Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-07-26
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Armed with broom and wash-tub,
Mrs. Joseph Jyrion and her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Henry Jyrion, captured q
grey timber wolf that had taken
refuge from the rising swamp waters
near Wittenberg, under the Jyrion
porch.
Three commercial fishermen of
Prairie du Chen, August and Henry
Oestreick and John Johnson, are being
held without bail in the Crawford
county jail, charged with the murder
of John Stranad, carpenter, who was
found in the river near their house
boat on July 4.
Jacob vasuil, 20 year old "sledge
hammer slayer, was sentenced to
serve seven years in the state peni-
Tertiary for the murder OF Nicholas
Triff, his neighbor. The Staying of
Triff occurred in a lonely shack at
Superior on Dec. %, 1922. Vasuil was
found guilty of manslaughter in the
second degree by a jury in Superior
court. The sentence imposed is the
maximum under the statute.
Although it has been stated that the
yield Of honey in Wisconsin this year
will fall short on account of the late
season and hot, dry weather, this
situation does not prevail in north
eastern Wisconsin. There has been
abundant rainfall and the fields of
alsike and white clover are covered
with blossoms, which are yielding a
large flow of nectar. Beekeepers are
busy, adding supers to their bee hives
to provide room for the honey.
There is going to be decided short
age in the pea crop this year and the
canneries of Wisconsin are going to
pack far below normal. Last year
Wisconsin packed 100000 cases of
"a cans each, or 169,008,000 cans, &C
cording to Mr.. Nicholoy, secretary OF
the Wisconsin Pea Gamers assoc1a-
ton. He estimates that this year the
state will not pack over 100000
cases, or 156.OOO,OOO cans, despite the
fact that the acreage was 10000, or
5000 more acres than last year.
The Milwaukee Association of Com
merce has arranged for fall mer-
chants week in Milwaukee, August
7, 8 and 9, for the purpose of having
retail merchants come to Wisconsin,
metropolis to do their fall buying.
The Western Passenger association
has granted reduced railroad rates OF
one and one-half fare for the occasion
on round trips from all points in Wis
consin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri,
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, North
Dakota and South Dakota. Milwau-
kee jobbers and wholesalers Will offer
epecial reduced prices on goods as
further inducement.
Mary Lawando, the 20 year old girl
hermit of the Marathon swamps, con-
tossed that she made the attack upon
her stepmother and set fire to the
bed in which she slept. Her confess
sion to Dist. Atty. George W. Lippert
and Sheriff Arthur Siewert came as
she lay on a hospital cot recovering
from the effects Of eight days expos
ure and fasting in the reptile infested
badlands six miles south Of Wausau.
She had been found after one OF the
most thrilling posse hunts In the MS
tory of Marathon county. The attack
was the result Of long enmity between
herself and the stepmother, the girl
declared, according to the district at
rorney.
Madison will become the home of
the only Masonic consistory in the
state outside of Milwaukee July ~.
when William W. Perry, Milwaukee,
accompanied by other officers of the
supreme council for Wisconsin will
come to this city to install officers
and. administer the oath of fealty.
Bascom B. Clarke has been chosen
commander in chief of the new body.
Charles E. Whelan will be the first
lieutenant commander. Organization
of the new Masonic branch will give
Madison the entire 80 degrees of Ma
sorry, a goal Masons in this part of
the state have looked to for many
years.
Drivers of automobiles falling
asleep while operating their cars
caused seven accidents during the
month Of June, declared A. 3. Hirst,
state highway engineer. In an official
report issued by him, there We're four
hundred eight accidents since Jan. l,
involving 1914 people. OF this num-
Der three hundred sixty-seven escaped
without injury. The death toll of op-
orators at the automobile wheel has
been thirty since the first of April.
There was one death during the
month of March, five in April, thirteen
in May, and eleven in June, from auto
mobile driving. These official reports
show that of the total number Of &C
cidents two hundred fourteen were
caused by reckless driving and that
about seventy per cent of all automo-
bile accidents of the state occur on
straight roads which indicate that the
driver was speeding at the time OF
the accident.
AT a special session of the Winnie
bago county board at Oshkosh, an
ordinance was adopted rigidly to regu
late road houses, dance halls, bathing
beaches, carnivals, amusement parks
and other public entertainment places
It requires permits and licenses, to
be issued by the county board