Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-15
WISCONSIN NEWS.
TERSELY TOLD

the Majestic Ineater company and the
Elg1n Lunch company, committed sui
eide in her home at 945 Lake avenue
by shooting herself with a revolver
She left the breakfast table early,
and went directly to her room where
she shot off the top of her head She
was thirty-fve years of age and had
been in i'll health for several weeks,
and this is supposed to have been the
reason for her act. Mrs Biederstedt
was the second wife of her husband
and had been married two years. She
is survived by her widower and mar
rled stepdaughter.
Kenosha.-County Judge George
w. Taylor has received a for
NAL notice from the state board of
control that the Wisconsin state hos
pltal for the insane at Mendoza had
been closed to patients On account of
the prevalence of diphtheria, and a
general quarantine of the institution
declared by William H Graebner,
president of the board. There are
$50 inmates in the hospital anC no
more patients will be received or
transferred to the various hospitals
for the chronic insane until the dis
ease is finally eradicated. The disease
has SO far been in mild form.
Shawano.-Dr. A T. Stubenvell
of this city has made an autopsy
on the carcasses OF many Of the deer
in l.,
ity. He says that they have died of
terrible epidemic and that many others
have the disease and will die before
the end of the year. He says that
hunters eating the flesh of animals
they have killed must boil the meat
or they will be liable to catch the dis
ease, which is communicable to people
when either smoked or broiled. He
says that boiling is the only method
which kills the parasites which cause
the disease.
Superior.-A scarcity of laboring
men is reported by Superintend-
ent O'Carroll of the local state
free employment Office. A demand for
between 200 and 800 men has been
made upon the office The shipbuild-
ing company, railway companies and
ore docks all have sent in large orders.
The 500 and Great Northern railway
companies are asking for men to work
out on the lines. Then a number of
small orders from about the city have
been filed at the office.
INSTRUMENTATION Wilson, sixty
five, who ten years ago gained
wide notoriety by getting a wife from
England by advertising, is dead as
result of falling down stairway and
fracturing his skull He was widow
er with six adult children The wife
he got by advertising got a divorce
from him two years later.
La Consolidating from the
footboard of his engine to look at
one of the driving wheels, L. H. Stark,
fireman on the Milwaukee road, was
instantly killed when his head was
brushed against an iron truss on
bridge over small creek. His body
was thrown out of the cab into the
water.
Appleton.-Choosing to spend two
years in prison rather than the
same length of time under his fathers
roof, Arthur Hendricks, aged nine
teen, was sentenced to the state re-
formatory at Green Bay for two years
for grand larceny. Young Hendricks
was arrested for stealing S1o9. When
arraigned he pleaded guilty and threw
himself on the mercy of the court
His father offered to pay the money
if his son would return home until he
was of age. Judge Ryan sentenced
him to two years in prison and then
offered to place him on parole if he
would sign a contract to return home
with his father for that length OF
time.
Milwaukee.-The following Off
GERS were elected at a meeting of
the Milwaukee Mission kindergarten
and NeighbOrhood association: Presi
dent, Mrs. Nelson M. Black; first vice
president Mrs. E. P. Bacon; second
vice-president, Mrs. J. M. Pereles;
third vice-president, Mrs. A. t. Hol-
brook; fourth vice-president, Miss
Lucy Dore; fifth vice-president, Mrs.
William H. Mayhem; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. George P. bravo; CORE
spending secretary, Mrs. J. G. Thomp-
son; treasurer, Mrs. E. B. Usher. Miss
Leila B. Terry was appointed chair
man of finance. Mrs. George c. Swal-
low is honorary vice-president.
Menomonie-Meno is the lat
est city to be added to those
in Wisconsin which employ visiting
nurse. The Anti Tuberculosis associa-
ton has been raising funds through
private subscriptions and public enter
tainments to pay the salary. The COM
mon council has appropriated 5000 to
aid the movement and voted to give