Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-22
WISCONSIN NEWS
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three dollars WOILA VI u0I~
chandise and cash.
Misunderstanding to word from
Washington, D. c., the following
Wisconsin pensions were granted:
Ella Clarkson, Neenah; Katharine
Kuska, Pulaski; Dorothea Trefethens
Winneconne; Emma Jackson, Verona;
Sarah w. Lowe. Green Lake; $12 each
administrator A. w. Sanborn,
Roy Beebe, E. J. Delwiche and
]. M. Anderson have been named
as the four delegates from Ashland to
attend the marketing conference at
Chicago on April IA.
La CHARACTERIZATION on the up
per Mississippi river opened when the
Percy Swain, government boat, passed
through the bridge going down from
her winter quarters at Fountain City
with a string of barges in tow.
Ashland. - The Primary house,
one of the principal buildings of
the Lake Superior Iron & Chemical
company, was destroyed by fire. Adam
Stem, prominent business man, who
was watching the fire, fell from his BIZ
cycle and broke his neck
Observation-Disclosures Harbor, the
little village at the state line just
south Of Kenosha, had the biggest
fire in its history when the home OF
George Kirk, president Of the village,
was destroyed by fire. The loss is $5,-
600.
Eau Claire.-Fire starting from
sparks from an engine destroyed big
barn, granary and grain machine shed
and all machinery and silo on the
farm of Reinhart Wilmer of Meridian.
The loss was $4,000, with no insurance.
La Crosse.-The sheet metals work
ers' strike in La Crosse, which has
been waged for II months and one Of
the longest and bitterest in the history
of the labor unions, has been settled
and the strikers have been granted
their demands.
Madison.-After an all night vigil
Game Wardens Conrad Asmuth
and Ben Lanning, Black River
Falls, arrested six men on charge OF
using nets out of season. The nets
were found at an outlet of Lake Mo-
mona. Caught in them was found the
largest pickerel officers of the depart
ment ever saw. The fish weighed 80
pounds and was 43 inches long.
Sheboygan.-Rev. E. E. Dresser,
pastor of the First Baptist church and
one of the best-known preachers in
Wisconsin, has resigned Rev. Mr..
Dresser has held pastorates at Sheboy-
gan Falls, Oshkosh and Ashland and
at the time of his resignation was dean
of the Protestant ministers in Sheboy-
gan. 1t is understood he is consider
ing two different calls.
Grand Rapids.-Clarence Wellhoef-
er, six years old, died at his home
in Rockville as the result of in
juries. The child was alone at the
time, playing in the barn and no one
knew that he was hurt until he ran
into the house and said his head
ached Later a physician was sum-
moned, who discovered that the child's
skull was fractured. 1t is presumed
that he fell from the hay loft to the
stone floor.
Madison.-The Wisconsin county
work committee Of the Young
Mems Christian association will meet
here Wednesday After banquet ad-
dresses will he made by II. A. Moeh-
lenpah, Clinton, chairman of the state
county work committee; DIR. H. l.. Rus
sell, dean of the college of agriculture,
and A. E. Roberts, New York, senior
secretary of the county work depart
ment of the international committee.
Representatives from Waukesha, Wal
worth, Columbia, Sank and Rock coun-
ties, which are taking up county work,
will attend.
Racine. - Property owners along
the lake shore have suffered thou
sands of dollars in losses through
the land falling into the lake. In the
last five years many acres have dis
appeared. This year the fall seems
greater than ever. The j. l. Case
company is heavy loser. Several
hundred feet Of land all along the
company's shore property has been
washed away by the waves. The lake
shore property owners are talking OF
organization to construct co-opera-
tive lake shore protection this sum-
mer.
Grand RaAids.-John Olson, twenty
two years old, of the town OF
Rock, Wood county, died in st. Jo-
seph's hospital as the result Of an acct
dent three weeks ago. He was riding
with neighbor farmer in lumber
wagon with a loose board seat. The
horses became frightened and threw
the men to the ground, and the young
er man was run over by one of the
hind wheels of the wagon. He was APP
parently unhurt and after the horses
were stopped the trip was continued,
and he was apparently as well as
usual On the seventh day he became
violently i'll and was taken to the hos
pital, where he remained until hia
death.