Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-12-13
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
!. NEWS OF THE ]
BADGER STATE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Mrs. Wilhelmina Giese, SO, pio-
neer of Oconto, died suddenly while
reading the evening paper at her
home.
John Grayearek, so, farmer of
lander, Wis, committed suicide by
hanging. His body was found sus-
pended from an apple tree in his or
chard.
Milk dealers of La Crosse increased
the retail price of milk from II to II
cents. The raise is due to the dry
summer and scarcity of feed, the La
Crosse Milk Producers association
announced.
Henry E. Krause, who for many
years had followed the lumber indus
try in northern Wisconsin, died in
Rhinelander where he had lived for
the last thirty-f1ve years. Cancer was
the cause of death
The Bayfield, County bank and the
Northern State bank, both of Wash
burn, have been taken over by the
state bank department, Dwight Par
ker, commissioner of banking, an
nounced. Frozen assets were attr1b-
uted as the reason for taking over the
institutions.
Joseph H. Carnahan of Black River
Falls was seriously injured when he
was struck by an automobile near his
homo Io bod oro++o,, ont Of hic oar
leaving it with the driver, and went
around the back of the car and step
ped into the street in front of an ap-
preaching automobile.
A verdict of accidental death was re-
turned by coroners jury after an
inquest into the killing of Louis Kei-
ferle, run down by an automobile
driven by Ed Hicken, a Fond du Lac
county farmer. Hicken was freed of
any blame in the accident. Keiferle's
death resulted from nine broken ribs,
one of which punctured one of his
lungs.
The state is faced with the posi-
bility of paying an advance of five
cents a barrel on cement for next
years highway construction. Last
years supply of 100000 barrels Of
cement was purchased at $1.70-a bar
rel Illinois has just rejected its best
bid of $1.75 a barrel, and there is
little hope of drop in cement with
the state to ask for bids about Jan. 4.
oh healthy
and improved financial condition at
the present time compared with last
year, according to statement OF the
condition Of all state banks, issued by
State Bank Commissioner Dwight
Parker. The statement covers bust
ness up to Nov. Z. The eight hundred
fortyseven banks included in the
statement have total insources of
1884 ,588, 1876, the report shows.
Postal authorities are preparing for
the biggest holiday rush in the history
of the postal sevice. 1.-THE entire mail
service ie at present working at ut
most capacity on everyday mail-the
holiday rush has not yet started" said
Peter F. Piasecki, Milwaukee post
master. Regular correspondence and
advertising is extremely heavy this
month, which leaves but little leeway
for holiday mail. The postal service
will need fully ten days to handle the
Christmas mail. Therefore all greet
ings and gifts should be mailed before
December 15."
James G. Monahan, former con.
gresham, long leader among Wiscon-
sin Republicans, and a prominent
Mason, died December 9Th, at Du-
bupue, Iowa, after he had been taken
suddenly i'll at his hotel. Mr.. Mon
ahan had appeared to be in his u.s.
ual health, when he left Darlington
on a business trip to the Iowa city.
YIe was SO. For 40 years a leader of
the Republican party in Wisconsin,
particularly in the southwestern coun-
ties, Mr.. Monahan achieved his most
notable political triumph in 1918,
when he was elected to congress in
the second district, defeating John M.
Nelson, Madison, who held the seat
for several terms, and who regained it
in 1920.
Edward j. Sailstad, former presi-
dent of the Multitone Photograph
Company, of Eau Claire, supposed to
have burned to death in cottage fire
at Lake Nebagamon resort south of
Superior, Aug. rs, 1920, has been To-
Gated and arrested at Napa, CAL, and
will be brought back to Wisconsin to
face charges of arson and unlawful
disbursement of a body. In his pur-
ported confession, Sailstad told how
he had exhumed the body Of Allen
McFee in Lake Nebagamon cemetery,
placing it in the cottage he had rent
ed, and then burning the dwelling in
an effort to leave the impression that
he, Sailstad, had persisted. After his
disappearance he in company with
Miss Dorothy Anderson, his stenogra-
pher, visited and resided in several
southern cities and at Naples, Cal,
where he was finally located under an
assumed name of &c. J. Kingston"
November building in Madison, &C
eording to building permits issued,