Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-02-26
WISCONSIN NEWS.
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be further developed by supplement-
airy work at the University of Wash
ington. The work will also be contin-
ued at Wisconsin. DR.. L. F. Hawley of
the Wisconsin laboratory has returned
from the northwest, where he co-opera-
ted with the Washington men in get
ting the Investigations under way. A
sum of $4,000 has been set aside by
the United States forestry service for
the work in wood distillation at Wash
ington This fund will be used to OBJ
tain scientific data concerning the uti-
lization of mill waste, Of logging waste
and of stunted forest growth
La Crosse.-An annex to cost $45.-
900 will be added to the ST. Rose con-
vent, which will make the building one
of the largest of the kind in the coun-
try The building will be joined to the
Chapel of Perpetual Alteration, which
was built at a cost of 100000, and is
one of four in the United States
Green Bay-Leo Leviolette, while
employed in a lumber camp at Lake
wood, had his left leg 80 badly cut
when his AK slipped that it may be
necessary to amputate the member
He was taken to hospital at Oconto.
Madison-The plant of the Amert
can Milk Producers company, Chica-
go, at Capron, burned. The loss is $780,
900 and fifty men are out of work.
La Crosse-Rev r. Anderson, for
the last 20 years pastor of the Norwe-
gian Lutheran church, has rendered
his resignation to accept call to a
church in Everett. Wash. Rev. Ander-
son refused q call to the Trinity
church in Brooklyn, N. Y. During the
time Rev. Anderson was in charge of
the work here large new church and
a parsonage have been built.
Kenosha. - Kenosha teachers are
making a determined effort to prevent
the repeal of the teachers pension
fund law. and to this end petitions
are being circulated in the city urging
the members of the legislature to vote
against any law which proposes to re-
peal the act.
Green Bay.-As a result Of fire at
Askeaton the water tank of the MIL
waukee road was completely de-
stroyed. This will seriously handicap
trains running between this city and
Milwaukee.
Manitowoc-With death staring him
in the face and with timely thought
for the safety of the passengers in his
train, Matt Donohue of Amigo, en-
gineer on the Chicago & Northwestern
passenger train No. liz, took desper-
ate chance and saved the train from
plunging through burning bridge
into the river below north Of here.
While the train was speeding along at
fifty miles an hour Donohue observed
the burning bridge ahead. He threw
In the emergency" sanded the track
and then watched his train slow down,
stopping with the pilot of the locomo-
tive less than ten feet from the burn
ing structure, which was on the point
of collapse. The train was delayed IL
hours while repairs were made.
La Crosse.-While engaged in pick
ing up coal along the tracks of the Mil
waukee road, Lewis La Fleur was
struck by a switch engine and both
legs severed above the knee, the in
juries proving fatal few hours later.
Mr.. La Fleur was eighty-four years old
and a veteran of the Civil war. 1t is
feared that the shock will prove fatal
to the widow, who Is eighty-three
years old and Ill.
Manitowoc.-Herman Mappis,
Cooperstown farmer, was seriously In
jured in a runaway accident here when
his team collided with a telephone
pole. Mappis was caught between the
pole and the wagon box. His body was
badly crushed One leg was broken
and it is feared that the man has SUI
fered internal injuries. He is f1fty-five
years Of age.
Kenosha-Two men were seriously
injured and two others had miracu-
lous escape from death north of Ke-
nosha, when an automobile driven by
Frank Martin. a Kenosha manufacture
err. Ieaped from the road and buried
itself in ditch eight feet deep. The
car was running at rate OF forty
miles an hour when the accident oc-
Cured Charles Christensen. proprietor
of the Hotel Jacobs, here, was thrown
fifty feet and, striking on the frozen
ground, sustained severe injuries
William Schnuckle, well known liv-
eryman, was thrown through the wind
shield of the machine and suffered
dozen serious cuts, and Buril Car
penter. g Kenosha representative OF
distillery. had a similar experience
Martin escaped uninjured