Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-02-08
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

! The bird measured five feet from tiL
to tip and is the first of it's kind seen
in this section for years
Crandon.-Grace Smell, who was
found crawling along the tracks with
both legs frozen, will undergo an op
Grafton shortly to remove both feet 1t
develops also that her plight is more
of her own doing, than of her father,
who she first said had driven her out
! efferson.-Andrew Carnegie has
written city officials that $4,000 will
be awarded the city for library build
| ing. A lot costing $4,000 has already
| been donated by the Promoters club.
Madison.-The Wisconsin commit
| tee of the Prohibition national con-
| gress have engaged two dry orators"
| TO give lectures in various Wisconsin
cities. Among the cities to be Wis
| tied are: Milton, Cottage Grove,
Lone Rock, Brooklyn, st. Ida, Wayne,
vile, Evansville, Darlington, Wayne,
Madison, Sparta and Waupun.
| toughton-Fritchoff H. Olson,
aged thirty-nine, was found dead in
bed at the home of Mrs Elisha King,
113 South Fourth street. He was
unmarried. His parents live in Ber-
| gen, Norway. He evidently died from
suffocation as he was lying face
downward on the bed when found.
His mouth and nose were buried in
the pillow, which made it almost i'm
possible for him to breathe
waukee will be the next general sec.
rotary Of the Y w. C. A of this city,
to succeed Miss Florence Tompkin
son, deceased.
La Crosse.-For the first time in the
IS years he has been employed by the
road company, Peter Keaveny, watch
man at the North side crossing, failed
personally to draw his check when the
roads pay car issued checks to its
employees. Mr.. Keaveny, who is eighty
five years old, is i'll and his son drew
his check.
La Crosse.-If a suit to be started
by J. H. Marden, former principal
owner of the land, succeeds, the fair
grounds wiz revert to the original
owners Marden contends the land
was condemned for city park pur-
poses 20 years ago, but has been used
as fair grounds in violation of the
terms of the condemnation proceed
ings.
Madison-Two university goods,
the Misses Mary Conover, Riverside,
H., and Hazel Brown, Luverne, Mimi,
had narrow escape from drowning
while iceboating on Lake Mendoza.
With two members of the Sigma Chi
fraternity they were sailing in the
Edgewood, one Of the largest craft on
the lake, and In attempting to leap a
crack tho boat broke through. Miss
Brown was hurled beneath the ice.
The young men succeeded in hauling
her out with the aid of other boaters
who came to their assistance. Beyond
a chilly bath and a bad shock, neither
of the girls suffered from their ex-
perience.
Wautoma. - The body of Mrs.
Charles Whittestock, residing in
Oasis, who disappeared from home,
was found in an old unused potato pit,
about twenty rods from her home.
Mrs. Whittestock rose in the night,
clad only in her night clothes, went to
the granary, where she obtained
quantity of paris green and carbolic
acid, and after taking quantity went
to the potato cellar and died
turned by friends from a Milwaukee
sanitarium, where she was taken when
her mind was affected by grief over
her husbands death last October, Mrs.
Henry B. Meyer of West Salem 1eaped
from a fast passenger train between
Rio and Portage, breaking both legs.
Fond du Lac-CIifford H MINIS,
aged thirty-thpee years, of this city,
q conductor on the 500 line, was in
stantly killed at Byron, ten miles
south OF here MINIS was conductor
on the north-bound freight No. 50,
which was just taking the switch at
Byron. when a freight following
crashed into it. The accident was
due to the dense fog which obscured
the vision of the engineer on the sec
ond train.
Beaver Dam-The body of Jo-
seph Tres, who disappeared on
Thanksgiving day, was found floating
in the lake near the cotton mill dam.
At the time of his disappearance 1t
was thought that he had run away
and the police searched for him IN
other cities He leaves family.
Marinette-Rev Father Francis S.
Barth of Stephenson, Mich, has been
named by Bishop Els of Marquette,
Mich, to succeed the late Father F.
J. Langan of Escanaba, Mich. Father
Barth is regarded as one of the most
brilliant priests in the northwest.
He has had calls to Milwaukee.
Racine Joseph Thome of Gale
donia has engaged attorneys to bring
suit for $4,000 against John Spang,
claiming that Spank struck and in