Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
BADGER
NEWS BREVITIES

Owen of Milwaukee spoke at the
annual convention of the Wiscon.
sin Association of Postmasters on the
subject of automobile service in col
lecting and delivering city mail Mr.
Own said the automobile service in
transporting from the main office to
the substations in Milwaukee had
proved such a success that the de-
partment entered into a new contract
for four years more. Collection serv-
ice by auto, Mr. Owen contended,
could be worked successfully in large
cities only where the speed of the
auto in collecting the mail will pre-
vent the loss in time now found with
horses.
MaLitowoc.-John Graetz, a prom
inent resident of this city and
who claimed to be the first Polish resi-
dent of Wisconsin, succumbed at the
age of ninety Mr.. Graetz was born
April II, 1921, in Prussia, AMI while
a young man he participated in several
Polish wars, defendire his country
against the German invasions He
came to the United States long before
the Civil war. He devoted one year to
travelling and one year he lived in Chi
cago, while the rest of his lifetime he
spent in Wisconsin With his money
and labor he helped the erecting of
number of Polish churches and
schools in different parts of the state.
Marinette-Mrs. Minnie Alschwag-
er of Grover, aged seventy-one,
has filed suit asking a divorce
from John Alschwager, aged seventy
five, charging cruel and inhuman treat
ment. The husband is said to be the
richest farmer in Marinette county.
Although Mrs. Alschwager has been
married three times she has lived 38
years with her present husband. They
have ten children, all married, and to
each the parents have given farm of
the average value of $4,000.
Sturgeon Bay.-Fire starting in
the barn behind the M. E. Law
renee block destroyed five barns and,
spreading to the Lawrence block,
burned off the roof. Water damaged
the stock in the A. w. Miller furnish
ing store to the extent of several thou
sand dollars. The loss will probably
aggregate $4,000 Two cows, five
sheep and three pigs were burned to
death The blaze threatened the en-
tire block.
Superior of the first cases
to be tried under the new white
slave law of Wisconsin was heard be-
fore Judge Parker in the municipal
court, When William Tracy of Hurley
was arraigned, charged with violating
the provisions of the act. After hear
ing the evidence Judge Parker bound
Tracy over for trial at the coming
session of the superior court
Fond du Lac.-Nathaniel w. Sal
lade, aged forty, prominent church
man and business man, died as
a result of taking cyanide of potas-
SUM for sodium phosphate Mr..
Sallade was accustomed to carry two
bottles similar to each other in his
automobile case, one containing
cyanide of potash, the other sodium
phosphate.
Wausau-At the summer session
of the Wisconsin Daily Newspa-
per league officers were reelected
as follows: President, Frank E. Noyes
of Marinette; vice-president, Oscar j.
Hardy of OSHKOSH; secretary-treasurer
H. H. Bliss of GAINESVILLE. The next
meeting will be held in Milwaukee in
November
Jefferson jefferson county's old
soldiers held their ninth annual
reunion in Courthouse park. Ad-
dresses were made by former Gov. w. |
D. Hoard, former Congressman S. A.
Cook, former Senator j. A. Hardwood
and others. F. A. Foote was reelected
president and George Turner of Jeffer-
son secretary.
Kenosha-The body of the in
FAINT son of Mrs. Anna Magdolen, for
which the police have been searching, |
was found in a box in the basement of
the house where Mrs Magdolen lived. !
Only a few minutes before the body
of the baby was found the mother had
started for the state prison at Waupun
to serve an eighteen months term.
Marinette.-.An iron bar with hui
man hair clinging to it, found at
the Wertelewski home by Deputy |
Sheriff Bahlert, is the strongest evil |
dence the state has secured against |
anyone in seeking to solve the mys-
terry of the murder of Wertelewsky.
Madison.-The Wisconsin state I
civil service commission announced I
competitive examination for can I
didates for first assistant attorney |
general at a salary of $4,000 year, to |
succeed A. c. Titus, who IS sick. In I
October the examination will be held /
throughout the state for local income |
tax assessors, salaries $500 to $4,000.
Sheboygan- Kolb, one of /