Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-08-25

southern boundaries Of Florence are
| on fire. At the mining village of
| Commonwealth the people have band
ed together to fight lire.
/ Lester Larson in company with
John Hermanson, both of Taylor,
we're playing the Tracy actin the
presence of the mother of Larson,
when his revolver put a 22-caliber
bullet in his leg.
A son of John Haigh, living two
| miles east Of Wausau, was seriously
injured in runaway accident. While
endeavoring to hold the horse he was
thrown against a cart wheel so that
the wheel had to be removed to extri-
cate him.
Miss Mamie Bowen, a young lady
employed as stenographer, was the
successful candidate in the voting for
queen Of the GAINESVILLE Elks' carnival.
Miss Bowen received II, 551 votes and
Miss Alice Farnsworth her nearest
competitor, $3.50.
John J. Meyers was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Kaufman at Union
Grove, Kenosha county, and lodged in
him being alleged enlightenment Of
funds from the National Life and
Trust company Of Des MOines, Ia
The body of Kune Moosbrugger, who
with his brother has conducted the
German paper, Volksfreud, in Menom-
inee for four years, was found in the
lake. He was an enthusiastic fisher
man and was accustomed TO spend
each afternoon in this pastime. He.
was last seen on the pier and it is
thought he fell asleep and tumbled off.
At La Crosse Rt. Rev Bishop
Schwebach celebrated pontifical high
mass in commemoratiOn of the pope's
anniversary. About a dozen Catholic
socities took part and a parade was
had in the morning by platoon Of
police and a military band. Very
Rev. A. Phi Kremer preached the SER
| mon.
The La Crosse Brown Harvester
! receiYership matter has taken a new
| turn. The creditors now seek to
have Theodore Brown and w. N Golf
land of Viroqua, who turned their
patent into the company for 100000,
pay assessments on the stock on the
ground that they put it in at a gross
| ly inflated value
John e. Webster, superintendent of
the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven &
Muskegon railroad, and Miss Bessie
| Steenberg will be married at the
home of the brides parents in Placer
Vile They will reside at Fruitport,
Mich, where Mr.. Webster's offices
are and which is among the most
beautiful of Michigan's resorts.
Supervisor Maertz has just complet-
ed listing mortgages held by residents
in Manitowoc county. The report
shows the value OF mortgages held by
Manitowoc residents and taxable in
the county is $4,O07,1OO Of this
amount $3,927,0 900 is on mortgages re-
corded here and $356,000 on mort
cages owned in the county, but re-
| corded in other counties.
Recent Wisconsin pensions are:
| Originals, William Bischoff, Tess Cor
ners, r. Increase, reissue etc.,
James N. Ruby, Oshkosh, So; Charles
H. ButleE National Home, Milwaukee,
$12; Franklin Wright, Wisconsin
Veterans home, Waupaca, $40. Wild
ows, minors and dependent relatives,
Amanda M. Hoyt, Ludington, SIP;
| Mariane Rasmussen, MarshfieId, $12.
Capt. H. G. Morris, one OF the most
prominent G.. A. r. men in the state
and at one time prominently men
toned for head of the Wisconsin G. A.
R., died at La Crosse, aged SO. He was
commander of the William Mckinley
post, G.. A. R., the first in the United
| States to bear the name of the late
president. He was born in Madison,
| o., in 1914 and in his early childhood
was a schoolmate of Robert G.. Inger-
| soil
! Under Sheriff Follmer of La Crosse
| Sheriffs Vieth of Sparta, Peterson of
Black River Falls and Johnson of
| VirOua captured man suspected of
being on of the gang of horse thieves
operating in this ection of the state.
He had in his possession team be
| lieved to have been stolen from Rhine
lander, Wis. While the authorities
were taking him to Jail he leaped
into the buggy, dashed the team to
! gallop, and escaped.
The government has been forced to
stop work on the old Fort Crawford
military cemetery The improvements
which had been planned came to a
sudden stop when it was learned that
the historic ground was not govern
ment property but belonged to the
LawIor estate. 1t has always been
supposed that the government owned
the property but a letter received
from Washington says that the lots
were patented to John Lawlor, Ia +.