Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-06
SEEN AND HEARD
In WISCONSIN

be discussed by noted firemen
from all parts of the country at
the thirty-ninth annual convention OF
the international Association of Fire
Engineers, which will be held at the
Auditorium September 10 to %.
Among well-known firemen who will
read papers is ex-Fire Chief Edward
F. Croker of New York. The associa-
ton will take up the proposed estab-
lishment of college for the training
Of fire engineers on the opening day.
following the address of welcome by
Mayor Emil Seidel and the invocation
by Rev. Charles H. Beale. This is
subject which has engaged the atten-
ton of the association for some years.
Clinton.-C. NJ Treat, aged nine
ty-four, once member of the leg
islature, and Mrs. Phoebe Curtiss
Treat, aged eighty-seVen, celebrated
the SEVENTEEN anniversary OF their
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Treat, who
lived here for 43 years, are the oldest
settlers In this district Mr.. Treat was
born in Angelica, Allegany county. N.
Y, on April rs, 1917 He attended the
public schools there and at Mendon.
Monroe county, until 1886, when, with
his widowed mother and youngest sis
ter, he moved to New London, o. He
remained there eleven years, working
his farm in the summer and teaching
school in the winter.
Madison McGovern hon
ored the requisition of Governor
Deneen of Illinois for the return
of Louis Bennto to Sangamon county,
Illinois, for trial on a charge of steal
ing $50 from relative; also the requi-
sition of the governor of Iowa for the
return of Josephine STEELE to Des
Moines The writ was directed to the
sheriff of Rusk county, where the
woman is.
Kenosha- Dixon, the
youthful aviator of the Curtiss
forces, was slightly injured when his
biplane was wrecked Dixon was
alighting when one of the planes
struck a ditch and the machine turned
over. Dixon got out OF the wreckage
with a slight bruise. The plane was
so wrecked as to prevent its further
use Jimmy Ward of Chicago made
several successful flights.
Racine.-Rev. W. P. Leek has
received a call from the First
Methodist church, to remain another
year He has already served three
years The members of the Welsh
Presbyterian church, who have been
without pastor for two years, extend
ed a call to Rev Thomas Williams of
Hollywood, Wales.
Fox Lake.-Falling asleep while
fishing from railroad trestle
near here, Lawrence Dumovic, farm
hand, was struck and fatally injured
by train. When found several hours
later he still lived, out died without
regaining consciousness.
Florence.-Mike Barron, a ~laborer
employed in one of the Girard Lumber
company's construction gangs, was ac-
cidentally killed by a falling log.
Manitowoc-Walter Mosher, a
former Manitowoc man, sentenced
to Waupun for life in 1890, has
been paroled by the state board
If pardons. He was sentenced for the
killing of his brother, shot in Lam
glade county. Mosher's case attract
ed widesread attention from the fact
that MosheT was en- roulette Waupun
ess than fifty hours after his alleged
crime There is said always to have
been some doubt that Mosher COM
nitted the crime, despite his plea Of
guilty.
La Crosse.-T. H Thomas of
Anaconda, Mont, positively identi-
fed the skeleton found in the marsh
near here as that of his father,
Thomas Thomas, wealthy western
mine owner A key ring was the
means of Identification. 1t is now be-
lieved that Thomas was murdered.
and that robbery was the motive A
gold watch and $3.50 were missing
from the remains.
Green Bay.-Although he was
blown 20 feet by a charge of dyna-
mite and dropped to the ground prac-
dcally lifeless, q man known as Wolff
IS alive and will recover. He was dyna-
hitting stumps when one cap failed to
explode. While leaning over it the ex-
plosion occurred. One eye was blown
out of its socket, and the other will be
If no value, as 1t was injured He re-
:eived other injuries.
Green Bay.-Municipa Judge Mona
IAN has taken up a temperance
campaign in connection with his
court work and in the future wife
oeaters or husbands who threaten to
narm their mates will be obliged to
sign the pledge to abstain from the
use of intoxicating liquors for year.
Boulder Junction-That northern
Wisconsin is fisherman's para