Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-27
WISCONSIN
!. STATE NEWS

Tumbling into what was said to be
jar of homemade wine, Richard
18-months-oid son of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Revord, Chippewa Falls, was
drowned at their home.
Fines aggregating $1,000 were col
lected in municipal court, Green Bay,
from liquor law violators arrested in
the raids waged by flying squad
ron" of dry agents this week.
Upper Mississippi river navigation
is virtually closed for the season, &C
cording to rivermen at La Crosse. All
of the commercial fleet is in bank or
operating on the lower river.
Margery Jane Carlson, 2-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gunnard
Carlson, died at Tomahawk after eat
ing green grapes. The grapes are
believed to have poisoned her.
Erwin Loche, youth of Amigo, is
dead after being i'll for 10 days with
haemophilia, a comparatively rare
malady. Physicians were unable to
stop the flow of blood that started
around his teeth.
Serious injuries were received by
George Rathsack, Glen Flora, in fall
ing to the ground when the limb of
tree, on which he was climbing,
broke. He crawled for nearly mile
through the woods on his hands and
knees before found by a party of hunt
ers. He was taken to a Ladysmith
hospital.
Zeke Zenen, 10, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mike Zenen of the. town of Bevent,
lies in a critical condition in hos
pital in Wausau, suffering from a bull
let wound in the left leg below the
knee. The boy says he was shot by
one of two hunters walking along the
road near his home. The matters ran
when they saw the boy was hit.
A profit of $4,000 was netted on the
1924 Northwestern Wisconsin fair, it
was reported by the fair committee
at the meeting of the county board
of supervisors. The fair association
is in excellent financial condition, and
upon receipt of the county aid appro-
priation of $4,000 for 1926 and the
state aid for premiums paid in 1924,
all indebtedness can be paid and a
balance of $4,000 will remain in the
treasury.
Hilbert Toll, "a, was seriously
wounded about the legs while hunt
ing near Brandon when he walked in
to the path of a charge from a COM
panion's shotgun. Toll was hunting
with George Bingham, J. Eiteuner,
George Holterman and John Rauls.
Holterman raised his gun to fire at
a rabbit and as he pulled the trigger
Toll walked from behind a hill and
received the full charge.
Floyd Sweet, Beaver Dam, left the
motor of his coupe running to keep
the water warm while he pumped up
fiat tire after leaving dance hall
in this city. In some unexplainable
manner the car lurched forward, hit
ting a telephone pole and throwing
Miss Margaret Freeman, Waupun,
through the glass door. She suffered
an ugly cash in the face which re-
quired surgical attention.
Frank Van Ess, 81, of Green Bay,
died of injuries received when he
slipped from his bicycle and fell in
the path of a team of horses. Van
H.. woe ,,o+,,rr;no fro,,o- uorx Nov
6, the pavement was slippery from a
light rain and his wheel skidded when
he struck car track. A team, owned
by Felix Williams and said to have
been driven by his son, approached
from the direction in which Van Ess
was riding. andNthe man was run over.
The Dodge county board of super
visors in session in Juneau made an
appropriation of 100000 for road
work the coming season. The $4,000
600 bond issue under which the high
way construction proceeded the last
four years was exhausted with the
completion of the 1924 program. How
ever, all main travelled highways were
paved under the bond issue and net
work of concrete roads connects the
principal cities and villages Of the
county.
There will be more members OF the
senate senate with experience as leg
islatQrs in the coming session than
in any legislature in recent years. Of
the thirty-two members of the legis-
lature now elected, twenty-one have
previous legislative experience. All
but two of these have served in the
senate before. There will be four
farmers in the present state senate,
John E. eastman. Denmarkj George
Staudenmayer, Portage; John G.
Schumann, Waterfowl, and Herman
Bilgrien, Iron Ridge. Two members
of the state senate served previously
in the assembly, v. S. Keppel, Hoal-
man. and J. A. Barker, Amigo.
TIE Mayfiower district school, three
miles north of Amigo, was DESTROYED
by tire of unknown origin early in
the evening after the teacher and pu-
pills had left. A piano bought two
weeks ago was lost. with other fur
nishings and pupils belongings.
County Clerk v. P. Rath, Amigo,
defeated for reelection by William
Strong, presided at his last county
board session this week after serv-
ice of % years. Mr.. Rath, whose term