Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-12-24
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

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right hand when operating a corn
Grand Rapids-The breaking of
| high tension transmission line carrying
! 1000 volts caused the instant death OF
| Samuel Zdnok
Beloit.-Clarence Crandall, work
ing in the new Besley factory
building, was buried under a pile OF
sacks of cement and will probably die
from the injuries.
Manitowoc-Rev.W William Reynolds,
who resigned az pastor of the Episco-
pal church here, will become assistant
rector of ST. Peters church at Balti-
more
Rhinelander.-Bis Weller has ac-
cepted the resignation of Archdeacon
James Madison Johnson of Rhineland-
er, who has accepted call to the
Church of the Redeemer at Elgin, Ill.
Superior.-Rev. ]. j. Crawford is
the first man to be ordained
priest in ST. Adams Episcopal church
in this city. The service was conduct
ed by Bishop w. w. Webb. Milwau-
kee
Manitowoc.-Dates have been an
nounced for the meeting of the North
ern German Lutheran church synod
to be held in this city, the meet
ing being scheduled for three days on
January 5 to T.
La Crosse.-Cleveland Jones and
Donald Springstein, the latter of
Balko, Okla, were arrested here
on a charge of the murder of John
at the plant of the American Tobacco
company at Madison Saturday
Beloit.-Nathan MalIotte, aged If
ty-seyen, Roscoe, H. died as the
result of being crushed by a 700,-
pound boulder While at work re-
pairing a we'll he lost his footing on
the edge and slipped. A boulder loos-
ened by his fall rolled down and
crushed him
Manitowoc.-Orrin and Irwin Ev-
enson, brothers, aged eleven and
twelve, respectively, sons of Charles
Evenson, were drowned here while
crossing the river on thin ice.
Erwin Erickson, companion. had a
narrow escape from the same fata
while endeavoring to rescue the lads.
Observation-Disclosures of the Mils
waukee County Medical society with
refuse to make the examinations
and issue the certificates required by
the so-called eugenics marriage law
passed by the last legislature, which
law becomes effective January 1. The
announcement of their decision to
strike" was made.
Ashland.-While hunting near here
Charles Lipsch was fatally wound
ed when the gun he was pulling
through fence discharged, the shot
tearing open his arm. His fourteen
year-old son bound up the fathers arm
and then started to walk to this city.
He was lost on the way and arrived
nearly exhausted His fathers body
was found.
Argyle.-Wk&le hunting near here
George Lancaster accidentally shot
Stanley McGranahan, neighbor
farmer, in the back, and it was
thought for time that he was fatally
injured A physician found that a
score of shot were fiattened against
the injured mans ribs. This Is the
third time in the last two years that
Mr.. McGranahan has been shot with a
gun in the hands of a sportsman.
Grand Rapids-Peter Brada, tail
sawyer, was killed at the Nekoosa
paper mills. He was alone at the
time, and as no one witnessed the
accident, the cause is, merely matter
of conjecture. He was lying on the
floor with large hole just back of the
left ear, broken arm and other in
juries indicating that he had been
caught in the machinery. He was still
alive, but unconscious and remained
SO until death.
Superior.-The nude body of Rose
Osbasilski, who escaped from the
Douglas county asylum on October
2, was discovered in the brush south
of Superior by Steve Jacobs, a city
fireman, on a rabbit hunting trip. 1t
was evident that the woman. concern
ing whom little is known, had wan
dered in the woods and brush without
food until she became dazed from hun
ger and had then been unable to make
her way to settlement, starving to
death
Tomah.-Mrs. William Verick, who
put out the flames on the gar
ments of Miss Clara Price and who
was herself badly burned while at
tempting to save the girls life, is re-
covering When Miss Price ran from
her home as the flames from an ex-
ploding can of paint communicated TO
her dresses, Mrs. Verick's home was
the first place she attempted to enter.
Mrs. Verick saw her coming and met
her with a rug. attempting to smother
the flames about the girls neck. She
then ran back into the house TO get
blanket with which to put out the rest
Of the flames. Other nelghbors reached
the injured girl after Mrs. Verick had
put out the last of the flames.