Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-10-29
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NEWS BREVITIES

N00udu.- JOAIl C1OFKo AoS PuA
chased four head of registered Hol-
stein cattle, paying $1,100 for them.
Sheboygan.-Mrs Alvin Lama
Lack was struck by lightning while
in her orchard. She is recovering.
Sturgeon Bay.-Arthur Strauss was
caught between two freight cars and
both of his arms were broken.
Manitowoc.-Income tax collections
in Manitowoc county this year will be
double the aggregate collected in
1912
Wausaukee Albert Huempfner,
seventeen years old, was accidentally
shot through the leg by Daniel Wat
tiers, with whom he was hunting.
Manitowoc-Fire caused by light
ing matches in a clothes clos
ct caused the loss of the home of
Francis Skull The loss is $4,000,
Menomonie-Mrs. Margaret Mott,
eighty years old, is this city's dele
gate to the worlds convention of
Christian Temperance union workers,
which opened in Brooklyn on Monday.
Menomonie.-Work has been start
ed on the new State bank of Elm
wood and will be completed by No
vember Is. The building is 30x50
feet.
PlattevilIe.-Miss Mary Burris,
teaching at Algona was seriously
burned when children bumped into
her while boiling candy and causing
it to spill over her hands.
Fond du Lac.-Razing of the old
Lewis house will be started within a.
short time, as the hotel property will
be the site of the new Public Service
building to be erected by the Eastern
Wisconsin Railway and Light COM
pany.
Reedsville.-A meeting of farmers
and business men of this vicinity was
held here to discuss the plans for
the coming seasons planting of peas.
A committee was appointed to in
vestigate the feasibility of purchas-
ing the branch of the Wisconsin Pea
Packing company
Menomonie.-+ AT the annual meeting
of the Menominee Commercial club
the following directors were elected:
Frank Pierce, L. d. Harvey, William
Schuette, Paul C. Wilson, E. o.
Wright, ]. E. Carter C. F. Clark, F.
c. Jackson, Ole Madsen, F. E. Butler
and M G. Douglas.
Fond du Lac.-Max Coll and
Charles Mack, both prisoners of
the county jail and awaiting trial,
broke jail by saving through the bars.
Coll was held on statutory offense
and Mack for enlightenment. Mrs.
Mary Remus, who was arrested with
Coll and is now out on bail, is thought
to be connected with the prisoners es-
cape She will be arrested and
charged with completely in the Jail de-
livery.
Wladislaw Borofsky is
at the hospital here suffering
from severe wounds inflicted by Depu-
ty State Game Warden Michael Kleist.
Borofsky was felled by the game war
den with the butt end of shotgun
and witnesses declare that the warden
acted only when his life was in dam
ger. When he struck the Pole down
Borofsky was advancing toward him
with cooked shotgun, and he had de-
clared his intention of shooting the
warden.
Racine.--Herbert Stubbe, fireman
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road, was shot in the face by
hunter near Corliss. Stubbe, who
lives in Milwaukee, was taken from his
cab at Corliss His face was badly
lacerated by birdshot. The hunter,
Clarence J. Hartig, Chicago, with his
companion. Fred Waters, also Chica-
go, was captured by the train crew
and taken to Chicago. Hartig says he
didn't think the shot would carry far
enough to hit the train. Stuhbe will
recover.
Observation-Disclosures for a rabbit
when he made a motion in some
bushes, George Bierne, son of James
Bierne, prominent stock breeder and
former president of the Fond du Lac
County Fair association, was fired up
on by George Laing, hunting COM
panion Bierne received the full
charge, "a shot entering one leg,
Wnll6 OLneTS penetrated HIS manu-
The victim was removed to Oakfield
and given medical attention, the shot
nearest the skin being removed. Young
Bierne is expected to recover.
La Crosse-In a statement is
sued by the railway officials, En-
gineer M. H. Dorsey of passenger train
No. "a is given credit for saving the
lives of passengers in the wreck on
the Burlington system at Nelson,
when Fireman Ullbrich of Potosi was
killed and Is passengers injured. The
statement says Engineer Dorsey had
his train partly on the siding when
express train No 81 approached, and
not having time to get into the sid
ing altogether, seeing that the express
would strike his train in the center
of coach, he hITTiedly backed up and
| took the shock of collision upon his
locomotive, which a moment before
had been clear. This act saved the