Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-04
chinery by fire at BIoomer. Insurance,

has a force of sixty men in Appleton
to lay the wires under ground through
the business district. The entire sys-
tenn will be rebuilt.
Robert G. Foster was appointed post
master at Some, Lincoln county, vice
George Patterson, resigned.
Albert Stelz, aged 10, while attempt
ing to get on a moving train at Wau-
sau, fell under the wheels. His foot
was cut off.
Emil Leubner, an employee of the
Carton Toy company, Sheboygan, dis
appeared and it is feared that he has
committed suicide.
At Rib Lake Mrs. Gail Blanchard
was found dead in bed with two bullet
holes in her head. The coroner's jury
gave a verdict of self destruction.
Daniel R. Mccormack of Wisconsin,
an employee in the Office of the auditor
for the treasury department., was pro
noted from a $1,000 place to- one at
81, 400.
The Appleton w. G. T. u. has begun
movement in favor of early closing
Of the stores the year round. The
movement will take effect Sept. 1 if
successful.
Rev. F. G. Ludwig, for three years
pastor of the Friedens' Evangelical
church at Stevens Point, has accepted
a call to the church of the same de-
nomination at Merrill.
Del. Thurston, an old resident of
Sparta, died. John Wuertz, one of the
pioneer Germans of Racine, died aged
49, Augustus Bixby, a pioneer farmer
of Hammond, died aged II.
At Osseo, e. Heating, a member Of a
telephone crew was badly hurt in a
scuff1e with some of the other members
and is not expected to live. He has a
widowed mother living at Tunnel
City.
AT Spencer a through freight was de-
rallied by a fallen draw bar and six cars
were piled up, some of them broken in
to kindling wood Three car loads Of
flour were in the wreck. No one was
injured.
Fire in the Mcbride icehouses at
Twin lakes burned a large number of
the buildings. These houses belonged
to the Knickerbocker Ice company, and
were the largest plant of the company
in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Telephone company
is negotiating with Orville Beach for
the purchase for $4,000 of a strip of
land ffty-four by 120, between the
Odd Fellows and the Y. M. C. A. build
ings in Oshkosh.
Wisconsin pensions granted: In
creased Lewis Hill, Seymour, So to
SIP; Joseph M. Rose, Platteville, Sc to
So; original widows, etc.: Josephine
M. Bodett, Boyceville, $12; Ellen M.
Ellor, Kenosha, SIP.
John Forey, who was killed in the
collapse of the Chicago Coliseum, was
son of Mrs. Bridget Forey of Ken
osha. He was the main support of the
family. 1t is a curious coincidence
that three of Mrs. Forey's sons have
met violent deaths the last two years.
At Sheboygan Miss Jessie Russell
and William Wolff, pitcher on the She
boygan ball team, were married at the
home of the brides mother. Miss Ma
ry Christian and David Maloney were
also married. Miss Agnes Hogan and
Bert Fowler were married in Kenosha.
Prof. E. B. Evans, Of Oregon, ILL.,,
an 1897 graduate of the University Of
Chicago, and for two years professor of
English and history in Berea college,
Kentucky, has been engaged to assist
IN, icI, oo iact OF hn
Stevens Point normal, to succeed Prof.
T. r. CrosWell, resigned.
At a meeting of the north side high
school board at ManitoWoc it was de-
cided OF adopt the recommendation OF
the special committee that the adjoin-
ing land to the Luling school be pur-
chased and school Building built to- ac-
commodate the increasing attendance.
The committee was authorized to raise
$4,000.
There have been rumOrs of trouble
in the financial end of the Brighton
Beach ChatauQuah. The lee
turers who appeared are reported 10
have been paid only half their contract
prices and Gen. King was the only
speaker who received what he was
promised. The musical organization
failed to receive anything.
The German weekly The Stevens
Point Post, has been discontinued
after a career of seven years. 1t has
been owned and edited for six years by
J. H. GedIich, formerly city editor of
the st. Louis Westliche Post He has
now purchased The Duluth-Superior
Volksfreund and will assume the edi-
tors chair on Sept. /. He will remove
The Post plant to Duluth.
The Collier estate case, which was
supposed to- have been settled by the
decision of the Kenosha county judge,
will come up again for trial, the admin
istrator of the estate having appealed
from the decision of the lower court.
By the decision of Judge Slosson Miss
Betsey Woodward was allowed claim
of $1,82064 against the estate for SER
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