Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-31
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killed by 500 freight at Marsh6eld
Portage.-A few hours after fbs
funeral service of his wife, Jonas
Conklin died, aged eighty-nine years
| Superior.-A $4,000 or 5000 pine or.
gan, the gift of Andrew Carnegie for
the Hammond Avenue Presbvterian
church, will soon be installed
Madison.-Express agents who A.
| Cept packages of venison for shin
| ment without knowing their CON.
tents may be held for damages, accord.
ing to Attorney General Owen.
Two Rivers. = Charles Albrecbt
eighteen, employed at the Wiscon.
sin Woodworking company's plant
was caught in a shaft and SO seriously
| injured that he died few hours later
His home is at Kewaunee
Madison-Donald SpringsteeD ma
of the suspects held in cornec.
ton with the murder of John Long.
field, was released. His partner Cleye.
land Jones, was also given his freedom
They were not in Madison the day on
which the murder was committed
Observation-Disclosures have been found
in the vicinity of Dunkirk Dane
county, driven from the northern
woods last winter by the cold for food
They have been raiding sheep folds.
Hunters are planning to make
Christmas week hunt for the pack.
Beaver Dam.-Fire destroyed the
store building and contents owned
by c. w. Kleist at Minnesota
Junction The loss is $4,000.
Mr.. Kleist is postmaster at Minnesota
Junction and the post office was 10.
Gated in the store. All the mail sup,
plies were burned
Milwaukee.-Ruby Koenig, daugh-
ter of the Two Rivers aluminium
king, has decided to practice law In
Chicago, according to a dispatch from
her home. She is we'll known at the
University of Wisconsin, where she
took both the courses in agriculture
and law, after her graduation from
Milwaukee Downer college, a school
for girls.
Waukesha Ruby Winzenried,
three-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. e. Winzenried was seri-
ously injured when attacked by a
large cat. The childs mother was
also painfully scratched when she res,
cued the child Mr.. Winzenried is a
butcher. The cat had been raised on
raw meat and it was it's thirst for
blood which caused it to be persistent
in its attack upon the child.
Depere. - Depere has two high
schools, one on the east side IN
der the city system, and the other on
the west side, under the district sys
TEN. This double system is expensive
to the city and movement has been
started by the civic association to
unite the systems and build one high
school, to be located in some central
location, pear the approach to the
bridge which unites the two sides.
Reedsburg.-Judge Giles Stevens
dean of the Sank county bar, died
at his home in Reedsburg. Judge
Stevens had been in practice In Reeds,
burg since the late sos, had served as
county judge and was one OF the law
yers of the old school, whose industry
had done much to shape the course OF
the law in the state. During the Civil
war he served as captain of Company
B of the Twelfth Wisconsin Volunteer
infantry, which he organized. He Nas
prominent also in Masonic circles
'Westby hundred employees OF
: the tobacco sorting plants went
on strike, resisting an attempt
to reduce their pay from 80 to 80
cents per 100 pounds. The plants
were Obliged to close. A COMMITTEES
of the tobacco sorters was named to
meet the employers. Employees ~
Sparta and Viroqua, where many more
hands are employed, have not YET
been drawn into the controversy, Du
may be later, If settlement is nos
made.
Depere.-Lewis Devroy, aged thir'
ty, lost his life by breaking
through the ice on Fox river while
skating. With a number of compan
ions he attempted to cross the river
which had frozen over only the nlgm
before Another young man with MN
went into the water at the same time
but sayed himself by climbing upon
the ice The body has not yet Deen
recovered. This is the first fatal
skating accident in this vicinity ths
winter
Milwaukee.-Tha in many instances
of recent violations of the Man"
white slave act the women III
the case were equally guilty as 'n7
men, and should have received sen
fences similar to those imposed on Ii1
male violators. Is declared by Uhls9u
States Attorney Guy d. Golf. he iui,
Their declares that the majority -
these women actually enter into oOn
spiracy with men and that he ln'enua
to bring charge of conspiracy ag@in1'
q woman complainant when cVL'","
case comes up for trial In Few u"''
Mr.. Golf cited several recent caSo'
tried in Milwaukee, where, In MS opiD
ion fho womnu In tha cases were or