Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-08-28
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

League of America has been formed
In Merrill, with IL charter members.
William Laulzerne, "a, pioneer set
tier of Union and one Of the towns
Oldest residents, is dead. He had
lived in Door county 65 years.
A rusty fish spear thrown by com
panion seriously injured Lloyd La
Comb, Peshtigo. The spear lodged it.
self in the calf of La Combs leg.
James Wilson, "a, farmer of the
town of York, IL miles west of Mer-
rillan, was killed by bull while he
was doing chores about the premises.
Willis Searls, farmer near Elroy,
is providing temporary home for a
six-foot alligator. The reptile is
thought to have escaped from circus
passing through.
A new concrete dam will be built
in Sparta by the Northern States
Power Co. The company will also re
build the dam at Angelo, two miles
north Of Sparta.
Sayner will have telephone service
for the first time this fall. The Wis
consin Telephone Co. is building a
line from Rhinelander to Sayner, to
be completed Sept. l.
Chief Thomas Skennadore, g., an
Oneida Indian, died suddenly at the
cherry pickers' camp at the Martin
orchard, Sturgeon Bay. Death was at
tributed to enlargement of the heart.
Burglars, who opened both the front
and rear doors with keys, robbed the
postoffice at Whitehall. Less than
500 worth Of stamps was taken from
a desk. No money had been left i'll
the building.
J. E. Jones, 43, Mazomanie, is in a
hospital at Madison with serious in
ternal injuries received when the auto
mobile which he was driving collided
with another machine and turned over,
pinning him beneath.
Mrs. Margaret Evert, 95 years old.
of New Richmond, Wis, patient at the
Mendoza State asylum, choked herself
to death. The demented woman tore
up a sheet and strangled herself by
Tightening it around her neck.
August Klever, 81, Amigo, was cut
in two longitudinally when he tripped
over a timber and fell on a circular
saw while he was working with a
portable sawmill crew cutting ties
II ,olo IL "
Mike Puskarich, %, Limestone,
Mich, is at st. Mary's hospital, Green
Bay, suffering from injuries received
when he struck match too near the
gasoline tank of his automobile He
is burned about the face and hands.
After hanging between life and
death for two weeks, Mrs. Alfred
james, 81, Fond du Lac, died from a
wound inflicted on herself during a.
fit of dependency over i'll health.
Mrs. James slashed her abdomen with
a razor in the attempt to end her life.
Fond du Lac.-After hanging be-
tween life and death for two weeks,
Mrs. Alfred James 81, Fond du Lac,
died from wound inflicted on herself
during a fit of dependency over Ill
health. Mrs. James slashed her abdo-
men with a razor in the attempt to
end her life.
Heavy property damage was caused
by a severe wind, rain and electrl-
cal storm which swept the section
Of Ashland, Aug. 81. A $4,000. barn
on the C. o. Eide farm was DESTROYED
when struck by lightning. Trees were
broken down, telephone poles snapped
off and numerous buildings damaged
by. the wind.
Ten men employed by the Pilbeam
Carnival shows narrowly missed death
during an early morning storm at Jul
neau. They were sleeping in tent
and left their hunks to seek shelter
from wind and rain in the baseball
grandstand nearby, and had barely
got out when a giant oak fell on the
tent. fiattening it. Their death would
have been certain had the storm
caught them in their sleep.
Real estate values in Oshkosh in
creased $927,OOO over last year, assess
ment figures in the office OF City
Clerk Dan Witzel reveal. City AS
SCISSOR John Hakbarth placed the 1924
total at $31,829,310. Land estimates
are placed at $1O,O73,155 and building
values at $21, 756,155. The higher as
sessment will not make up what will
be lost in homestead exemptions, Of
ficials saw. for these exemptions will
total probably $3,000,OO0.
Dozens of milk samples were Sc
cured by Dr. Max Staehle In Mantle
voc in raid made on wagons and
stations, and were forwarded to Mad
ison for testing. Among the samples
confiscated was a full case of cream.
Many of the bottles contained nigh
percentages of foreign matter. Sew
eral weeks ago dealers and farmers
were warned about selling dairy pro-
ducts below grade and it is expected
arrests will follow the recent investi-
cation.
George c. Foster, So, attorney at
Hurley and father of Dist. Atty. w B.
Foster died at hospital in Ashland,
where he had been for 10 days. He
suffered a stroke of paralysis and
later pneumonia set in, fastening his
death