Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-03-12
WISCONSIN NEWS
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1TERSELY TOLDN
Milwaukee.-The Wisconsin Ton,
1rymen's association will meet in thu
annual convention at the Republicau
house. About $50 delegates will a.
tend. The convention will be ononos
by Mayor Bading. c. A. Wheeler Tov
rs, president of the National Laundr1
mems association, and j. A. Barkov
Chicago president of the Illinois lam
drymen's association, will speak Thu
Wisconsin workmen's compensatior
law, as well as new safety devices win
be discussed by j. d. Beck and G W
Price, members Of the Wisconsin in.
dustrial commission. L. F. Lutz will
speak on smoke prevention. There win
be banquet Friday night and on SAT.
urday night a theater party.
Madison.--In the biennial report a,
the commissioners of the public lands
submitted to the governor and issued
to the members of the legislature
is announced that 1886 acres wers
sold during the two years, II 200 ocres
of this total being sold on contract IN.
der the terms of chapter 452 laws OF
| 1911. The remainder was sold for
cash. Large purchases of land for
additions to state forest reserves ac
| count for the fact that the total acrs.
age of lands held by the state is near
| ly 10000 acres more than on June 30
1910.
Kenosha.-Kenosha is going to solve
the problem of getting rid of idlers
and Alderman Jacob Saftig, head Of
| the pauper committee of the common
| council, appealed to the police Of the
city for the arrest of men who have
declined to work, preferring to accept
! support from the labor of their wives
and daughters. The alderman has
made demand that these men go to
J work at once and has asked that they
be arrested for non-support if they fail
to comply with the order of the police
| department.
Manitowoc.-Mayor Henry Stoke
Socialist, who few days ago issued
statement in which he said he would de
| cline to be a candidate for reelection
! has reconsidered and is a candidate
| for nomination, with papers filed. Mr..
! Stole will make his campaign on mu-
nicipal ownership, advocating the pur-
| chase of the local telephone exchange
AS yet no candidate has been named
| to oppose him.
| Maiden Rock-Martin Nelson, TWEEN.
ty-three years old, living about six
| miles from here in Hartland township,
took his own life by shooting himself
twice IN the forehead with a }2-calber
rifle. The rife was single shot and
/ after he had fired once he had to load
the gun again. Members of the family
! heard him fall to the floor in his room,
but had not heard the shots. He was
| unmarried.
Stevens Point-Thomas H. Hay,
medical director of the River
| Pines tuberculosis sanitarium of this
city, has been invited by the surgeon
general of the United States marine
corps to participate in the chemical
| demonstration of Dr. Friedmann's new
cure for tuberculosis, soon to be con-
Quoted by the government DR.. Hay
| left on Sunday for New York to make
some preliminary investigations.
| Kenosha. Rev Theodore r. ia
Vile, formerly of Greenwich, Conn,
| was installed as pastor OF the
! First Congregational church here. Mr..
FaviIle is widely known among men,
bers of the denomination in the stats
| having been connected with the mis-
sion and school work of the church LOT
| several years.
Beloit. = The Agricultural Imple-
ment Dealers association of ROCK
and Walworth counties elected OIL
ficers as follows: President, Henry
Ebbott, Edgerton; vice-president' Z. "
Millett. Beloit; secretary and treasur'
er, C. l.. Hull, Milton. The convention
will be held next at Elkhorn.
Madison-A total of 305 courses IN
/ fifty subjects will be offered IN the
coming summer school at the UniVeF
sity of Wisconsin, according TO INC
preliminary announcement in the tlme
table just out. This years summer
session opens June % and closes aug
ust 1.
! Stoughton.-A Janesville-Pralfle u
Chen passenger train on the Mll%Au
kee road crashed into the rear emu =.
freight train, demolishlng 'n'
caboose and throwing the engine u
| the passenger train from the Ilaoh
The passenger train was crowded WIZ
students returning to Madison -'OA
was hurt.