Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-10-14
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS


Madison.-Miss Catherine Branden-
burg and Miss Beulah Heddles, young
society girls of Madison, made an as
cension in a hydroplane over Lake
Mendoza.
La Crosse.-As a result of injuries
received in a fall from a street
car, Otto KELLER was awarded the sum
of $4,000 from the Wisconsin Railway.
Light & Power company.
Medford.-Mrs. Catherine Buck was
found hanging at her home here.
1t is thought that she committed
| suicide on account of poor health. She
is survived by five grown children.
Amery.-Having been compelled to
| cease his duties as pastor OF the
Amery Congregational church by
| i'll health, Rev. A. F. Newcomb has re-
| signed, but may take an extended va
| cation and return at the request of his
| congregation.
Menasha.-The funeral of Rev. Pc
| ter SchmitZ, pastor OF st. Mary
church, Menasha, who died at st.
Elizabeth's hospital, Appleton, fol-
lowing an operation performed for ap-
pendicitis, was the largest ever held
| in Menasha. More than two hundred
attended the services.
Washburn.-A fair and agricultural
exhibit will be held by the ag-
ricultural department of the WasI-
burn High school and will include an
exhibit of fruits, grains, grasses, vege-
tables, dairy products, fancy work and,
In fact nearly everything that is found
on exhibit at county fair.
Stevens Point = William Weller,
general merchant at the village OF
| Amherst. had trouble with a tramp.
| The tramp declared he would seek re-
verge. Weller's store was destroyed
| by fire of incendiary origin, as was also
the F. S. Button hardware store. The
| loss is estimated between eight and
| ten thousand dollars.
| Madison.-Immigratio Commission
er Packer and his aides have re-
turned from their tours of the states
of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and
Miss ouEi, where they made exhibits of
! Wisconsin farm products in the inter
est of securing immigrants particu-
larly for the northern sections of the
state
| Madison.-The seedless raspberry
Is a fake, according to Prof. ].
state university. The professors
statement was issued after complaints
reached him from the southern part OF
the state that alleged nursery agents
were offering seedless raspberry
bushes for sale. 1t was said number
of people in Kenosha had been led into
making purchases.
owned by Capt. Herman Kadow
and others, was destroyed by fire
while the boat lay in ordinary in North
! Bayou. Fire also totally destroyed the
stable and machinery shed owned by
Robert ST. Peter, in the town of West
| Kewaunee. The barn was only recent
ly completed and was the largest and
most modern in the county. The loss
/ is $4,000.
I Beloit.-Four persons were injured.
one fatally, Friday night when an
automobile, the property of James
vile garage, ran into carriage on
| Prairie avenue. George Jones, James
vile had his skull fractured and back
broken. He died in Beloit General hos
pital. The injured are: William Cush'
ing, GAINESVILLE, three ribs broken;
Maud Sorrows, GAINESVILLE, badly
Bruised Alvin Morris, Beloit, also
bruised.
Beloit.-Rev. H B. Kildahl. pas.
tor of Our Saviour's church, Milwau
kee, was reelected vice-president OF
| the Milwaukee circuit of the United
Lutheran church at the four days cir
cult conference closing here. Besides
Rev. Mr.. Kildahl, Rev. Gustav Stearns
pastor of the Church of the Ascension
and six Milwaukee delegates attended
the sessions. Fifteen congregations OF
southern Wisconsin and northern Hi
nois were represented.
eboygan.-Charles HintZ, aged
sixty, a farmer, was run over and
| instantly killed two miles north OF
Cascade, this county, by Arthur Selk
eighteen years old. Hintz, who leaves
large family, lived with son-in-law
He had been in the village all day and
started to walk home at night. 1t is
believed he went to sleep on private
roadway. SEEK, driving an automobile
| turned in a private road and struck
Hintz. The coroner ia investigating
Scion Spring a desper-
ate struggle, Special Deputy Sheriff
Brown of this place killed 300-pound
black bear with his hands, according
to his story. He has the carcass to
substantiate his claims. Browns story
is that while in the woods the bear
visited his camp and ransacked his
larder while the officer was away. On
his return he laid in ambush for the
bear, which returned at night. Brown
fred at the animal, but only wounded
| him ond tho hear charCad In gran