Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-11
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Green Bay.-Two girls scaled the
15-foot wall around the Good Shep
herds home here and escaped. They
walked to Clifton, spending day and
night on the road without food, and
were overtaken by the Brown county
sheriff They were whiZZed back
home in an automobile.
Janesville.-Dr. j. w. Mclaughlin
well-known Presbyterian divine, and
for eight years local pastor, resigned
owing to difficulties with the church
trustees. He formerly had charge
in Chicago.
Oconomowoc.-Gove McGovern
was at Delafield in connection with 10
eating the site of the Cushing memo
rial monument. The governor, with
the local committee, went over sew
eral sites, and approved that of the
Alden farm, the birthplace of the
Gushing brothers.
Waukesha - The twelfth annual
meeting of the Association of Trus
tees, superintendent and Matrons OF
County Asylums for the Insane of
Wisconsin will take place here June
10, IL and IL.
Marinette.-Supposedly while suf
fering an epileptic fit John Dennings
aged thirty-seven, of Green Bay fell
overheard from the steamer Nettie
Denessen at the Spies Thompson com
pany's dock in Menominee, Mich, this
afternoon and drowned. He was en-
gineer on the boat.
Madison.-The states Golfers held
$2,587 ,907 16 in all funds on June l.,
as compared with 1882, 039.74 May l..
The amount in the general fund is
$1,377, 1887, as compared with 81
0,032.03 a month ago.
Menasha.-The program for the G..
A. r. department encampment at Nee
nah and Menasha June 8 to II in
cludes addresses by the commander
in-chief and others and the presenta-
ton to Menasha and Neenah high
school each silk flag.
Madison.-Two hundred and twenty
five Wisconsin veterans of the battle
of Gettysburg have accepted the
states offer to attend the semi-centen-
NAL anniversary celebration on the
old battle-ground early in July.
Marinette.-To the fact that 10 fell
low lodge members of the Odd Fellows
gave patches of skin for a grating op'
Grafton, William Bowman of Crystal
Falls, Mich, owes his life. Bowman
was working last winter as an engineer
of logging locomotive for the Sawyer
Goodman company of Marinette. In a
wreck of the engine and several cars
he was frightfully burned by escaping
steam. Physicians decided that skin
grating operation was the only hope
of saving his life So much skin was
needed that the physicians despaired
of getting enough. 1t was then that
| fellow lodge members came forward
| and made the sacrifice which ended in
BOwman's complete recovery.
Green Bay-Earl Knowltan, nine
| teen years old, has hydroaero-
plane that he is trying out at Bay View
beach. Knowltan has already made a
couple of flights with success, he
claims, but he did not get up into the
air to any great distance. The ma
chine was built by Knowltan in 1912
and during the winter months he con-
verts it into machine that will be
! able to travel on water.
Lake Geneva-Miss Emma Olson,
her brother, Eric, and Charles Strand,
all of Chicago, were drowned by the
swapping of rowboat in which they
were riding. Miss Helen Rohrs, who
was also in the boat, chung to an oar
and was rescued.
New Richmond.-W. F. Meyer of st.
Paul, Omaha freight conductor, whom
the coroner's jury held responsible for
| the head-on collision with an Omaha
passenger train at Baldwin, in which
two lives were lost, has been held to
trial in the circuit court on charge
of manslaughter by County Judge Arm
quist.
Fond du Lac-Dr j. J. Connell was
awarded $500 damages by a jury in
| circuit court here. The verdict 10
sequel to a SANDER suit which DR..
Connell brought against DR.. j. W..
| Elmer at Lomira Reports detrimen-
tai were spread two years ago by tn
oil