Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-08
WISCONSIN NEWS
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found a pearl valued at 5000.
Port Huron.-Walter Scott, who cut
his throat with razor at his home in
st. Clair, died.
Mathematician Ambrose OF
GAINESVILLE escaped from the Mendoza
asylum, where he was sent Septem-
Der 8.
Washburn.-Yeggme entered the
postofice at Mason, blew the safe
and escaped with about 5000 in
money and stamps.
| Florence.-Ransom Roberts Of Long
Lake is in the county Jail awaiting
trial for pulling gun on A. Daigle,
who is deputy sheriff of Long Lake.
Green Bay.-Edward Vande Cas-
telle, former editor of the Depere
| Standard, suffered a stroke of apoplexy
at Washington, and is in a critical
condition
Madison. = Governor McGovern
granted a conditional pardon to
Morris Gullikson, Stevens Point, from
an industrial school for boys at Wau-
kesha, in order that he may return to
high school.
Sturgeon Bay-More than eighteen
| miles of crushed stone road have
been completed this year by Highway
Commissioner H. A. Wagner, besides
repairing 80 miles of roads built in
previous years.
Sheboygan.-Ada Louret, sixteen
years old, living near Waldo, was
accidentally shot by her brother, Ben
jamin, who was cleaning a gun. The
bullet entered her left temple and she
died instantly.
Waukesha--Robert D. Shields, Jr.,
fifty-three years old, of this city
was killed when his shotgun ac-
cidentally discharged as he fell
| down an embankment while hunting in
the town Of Vernon. The full charge
entered his stomach and he died few
hours later. He leaves wife.
Kenosha-Joseph Comenski, aged
! twenty-eight years, an employe of
the powder mills at Pleasant Prai-
RE, was struck and killed by North
western train at the high bridge cross
| ing. Comenski had come to Kenosha
in response to the news of the arrival
| of son at his home The mother was
| Frustrated.
Madison.-D county veterans
held their reunion and elected
these officers: A. L. Lund, Cambridge,
president; c. w. Netherwood, Ore
gon, secretary; L. Post, Madison,
| treasurer. In body they marched to
the home of DR.. Jane Wilson, aged
ninety-two, who during the war minis
| tered to the sick and needy at the
home where she received them.
Appleton-A. S. Galpin Of Apple
ton and w. ]. Hay Of Oshkosh
met head-on in their automobiles on
! the Ridge road. Both cars were prac-
| tically demolished There were eight
persons in the crash, and none was
hurt In collision between an auto
mobile and an interurban car William
Wing of the Fox River Paper company
was painfully hurt and his machine
damaged.
Washburn.-That the children in
the Washburn public schools may
gain a better knowledge of farm
ing and fruit raising In general de-
partment has been established In the
public schools of this city through
which the children may receive In
struction along these lines. The new
department is in charge of Louis K.
i! Wilson of Milwaukee, O graduate OF
the agricultural department of the
University of Wisconsin.
Green Bay. M. Clifford, Escan-
aba, Mich, was appointed super
| intendent of the Superior division of
the Milwaukee road, to succeed e. X
! Hastings, resigned Mr.. Clifford axs
nounces the appointment of e. Il. Pc
ters, Milwaukee, chief train dispatch
| er at Green Bay, to succeed o. a.
Keyes, and NJ. M. Harrington, Green
Bay, as chief train dispatcher at
Charming, Mich, to succeed w. c.
! Zimmerman.
Madison. State Insurance Com
missioner H. l.. Ekern called
| meeting of the special committee of
! the National Association Of Insurance
| Commissioners on fire insurance rate
| making, which will be held at the La
Sale hotel in Chicago on October 8.
! Commissioner Ekern is chairman of
| the committee, which was created at
! the last meeting of the national asso-
| citation At the initial meeting in Chi
| cago the work of the committee will
! be outlined and the manner of pro-
cedure determined.
New Richmond.-The mystery sur
rounding the finding of the dead
body Of laboring man in a.
| strawstack on the farm of John Haw.
kins, near Hammond, has been cleared
and the theory that the man met
death through injuries received in a
/ fight in Hammond saloon effectually
disposed of. 1t develops that the body
is that of transient known only as
Shorty, employed with a threshing
crew The district attorney and cor
oner decided that the man died OF al
coholic poisoning rather than from In
| juries received In the fight.