Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-22
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD

! damage probably will amount to $780,
! 900 as the building and its furniture
! Is a total wreck. Nothing but the
walls of the church remain standing.
/ The fire is said to have been caused
| by defective electric wiring. During
the fire sparks were carried onto half
| a dozen neighboring houses and fire.
men were kept busy putting out these
fires as well as fighting the confagra-
| ton in the church.
| Racine-The Milwaukee Electric
| Railway and Light company, whose
power plant was destroyed, succeeded
in getting all street cars running on
time and lighting most of the CONNER
cial and district centers. Street lights,
| however, are out and the city is in
darkness. A canvas roof has been
| placed on the plant and one engine and
q generator are in operation.
Mayville. Bleeding from a gaping
wound In his abdomen, Michael
| Mashopanjock was found staggering
down the street and taken to hos
pital, and shortly after Emil Wyar-
kowitz was locked up, charged with
the stabbing. Wyankowitz asserts he
returned from work and found Mash
opanjock in his home.
Madison.-R. Raffaele and Frank
! Carusa pleaded guilty to the charge
of receiving and aiding in the con-
| cealment of goods stolen from q
freight car in the West Madison yards
of the Milwaukee road and were SEN
fenced each to one year at Waupun
at hard labor.
Wausau. - Though technically
fined $50 for burying a body with
out a burial permit, the story of the
burial of John Wagner, the boy killed
in the woods near here, revealed a
most revolving condition. The father
of the young man, S. M. Justus, dis
covered through a Mosinee woman
that his missing son had probably
been killed there last August. Getting
permission to exhume the body, the
father opened the grave. According
to his testimony in court, the body
was housed merely in rough box In
clothing worn at the time of death,
and only couple Of feet below the
surface of the ground
Hayton.-Henry Ploeckelman,
veteran of the Civil war, played
last grim joke upon his neighbors
when he draped his front door with
crepe and committed suicide. Neigh
bors passing the house where he lived
alone, discovered the crepe and en-
tered the house to see if they could
render aid, but found the house empty.
A search Of the premises was made
and the body was found hanging from
a rafter in thu barn.
Sheboygan.-Charged with man
slaughter in the fourth degree,
George Theme, motorman of the
street car which plunged through the
open Eighth street bridge into the riv-
er here on February 9, bringing death
to three women, was bound over for
trial at the next term of the circuit
court under bonds of $1,000, which
we're furnished by the company. He
was held as an agent of the street rail-
way company.
Marquette-Carp are being ia
ken out of Lake Puckaway by a
gang of fishermen from Princeton,
and shipped to New York, averaging
about twenty to thirty tons day.
Game wardens are on hand to see that
other game fish are protected, of which
there are tons and tons being hauled
up with the carp. The fishermen are
using a net 1000 feet long and opera
ted by horse and launch power.
La Crosse. = While Burlington
passenger train No. At was
speeding into Savanna, ILL.,, ]. H. Deb
bell, Chicago, suddenly became VIC
Iently insane and rushed through the
coaches, throwing the passengers into
a panic. During the struggle with the
conductor and train crew he kicked
the glass out of the doors of two
coaches and smashed several win
dows.
Chippewa Falls. - Suit for dam
ages of $4,000 has been instituted
by John Abel, brick mason, against
the ]. Leinenkugel Brewing company.
Two weeks ago he was working on
chimney repairs when the scaffolding
broke and Abel fell 20 feet. His right
ankle joint was so badly torn that sur
geons had to amputate the foot.
Observation-Disclosures of Por-
tage and this city are investi-
eating the find of baby girl on the
doorstep of an aged woman here. The
woman went to her door and was sur
prised to find basket which, upon in
vestigation, proved to contain an in
FAINT which had been born only few
hours before.
Baraboo.-Frank and Fred Ayers,
brothers, aged twenty-one and
twenty-five, respectively, died on
the same day within few hours Of
each other of consumption. One died
at the home of his parents at DeltoD
and the other in Arizona.
Portage.-Lucius c. Lincoln, charged
with an attempt to poison Mrs. Sarah
Grout at Columbus, was acquitted.
Madison-The senate committee on
Judiciary decided to recommend
resolution providing for the appoint
ment Of a joint legislative committee
of Two senators and three assembly
men to confer with similar commit
Tee of the Minnesota legislature for