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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
CHICAGO VISITED
BY TREE PEST
CITY FORESTER GIVES EARNEST
WARNING AGAINST THE
TUssock MOTH.
ADVISES USE OF CLUB TO BREAK
AND DESTROY THE
cccooNs.

Chicago, July 31.-The big stick for
the tussock moth. City Forester
FROST, after discovering that this for.
midaDle tree pest has invaded Chicago
appearing on Dearborn avenue to the
north and on Rosalie court to the
they had best take immediate steps to
fight the insect The moth already
has crawled up many of the trees in
the sections of the city affected, spin.
ming whitish cocoon about itself
high on the trunk or branches.
A well aimed blow with a good
heavy blunt stick. the forester says,
will break up the cocoons and effectu-
ally prevent the spread of the pest.
The result of the prodding is to break
UP a hotel of the insect world which
holds more inhabitants than any First
ward working mems home.
Each cocoon contains from 400 to
500 prospective moths in the shape of
eggs that will hatch out the first time
the weather warns up to summer
temperature in the coming season.
The young, as caterpillars, then will
swarm out over the leaves of the tree
and gorge themselves as only crawl
ing green gourmands can.
"Prodding is the easiest, simplest,
and one~of the most effective methods
of Kidding the trees of insects after
they have reached the cocoon stage, 2
said the forester, ''but Chicagoans ap-
parently do not know this. They go
to all sorts of hard methods, such as
burning the cocoons after knocking
them down from the trees. Earlier
in the year spraying is efficient
against the advance of the insect on
the leaves, but it now is too late to &C.
complish much good in that way.
Arsenate of lead will kill off the in
sects on the leaves, but will not reach
the interior of the cocoons. The
moth, hitherto, has not got a footing
in Chicago, but if it once spreads
the foliage will suffer terribly. Pitts
burg. Baltimore, Washington, New
VI 4NOW dI diIu OJHGI CdStSIu CIt-
les now are spending large sums of
money fighting the tussock plague.
Boston has nine power sprayers at
work almost constantly
"The particular danger from this
moth lies in it's rapid multiplication
once it gets foothold in a commun-
ity. A few hundred moths one sea-
son means hundreds of thousands
within year or two. The trees
which are particularly likely to at
lacks from the moth are the linden,
the horse chestnut, the Carolina pop
lar and the willow. But the insects
often abandon the trees and spin
their cocoons on poles or the sizes of
frame buildings"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
PLAYING AT HYGIENE.

Did it ever occur to you that when
you see children playing in the open
air and romping in the sunshine they
are playing hygiene, which means
health?
If only we older people would throw
dignity aside and play the game more
than we do we would be much better
off than we are
To be sure, the game need not be
as violent as "black man. tag" or
three cornered cat," but long walks
in the open air, tending a small gar
den or cultivating flowers instead OF
tin cans and rubbish in the back yard,
would be pretty certain to produce
good results in many ways.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
CHILD TELLS
AWFUL STORY
TESTlFlES THAT STEPMOTHER
BRANDED HER ON BACK WITH
RED HOT POKER.

Milwaukee, Wis, July 31.-Feeble,
emaciated, her little body still racked
with pain and covered with bruises,
11-year-old Irma Brockhaus, on the
witness stand in the police court yes
terday, told a story of almost unbe-
lievable cruelties habitually practiced
on her by her stepmother, Anna Brock
haus. held TO answer to charge of
mayhem for tearing the little girls
ear from her head. The recital was
listened to by the greatest crowd in
the history of the police court-a
crowd which shuddered and sickened
at the story of the little child-a
crowd which more than once threat
ened to break the bounds of court
decorum and which half dozen depu-
ties found it hard to restrain as the
terrible story of suffering was hating
ly told by the little victim of unbrid-
led anger. And outside the city hall
another crowd surged-a crowd of 400
or 500 women, held in check by d
platoon of police, and bent at least on
seeing the woman.
The little girl testified that her STEP
mother repeatedly beat her with whips
and identified three wicked looking
olacksnakes as the instruments used
by the woman. She told of her ear
being torn from her head. and then
she told of being branded on her little
rack with red hot poker. 1t was at
this stage of the testimony that We
man N the crowd fainted, and it wss
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
WEEDS Sister of Game Warden.

