Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-08-28

d. r. Davis, the Eau Claire paper
manufacturer, has begun the erection
of a paper mill at Jim's Falls. The
Omaha railroad is surveying a line
from Eagle Point to the site of the new
mill.
At Oshkosh the Con1ee Lumber COM
pany has temporarily gone out of bust
ness. The company's sawmill this
season has been running entirely upon
logs furnished by the Paine Lumber
company.
Mrs. Gertrude Schliz, wife of John
Schliz, supposed to have been the cid
est German woman in Racine county,
died, aged So years. Thomas D.
Pushee died aged SO years. He had
lived in Racine half a century.
Government surveyors are at work
measuring from the stumpage the
amount of timber which has been I'M
lawfully cut from the Indian reserva-
ton. 1t is expected that when their
work is completed suits will follow.
At Port Washington Mrs. Martin
Alderman, wife of the oldest hardware
dealer in the city, committed suicide
by drowning in cistern. She was GA
years of age and, besides husband,
leaves a large family of grown-up
children.
Rev. Eli CorWin of Racine, a Con-
gregational minister and well-knoWn
as a lecturer on Hawaiian annexation,
to which cause he devoted many years
of his life, died at the Chicago Home
for Incurables. About year and a
half ago he suffered stroke of par
alysis.
According to the reports of r. f.
Roberts, secretary of the Old Settlers
club of Kenosha county, ninety-six
members have died since the last re-
union of the club in August, 1898. The
oldest of these was William Lynch,
who had lived a century and Lathrop
Burgess, who was Sc.
A large land deal occurred in Ash
land and Iron counties and includes
nearly 1900 acres. A. B. Mcdonnell,
the Chippewa Falls banker, and John
Irving of st. Paul made the sale to, the
Bray & Choate Land company, a cor
poration that has its office at Oshkosh
The consideration is $4,000.
The farm house, barns and all other
outbuildings on the Gordon farm
seven miles west of Racine owned by
L. Frobicias, together with several
pigs and the crop of hay and grain
were burned. Loss $4,000. In the
Mt. Pleasant Town Insurance COM
pany there was an insurance Of $4,000
At Oshkosh the Citizens Traction
company has voluntarily increased the
wages of it's employees. Motormen on
the city line are receiving 10 cents an
hour. With the opening of the inter
urban, conductors on the city line will
be paid Is cents, and on the interur-
ban IL cents, an increase of 4 cents per
hour.
In the Racine municipal court Miss
Flora Hofmeister, forewoman of the
Badger Manufacturing company,
pleaded guilty to the charge of violat-
ing the child labor law and was fined
$40 and costs. Charges will soon be
brought against Milwaukee, Sheboy-
gan, Kenosha and Wausau people for
fIO1dCIuS CuS law.
At Marinette Eber J. Williams died
of peritonitis. He was popular
young man, salutatorian of last years
graduating class of the hign school
and had gained considerable distinc
ton in the state as an amateur bicycle
rider. He rode second in one of the
state championship races at Appleton.
He was - years old.
At Kenosha Mrs. Bartlett, an aged
woman, narrowly escaped being seri-
ously burned. Her clothing became
ignited by the flames from a gas stove.
AS soon as she discovered the accident,
with great presence of mind she ran
into the bath room got into the tub
and turned on the water. In a short
time the flames were eXtinguished.
At Marinette J. H. Green & Sons are
making preparations for vigorous
campaign in the woods. They expect
to start Sept. 16 from Green Bay, and
will put in three camps. One will be
fourteen miles from st. Ignace, Mich,
one twenty miles from st. Ignace and
one at Alexander, Mich They will
employ $50 men and Will get out 25,
600 cords of pulpwood.
Wisconsin pensions granted-Origi
nal Edward Hasten, WatertoWn, So;
increase, James Wells, Ogdensburg,
$14 to $24; Thomas Britt Sc to So;
reissue, Daniels Cross, Winneconne,
$22; original widows, etc., minors of
Louis Conklin, Seymour $18; Susan M.
Heath, Oil City, So; minor of Charles
M. Myers, Wausau, $40; Anna M
Hickman, She'boygan, So.
At Sturgeon Bay Nicholas Ambrose,
IL years old, drowned in the bay. He
went fishing and when he did not re-
turn at bed time the parents and
friends went in search of him. The
father found the body in the water
alongside the wharf, and it was up
right, the water being but few inches
over the boys head. He had fallen
between the piles, which were slippery,
and he could not get up.