Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-03-16
Wisconsin State News

John McHugh, a former boot and
shoe dealer at Beaver Dam, died at the
Alexian Brothers hospital in Oshkosh.
Philip Lewis, well known through
out Racine county, died at Burlington
after several months illness OF
Bright's disease.
Several cases of scarlet fever have
broken out in the village of Pine River
and a number of families have been
placed in quarantine to prevent a fur
Their spread Of the disease.
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
broken out among the pupils of school
district No. 5, New Berlin. The teach
er, Grace Dalton, of Milwaukee, was
stricken with the disease.
A strange malady has broken out
among the cattle on the farm of Will
lam Kline i'm the town of Irvine. Nine
nave died within the past two days
and many more of the herd are sick.
Because their demands for increased
wages were refused, 125 tobacco sort
ers employed by the American Tobac-
co company at Brodhead went on a
strike. They have been receiving so
cents per 100 and demand 81 per 100,
ole I. Hanson, an old and highly re.
after an extended illness. He was 50
years old aud leaves a wife and sew
eral children. He had been a resident
of Waushara county for the past forty
five years and was president of the
Mt. Morris Norwegian Fire Insurance
company.
A report comes from Woodboro, on
the 500 road, of the death of a man
under circumstances which will prob
ally result in complications. Joseph
Manager, 20 years old, became mixed
up in a controversy regarding land
matters in a Woodboro saloon and be.
ing quite pronounced in his opinions
it is alleged he was struck in the face
by a bystanjer. Manger fell back
wards and struck his head on the
floor, injuring the brain. He died
from the effects of the blow.
7. b. Hatch and b. G. Gilbough,
electrical experts employed by the
Submerged Electric Motor company
of Menominie, gave an elaborate dem
OnstratiOn of the Evans electrical
school apparatus before the Menomi-
ME Advancement association. Fifty
uses of electricity were shown. Ex-
State Superintendent Harvey spoke
before the same body on the Menomi-
ME schools. He says Memoninie is
the educational mecca of America and
is giving subject lessons in advanced
Industrial education TO the whole
world.
Mrs. Rosa Scoen, who has brought
suit against the Racine garment max
ers' union for $4,000 damages, has
been summoned To appear before
Judge Belden To show cause for main
tanning the injunction. Members OF
the union state that the allegations in
the complaint on which the enjoining
order was issued were misleading and
untrue. Inc injunction restraints the
defendants from maintaining a guard
of picllets near the Schoen factory, or
OF interfering with the plaintiffs con-
trCi and management OF the plant or
its employees.
The Brodhead school board has is
sued a statement in regard to the
school trouble. IL says that Miss
Stuck of Milwaukee was removed at
the advice of the University of Wis
consin inspector of high schools and
that the responsibility rests entirely
upon the board. The statement says
that four months of careful investiga-
ton took place before the board acted
and that since the removal of Miss
Stuck the work of the school has been
carried on without interruption and
the standard of scholarship has not
been lowered, although the reputation
of the school as suffered as a result of
ill-advised attempts to overthrow the
government of the school