Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-06-23
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| Ashland.-There is every indication
OF heavy yield of winter rye in this
section. All rye has made a wonder
full growth. Stocks measuring thirty
inches in length were taken from one
farm near here.
henosha.-Lulu Bose, two years old,
daughter of John Bose, prominent
farmer of Kenosha county, was in
stantly killed at the Bose home in the
town of Somers, when kicked by a
| horse
Janesville.-Walter Myer, twelve
years old, holds the record thus
far in the swat the fly" cam
paign, having a grand total of 14,800
dead ones counted and paid for by
the special committee of the Civic
club.
Athens.-The automobile of Ed
ward Kohl, containing four pas
sengers, crashed through the railing
OF the bridge crossing the river here,
plunged distance of twenty feet,
turned turtle and was demolished
No one was hurt.
Mellin.-The body of an unidenti-
fed man was found alongside the
logging track of the Foster Lat
inner Lumber company, seven miles
out of Mellen, with face downward in
puddle of water. Death was caused
by suffocation.
Appleton.-The election of three
new trustees was the only bust
ness transacted at the annual meeting
of the Lawrence college trustees.
They are: Mrs. Cora Rick, Winnie
come, and Charles Boyd and A. F.
futile, Appleton
Superior.-"I was just mad" was
the only excuse for attempting to
take his own life which William
Sheehan twenty-five years old, was
able to give the police when they
took him into custody after his
unsuccessful attempt to kill himself
by drinking carbolic acid
Sheboygan.-Clay Phalen was ar
raigned in municipal court charged
with having willfully and with
malice aforethought killed Ed VAN
boldt. The court not having final
jurisdiction in the case no plea was
entered, and adjournment was taken
until June %, when the preliminary
examination will be held District
Attorney Voigt represented the state
while Dennis Phalen appeared for the
of No hO1 1t IoIf 81,
saloon brawl.
Oshkosh.-The body of William
Eilers, who committed suicide, was
found hanging from the limbs of
an apple trse. M Eilers had used
a stepladder to climb into the tree
and used heavy rope. The absence of
these articles gave the first clue to
his wife, who was searching for him.
Mr.. Eilers was seventy-two years old
and had become respondent over con-
tinued ill health. He had been obliged
to sleep in chair for some time on
account of heart disease.
Beloit.-Miss Mildred Eaton, daugh-
ter of President Edward Dwight
Eaton of Beloit college and Mrs.
Eaton, was married at the home
of her parents to DR.. Howard Bishop
Leads of the University of Illinois
The ceremony was performed by the
brides father. Mrs. Henry w. Hincks,
sister of the bride, was matron of
honor, and Miss Edith Eaton brides
maid. Arthur H. Weston of Yale was
best man. The Theta Pi Gamma sor-
ority serenaded the couple after the
ceremony.
La Crosse.-Side by side in the
morgue the bodies of julius Bra
bant and his wife, whom he hacked
to death with butcher knife, are ly-
ing, the discovery of Brabant's body
with carbolic acid burns bout the
mouth in a reedy clump / French
island in the Mississippi river near
here having closed the last chapter
in the domestic tragedy. Brabant was
recently released from a state hos
pital for the insane. He killed his
wife at the end of month of steady
drinking. Pursued by the police, he
eiuded them in the tangle of under
growth on French island. A farmer
found his body.
Kenosha.- that he had
been held in the insane asylum
at Elgin, ILL.,, for seven months, not
withstanding the fact that he suffered
from no mental ailment, Joseph King,
a Kenosha man, demanded an examin-
alton into his mental condition in the
county court here. Following the ex-
animation he was promptly discharged
and returned to place in one of the
Kenosha factories. King said he had
gone to Chicago seven months ago
and had SIS in his pocket. He was
attacked by thugs, who robbed him
and left him unconscious in the
streets. He was picked up by the
notice. and when he recovered his