Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-09

Albert Rasmussen, west hIoHOlhS
took dose Of poison used for cattle
An antidote saved him.
c. E. Hillyer, agent for the Chicago
and North Western Railway Co. in
Sheboygan, for many years and an
employee of that railroad since 1881,
has retired, and has been succeeded
by M. L. Cass, Kaukauna.
Herman Sleek, IL, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Sleek, died at his home
near Gillett as the result of injuries
received when the truck on which he
was riding from silo filling bee, ran
into a ditch. His skull was fractured.
Henry Jensen, 29, Whitewater, is in
the county Jail in Elkhorn awaiting
the arrival of B. M. Jostad, state pa
role officer, having been sentenced tc
a year in Waupun and then placed on
parole by Judge Roscoe Luce. He
pleaded guilty to theft of q car.
While hunting near Catauba, Ben
Bushman was shot in the side when
his gun accidentally discharged. To
check the flow of blood, Bushman
stuffed moss into the wound, bound it
with strips torn from his clothing and
then walked more than a mile to
Catauba.
Although the car in which they were
riding crashed through a fence guard
ing the Ashby bridge over the She
boygan river, rolling over down 70
foot embankment to the rivers edge
and smashing the top of the automo-
bile, Omar Powers and Oscar Kausler,
of Sheboygan, were only slightly hurt.
Construction work on the new ST.
100000 Memorial Union building at
the University Of Wisconsin probably
will begin some time this winter, &C
cording to John Dollard, secretary Of
the Memorial union. A total of $345,-
900 has been raised by subscription for
the building. Nearly 100000 more
has been pledged.
Aldo Leopold, formerly with the
United States forestry service at
albuquerque, N. M, has been ap-
pointed assistant director of the For
est Products laboratory in Madison.
Mr. Leopold succeeds O.. M Butler,
who was transferred to Washington
year ago and who is now editor OF a,
national forestry magazine
Archie Oulette, As, laborer of Ash
land, suffered concussion of the brain
when he ran into a car driven by
Prof. John T. Kendrigan of Northland
College, Ashland, riding down hill and
lost control of his bicycle He Struck
the Kendrigan car and was thrown
over the handlebars, landing on his
head. Prof. Kendrigan stopped his
car when he saw Oulette coming.
Despondent because he had outlived
his friends Of other years, Jacob
Scharrer, "a attempted to cut his
throat at his home in Kenosha to end
his life. He was unsuccessful and
when found bleeding in his yard was
hurried to hospital where physicians
say he will probably recover. He had
used dull butcher knife, this account
ing for his failure to end his life.
Preliminary steps to bring about a
general decrease of water rates in
Fond du Lac were taken at special
session Of the board of public works
recently. The city attorney was au-
thorized to confer with representa-
tivcs of the state railroad commission.
The conference to reduce rates was
the result of threats by several large
consumers to install their own wells.
The embankment surrounding the
basin in Fox river below the mill of
the George A. Whiting Co., Menasha,
is to be reinforced to protect against
the recurrence of the break which
threatened to send flood into lower
Fox River valley in the high water
period of several seasons ago. The
government has large force of men
dredging dirt for filling. The embank-
ment is to be widened 10 feet and the
government locks raised FL inches
above their present level.
Confused by bridge out" sign on
highway 55, near Kewaskum, Donnell
c. Shepard of Neenah drove into
branch of the Milwaukee river and
narrowly escaped drowning in eight
feet of water. Shepard extricated
himself from his car and clambered
on the top. His calls for help were
heard by farmers, who rescued him
by means of planks. Stripping off
his clothes, Shepard dove into the
stream again and attached chains to
his car so that trucks could pull it
out.
Bert Cough, Oshkosh, is probably
the first Wisconsin man to serve a
jail sentence for no other offense than
selling pop and soda at a restaurant
not licensed for the sale OF nonintoxi-l
eating drinks. He, with other restau-
rant men of the city and all dealers
who do not sell near beer, had been
advised by the city officials that it
would not be necessary for him to
have a license The state law was so
construed, when the city ordinance
was drafted On his plea of guilty he
was fined 5000 and sentenced to 80
days.
Vandals broke into the school dis
trict No. 1, Manitowoc Rapids, and
destroyed property worth $500. 1t
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