Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-24
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NEWS OF THE
BADGER STATE |

Hazelhurst. The wolf was captured
when a pup and is now completely
domesticated
Run down by the Rev. Gideon Roster
mans car on April 10, John Shea, of
Fond du Lac, is pressing a $4,000
damage suit against the town Of By
ron pastor.
The first public hearings in the legis-
lative committees investigation of the
administration and taxation situation
in Wisconsin will be held next month,
Chairman Max Heck, Racine, said
The dates have not been fixed
Collegiate fivvers or their more re-
spectacle cousins of later vintage have
been classed as campus pests and have
been put under a partial ban at Law
renee college. Hereafter, according to
faculty ruling, students may not keep
cars at college without consent of their
parents and Of the college administra-
ton.
Hope that Monroe may have new
post office in the near future, is again
raised by announcement of the new
public buildings bill to be submitted
for congressional approval site
was purchased 10 years ago, but APP
preparations for federal building
have never been approved.
Walworth county bankers have
adopted the plan of offering rewards
Of $1,000 for the killing or capture
of bank bandit and $500 for infor-
nation leading to arrest Of bank
bandit. A protective committee has
been appointed for each community in
the county by the president, F. e.
Lawson, Walworth.
The Rt Rev. John Cieplak, head of
the Catholic church in Poland, was
given an ovation by congregations in
Portage county and the city of Stevens
Point when he paid a visit to a group
Of parishes in this district Churches
were so crowded that all who wished
to attend special sC.yices in his honor
could not be accommodated.
Or. Irwin Rudolph Schmidt of the
Augustana hospital, Chicago has been
appointed by the state board Of re-
gents as professor of surgery at the
University of Wisconsin and surgeon
Of the Wisconsin general hospital He
takes the place OF DR.. Carl A. He'd
blom, who resigned to accept similar
position at the University of Illinois
college of medicine at Chicago.
Dodgers of state income taxes may
face criminal prosecution and have
judgments granted on their property,
according to plans which will be dis
cussed by Milwaukee county officials
after the holidays, John II. Leenhouts,
county assessor of incomes, has an
nounced. The criminal warrants will
be asked against delinquents of many
years standing, Mr. Leenhouts said.
Wisconsin's income from the tourist
business will soon be brought to $780,
100000 year and will dlsplace dairy
Ing as the leading state industry, z. II.
Reilly of Rhinelander, secretary of the
Land O. Lakes association, declared In
an address at Wabeno. Lake lard inI
northern Wisconsin, formerly pur-
chased by. the acre, is now being sold
in many places for $25 a foot, he said
A jury in Circuit court at Wausau
gave Neal Wietzman, 5, of Tripoli, a
verdict for $4,000 against the Bissell
Lumber company for personal injuries.
The child was riding with his mother
and others in an automobile which
crashed against an engine Of logging
train operated by the defendant and
was injured SO that it was necessary
to amputate his left leg at the hip
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The appropriation of $1,000 to the
salary of Judge E. b. Belden, whose
circuit includes Walworth, Racine and
Kenosha counties, was reconsidered by
the Walworth county board and re-
duced to $500. Judge Belden receives
a regular salary of $500 Kenosha
county, acting under a new state law,
voted him an additional $1,000 and
WaIworth county $1,000, but Racine
county, after reconsidering the matter,
reduced its first appropriation of
$500 to $1,000
Jack Steinert, 26, who. in 1919 was
sentenced to five years in the Green
Bay Ormatory after admitting
charges of fourteen small boys, con-
fessed that he killed Roy Tolzmann, 8,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Tolzmann,
Milwaukee The boys burned corpse
was found in a barn, a short distance
from the city. Steinert in his confess
sion said he took the boy in the barn.
When the boy screamed he choked
him. He said that after coming to.
himself and realizing the boy was
dead he became frightened and set the
barn on fire The confession cleared
up the disappearance of Roy, the Sec
end boy victim of degenerates at
tack In the last two days and the third
fiendish crime since July
The county's investigation into con-
ditions at the Fond du Lac county
asylum and poor farm was adjourned
following the hearing Of several wit
nesses. A representative of the state
board of control was at the hearing,
which started more than year ago.
Testimony included charges of i'll
treatment by officials and attendants.
To Mrs. Walter PireauX Of WabenO,
an expert rifle woman, goes the dis
tinctiOn of bringing I'm the first red