Racine, Wis, July 31.-With a pref
ty ceremony at the home CT the brides
mother, City Attorney E. Roy Burgess
was married to Miss Amanda Crotch
en- Rickeman, sister of State Game
Warden Georre Rickeman. Only i'm
mediate relatives and a few intimate
friends were present. Both are grad
yates of the Wiscor sin university. The
bride has been assistant librarian at
the Racine library for several years
and Mr.. Burgess has been the city at
torney for three years.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
ScARLATINE.

The names scarlatine and scarlet
iever mean precisely the same dis
ease. Scarlatina is not mild form,
OF scarlet fever, but scarlatina is the
Latln name and scarlet fever the Eng
lish. 1t is the most serious Of the
common contagious diseases, because
.neie IS no known specific remedy for
u as there is in diphtheria. Mild at
eacns u scarlet fever do not neces-
sarliy give rise to mild cases in 9TH
ers but are frequently the cause of
latal form in others who have been
exposed to contagion.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
GREAT MAUSOLEUM
FOR DIES MONIES
STRUCTURE BIG ENOUGH TO
CONTAIN SIX HUNDRED
cRYPTS.
MANY PROMINENT PEOPLE IN
TERESTED IN THE NOVEL
ENTERPRISE.

Des Moines, Ia. July 31.-Following
upon the action of the common coun-
Gil in sanctioning the sale of three
fourths of an acre of ground in Glen
dale cemetery comes the announce
ment that a mausoleum representing
an expenditure of between $125,000
and $150,000 is to be erected there.
The Iowa Mausoleum company,
with Senator j. R. Maytag of Newton
as president and F. F. Mckinney of
Waterloo as vice-president, has been
organized for the purpose, and prep
arations for the construction of the
unusual building are we'll under way.
According to L. B. Hamilton, who
submitted the written proposition to
the council for the purchase of the
ground, mausoleum containing be-
tween 400 and 600 crypts will be
built. 1t will be 60 feet long by $50
feet wide and will be so feet in
height. In the center of it will be
a chapel and above that beautiful
dome.
The crypts will be of solid con-
crete, while the exterior of the
building will be of rockface marble.
The interior also will be of marble.
Each crypt will be seven and one-half
feet long, thirtyfour inches wide and
twenty-four inches high.
By chemical process and the use of
drainage pipes that run into beds of
lime the moisture and decaying quail
tiles of the bodies are carried off in
strictly sanitary manner, the corpse,
besides retaining all it's features, re-
mains in an excellent state of preser-
walton for countless years.
Many of Des Moines' most promi-
nent people have been interested in
the big enterprise. Des Moines is the
smallest city in the country to build a
mausoleum of such proportions.
Only the larger cities of the
United States now have them. Buff
falo, Detroit and Toledo have re-
Gently had them built.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
On the RatI

The four largest locomotives ever
included by the Santa Fee railway are
included in an order for additional To-
como i've equipment which has just
been placed by the company to fill out
the passenger train service. The
four engines will be of the Mallet
compound type, possessing two sets of
drivers. and will be among the most
powerful locomotives in existence.
Two of them are designed for freight
hauling, and the other two, with
shorter wheel base, are for passenger
trains. The powerful locomotives are
to supply motive power for the grades
on Ramon Hill, the steepest portion of
the Santa FeS lines, where the grade
reaches a maximum of 4 per cent. On
the passenger engines the total wheel
base, exclusive of the tender, is 81 feet,
s inches and on the freight engines SO
feet, 10 inches. In addition to the four
compound engines the order includes
eighteen large Atlantic type passenger
engines.
Great interest is being manifested
by railway companies in the different
types of motor cars for railway use
that are being put forward by the
manufacturers. The tests being made
mean much to some communities
The traveller on the Union Pacific has
become accustomed to seeing at promi-
nent stations these motor cars, ready
to speed awcy to a town or city at a
distance from the main line. Under
the steam Ian of operation the serv-
ice to the outlying community was
daily or twice g. day perhaps. Under
the motor car plar more frequent
trips have been made possible and
have been welcomed and appreciated
The Rock Island is reported to be ex-
nerimentiag with six differe t motors
The Santa Fe is alert also The IN
fiuence CT the development of the auto
mobile industry is apparent. The rai'-
road COMPANIES are asked to consider
the respective merits Of the steam
motor car" the gasoline electric
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
EARLY LETTER ON THE UNION
u,. Rush Feared a Too Quick Peace
With England Would be Harmful.

