Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-24


attempts to burn house they had re-
Gently bought and heavily insured.
Officers who forced an entrance into
the building during their absence
found complete preparations for its de-
struction and arrested the pair on
their return Lighted candles with
fuses connected with kindling piles
were found throughout the house. Be-
tween the walls and the partitions oil
soaked rags had been placed and two
stoves were left burning and filed
with heavily inflammable materials.
Racine.-Rev. Bernard Klein, sixty
six years old, pastor of st. Paul
Catholic church at Mosinee, died at
ST. Marys hospital He is a brother
of Rev Ignatius Klein, pastor OF
Holy Name Catholic church of this
city. Requiem mass was said at the
Holy Name chuch by Rev. Theodore
Meyer The body was taken to Co
lumbus, Wis, for interment.
Racine-In the wake of several Jit-
ney bus lines now operating in Racine,
people at Corliss are planning the IN
stallation of a jitney line from that
town to Racine. Because of the large
number of men from this city going
to and from work at Corliss each day
it is thought such a line will pay. The
seven-mile trip is now made by train
Racine. - The Trades aid Labor
council is agitating for the insertion
of an eight-hour-day clause in the con-
tracts awarded for city work. Under
this clause a contractor who kept his
men at work over the spec1fed time
would be forced to pay. overtime
wages.
Chippewa FalIs.-When snow went
off the fields near Keystone the
body of an unidentified man was
found. A bullet hole through the
body indicated he was deer hunter,
who had been shot by mistake when
hunting last November, and aban-
doned by whoever did the shooting
Kenosha.-Slot machine gambling
in Kenosha county got its body
blow on Friday when formal no
tice was sent to every saloon and
hotel keeper in the county that all
slot machines must be removed within
ten days
La Crosse-A. S. Doaney, aged
twenty-three years, is held at Spar
ia on a charge of manslaughter,
following the death of Lawrence Hun
ter, aged ten, who died of drinking
whisky. Doaney was accused or CIV
ing liquor to the child.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS buildings were
put under the microscope of the Wis
consin Fire Prevention association
when 25 members of the association,
headed by President H L. Dalton,
came down from Milwaukee to make
the one-day inspection.
Wausau.-Arthur W. Prehn, vice
chairman of the Wisconsin commits
sion of the PanamaPacific exposition,
has returned from San Francisco. lie
reports that the Wisconsin showing ex-
ceeds that of other states, in proper
ton to money expended.
Monroe.-Two changes were made
here in new contracts of the Borden
Condensed Milk company's plant with
it's 1853 patrons They re, purchase
by butterfat test and the announce
ment of price for only one month in
advance.
Oshkosh William Barfknecht and
julius Hunt are held on charge of
highway robbery at Winnebago county
iail. The men are charged with at
tempting to hold up Charles Read of
this city as he was returning home.
Monroe.-Miss Jennie Jorgensen,
aged twenty-six, died at her home west
of here from eating rat poison because
she felt alone in the world. She was
a native of Norway and had no re'a-
tives in this country.
Madison. - Assemblyman Bradley
presented joint resolution to amend
the constitution giving employees OF
railroad companies who hold village
offices. right to accept and use passes
from railways.
La Crosse.-A lamp placed by the
bedside of an infant child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Steal of Warrens was acct
dentally overturned, setting fire to the
bed and burning the child so seriously
that death resulted.
Janesville-John W. Tipney, seven
ty-two years old, resident of James
vile since 1852, and one of the sur
vivors of the famous Hyatt house fire
in which many lost their lives in the
late SOS, is dead.
Superior-A school building to cost
100000 furnished will shortly be start
ed by St Stanislaus Polish Catholic
parish here, to be ready for sessions
of the parochial school next fall.
Oconomowoc.-Five cars of west
bound Milwaukee road freight train
| were derailed near Okauchee, the &C
cident being caused by the breaking
| of an air hose.
MARSHALL new monthly magazine
| is being published at Marshall by two
| Young men, Ivan c. Lake and Frank j.
LAYERS. 1t is called the Exemplifier.