Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-10
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Soldiers Grove; w. A. Hall, ST.
Louis, and Charles Hollander, Fin
land, who recently came to this coun-
try, drowned in the Mississippi mile
below the city when an overturned
launch sunk in 40 feet of water 200
feet from shore. People on McGregoT
Heights, two miles away, looking
through field glasses, saw the boat &c
down and the men founder in the wa
ter. They Immediately telephoned to
the Levee, where two fast launches
We're sent out and rescued four o!
them. The others had gone down and
the bodies have not been recovered.
Maiden Rock.-F'ire totally de-
stroyed the c. D. Babcock -four and
feed store, A. F. Herolds jewelry
store, R. Whites warehouse, A. G,
Julian's warehouse, the Stafford restau
rant, Mealey's blacksmith shop, Fri
berg's harness shop, H. A. Benson's
building and Richards livery barn.
A number of other buildings were
badly scorched. Six horses were
burned to death in the barn. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, partly
covered by insurance.
Oconomowoc. - Archbishop Mess
mer, Milwaukee, ordained class
of six young men, John Mueller, Mil
waukee; Andrew Brown, ST. Louis;
Alphonse Zeller, Charles Snyder, 10
seph Fegen and Henry Becker, Chi
cago, to the Redemptorist priesthood
at the new Redemptorist college on
Lac La Belle, Oconomowoc. Several
visiting priests were in attendance,
including the Rev. C. F. Mcbride, for
merly pastor of st. Jeromes Catholic
church, Oconom0woc, now pastor of
st. Johns cathedral Milwaukee.
Depere. = julius Rupiper, saloon
keeper and member of the county
board, died from injuries received
In a runaway. The horse took
fright and started down the hill to-
ward the river. Mr.. and Mrs. Rupiper
were thrown on the railroad track.
Mr.. Rupiper's skull was fractured and
Mrs. Rupiper's arm was broken in
two places.
Madison. = Political parties and
candidates for office have until
July % to file their copies for space in
the state political pamphlet to be is
sued in August.
Manitowoc--The largest fish ia
ken from this part of Lake Michigan
in years was caught here when John
Tuisl, a local fisherman caught stur-
geon weighing 103 pounds. The fish
is valued at about SIS
Marinette.-Ole Thompson, forty
one years old, drowned of the shore of
Green Bay, south Of this city. He
was fishing in a boat with Ole Hanson,
a neighbor. Thompson suddenly stood
up in the boat and pitched into the
water and Hanson could not rescue
him in time
Fond du Lac.-Passenger on a
800" line train had an exciting
experience at GilPs Landing when an
insane patient en- route to the north
ern hospital at Winnipeg, in custody
of the sheriff of Wood county, leaped
from the car window to the river, Is
feet below. The train stopped and
the passengers formed a rescue party
planks. The actual rescue was made
by a boy in a small boat, onto which
the insane man climbed voluntarily.
Washburn.-Despite the fact that
only half crop of fruit is re-
ported from other sections of the
northwest, the Bayfield, county dis
trict will produce it's usual heavy crop.
Advance shipments of strawberries
will arrive this week and a bumper
crop of the small fruit will be harvest
ed. Over seventy carloads of berries
were shipped from the Washburn-
Bayfield, district last season, but it is
expected that over 100 cars will be
marketed this year. The gooseberry,
cherry, blueberry and other small
fruit crops give promise of excep-
tional yields.
Fond du Lac.-Damages in the
sum of S75 are asked of the
Northwestern Railway cOrnpanv nv