'tNS' S0' W q wv SdtSh FSdSC
With England Would be Harmful.
One of the finest specimens of let
ters in a recent sale of autographs
by Stan V. Henkels in Philadelphia
was written on April Is, 1882, by
DR.. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the
declaration of independence, to Maj
Gen. Nathaniel Greene, says the
New York Times.
DR.. Rush was physician-general of
the revolutionary army also. he
practiced his profession in Philadel-
phia and during the yellow-fever
epidemic there in 1898 he treated it
successfully and it has been esti-
mated that he saved from death no
less than 5000 persons.
He was a firm supporter Of the
federal constitution and his letter is
chiefly about that subject. He says:
1T is true France has done won
deFs for us. But may not even this
have a beneficial effect on our coun-
try hereafter? 1t seems intended by
heaven to teach us the necessity of
La eprpetual union and confederation
If the combined force of all the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
SNOW FLAKES
FALL IN OMAHA

Omaha, Neb., July 31.-The unusual
spectacle of snow falling in July oc-
Cured here last night. Flakes fen
internationally for ten minutes. Dur.
ing the storm at Lakes Nokoma and
Manawa, seven rowboats were can.
sized and at leas. 20 persons rescued
from drowning by people in launches.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
Will Build New Church.

Green Bay, Wis, July 31.-The con-
gregation of S. S. Peter and Pauls
church has decided to erect a new
church costing $4,000 and the money
is being raised now. The congrega-
ton includes over $50 families and the
present church is too small.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
New Road PROJECTED.

Boscobel, Wis, July 31.-W. H. H.
Cash of New Lisbon is Investigating
the practicability of building a rail
road from Bloomington through Patch
Grove and Mount Hope to connect
with the Northwestern road at Fenni-
more.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
Violated Prohibition Law.

Cumberland, Wis, July BE. B
Schneider was convicted of violating
the excise laws by soliciting orders
for beer in this city, since the local
prohibition went into effect, and was
sentenced to pay fine of 500 and
costs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
kenosha Strike Continues.

Kenosha, Wis, July 31.-The strike
at the. Simmons manufacturing plant
continues, the officials of the company
having refused to grant demands pre-
sented by the strikers, which 2. G.
simmons. Jr., one of the officials. states
would pay the men less than they have
been receiving.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
Meet at Appleton in 1910.

Sheboygan, Wis, July 31.-A. Npleton
was chosen for the 1910 convention by
the State Liquor Mems association.
These officers were elected: Presi-
dent, E. Langon, Kenosha; vice pres
ident, J. E. Wetzel, Sheboygan; Sec
rotary, Michael Neassen, Kaukauna.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
STORM DOES DAMAGE TO
CROPS AND BUILDINGS

Sioux City, Iowa, July 31.-A gale
blowing at the rate of 60 miles an hour
carrying hail and rain with it, struck
Huron, Armour and Pierre, South Da-
kota, and vicinity last evening, doing
thousands of dollars damage to crops
and destroying many small buildings.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
Rain Benefits the Crops.

Cumberland, Wis, July 31-Crop
conditions are excellent in every part
of Barron and surrounding counties,
the recent heavy rains having aided
the growth of all grains and given the
farmers bumper crop Of hay.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04

A locomotive company at 7,eb.
mond' Virginia, recently completed
eighty locomotives and two sean,
snoseis for the South Manch,,uan
Railway at Dalnv. GU
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
WAGNER FOUND
GUILTY OF PERJURY
THE JURY IN MUNICIPAL COURT
coNVIcTs PRIVATE DE-
TEcTIvE.
PENALTY FOR oFFENSE RANGES
FROM TWO TO FIVE
YEARS.
Madison, July 81

Madison, july 81.
The jury in the trial of Private De
tective Frank T. Wagner, charged
with perjury, returned verdict of
guilty in the municipal court yester-
day afternoon. Judge Donovan post
poned sentence until 9 O'Clock this
morning.
The penalty for the offense of which
Wagner was convicted is imprison-
men in the states prison for term
of not less than two years or more
than five years.
The session of the court in the morn
ing was devoted by the attorneys to
making arguments to the jury. At 2
o'clock, Judge Donovan delivered his
charge to the jury. He instructed the
jurors that in case any reasonable
doubt existed in their minds as to the
guilt or innocence of Wagner, they
must give the defendant the benefit OF
the doubt
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
Jury Out Two Hours.

