Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-22
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Herman Schuland, Lomira, was &C
quilted by jury at Fond du Lac of
manslaughter charges in connection
with the death of Leoma Wagner,
run down on highway is last fall.
Henry Fischer, Plainfield, won first
place in the county oratorical contest
held in Wautoma Wallace Jameson,
Wautoma, was awarded second place,
and Norman Anderson, Wild Rose,
third.
| Caught beneath an automobile which
ran off the highway and tipped over,
| Carl Carlson, an employee of the COM
pany erecting a transmitting station
/, at Wissota dam, near Chippewa Falls,
suffered broken shoulder.
| Dodge county board appropriated
| funds for completing pavement on
highways 81 and 118, leading into
Beaver Dam The former is the Wau-
pun-Beaver Dam road, and the latter
leads from Beaver Dam to Horizon.
! After living several days with
broken back, Al IIarvin, 70, of Boulder
| Junction, died in a hospital at Rhine
lander. Marvin's injury resulted from
fall from wagon. He was one OF
the veteran guides of the upper Wis
consin lake region.
Leaving note to his wife saying
that he feared he was going insane,
| William Sparrow, 70, of Chicago,
reputed to be wealthy, shot and killed
himself at his private lodge near Three
Lakes. The body was found in his
workshop adjoining the home Spar
row was widely known among sum
mer residents of eastern Oneida
| county
| Twenty fatalities occurred from in
dustrial accidents in Wisconsin dur
ing March in compensate cases,
which have been settled by the state
industrial commission, the commission
reported. Indemnity benefits allowed
by the commission aggregated $751;
628; medical benefits, $1,013, and fun
eral benefits, $1,000, total of $65,84l.
Unaware of the death of her g.
services were being held at that very
hour, Mrs August Kohls of Brandon
died May IL from pleural pneumonia.
Phyllis Dorothy, the daughter, died
May g. Members of the family did
not tell the mother for fear that the
shock might kill her, but she grad
ually grew worse and died without the
knowledge of her baby's death.
improvements in highways in state
| parks to cost approximately $4,000
have been approved by the state high
way commission Improvements cost
| ing $4,000 will be made at the Door
County park, $4,000 at the Interstate
park and $4,000 at the Devils Lake
park The commission also set hear
ings on proposed changes in the Lake
s-Waterloo highway and the Merri-
mac ferry, involving Columbia and
Sank counties.
The feud in the Italian quarter of
Kenosha has broken out again. A half
dozen shots were fired at Sam Cavelli,
Kenosha, when he stepped into the
street from his store. Cavelli fell fiat
on the sidewalk and the shooting
stopped No shot hit him. He told
police that as he stepped out OF the
store a man whom he did not know
slapped him in the face and ran.
moment later the firing began and he
dropped to the ground.
Auto thefts and stealing Of auto
parts has become SO frequent in Wa
tertown that it is believed car owners
are victims of an organized band of
thieves. So far all attempts of the
police to run down clews of the thefts
have been fruitless. One insurance
agency has been called upon within
the last few weeks to make good on
Is thefts from car owners. Access
series seem to be the principal things
t..ken and Police Chief Pieritz believes
this is because they are SO easily sold
and so hard to trace.
Twins is twins, and Jefferson has
'em. Burlington recently laid claim
to having the largest number OF twins
per square inch of any city in the
state, with 16 twins in population
of 1926. But Burlington is going to
have to make special arrangements
with. the stork or import a lot from
somewhere else before it can touch
the Jefferson record, which has 20
pair among population of 2,572. I'm
til some other city in the state can
better that and "show the goods" JEFF
ferson is going to be Irwin City, Wis
cons.n.'
An almost perfect map of Wiscon-
sin on sloping field Of Pat Dunn's
farm near South Wayne is attracting
the attention of residents and travel
ers. The body Of the map is grass,
outlined by plowed strip that Mr..
Dunn has made in preparation for
planting corn. The map covers half
an acre and will remain visible on tho
sloping hillside the entire season, it
is believed The design was not Gre
ated Intentionally and was only dis
covered by X. G. Hurlbut, Monroe, as
he gazed at the field while calling on
Mr.. Dunn.
A half interest in the Sawyer Coun-
ty Record of Hayward, formerly held
by H. E. Rohlf, was sold at sheriff