Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-09-29
Badger News
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| Judge N. j. MOnOhan after Delng IOunu
guilty of burglary. Pallage entered the
home of P. G. Hoppe and was held by
occupants until police arrived.
Nenah.-Ernest Kay, a Chicago
the Appleton waterworks tower,
distance of $50 feet, in demonstra-
ton of the apparatus being manufac-
tured by local fire escape company
Baraboo.-As result OF a big
landslide at the south end OF the
Northwestern track across the Wis
consin river at Merrimac, all train
service was suspended until the track
was repaired. which took several
hours.
Fond du Lac.-Representati of
the local manufacturing, financial
and jobbing interests have taken
preliminary steIs looking toward the
organization of Fon0 du Lac branch
of the National AsHoc'ation of Credit
Men.
eboygan-Sheboyga will take
No part in the 1,000,000,000 loan
to the allies. This was made GER
tain when the four local banks in
serted advertisements in the Sheboy-
gan newspapers announcing they had
met and jointly passed up the oppor-
tunity to share in the loan.
Misunderstanding struck st. Johns
Lutheran church, demolishing the
big chandelier and setting fire to
the loft, but the blaze was easily
put out Lightning also struck the
cemetery chapel of ST. Marys Catho-
lie church in Burlington which was
practically destroyed.
Eagle River-John Zychowski, aged
twenty-three, wanted in Cleveland, o.,
for the murder September of Louis
Balik, was arrested by Sheriff Hall at
his brothers homestead at Pickerel
Lake, a remote part of Wisconsin's
widest county. He was unaware the
sheriff was present until the sheriff's
gun was poked into his back.
Appleton-Registrat opened at
Lawrence college with a record
attendance in sight. Every dormi-
tory has been filed for some
weeks. and students who have failed
to obtain quarters in advance are seek
ing rooms with private families. 1t is
thought there will be nearly one hun
dred who cannot be accommodated in
dormitories or fraternity houses.
Chippewa Falls.-Robert Nichols,
twenty-five years old, Fort Dodge,
| Ia, admitted his identity and plead
ed guilty to the charge of rob-
bling at the point of revolver the
station agent of the 500 line road
here, securing sos in cash and $4,000
| in pay checks. He was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment. Nichols
| also confessed robbing the station
agent of the Northwestern road at
| Waukesha on the night of September
! 2 where he obtained 5000.
Baraboo-An attempt to escape
from the county Jail by break
| ing through the wall at the second
story was foiled by Sheriff Hale.
Bricks were removed from the inside
and enough were knocked from the
outer wall to permit small person
| to crawl through The sheriff heard
the pounding and nipped the affair
| just in time to prevent wholesale
| Jail delivery. Clarence st. Claire, who
was convicted of burglary, is charged
with the offense and was sentenced
to three years at Waupun.
Kenosha.-Dennis Sullivan, a for
mer Milwaukee man, now in charge
of the railway yards at Balm sta
ton, in this county, severed thirty
year-old domestic tie in municipal
| court here when he was divorced
| from his wife, Josephine Sullivan. He
| declared that his wife disappeared in
| Milwaukee eight years ago. He has
waited in hopes of her return, but for
| three years he has heard nothing OF
her. By the order of the court the
wife was denied any possible future
| claim to alimony.
Ripon-Ripon college is about
to inaugurate a campaign for an
endowment fund of $325,000 to be
raised before next January. The
Rockefeller board, Andrew Carnegie
| and o. H. Ingram have offered $780,
| 600 on condition an additional $4,000
| De p1ouS0Q ny VI ChO 0SAOOl.
| This will be the first time towns
people have been called on to con-
tribute to such fund and they are
| expected to respond literally. G. s.
| Ward of the international committee
| of the Y. M. G.. A. will have charge
of raising the fund.
Green Bay-The annual conven-
ton of delegates from Sunday
| schools throughout the state will be
in Green Bay on November 8, 10 and
IL. 1t is expected between 500 and
700 delegates, representing all parts
of Wisconsin, will be present. Com
mittees appointed several weeks ago
are arranging for accommodations for
the visitors and working to make this
convention the best and most success
full ever held in the state. The execu-
tive committee is composed of liver j.