The jury retired at 2:40 o'clock In
charge of Turnkey Thomas G. Moran
and Wagner was taken back to jail.
A heavy knock at the door of the jury
room at 4:45 o'clock indicated that an
agreement had been reached. The
few spectators that had remained in
the corridors of the courthouse, were
up and astir and hurried to the court
room. Word was sent to District At
torney Mason and EdW ard Yockey,
counsel for the defendant, and Wag-
ner was brought up from Jail. He
looked somewhat downcast as he took
a seat beside his attorney. At o'clock
Turnkey Moran entered the courtroom
with the jury.
Gentlemen, have you agreed upon a
verdict?" asked Judge Donovan. after
the jury had been polled.
1--WE have" replied Foreman Bert
Patterson.
Mr.. Patterson then announced the
verdict.
Wagner hung his head in silence as
the word guilty fell from the lips
of Mr.. Patterson. Before being taken
back to Jail Wagner had long talk
with his attorney.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
Believes Wagner's Story.

81 believe that the story told by
Wagner is true, but it was simply be-
cause w. A. Black and Robert Nc
Mynn CHILLED the witness that the
senatorial investigating committee got
cold feet said Mr.. Yockey in his ar
guments to the jury. They were
scared by the cars. The millions of
Isaac Stephenson We're staring them
in the face and they feared that their
heads would fall off, and so poor Wag-
ner was deserted. He stood alone I'M
til arrested"
Mr.. Mason declared that the story
of Wagner was either IAN awful truth
or damnable lie" with everything in
dicating that it was a lie. He said the
crime of Wagner was worse than that
of man who held another up at the
point of a pistol.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
Then and Now.


How times have changed. When we
were young, people had bad colds,
soaked their feet in hot water and got
we'll. Now they have grip, take
quinine and are sick all summer.
Then they had sore throat, wrapped
a piece of fat pork in an old sock, tied
it around the neck at night and went
to work the next morning; now they
have tonsilitis, surgical operation
and two weeks in the house. Then
they had bellyaches, took castor oil
and recovered; now they have appen-
dicitis, week in the hospital and six
feet due east and west and six feet
perpendicular. They worked then,
now they labor. In those days they
wore underclothes; now they wear
lingerie. They went to a restaurant
for dinner; now they go to = cafe.
Then they broke leg, now they frac-
ture limb. They went crazy then;
now they have brain storms. Minis
tiers preached hell fire straight from
the shoulder then; now they read an
essay on the flowers that bloom on
Mobammed' s grave.-Ex.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
WEDNESDAY,. JULY Ii. 1870
Invent New Type of Telephone.

Two Swedish engineers have inven-
ted new type of telephone receiver
for long distance service. It's name
is the ''microphone." A satisfactory
trial OF the apparatus has been made
between Paris and Stockholm, the
distance between the two cities being
l, 100 miles as the crow flies, and con-
siderably longer by wire. The con-
nectlon was made via Berlin. At 10
q. m. the French minister at Stock
holm, NJ. Allie. rung up. and he was
able to speak with Madame Allie,
who was in Paris. Telephony over
such long distances has by no means
been unknown in the past, but it is
said that the new invention has won
derful facilities for transmitting the
sound of the human voice.
Efforts are now in progress to es-
tablish communication from London
to Copenhagen, via Paris.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
RAILROAD FOR SALE
Is ordered By Court.

