Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
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/ resigned Mr. Essman spent a night
here, looking over the prison and con-
! ferring with the Rev. Daniel Wood
ward, the member of the state board
Of control, who is Temporarily in charge
of the institution. Mr. Essman has
had some experience in prison work,
| having served as deputy warden OF
big prison in Indiana, and might,
! it is said, consider the wardenship
| here if it were offered him. The leg
| islature at it's recent session increased
! the salary of the warden from $4,000
! to $4,000, with maintenance for him.
! self and family, which is equivalent
! to $1,000 more. The legislature also
! increased the salary of state superin-
tendent of public property from $4,000
| to $4,000
| Manitowoc.-For more than thirty
years Charles Butler. Clark's
Mills pioneer, who died at Frank
/ fort, Mich, a few days ago carried
piece of cloth from his shirt In
his lungs and the presence of the
| cloth caused a cough which on several
occasions threatened his life. Butler
was a soldier in the Union army in
the Civil war and at Perryville was
| shot through the lung. The bullet was
cut from his back, but a piece of his
wooden shirt which was torn away by
the bullet lodged in the lung.
Green Bay.-Money which has
been due e. K Ansorge for forty
six years and which he had forgotten
having been entitled to was paid 20
him by the war department. The
amount was not large, being only
$173, and Mr.. Ansorge was more than
surprised to receive a check from
the government The money was to
cover the value Of blanket and other
articles which Mr. Ansorge turned in
to the department at the close of the
Civil var
Prairie du Chien-Harry Schmidt,
aged fifteen, whose mother has just
returned from the hospital where
she had been confined for weeks, went
to the bank of the Mississippi to-
gather clans, and came home an hour
later with a hatful. When he opened
the third one he and his parents were
amazed to see a 31-grain pink beauty
drop to the floor. William Moore,
local pearl dealer, gave $500
for It,
West Bend.-Mrs. Martin J. Cav
anaugh, wife of a Chicago business
man, Is dying and her husband is seri-
ously injured as a result Of an auto
mobile accident near here. when their
machine turned turtle on a newly
made gravel road north Of here.
They we're on their way to the
Dells.
Neenah.-A telegram received
here said E. W. Mathewson, for
merly a Kenosha manufacturer and
we'll known throughout the state, was
killed in an auto accident at Everett,
Wash. The machine went over
high embankment, crushing Mathew
son beneath it,
Neenah.-Leslie DietZ, son OF
John Dtetz of Cameron Dam fame,
said attorneys who have charge Of
the case of his father will be ready
to present their arguments for new
trial to supreme court before Janu-
airy. He said the attorneys have
learned something of late which will
put a new phase on the situation at
Cameron Dam, but declined to make
it public.
Neenah.-Charged with violating
the state game laws through IL
legal fishing, Charles Peterson and
Charles Messman, the latter a city Of
fetal, were arrested by game wardens.
Soon after their arrest Peter
son escaped Messman pleaded not
guilty.
Madison.-The new state affairs
commission met In the governors
office and organized by elect
ing former Senator w. H Hatton Of
New London as vice chairman. Under
the law, Governor McGovern Is named
as chairman. secretary will be
elected at another meeting of the
commission to be held in about
month The governor was requested
to look up a good expert accountant
who can be employed by the commits
sion to devise a uniform system Of
state accounting
Madison.-Brushed from his foot
hold by a swinging steel beam
while working fifty feet from the earth
on the framework of the new capitol
dome, Frank McCabe of Milwaukee
saved himself from instant death when
he grasped another beam and broke
the force of his fall He was picked
up unconscious from the concrete
foundations and lies in local hospi-
tai suffering from serious injuries.
Fond du Lac.-Before the first
national convention OF the Luz
theran Aid association adjourned
committee consisting of Carl Fritz,
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