Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-02-21

logs, while acting as crane brakeman
in the railroad yards near the fibre
mill at Peshtigo.
Ben A. Schuppener, for years
livestock shipper of Fennimore, took
his life by hanging himself in the
stockyards. He is survived by his
wife, six children and three brothers.
Rel Holcomb, %, an employee of the
Fox River Paper company, Appleton,
escaped death, but was seriously in
jured when his clothing became
caught on screw, and he was picked
up and twisted aroung shaft
A person who has not resided in
Wisconsin one year or more has no
right to be admitted to a county tu-
berculosis sanatorium, the state board
Of control was advised in an opinion
by Assistant Attorney General Bump.
Injuries suffered when he jumped
from the second story of burning
garage at Beloit, JAN rs, proved fatal
to Henry Yerke, 81. After his leap
for life he lay in the snow for some
time with broken hip, unable to
summon help.
Gerald Swan, years old, is dead,
and Vernon Bjornetchum, 6, is suffer
ing from shock and exposure, follow
ing their breaking through the thin
ice on the Yahara river at Stoughton.
Use of lung motor for more than an
hour failed to revive the younger boy.
The home of Nils Rein, violinist,
was destroyed by fire Feb. II. Mrs.
Rein and her two children escaped
scantily clad and were unable to save
anything. Mr.. Rein is on a concert
tour in Minnesota. The home, a two
story frame structure, is on Monona
drive, about two miles southeast of
Madison.
State inheritance tax provisions, as
Sessing inheritance taxes upon the
transfer of nonresident decedents
holding stock in foreign corporations,
was held to be unconstitutional and
contrary to the Fourteenth amend
ment Of the federal constitution in a
sin supreme court Feb. II.
William S. Kerby, 81, prominent in
political and civic affairs of Iron coun-
ty, died at the family home at Ham
ilton, Wis. Mr.. Kirby was president
of the school board, assessor of the
town of Hamilton, trustee of the Bay
field sanatorium and secretary of the
Hamilton club. He had been cashier
Of the Montreal Mining Co. for the
last 20 years.
Validity Of the state law authoriz-
ing the highway commission to com
pei railroads to pave roads within
their right-of-ways on state highways
was upheld by the state supreme court
recently in a decision of the case of
the state against the Milwaukee road.
The court held, however, that station
land does not come witsin the pro-
visions of the law.
Loss to the stock, machinery and
factory building housing the Standard
Piston company at Racine is estimated
at $4,000, as the result of fire which
partially destroyed it. The fire is
thought to have started by a spark
igniting paper stuffed in broken win
dow on the second floor Three com
panies of fire fighters battled the
flames for several hours.
In search of his 16-year-old son,
Frank, L. c.. Martin, Tomah, has
sought the aid of Chief of Police A. E
Buchanan of Superior The lad, whom
the father believes was lured away
from home by an older boy, was last
seen Feb. Z at Tomah He is de-
scribed as being feet 9 inches in
height, has dark brown hair, blue
eyes and scar on the side of his
left eye.
The Wisconsin supreme court, in d
decision handed down recently. held
that the state railroad commission is
without authority to assess fees
against interstate corporations for
the issuance of bonds. The decision
was made in the case of the 500 line
against the commission The court
upheld the validity of the federal
transportation as regarding fees for
such bond issues.
The governments weather observa-
ton station, which has been main
tanned at the Indian school at Hay
ward since 1914, and the one at Bish-
op bridge, on the Chippewa river,
have been discontinued and new one
established at the Northern States
Power Co. dam on the Chippewa river.
The one at Bishop bridge was estab-
lished some 80 years ago. The new
station is in charge of the Waterman
at the dam.
Leo Terlep, farmer near Miles, sees
in the fact that his net income from
his cleared acreage this year is twice
that of last a definite assurance that
prices of agricultural products are re-
turning to normal Books kept by
Mr.. Terlep show that his income from
a 40-acre farm with Is acres under
cultivation was $420 in 1921, $500 in /
1922 and $3.50 in 1923. Corn, oats,
rye, potatoes and dairy products yield
ed a snug margin Of profit in 1923.
While busy with her household
duties, Mrs. Dell Rider of Mauston
was stricken with paralysis and died
shortly after. She was SO years old
and had resided in Mauston since a