Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-04
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD


Judge James M. Pereles Milwaukee,
as member of the state free library
commission. Judge Pereles was
chairman of the commission. Mr..
Hatton's term will expire June /.
1914. The governor also announced
the appointment of E. A. Edwords,
Appleton, as a member of the board
of regents of the university, for the
term expiring in February, 1913.
Mr.. Edwords succeeds Adolph Keller
of the same city.
Fond du Lac. - Two skeletons,
supposed those of Indians, were
unearthed this week in a gravel
pit on the farm of Matthew Michels,
seven miles east of the city. The
skeletons were found in reclining
after being brought to the sur
face
Madison.-Assembly Fred Brock
hansen of Milwaukee was in Mad
ison and engaged quarters in the
holden block on State street as
a lodging place for 13 of the IA So
cial-Democratic members of the legis-
lature for the coming session. The
fourteenth member will bring his
wife to Madison and keep house dur
ing the season.
Frederick large crew of sur
veyors is at work surveying for an
extension of the Polk county branch
of the 500 line north to Duluth and
will leave from Frederic and probably
strike the Wisconsin Central at some
point near Gordon.
Madison.-Athenae defeated Philo-
mathia in the fortieth annual joint
debate, the decision of the judges
being to /. The question
was: Resolved, That in labor dis
putes that no injunction shall be is
sued other than against intimidation
or acts of violence directed against
physical property" Athenae sup
ported the negative, it's representa-
tives being E. A. Meyers, GAINESVILLE;
John A. Dorney, Stevens Point, and
David ]. Saposs, Milwaukee. The
Philomathia team was composed OF
Fred Meek, Milwaukee; Leroy John
son, Wausau, and Samuel Barber,
Lexington, KY. John A. Awkward pre-
sided.
Superior. = Bishop McGolrick of
the local Catholic diocese says
the railroads are refusing to accept
shipments of wine for sacramento
purposes to churches in territory
made dry by the federal Indian
bureau order. Some priests have been
obliged to get wine from other
parishes and take 1t to their own.
Steps to secure governmental moditi-
cation of restrictions so as to permit
the entrance of sacramento wine to
prohibition territory will be taken up.
The district attorney says the orders
Include no bar to sacramento liquors.
Cumberland-The quarantine on
he Russian settlement in the
own of Almena, which had been
strictly enforced for the last two
weeks, was raised and Gotlieb Jaen-
ske, the Russian immigrant suspected
Of having cholera, was released, as
also we're the five immigrants who
accompanied Jaenske to this country
from Tagenrag, cholera infected
village in Russia.
Madison = More than 600 per-
sons from all parts Of the state
were in Madison to be examined by
tn
lfy for administering the tuberculin
test in cattle 1t was the largest
number ever assembled for that pur-
pose. From every portion of the state
came candidates to enlist in the war
fare against tuberculosis.
Eau Claire. - liver Shellum,
young farmer from South Dakota,
came to Eau Claire on Tuesday in
search of Nels Bergslein, whom he
charges with serious offense while
Shellum was away from home on
visit. Sheriff Everson of this city
captured Bergslein here. The South
Dakota sheriff will take him back to
ace the charge.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Isaac Stephen
son is home from Washington.
He states that he will immedi-
ately write to the engineer in charge
of the Milwaukee district in refer
ence to the low water in the Me-
nominee harbor.
Jefferson.-A mass meeting was
held hero to lay plans to Sc
cure for Jefferson county the pro-
posed new home for feeble-minded
children. Several tracts of land have
been offered to the state board Of con-
troll
La Crosse.-As a result of push
ing sticks into the stove, Willie
Kumm, the year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Kumm, Medary over
turned a kettle of boiling water which
ytood on the stove and was SO badly
burned that physicians say he can
not live.
Beloit-A baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Smith was scalded by tipping pail of
hot water upon herself.
La Crosse-The late Senator
James H. Stout, founder of the