Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-30

Glen Wlngad, 70, died at noSplIa
in Eau Claire Of injuries received in
head-on collision between the car in
which he was riding and that of An
drew Tweet, 50, who received a broken
leg and other injuries Both are
Eleva farmers.
The old stone cell house, Waupun--
in whose 70 years of existence many
sinister memories have accumulated
is to be modernized if Warden Oscar
Lee can persuade the next legislature
to provide for the renovation of the
old structure on the state prison
grounds.
Joseph Nick, SO, Civil war veter-
an, died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. John Kapp, in Green Bay. He
was born in Germany, Nov. 30, 1886,
and came to the United States when
he was H. He came to Green Bay in
1859 and enlisted in the Fifth Wis
consin infantry, Co. C, Apr. 81, 1851.
Approximately $2,1O6,793 was in
vested in Improvements in Green Bay
during the first nine months of 1924,
according to the report of Marcel
Landau, city building inspector This
is $I000,000 less than the total for
all of 1928, when the total fer all
building permits was $3,4S0,000. Per
mits have been issued for 120 homes
this year.
Harry Kimball, IL, Racine, was IA
tally injured when a rear wheel of a
trailer loaded with automobile bodies
them, and inflicting serious internal
injuries. The boy was riding bicycle
when one Of the wheels caught in a
street car track and the boy was
thrown to the pavement and under
one of the wheels of the trailer which
was being towed by truck.
Alvin Ellingson, 81, lineman en-
ployed by the Wisconsin Public Sery-
ice Co., of Green Bay, is in precari-
GUS condition in hospital in Apple
ton following his rescue from the top
of an electric wire pole near Brillion,
where he was held while 6,000-volt
electric current passed through him.
He was held between two wires and
the current burned his body severely.
Little hope is entertained for his re-
covery. Ellingson's home is at Xix.
ton, Wis.
Joseph T. Sailer, 81, president of the
Sailer-J ohnson Machine Co., Oshkosh,
is at, his home in Menasha with a
fractured rib, badly cut arm and
probable internal injuries as the re-
suit of an automobile crash. A piece
of paper flew into the open windows
of his automobile, covering his eyes
and binding his vision. AS he
reached to draw the paper from his
eyes, he lost control of the machine,
which left the pavement and crashed
into a tree.
The store of the Pound Mercantile
Co., at Pound, Marinette county, was
entered by burglars and merchandise
to the value of $500 taken. Among
the articles stolen are a case of rifles,
a case of shotguns, case of flash
lights, case of flashlight batteries
and considerable ammunition. 1t is
believed the BURGLARS made their es-
cape in an automobile. When Sheriff
Oscar Dahl visited the scene he found
a number of burglars tools. The rob-
bers jimmied their way into the store
a window.
Matt Derzavitz, 760 Fifteenth street,
and Adolph Zaborowsky,
Racine, both students at the Universe
ty of Wisconsin, were rescued from
probable death by drowning in Madison
when their canoe was overturned by
heavy waves on Lake Mendoza The
students were padding from the city
shore to Picnic point and had covered
about half the distance when the lake
become rough and their craft unman-
ageable Capt Thomas Isabel of the
life saving station pulled
the two youths from the water.
Raymond Price, 10, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Price, Knapp, Wis, was
shot through the forehead and killed
when a rifle with which he and his
brother Harold, Is, were hunting was
discharged. Harold is
Frustrated with hemorrhages, result
ing from excitement on a weak heart,
and is unable to talk. The boys were
sitting on the ground with the rifle
across Harold's knees, according to
his story when in some way, it was
Raymond was one of the
younger children of family of II.
Choice between certain death by
and serious injury was placed
before Joseph Moore, of Green Bay
when an automobile crowded him on
to the trestle of the Frenchtown
bridge on Highway Is, at the southern
end of the city of Oconto. Mr.. Moore
was driving a big sedan, and as a
car swung on to the bridge, he was
forced to the trestle work of the
bridge, to the full length of the car,
where it hung in midair on the rail
ing of the bridgework. 1t remained
there one moment and then toppled
to one side, away from the river,
on to the board pavement Of
the bridge. The car was demolished.
Alexis Champeau. 25, died in hos
pital Tin Green Bay from a gunshot
wound inflicted while hunting, when