Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-23
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS


ing court action. The boy admitted
the robbery and implicated PhiliI
Kaiser, Is.
Cletus, 2-year-old son of Charles
Martens, Coleman storekeeper, wa:
drowned in a 5-gallon jar of elderberry
wine. The child's mother was making
wine and had gone into the store fol
few minutes. In the meantime
Cletus tried to get the elderberries
overbalanced and fell head first into
the jar.
A charter has been granted to The
Badger Legionnaire, newspaper of the
Wisconsin department of the Ameri
can Legion, by the secretary of state
The paper is capitalized at $1,000 and
has headquarters in Milwaukee. L.
Hugo Keller, Appleton; A. A. Peter
son and George r. Hewitt are named
as directors
A dairy barn filled with hay and
feed and a young calf were destroyed
by fire at the Henry Latzig farm, in
the town of Pine River, near Merrill.
A silo partly filled, and adjoining the
barn, was partly wrecked. Two barns
on the farm of Mrs. Bertha Borchardt
west of Merrill, were destroyed by
fire at the same time.
Alhart Kadlec, Spruce, suffered an
injury which resulted in the amputa-
ton of his leg below the knee. AS
Mr.. Kadlec and several other men
were about to leave their car to go In
to the woods at Klondike to hunt, a
shotgun, which had been propped up
against the fender of the car, went
off, the full charge entering Mr.. Kad-
lees leg.
Dell w. Randolph, of Oshkosh, lost
several front teeth, was badly cut and
bruised, and his wife was injured
when both went through the wind
shield of their car in collision with
stalled automobile partly on the
concrete on highway Is between Osh-
kosh and Neenah The owner of the
stalled car, B. w. Mettericher, Neenah,
had left the machine on the road while
he went to a nearby farmhouse to
telephone for aid
Bears bagged the bees and now the
beemen are trying to bag the bears.
The Maple Honey Co., which has an
apiary not far from White lake, near
Amigo, was visited by bears which
wrecked and robbed eight hives with
the supers on them, filed with the
seasons harvest. The hives and
supers were scattered about and claw
marks on them were plainly discern
IDLE. Although watch has been kept
for the bears, they have not reap
peared.
Gold watches, knives and forks are
known to be favorite delicacies for
ostriches, but a 26-pound muskellunge
caught by Trygve Duran at Munson
lake, near Tomahawk, had started a
collection to Guido the big foated bird.
In the stomach Of the fish Mr., Duran
found 6-pound window weight This
left him with only 20-pound ''musky,"
but nevertheless he thinks he has a
good fish story. The fish, with the
unusual appetite, is said to have meas
ured four feet.
"A body picked up by the steamer
Pollock in Lake Huron recently was
identified as that of Roland Writ, an
oiler on the Inflated Clifton which
foundered near Thunder bay three
weeks ago. Telegraphic communities
lions bearing a complete description
conceded with that given by relatives.
This is the first body of the crew of
% to be recovered. Writ was one of
the IL men who were residents of
Sturgeon Bay. He was rs and came
from a marine family
Florence Heck and Irma Hilker,
both II, had narrow escape from be-
ing killed when the car driven by
Gilbert Yake, Juneau, and in which
Walter Ryan, living on a farm west
of WATERFOWL, was also a passenger,
went into ditch on highway 10 west
of town. All four were taken to a
hospital. None was seriously hurt,
but the girls will be confined to the
hospital for several days. The car
was demolished 1t was overturned
and pinned the occupants under it and
they were released by passersby.
A stranger, who was Unidentified as
Joe Pfennig of West Bend, fell dead in
the business district in Menasha. The
han had just emerged from restau-
rant where he had taken dinner, when
he was seen to fall face downward to
the sidewalk. When persons came to
his help he was breathing heavily and
before a physician could get to him
he died. Heart disease was said to
be the cause of death. The man, it
is said, had been working on pave
ment job near West Bend He has
two sons living there. No identifca-
ton marks could be found on him and
the only clew was the label of a West
Bend mems furnishing establishment
sewed in his cap and coat.
AS the result Of having eaten what
she supposed to be mushrooms, Mrs.
John Swiss, 81, died at her home in
Oconto Falls. 1t is believed some of
the mushrooms were of poison
variety.
Eugene Dixby, missing University of
Wisconsin student has been found in
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