Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-08-14
WISCONSIN BREVITIES.

The contract lOr UulluluS lie Low
Winnebago county Jail and sheriff's
residence was let to Louis Weber of
Neenah for $4,000.
CONGRESSMAN Davidson has a project
in hand of inviting President McKln-
lev to stop at Oshkosh on his western
tour, while en- route from Chicago to
st. Paul.
At Green Bay fire damaged the res
idence at 627 Walnut street, occupied
by A. B. Broome, to the extent OF
about $3.50. The house is owned by
Mrs. J. P. Schumacher.
At Wausau Herman, the 4-year-old
son of Gustav Bornfeth, burned to
death. The boy and a sister two years
older were left alone in bed. 1t is sup
posed the boy got up and secured
matches
| At Sturgeon Bay a little child of Mr..
and Mrs. G. Henderson was so badly
bitten on the hand by rats while asleep
that it is feared the member will have
to be amputated to prevent blood
poisoning.
Patrolman Sebastian Wiesner, a well
known member of the Milwaukee po-
lice department, died of asthma, aged
So years. He was born in Germany
Aug. 8, 1916, and was appointed to the
police department Nov. 13, 1897.
Miss Fay Carlyle, passenger on an
Omaha train, was found near Gordon
in night attire. She had walked off
the train and thought the cars we're
moving, her injuries are comparatively
slight She is now in hospital.
| At Racine Miss Clara Fribach was
seriously hurt in bicycle collision
with G. Goebel Her head was cut
open, teeth knocked out, forehead
( bruised and arm injured. She was
senseless but was revived and will
recover.
John Parrish, president of the Grand
Rapids Lumber company, purchased at
Wausau 20, 100000 feet of pine in Mara
thon county for 100000 Dunbar &
Parcher and others sold the tract. The
timber will be cut and shipped to Cen
tralia by rail.
Saloon licenses have been issued to
eighty eight dealers in the city Of She
boygan. The council has accepted the
bonds of the dealers and the clerk
directed to issue the required city per-
mission for selling. The fee is 5000
and the revenue received is $4,000.
The trimmers of the Badger and
Belle City Electric Light companies at
Racine demanded an increase of SIS
per month They were receiving $40
l md Frun
of them stopped work. Their places
were filled and no more trouble oc-
Cured.
An attempt at wholesale Jail delivery
was frustrated by Green Bay jailors
who discovered few days ago, that
hole through the walls almost large
enough to permit the passage of a
mans body was almost completed. The
hole had been dug out by prisoners
and was cleverly concealed.
James Knox Taylor, supervising
architect of the treasury department.
inspected ten sites offered for the fed
eral building at Eau Claire. He said
the appropriation of $4,000 would not
be more than half enough to secure a
site and erect a building adequate for
the needs for the government.
Another break in water main oc-
cured in the rapids of the Fox river,
short distance from the pumping sta
ton of the Kaukauna Waterworks
company. By working the pumps most
of the time they can supply water to
| the big tank of the Chicago & North
western Railroad company, but no
other service is attempted at present.
A meeting of the executive COM
mittee in charge of the plans for Sc
curing for Milwaukee next year the
the national democratic convention,
was held and plans we're discussed as
to how to proceed to- raise the 100000
guarantee fund which is to be secured
before the committee again goes be-
fore the national democratic committee.
Daniel Prothero, director of the
Arion Musical club, Milwaukee, has
been elected one of adjudicators of
the national eisteddfod to- be held in
Liverpool, Eng, in September, 1900
Mr.. Prothero is the first American
musician who has ever been selected
for such a position. One of his asso-
ciates on the board will be Sir Hubert
Parry.
Pickpockets reaped a harvest at the
Marinette Chautauquan on Bryan day.
Eugene Houte of Nathan, Mich, lost
$50; G. A. Woodruff of Little Rapids,
Wis, $50; Gil Deland of Fond du Lac
$40. Miss Hanson of Oconto lost sew
eral dollars not officially reported.
The work was evidently done by pro-
| fessionals who came to the Chautauqua
on Bryan day.
John E. Andrew, a mill foreman,
residing at Fisher, Mich, died sud-
denly of heart failure at Marinette
1t begins to look as if Racine was to
have new gas company. At a re-
cent meeting an ordinance to grant
Charles Carpenter, Charles Dietrich
and others the right to establish a
gas plant received it's first and second