Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-02
BADGER NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Kenosha.-Services attending the
celebration of the seventy-fifth ami
versary of the founding Of the First
Congregational church in Kenosha
started on Sunday will continue during
the week, and more than a hundred
former ministers of the church and
members of other days have returned
to attend the various celebrations. On
Wednesday evening a banquet will bs
held at which covers will be laid for
more than 400 guests. Rev. G. II.
Beale, Milwaukee, is to be the princi-
pal speaker The Kenosha church was
the second of the denomination to be
established In Wisconsin, the first
Congregational church in the state
having been opened at Waukesha a
month earlier.
Marinette.-The fearlessness OF an
engineer who drove his locomotive,
attached to a logging train, at rate
of 40 miles an hour over a r1ckety
track and through blazing wood.
saved the lives of sixteen men near
Oconto. The men, who were mem
bers Of logging crew, vainly endeav4
ored to prevent flames from sweeping
Camp Five of the Oconto company.
Forced to fee by the terrific heat, and
practically surrounded by flames, the
men got aboard the logging train and
the dash for safety started.
Madison.-A four-year-old son of H,
U. Baker of Chicago was run over and
killed by an automobile driven by T.
Fl. Herring The boy, with his father,
was visiting Thomas Hawley.
La Crosse violently
insane and found choking one of
her children to death, Mrs. Rose Mar
eek, motheDof three small children, the
youngest being but nine days old. was
committed to the state asylum at Men
dota.
Christian NJ Nelson, who
shot John Watson, another farm
er, and pointed a revolver at J.
e. Rowlands, real estate dealer, and
George G. Peterson, former head of
the county board, was declared insane
and sent to the Oshkosh asylum. Mel
son claimed there was conspiracy on
foot to take his property away from
him
Appleton-John M. Thickens, for
merly of Appleton, IN charge of the
government forest service laboratory
at Wausau, has resigned to become
assistant superintendent of the Brunei
Falls Manufacturing Co. at Cornell,
Wis. He is succeeded by George Nc
Naughton.
Appleton.-Trout fishing parties
have returned from northern Wiscon-
sin, driven out by the mosquitoes and
wood ticks. Four are laid up with
mosquito bite poisoning
student body at the summer session
of the university was completed.
There are about LOO students en-
tered, slight increase over last sum-
mer. The enrolment may reach 1000
La Crosse.-Bank certificates for
$4,000 were found in an old satchel be-
who died in a corn crib on farm
near Viroqua and who was believed
to be destitute. The money will be
sent to Olson's aged parents in Nor
way.
Madison-The international Bible
Students association will hold a
general convention at Monona park,
opposite this city, June 29-July 6.
Appleton-Ella Foley, ten years
old, living at WaYerly beach, has
been sent to the Theda Clark hos
pital at Neenah, where bad case of
lockjaw will be treated She contract
ed 1t when she got a splinter in her
foot
Chippewa Falls-Mrs. Harry Hall
found the body of John Schind-
Ter, forty-nine years old, neigh
Dor, hanging from clothes line to a
post In her woodshed. The man, said
to be deranged. was compelled to drop
to his knees to strangle himself. A
wife and ten children survive
Appleton.-George McFetridge. a
student at Lawrence college. night
Waterman at one of the stores,
accidentally shot himself in the leg
when his revolver exploded while he
was removing 1t from his rear to side
pocket.
Kenosha. Sheriff Henry H.
Timme of this city sent TO the museum
of the Wisconsin Historical society
the handouts worn by John Mccartney,
the only man ever legally executed in