.
Chinch bugs are not booked to visit
Wisconsin this year, according to the
state college of agriculture. Investi-
gators report that the bugs do not like
this climate.
P. H. Martin, Green Bay lawyer and
prominent politician, is reported re-
covering from the effects of an opera
ton at the Mayo brothers hospital,
Rochester, Mimi.
Lake flies have been so thick in the
vicinity of Neenah that motorists had
trouble from the carcasses of the
winged pests c1ogging their radiators,
causing the water to boil.
Gov. Blaine has granted a condi-
tional pardon to John ]. Carroll, q
a former soldier, who was convicted in
Rock county on Nov. IL, 1921, to serve
two years in prison on charge of driv-
ing an automobile while intoxicated.
Death cheated the rescurers Of s.
year-old Joe Dodge, lost for six days
in the dense woods near his home at
Brule, Douglas county. The child died
As minutes after he was found, weak
ened and emaciated, by one of several
searching parties. The boy was found
underneath pile of brush only mile
and a quarter from the farm home of
his parents.
Frank Lang, who is serving a TWEEN
ty year sentence in Waupun state peni-
tertiary for the Staying of Charles
Pacini, wealthy Kenosha theatre own
er, has been granted a new trial by
the Wisconsin Supreme court. Sever
al written confessions submitted by
the state were declared by the defense
to have been obtained through third
degree" methods by the police.
The Supreme court has affirmed the
lower court decision holding consti-
tutional the provision of the Wiscon-
sin compensation act, which gives the
! industrial commission authority to
impose treble damages on a corpora
ton when minor in it's employ work
ing without child labor permit is
injured. It sustained the penalty i'm
posed on the Flambeau Paper com
pany, which was found guilty of vio-
lating the child labor law.
A quarrel over money matters Is
believed responsible for the murder
of George Dubois and the suicide of
| Alexander McGinnis, his alleged STAY
er. Both men lived at Pelican Lake.
Dubois was found dying with bullet
in his abdomen and officers arrested
McGinnis, u years old, who is said
to have made threats against Dubois.
McGinnis asked for time to get his hat
and went into his house, where he
blew out his brains.
The walls of the new state hospital
are expected to rise rapidly following
the announcement by Gov. Blaine that
he will authorize the project. The
Wisconsin legislature in 1919 appro-
priated $750,000 for the hospital build
ing, $150,000 for the nurses home and
$450,000 to equip both structures in
Madison. It is provided that the money
be obtained from the surplus of the
S15,000,000 soldiers recognition fund.
The foundation has already been laid
at an expense of $4,000.
Wendell Kiska, aged Sc, a farmer near
Ogema, shot and killed Mrs. Agnes
Yunek, aged SO, a widow, and later
took his own life. Kiska is thought to
have Quarreled with the woman, whom
he had planned to marry as soon as
he was divorced. Officials state that
he went to Mrs. Yunek's home at night,
lifted a screen on her bedroom win
dow and shot her while she was asleep.
The following morning Kiska bid his
children good bye, went into the flele
and shot himself.
Mrs. Richard P. Holmes, wife of the
sheriff of Grant county, is one of three
Wisconsin women, all wives of sher-
ifs, who have announced their can
didacies for the public Office now held
by their husbands. The other women
are Mrs. A. M Woelfer, wife of the
Jefferson county sheriff, and Mrs.
Peter Barten of Ladysmith, who is the
first woman to seek office in Rusk
county. Mrs. Holmes, who is 40 years
of age and a graduate of Platteville
normal school, intends to make an
aggressive campaign for the republic
can nomination.
Appleton will raise $4,000 for pub
lie school purposes next year. The
levy is $4,000 less than a year ago.
Per capita cost of instruction in the
high school has been reduced from
$3.50 to $105 year.
The 1922 Wisconsin tobacco crop.