Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-05-10
SEEN AND HEARD
In WISCONSIN

Train at cambria. tie with several OLner
men was engaged in leading horses on
car when the accident happened
Both legs were mangled and crushed,
and he was brought to the Bentley hos
pital here in a special train in hopes
of saving his life He was thirty-fve
years of age, unmarried and son of
Adam Wolslegel.
Barron.-Anson Merla, John Pau
! lick and John Rokrenbach were fined
$50 and costs in the municipal court
on the charge of dynamiting for trout
in Hay river, near Almena. The case
will be appealed to the circuit court.
Trempealeau.-Phi Brody, a To-
cal saloonkeeper, and his wife, were
arrested charged with being the per-
petrators of series of burglaries here
during the past winter
Fond du Lac-FranK Denasus al
legged horse thief, was placed on trial
in circuit court His was the first
case taken up at the May term. He
attempted to break jail three times
within the last three months.
waukee.--Follow1ng a strike of
between six and seven hundred paint
ers the Master Painters association
in meeting at the Hotel Blatz decided
to refuse to grant the demands of the
union for an increase from 421a to 80
cents an hour, and voted to conduct
open shops in the future.
Sheboygan-The body of Fred Mar
ohm, aged forty-fve, was found in the
Sheboygan river. He left home to at
tend lodge meeting and did not re-
turn. There were no marks OF violence
on the body.
Appleton-Arthur w Little of Park
Rapids, Mimi, senior at Lawrence col
lege, has been awarded the University
of Wisconsin scholarship for excellence
in work at Lawrence.
Washburn-Nine criminal cases,
20 grand jury cases and 10 cases
of fact for court are on the calendar to
be tried at the regular May term of
the circuit court. The one large dam
age suit is the case Of r. A. Herring
against the Du Pont Powder company
for $4,000. This case has been before
the courts for the last two years, hav-
ing been takea to the supreme court
on two different occasions.
Beloit-Rev E. j. Evans, rec
tor of ST Paul's Episcopal church, has
just received a gift of a tour of Europe
from a former congregation. He de-
clines TO state where the generous con-
gregation is located. He will leave on
May 26, going first to Wales, his birth
1ot
mental Europe.
Racine-Mrs. Christine Lamp,
aged seventy-five, widow of Henry
Lamp and mother-in-law of for
mer Mayor Peter B. Nelson, was
stricken on the street with heart dis
ease and died in drug store into
which she had been carried. Her
daughter is in Alabama and son-in-law
in Minneapolis
Madison = That the University
of Wisconsin is instructing 9,469
students this year is shown by the
new catalogue now in press. OF these
5,53S have been in attendance at Mad
ison, and 1881 have received instruc-
ton by correspondence through the
extension division. The total attend
ance at Madison, 5,53S, is an increase
of SCI over that of last year, gain
of 11.9 per cent.
Spartd.--Three prominent La Crosse
men-A. A. Morse, DR.. G. d. Main
and Mr.. Gleason-narrowly escaped
serious injury in an auto accident on
the Cataract ridge north of Sparta.
They turned out of the way of a team
and went too close to the edge of
hill which, giving away, toppled the
machine down a steep embankment.
Beyond a few bruises the men es-
capped injury The machine turned
over three times, landing about sixty
feet from the road, the engine still
running
Marshfield-When the clevis on
his pillow broke, Christian Bartelmess
of the town of Cameron, was drawn
forward by the horses over the double
edged coulter, the upper portion of
which cut three of his ribs and ex
posed his right lung. Bartelmess then
walked an eighth of mile to his
home He will recover.
Misunderstanding not only courage
but presence of mind and GOODNESS
rare in a lad of his age, Roland Nc
Laughlin, aged twelve, saved the life
of Seymour Scripture here when the
latter fell into the river while fishing.
After Scripture had gone down for the
third time. Mclaughlin dove after him
and dragged his unconscious body to
the bank. While the other lads ran
for help Mclaughlin proceeded to re-
suscitate his companion and worked so
successfully that when physicians ar
rived he was already conscious.
La Crosse.-John Humphrey OF
the state board of arbitration an
nounced that there would prob
ably be a settlement of the button
workers strike within few days.
Manitowoc.-Stanley Spaetek, who
killed a mad dog by throttling it with
his hands and was severely bitten, has
been sent to the Pasteur institute OF