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


Bando, near Lublin Thirty tons of
hay were burned.
Three masked bandits held UP the
grocery store of John Elmer, in
Aurora. Fifty dollars was taken.
They were frightened away before
they could open the store safe.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. McDermut,
Chicago, captured two large muskies
in Lake Shishebogama, near Minoc-
qua The fish weighed 81 and q
pounds. Eugene Johnson acted as
guide.
Lester Schneider, farmer living
near Middleton, was killed when the
team he was driving ran away, throw
ing him from the wagon. His skull
was crushed when he struck a plank
in the road.
K. A. Mackenzie, White Lake police
officer, was stabbed in the eye during
an alteration at a dance at Sawyer
Lake. He is not expected to lose
sight of the eye. His assailant has
not been arrested.
Town residents will not oppose the
Wolf river drainage project, it was
decided at a mass meeting in Berg
land hall, Green Bay. A large number
of the citizens of Duck Creek and,
vicinity, who own property along the
river, attended.
Three boys, Edward Olacik, Charles
Olacik, and Harold Sylvester, ranging
in age from 13 to Is, were arrested by
Chief Of Police Maurice Straub on a
charge for breaking into the 500 line
passenger depot in Rhinelander. The
boys are alleged to have stolen a gum
vending machine and looted it Of its
contents. They will be arraigned in
municipal court.
Three cargoes of nitrate of soda are
being unloaded at docks in Washburn,
for the Dupont Powder Co. The soda
comes direct from the Dupont mines
in Chile by boat to Washburn A
crew of ITS men is working day and
night on the unloading. The soda is
used in the manufacture of explosives
and constitutes an important ingred1-
ent. A years supply arrives by water
each fall
Frank Nolan, Sc, chief Of police for
81 years. prior to his resignation in
1922, and one of the most widely
known police officers in Wisconsin,
died at his home in Fond du Lac. He
ran second in the race for the Republi-
can nomination for sheriff at the Sep
TENDER primary and exertions in this
campaign are believed to have taxed
his strength, resulting in breakdown
three weeks ago.
Charles H. Baynor, 35. Mckinley,
Mimi, was instantly killed when he
fell beneath the wheels of a 500 line
switch train at Superior. Baynor was
seen by trainmen approaching the
crossing on foot, just before the loco
motive passed. After the engine had
gone some distance beyond the cross
ing and returned, the mangled body
of Baynor was revealed on the tracks
by the headlight.
Robert Pattee, son of G. H. Pattee,
laundryman of Rice Lake, has re-
pented running away from home to-
get out of going to school and has
written his parents from Joliet, H.,
where he is working on dairy farm
Washing of several hundred milk bot
ties day does not appeal to him.
He wrote his mother that if she cared
enough to have him to send him a
ticket. A ticket will be wired to him.
H. G. Boerner, pioneer merchant
of Port Washington, died suddenly.
Death was due to a stroke. Mr.. Boer-
ner, together with his brothers, found
ed the Boerner Bros. Co., the leading
merchantile establishment OF Port
Washington, in 1891 and continued at
its head up to the time of his death.
He was prominent Mason and took
an active part in every movement for
the improvement and advancement OF
the community.
Fund shortage of Ferdinand Mark
graf, former cashier of the Columbia
State bank, Lodi, who shot himself,
will probably reach $4,000, final
check made by bank officials shows.
While the loss to the bank itself will
not exceed $4,000, officials of the in
stitution said that addition losses
consist of securities belonging to Mrs.
Markgraf, funds of Markgraf's broth
ers and sums entrusted him by local
business men.
Acreage for peas, beans, and other
products annually packed by Ameri-
can Gamers will be reduced 80 per
cent in 1925, because of the great seed
shortage in the canning varieties of
these products, it was brought out in
a discussion at tn Wisconsin Can
nears' Institute, in three-day ses-
sion at Eau Claire, recently. Blame
for the seed shortage was placed on
the unfavorable weather condition.
during the past summer.
Edward Deards, IS years old, Madi-
sons Oldest resident, died Oct. l. He
had been a resident of the city seven
ty-six years, having moved to the city
in the year Wisconsin was admitted
to the union He was born in England
and came to this country in 1881.
Electric light rates in Eau Claire,