Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-08-20


suspicious cases have been discovered.
Green Bay.-The railroad rate COM
mission has directed the Green Bay
Gas and Electrical company to put in
to effect new and lower rates on gas
on September l.
Dodgeville. The Primitive Meth
odist church of Mineral Point has
been reorganized and will hereafter be
known as the First Congregational
church.
Beloit.-Thirteen marriage licenses
were granted in this city during July.
while there We're 36 births and Y
deaths.
Couderay An examination for
teachers OF Sawyer county was held
at Raddison and at Hayward.
Beloit-Nels c. Hansen, thirty-one
years old, milk dealer, died OF lock-
jaw. He stepped on rusty nail
week ago.
Waukesha Frank Collins was
sentenced to serve a ten-day term
in the county jail by Judge Muck
lesion for vagrancy. At the con-
clusion OF the sentence Collins may
find himself the defendant in a more
serious charge, with Fire Marshal Host
as the complainant. Collins, who was
employed by ]. F. Green, a New But
Ter contractor, claimed that his pay
check was short, and upon the refusal
of Green to make good the balance,
Colling threatened, according to
Green, to get even. Less than an hour
later Green noticed that his barn was
a mass of flames. The loss is said to
be $1,000
Appleton-Prof j. s. Custer OF
Michigan university succeeds Prof
David c. Moore, resigned, as pro-
lessor in history at Lawrence college.
Prof. w. B. Crater of Pittsburgh uni.
versity, Pittsburgh, Pa, was elected to
the head of the department of social
science at Lawrence to succeed DR.. G..
J. Bushnell, resigned, who takes the
presidency of the Pacific Coast univer-
sity at Seattle, Wash. Professor Ora
fer was graduated from the Chicago
university and did postgraduate work
at Harvard DR.. Custer was graduated
from the Wisconsin university and has
done three years work at Oxford
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Green Bay. With an address
at noon Mayor Abrams welcomed
the officers of the Niagara fleet
and several thousand visitors, and the
city formally opened the Perry Gen.
| tennial celebration and the Green Bay
Homecoming jubilee in Whitney park.
Incoming trains are bringing hundreds
of visitors and indications are that the
festivities will be a grand success.
Menomonie. - While constructing
| a barn for Gustav Schultz, near
here, r. o. Trip, flfty-three
years old, carpenter, fell 81 feet from
| the scaffold to the ground and suffered
| a fracture of the skull and two ribs,
|
hip 1t is also thought he is internally
| injured.
Sheboygan.--The pea canning sea-
son just closed has been the most sue
cessful in years. The Lake Shore Can
ming company of Sheboygan Falls
packed about 100000 cans, the Ripon
factory the same amount and the Wal
do plant about 100000.
Grand Rapids.-John Ruinski met
death in the first Ave minutes OF
his vacation. He went to the office
of the Badger Box company, drew his
pay to start on two weeks trip with
his wife in the country, and was run
down and killed by train fifty feet
! from the office where he had
just received his pay check.
| Madison. W. Scanlon, bar
/ tender, committed suicide by inhaling
/ gas In his room at the Sherlock hotel.
Two gas jets were found open
Reedsburg son of Henry Noring,
aged sixteen. was killed by passen-
ger train on the Northwestern rail-
road He was walking on the railroad
! bridge.
Misunderstanding an electrical
storm Saturday night lightning killed
a valuable swine OF Richard Wey-
mouth, farmer in the town of Oasis
Green Bay The preliminary
hearing of Herman Hoehn on the
charge of murder will take place at
| the courthouse in Shawano. Hoehn Ia
charged with the murder OF Edward
Gulepske in quarrel at a wedding In
Shawano recently Hoehn had been
married but two weeks when arrested
ON the charge.