Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-06-30
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Westby. - Carl Lovestad passed
away in a La Crosse hospital, due to
injuries sustained when he was kicked
by a horse.
Neenah. Unsuccessful attempts
have been made in this city and others
in the Fox valley where paper mills
are located to secure paper makers as
strike breakers in eastern mills.
Quincy-Rev. Stephen Gardner, rec
tor of Trinity Episcopal church, has
announced that he has accepted a call
to be the senior curate at the Church
of the Redeemer in Chicago
Kenosha-Automobi thieves stole
an auto belonging to George Hakins,
which had been left in front of a store
within a stones throw of where a
crossing policeman was stationed.
Grand Rapids.-At a meeting of
| the Sons of Veterans it was de-
cided to erect monument in this
city in honor of thu soldiers of Wood
county. The following committee was
appointed: B. M. Vaughan. George
| l.. Warren and R. C. Gets.
Vandalia.-To convince his sixteen
year-old son that there is a place
where the sun is visible for 48 hours
without setting, Jerome G. Wills, a
| business man of Vandalia, has gone
to Fort Yukon, Alaska, where this
| sight may be witnessed.
Watertown.-Pre of large
painting of President A. F. Ernst of
Northwestern university to the institu-
ton by it's alumni formed the final part
Of the fiftieth anniversary commence
ment exercises. 1t is the Oldest Ger
man school in the northwest.
Manawa.-While working on the
state road works, Weyland Stevens,
son of Isaac Stevens of this village,
sustained fractured jaw and com
pound fracture of arm and the loss of
pne eye and other injuries by the de-
Iayed explosion of charge of dyna-
mite.
Racine.-Mrs. Catherine Thronson,
twenty-five years old, was united in
marriage to her father-in-law, Christian
Thronson, fifty-seven years, as result
of courtship following the death of
her first husband. Each has one child.
Antigua narrow escape from
injury and possible death was ex-
perienced by party of four young
turtle and was demolished, pinning
the occupants of the car beneath the
wreckage. None was seriously hurt.
Milwaukee.-Jim Waupoose, Kesh-
ona, Indian, accused of killing his
white sweetheart, Mary Dickson,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced
IT, be hanged August IS. If this
sentence is carried out, it will be
the first instance of capital punish
ment in Wisconsin since 1848, when
capital punishment was abolished.
There is no doubt, however, that in
terror department will intervene to
have sentence committed to life i'm
plisonment Waupoose killed the girl
when she was riding with a white
rival for her love on Indian reserva-
tion Waupoose was a movie actor
for a Minneapolis concern and when
he returned from a vacation he found
his white sweetheart's love had
cooled
Eau Claire-Henry Branshaw, pro-
prietor of the Hotel Kennedy in Ken
needy, Price county, and his nephew.
Raymond Branshaw, were bound over
for trial on the charge of first degree
murder, following the killing of Rich
ard McQuillan, a woodsman. Feeling
is high against the two because of the
alleged circumstances surrounding the
shooting. The three are said to have
become involved in a quarrel over a
card game. Henry Branshaw, it is
claimed, slapped McQuillan's face, who
then left the saloon. The two Bran
shaws are alleged to have followed
him from the place and shot him In
the back as he walked up the railroad
tracks. Henry Branshaw is claimed
to have done the shooting and then to
have dubbed the PROSTATE man with
the gun
La Crosse-With 200 delegates
and 1000 visitors present, the
first formal meeting of the 1915 con-
vention of the Wisconsin aerie of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles was held
in the La Crosse theater, after day
in which reception committees and
bands had marched themselves weary
from station to station, meeting trains
and escorting wishing delegates to
the La Crosse club rooms to register
and be assigned to hotels. Less than
half of the crowd which is expected
to be here during the final days of the
convention has arrived, but already
every hotel is packed, and the local
aerie has issued an appeal for private
citizens to supply rooms for the Wis
itors. The opening session was to
have been addressed by Judge John
G. Karel of Milwaukee, but the judge
wired that he would be unable to at
tend. and Theodore NJ. Toll, Milwau-
kee. grand trustee. substituted as the
chief speaker.