Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-07
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

son OF rev. .. W. ueApS VI ILLS
city, has been called to the pas
torate OF the Baptist church at North
Yakima, Wash.
Portage.-The two foreigners ar
rested in the blind pig raid by
Portage officers, near Prairie du Sac
dam, entered pleas of guilty and each
paid fines and costs amounting to
/ s9050
Fond du Lac. = Four generations
were entertained at dinner at
the home of W. A. Meiklejohn. They
were Mrs Rumina Dye, ninety-three
years old; her son. R. K. Dye; mis- son,
D. L. Dye, Unity, and his sou, D. r.
Dye, -four months old.
! Oconomowoc.-John Rush, who was
! struck by a train while walking
along the tracks at Oconomowoc,
succumbed to the injuries. He
leaves a wife and four children: Otto
Rush and Mrs. Henry Selverkropp, Ra-
cine; Miss Anna Rush and John Rush,
Jr., Oconomowoc.
Green Bay The four-year-old
daughter Of August Dyer was
burned to death during the absence OF
her mother The child, after the moth
er left the home to hang out clothes.
secured some matches and while play
ing with them ignited its clothing.
Death was almost instantaneous.
Waukesha - ErIIng Slattern, six
teen years old, paroled inmate OF
the industrial school, was taken into
custody by the Milwaukee police and
placed in the custody of Sheriff Glib
son. He had been working for the last
two years for T. S. Stewart, Genesee,
who alleges the boy ran away few
days ago, taking about SIS worth of
jewelry with him.
Madison. While hunting wild
ducks near Madison on Sunday
John King, a carpenter contractor.
2119 Mendoza street was shot in the
right leg by the accidental discharge
of a gun in the hands of his son
George and lost so much blood before
reaching the city hospital that he may
die The bones of the leg were shat
tered and the arteries severed.
Calumet.-Words of sympathy and
coincidence were received from the
governor of Wisconsin in which offers
of any required assistance were ten
dered. The message has been an
swered by the authorities here by one
in which it was said that the bereaved
families would be well taken care OF,
and that it would be unnecessary to
accept any of the proffered assistance.
William Deacon, aged
| twelve, was seriously wounded at
his home in Devils Creek, Me-
nominee county, as the result of an &C
cidental discharge of a revolver in the
hands of his nineteen-year-old brother.
| The shooting followed the finding of
loaded revolver in a lumber camp near
the Deacons' home, and the attempt OF
the older Deacon to repair the gun,
which exploded.
field, widow of John j. Longield,
murdered by unknown safebloWers
while serving as night Waterman for
the p Lorillard Tobacco company
here on December 49, petitioned the
state industrial commission to award
her compensation against the COM
pany for the death of her husband.
The commission will hold hearing on
the petition early next month.
MISUNDERSTANDING failed to con-
vince Judge F. A. Geiger with his
contention that the United States
district court should take jurisdiction,
w G. Anderson, Chicago lawyer.
was denied a writ OF habeas corpus for
John F. Deitz, defender of Cameron
dam" Deitz is serving sentence OF
life Imprisonment for the murder of a
deputy sheriff who was in a party of
off cials that stormed the Deitz home.
Kenosha-Fire Quilted the home
of Joseph Schonbachler, whose fam
fly were under quarantine for scar
let fever, and three children were Ia
ken from the burning house wrapped
in blankets. Neighbors refused to
shelter the children and they stood
shivering on the sidewalk until the
health department made provision for
them in fat near the scene of the
fire.
Portage - Two strangers, imper-
sonating officers, entered the Mil
waukee road depot and invited a
stranger to accompany them under
pretense of arrest When they reached
a spot about block from the depot
they held the prisoner up at the point
of revolver. He had no money and
the holdup men returned to the depot
and accosted William Gantz of Madi-
; SON. They told him he was under ar
; rest and when some distance from the
J depot flashed a gun and took his cash.
West Bend.-Wh lille collecting the
city taxes at his Office, City Treas
urer Herman Warnke suffered a
> stroke of paralysis and died Mr.
Warnke was serving his second term
as city treasurer and had been an al
derman for several terms. He had
: lived in West Bend during his entire
} life and for the last 35 years had been
connected with the Gehl Bros Manu-
, featuring company. He is survived by
? his wife, mother, three brothers and
,hree sisters.