Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-07-02

the La gillette FAMILY Tor many years,
will continue to be occupied, for the
present at least. by Mrs La Toilette.
A baby girl, just learning to crawl,
was drowned in a tub of water which
stood on the kitchen floor in the Grover
Jones home at Lynxville.
Arthur, 9, son of Fred Wild, Med
ford, died three hours after his cloth
ing had been ignited by the explosion
of gasoline in a can into which he had
thrown match. The gasoline was
being prepared to kill potato bugs.
A new five-year nurses training
course, emitting the nurse to both
nurses certificate and a bachelor of
science degree, has just been estab-
lished at the University of wisconsin
in connection with the new Wisconsin
General hospital.
Fire destroyed the planning mill of
the G. G. Collins Lumber company, in
Rhinelander entailing an estimated
loss of $4,000. Three carloads Of
lumber on side track near the plant
also were burned AS a result of the
fire, fifty men were thrown out of
work.
A civic committee headed by Hugh
Mitchell, American Legion commander,
has been announced to shape a De
Tense day program in Beloit the night
of July 3. The Legion, G. A. r., Unit
ed Spanish War veterans, churches,
schools, women's organizations 'and
city government are represented on the
committee
In an opinion by Asst. Atty Gen. T..
L. Mcintosh to Dwight T. Parker, COM
missioner Of banking, it was held that
building and loan associations can only
credit or pay dividends at the regular
dividend times as fixed by the bylaws
after the accounting has been made
and the items specified ascertained,
credited or paid.
Fire believed by many to be of in
cendiary origin partially destroyed the
Emanuel Evangelical church parsonage
at Menomonee Falls The Rev. Will
liam Hillman, who was alone in the
house at the time, barely escaped with
his life by jumping from window
when he awoke choking from the
smoke
Horicon's woman justice of the
peace, Bessie Cole, eloped to Rock
ford, ILL.,, and was married to Gordon
Kavolski, one of Horizons beRt known
athletes. Miss Cole was formerly
resident of Independence, having come
to Horizon from that city about five
years ago as an English teacher. Mrs
Kavolski is captain of the Heirloom
Athletics basket ball team.
Mrs. Kate Pier. SO years sad. died
at her home in Fond du Lac Mrs.
Pier was the first woman circuit court
commissioner in the country, and grad
uated from the University Of Wiscon-
sin law college in 1887 Mrs Pier
was AZ years old when she graduated,
and her oldest daughter was gradu-
ated with her. Four years later two
other daughters graduated, and all
practiced law In Milwaukee for many
years.
The Wisconsin supreme court denied
a motion for rehearing in the Hartford
bank case. The decision sustains the
courts former opinion, holding the
present system of taxing national
banks in Wisconsin to be constitutional
and valid. The taxes were assessed on,
the banks stock on an ad valorem
basis under the state law, the bank
contending that such taxation was in
violation of the federal law providing
that national bank stock should not
be taxed at higher rate than other
moneyed capital in the state.
Senator Robert M. La Toilette left
a net estate of $398OO, according to
a will filed in the Dane county Pro-
bate court. The senator left an estate
Of $68,000, with an Indebtedness on
the property estimated at $4,000.
Mrs. La Toilette, the widow, is named
as the sole beneficiary. Senator La
Follette's debts include a mortgage
Of $4,000 on the Maple Bluff farm,
with $4,000 for other personal obliga-
lions. The senator's personal property
is valued at $2O,80O, while the value
of his real estate, the homestead, is
placed at $4,000.
The First National bank Of Shulls-
burg was robbed and the town ter
rorized for two hours by five bandits
who cut wires leading into town,
blasted open the bank vault and de-
parted with currency and negotiable
securities amounting, it is believed,
to about $4,000. The nine nitro-glycer-
Inc charges which the men used to
open the vault destroyed books when
the interior Of the bank was wrecked
and officials. were unable to make an
accurate estimate of the loss. More
than 10 shots were fired by the men
during the course of the robbery to
keep citizens at bay No one was in
jured. Two of the men were stationed
outside the bank, one with a shotgun
and another with a revolver Judge
J. B. Simpson, president and j. j.
Jameson, cashier of the bank, said
that the loss would be fully covered
by insurance.
The selection of Glenn Frank us
president Of the University of Wiscon-
sin at salary of $4,000 a year was
approved by the board Of regents. The