Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-20
STATE NEWS

damage. The windows on the north
and west sides of every building were
shattered, the high school buhalhg
alone having fifty panes broken, ere
ating panic among the pupils. Even
single and composition roofs were
smashed on many houses. Measure
ments of some of the halistohes
showed fourteen inches around, and
five picked up at random weighed SIX
pounds. The bombardment lasted
nearly half an hour. The. damage done
in the city will exceed $4,000, and IN
the surrounding country reaches up
to many thousands. Corn, barley and
fruit trees suffered. Thousands OF
trees were fairly stripped OF their
limbs, while much poultry and small
stock were killed
La Crosse. = Hail. some Of 1T
measuring seven and one-half inches
in circumference, fell here. Crops yet
unharvested suffered seriously. In La
Crosse many windows were broken In
stores and houses.
Racine-Mayor Walter Goodland
was censured at a mass meet
ing Of Protestant congregations
of the city for his action in refusing
to call off the boxing exhibition staged
here Friday night under protest of
the Ministers union. The pastors
who talked charged that Mayor Good
land had violated promise made be'
fore his election that no fights should
be permitted in the city during his adj
ministration. Rev. Henry Clarke, Rev.
Byron Bigler and Rev. Charles UNI
bach, prominent in the Ministers
union of Racine, were severe in their
criticisms of the mayor, whom they
claimed had ''trodden under foot prom
Uses made them and had defied the
law by permitting prize fights in Ra-
cine"
Appleton-An unusual accident
was witnessed by Fred " Helm
emann, George Fannon, Arnold Knup-
pei of Appleton and William Wolf
mer of Milwaukee, while cruising in
the Heinemann launch near the New
London cutoff on the Wolf river. One
Oh d party VI uN6 SIIl ID OCNuPyAHS
other launch accidentally fell over
board into the water. In their haste
to rescue the girl the other four lost
their balance and all five were in
the water when the Appleton party
and others in boats nearby rushed to
their rescue. None was drowned.
Fond du Lac.-The wrecked To-
connective and cars of the Velvet
special were brought to the 500 shops
at North Fond du Lac and were In.
spected by big crowd of people.
Seven pair of trucks under one sleep
er, the discovery that not an electric
light globe was broken in any Of the
cars and that none of the cars back OF
the baggage car suffered broken win.
dows were some of the strange fea'
lures noted by the railroad men. The
mail car was demolished and the
right side of the locomotive where it
struck the ground was swept clean OF
pipes, etc.
Beaver Dam.-Emfl J. Define OF
the firm of DEFINE & Define,
manufacturers of -four, cheese boxes,
etc.. also owners of the Hustisf0rd
electric light plant of Hustisford, com.
mitted suicide In juneau. He pur
chased a revolver at hardware store
in Juneau after he had heard that the
council had turned down his proposal
to furnish light and power for that
city, and shortly after fired a 32-caltber
bullet into his right temple, dying al
most instantly. He is survived by
wife and one child
Sparta.-Hugh Gallagher, a prt.
vate of D battery, Fifth artillery,
was hit by train sustaining a frac-
ture of the skull, a broken arm and
both legs were severed above the an
kles He died a few hours later. He
was found by some soldiers who were
returning from town on horseback He
was then unconscious, but apparently
alive. His remains were sent to Mas
sachusetts, where he has sister ltv.
ing.
Baraboo - Phillip F. Cheek, a
former insurance commissioner and
a well-known lawyer Of Baraboo, is
dead. He had been district and city
attorney. He was one of the best
known Grand Army men in the state
and was member of the Iron brigade.
He was about seventy years old and
was born in England. Mr.. Cheek cele.
brated his golden wedding anniver.
sary short time ago.
Neenah-A queer visitor raped
on the roof of the residence OF
Street Commissioners Stephen Zem-
lock. 1t was a nugget, apparently of
flint, and undoubtedly formed a small
part of meteor, and is nearly two
Inches in length and one inch in diam
eter. The visitor made such racket
in striking and rolling down the roof
that Mr. ZemlOck went ont and found