Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-23

La CrOSSS.-MrS. Joseph spear anu
children, picnicking near where Myrtle
Ellers and two companions were
drowned July 4, saw girls arm in the
waves when a passing steamer
churned the waters of the vicinity. The
body, it is believed, is caught In the
brush of the wing dam and search was
resumed.
Eau Claire-Michael Galanopeelas,
who stole an automobile at Chippewa
Falls, and while joy riding smashed 1t
to kindling by humping into a street
car, was arrested here while trying to
escape with $105 he took from his
uncle, proprietor of the Arcadia Candy
company of Chippewa Falls. The uncle
had handed him the money to put In
the bank.
Baraboo-Mrs Oscar Janke, seven
ty-one years old, noticed two large
rattlesnakes among her daughters
chickens and killed them with
hatchet One had eleven rattles and
the other eight. Another of the rep
by Martin Hoover
Oshkosh.-Louis j. Monahan is at
work on a formula which he expects
will promote the manufacture OF an
emulsion equivalent to cows milk.
Marinette.-As a result of a gunshOt
in his right hand John Burns, Home
stead, is dying at local hospital,
Blood poisoning set in while the wound
was being treated.
Racine-Word has come from
Greece that Nick Cabs and An
ton Toni, two Racine Greeks, have
been killed in the war with Bulgaria.
The men left their families here q
year ago to fight in the Turko-Balkan
war.
lRacine.-The epidemic of measles,
which closed the schools a month
ago has disappeared. Health officers
say there is not case of infectious
disease in the city.
Racine,-Jerry Cowen. colored, is
dying with a bullet through his
breast, as result of chase by rail-
way detectives of the Chicago, Milwau
kee & st. Paul road, it is believed. The
shot entered the right breast and
passed through his body. Police are
looking for the detectives who fired
the shot.
Grand Rapids Stanley Novok, an
employe of the Nekoose- Edwards Pa
per company, attempted suicide by
cutting his throat.
La Crosse.-"Don't you know me?"
asked stranger at the door of Mrs
Mary Cook, La Crescent. Mrs, Cook
looked and then affectionately en-
braced her brother, II. p Davis. Ma
shua, N H., whom she had not seen for
As years.
Wausau-At the annual convention
of the Wisconsin district of the Ohio
synod of Lutheran churches the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Rev. M. P. F. Doermann, Blue
Island, ILL.,; vice-president, Rev. H,
Eisenbach, Oconto secretary, Rev. H.
Lindemann, Golden; treasurer, Rev. G.
| Zimmerman, Oshkosh; archivar, Rev.
| H. Wickemeyer, Michigan City, Ind;
visitor of Sixth district, Rev. H. Meyer.
Lincoln, ILL.,; visitor of Fifth district,
Rev P. Brockhaus, Chicago, and statis-
| tician, Rev. L. Moensch, Clintonyille.
|
La Crosse.-The Indian school at
| Tomah will have a $4,000 addition
this season and a new $4,000 heating
| plant, which was included in the In
| dian appropriations bill just signed by
the president The schools for Chippe-
was at Superior is given $1,000.
Madison.-NeiIs Swenson, twenty
years old, sustained a broken neck
when the motorcycle he was riding
collided with carriage
Madison-Extensive improvements
will be undertaken by the commission
ers of fisheries at the Madison hatch
cry this summer The floors and joists
| in the main hatchery building have be-
come decayed and are being torn up to
make way for new concrete floor, the
cellar underneath having been filled
up entirely, 500 yards of earth being
required to make level. All of the
hatchery buildings are to be painted
within the next few weeks and the
ponds and sidewalks to be repaired
and made new with concrete wherever
necessary. Contracts have also been
let for the painting of the Bayfield,.
Wild Rose, Minocqua and Oshkosh
| hatcheries.
Racine-John Barry, superintendent
| of stone quarry, was stabbed D! al
| italian employee with whom he had re-
| monstrated. He was badly hurt.
Dodgeyille Maggie Martinez. eigh-
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