Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-07-07

Several persons were injured al
Fond du Lac when a sleeping car be
longing to the Wolfe shows. became
uncoupled from a switch engine and
crashed into three cara which were
on side track
Exhaust fumes from two automo-
biles behind which he was riding,
dazed Penniel Bacon, so that his
motorcycle colhded with a horse and
buggy. He is in Fond du Lac hospi-
tai suffering from severe cuts.
!. Edward Voves, a La Crosse team.
ster, charged with the transportation
of Is cases of home brew to saloon,
was fined $3.50 by Judge Brindley.
Voves made the mistake of attempt,
ing to unload the brew in front Of a
policeman.
Any mayor of a city who attempts
to act as an attorney in the defense Of
an alleged criminal lays himself open
to disbarment from practice, j. E. Mes
serschmidt, assistant attorney general,
informed w. B. Foster, district attor-
ney of Iron county.
Joe Bro, Ixonia, was fined $50 and
costs before Justice Ferdinand
Schmutzler of WATERFOWL, upon COM
plant of E. w. futile, conservation
commissioner, Oconomowoc, who
charged Bro with taking understood
pike from Rock river. BRO pleaded
ignorance of the fish law.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has authority to commence
mandamus proceedings to require
school boards to repair insanitary and
unsafe school buildings, R. M. Hoyt
deputy attorney general has advised
John Callahan, superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
The Cassville Beverage Co, Cass-
vile, was fined $1,000 and its presi-
dent, Andrew Lindner, was sentenced
to six months in the Milwaukee house
of correction, by Judge Claude 2;
Luse, at Madison, when found guilty
of selling liquor beverage contain
ing more than one-half of per cent
Of alcohol
According to the first census of We
hicle traffic on Winnebago county
highways taken this season, there
were 1912 vehicles that passed a Civ
en- point on route Is, south of Osh-
kosh, in one day Of IA hours OF this
number 844 were Wisconsin cars and
cars from other states numbered 1872.
Trucks totaled 1876, motorcycles, 5, and
horse-drawn vehicles, SO.
Radio claimed its first death in Wis
consin when Albert Heitz, So years
old, merchant and wireless enthusiast
of Port Washington, was electrocuted
while shifting apparatus on the roof
of his home. Moving radio wires to
a more advantageous position, he per!
mitted them to come into contact with
the city power lines high voltage
wires and was killed instantly, his
electrocution being accompanied by a
report that could be heard for blocks.
Sample primary ballots of the Wis
consin September general election
primaries have just been completed by
Elmer S. Hall, secretary of state, and
are soon to be sent to all county
clerks. Seventeen officers are to be
selected by the Wisconsin voters this
fall, the ballot shows. These officers
are listed on four party ballots, eacl
of which is twenty inches long. The
Democratic, Republican, Socialists ant
Prohibition parties are represented.
The Rahr Brewery, Green Bay, ha,
quit doing business. Officials Of tn,
company state, however, that it is
only for the time being and, as soor
as the state permit is issued produc
ton will be resumed. Fred Rahr, hea
H. the concern, who was sentenced te
eight months in the house of correc
| ton, Milwaukee, for violation of the
prohibition laws, is winding up his
affairs and will leave soon to start
serving his sentence.
Announcement has been made Of the
consolidation Of L&dysmith's two old
est banking institutions, the Rusk
County bank and he State Bank OF
Ladysmith The Rusk County bank
will take over the business of the
State bank, and will move into the
building occupied by the latter. The
name, Rusk County bank, will be re.
tanned, and the present officers of that