A decree authorizing the sale of the
Chicago Great Western railway was
issued by Judge Walter n. Sanborn
of the federal circuit court. Repre-
sentatiyes of all parties concerned
completed and accepted the form OF the
decree. The sale of the property will
be in charge of Albert r. Moore,
special master in chancery All the
property, franchises and stock of tie
whole system will be included. The
par valuation of the stock is over
800, 900, 900. The minimum bid must
be at least Sl2, 600, 900, and deposit
OF $500, 200 is necessary to become a
bidder. If the sum paid for the pro-
perty exceeds the sum of the claims Of
the creditors the balance will be dis
tributed to the stockholders in order
of preference.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
Not a Candidate for Governor.

The name of Justice Edwin A. Jag
gard has been mentioned as a prob
able Republican gubern atorial candi-
date. He is not in the race.
81 never have been candidate, I
am not candidate now and 1 do not
intend to be a candidate for COVER
nor" said Judge Jaggard.
'My time now,'' continued Judge
Jaggard, els pretty much occupied
with cleaning up my work, preparatory
to leaving for Europe. With that task
before me will have little time for
politics. In fact, want to get away
from politics.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
McCleary Director Of the Mint.

According to reliable information
from Washington James T. McCleary,
former representative in Congress and
later assistant postmaster general will
be appointed director of the mint, sue
ceeding Frank Leach, who resigned to
accept a business position in Cali
fornia. MIR. McCleary is said to be
the choice of Secretary MacVeagh
and presumably of the president and
his nomination is expected before the
expiration OF the present session of
congress.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
Still Advocating State Division.

Ely Miner: The Cass Lake times is
talking hard for state division. The
Times voices the sentiment expressed
in the Miner some two months ago
when we tried to show how easy it
would be if we had a state composed
of the northern halt of Minnesota.
The northern, or progressive end, has
nothing in common with the southern,
or stationary end. The northern end
has push, enterprise and territory
enough to be the richest state in the
Union. A division of the state on
these lines would forever set aside the
sectional fight. 1t is to be supposed
however, that the southern end would
not relish this procedure as St. Louis
and the other iron ore counties would
then pay taxes for their own direct
benefit and not for the benefit of So
counties in the lower end who receive
more from the state than they pay into
it. By all means, let us have state
division and name the new state,
superior. = This name would fitting
ly symbolic our standing as compared
with the division of Minnesota COM
posed OF the overloaded, under
taxed, southern end.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14

Adrian Democrat: When hog
goes to the large packing houses at
six and q halt cents q pound and comes
out breakfast bacon at twenty-one
cents pound he is not the only hog
in the transaction.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14
An Experience with Mr.. Bruin

An Experience with Mr.. Bruin.
Mr.. Close, grainbuyer at the Eagle
Mill elevator received the following
letter from Mr.. Hallack, father Of
Mrs. Close:
Morse, Wis. July 4. 1909.
had quite celebration on the
Fourth which [ would not like to ex-
perience again under the same cir
cumstances. On that very morning
the dog made such fuss that 1 cot
up and thinking that a porcupine was
after the chickens I went into the
yard with my revolver. Going passed
the bee hives I saw black object be-
hind one of the hives which I took to
be small cub bear eating honey. I
went up within about s #. Then
became aware that it was large
bear, which on seeing me made a quick
dash for me. | started to retreat as
a 81 caliber revolver is hardly the
weapon for defense against a big vi
cious bruin. On my retreat I fell
down and he got within S or s #. of
me when put the revolver in his face
and shot. He dropped and Mr.. Bruin.
after waiting a few seconds got up
and took to the woods. fred a few
more shots at him, he rolled over, got
up and walked off towards the woods.
| looked for him the next day and
traced him by the blood to a
swamp and then lost track of him.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14

Stewart Tribune: It begins to look
as if those senator's favoring free
lumber will have to be content with
something like free knotholes.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-14

The only nation in Europe that
spends more for schools than for mil
ltery purposes is Switzerland, and she
has no navy or any need for dread
naughts --but in the true sense she is
the real dreadnaught nation. Italy
makes the worst showing, the ratio
being 9 to against the school, while
the average is about to /. It costs
the United States over million dol
lars day for the army, navy and
pensions--in round numbers $500, OOO,.
600 a year, Or about S9,OOO,OOO for
every state in the Union. Minnesota
is almost exactly an average state in
population. Does she spend SO. 900, OOC
year on her schools? Down with
the dreadnaught! 'Rah for the school.
ma'am and better wages. -Bede's
Budget