Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-05-12
STATE NEWS
In BRIEF

born on the farm of ]. A. Little in
Hamilton.
Corliss.-The st. Paurs Episcopal
church, which was destroyed by fire.
will be rebuilt. The new building will
be of brick.
Viroqua.-The district convention OF
Rebekahs took place at Viroqua. The
local order furnished dinner for all
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Racine.-Lawrence Terhune, the lad
charged with the theft of $22 from De-
tective Charles Yanney, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to one year at
Waupun.
Commonwealth the annual meet
ing of the Oconomowoc Cemetery as
sociation c. W. Notbohm and George
w. Olson were elected trustees for
three years.
ManitoWoc.-William Zenk of Chill
ton dropped dead while walking on
the street from heart failure. For
twenty-three years he was engaged
in business at Kiel.
Little Elk Creek.-While climbing
through fence and dragging rifle
after him, Ben Wagner, ten years old,
discharged the gun, the bullet going
through his hand.
Grand Rapids.-Max Zemrow of this
city caught a rainbow trout in the
Biron dam that weighed four pounds.
This is the largest trout ever caught
in this section.
Stevens Point-Julius Boelter, fif-
Vista farmer, was killed when tram
pied on by horse. He was removing
some of the horses shoes.
Green Bay.-Joseph Deuster has
been appointed internal stamp collec-
tor by Revenue Collector Paul Hemmy
of Milwaukee. He succeeds John
Shepeck, who recently resigned.
Racine-Lars Mogenson, sixty-four
years old, prominent resident and
business man, died as result of in
juries sustained in runaway. Nor
genson's wife was also badly injured
and is in a precarious condition.
Racine-Mary Jones, colored wom
an, accused by Sam Thomas of having
choked and robbed him of $62, tear
fully denied the charge when ar
raigned Thomas is a night watch
man. There is nothing to show that
the woman is in any way implicated.
Waukesha.-Carroll college defeated
Northwestern college of Naperville in
a debate here Friday night by az to l
decision The question was: Re
solved That the principles of the Clay
ton act of 1914 exempting labor organi-
cations from operations of the federal
antitrust laws is not justifiable." Car
roll had the negative and was repre-
scented by Herman Fallen, Edward At
wood and Everett Edward. The judges
were Prof. A. F. Watson, D. S. Nc
Grew and the Rev. H. D. Davies.
Green Ray.-While no word has
Bay diocese, it is said by those high
in Catholic circles of the diocese that
a successor has been named to sue
coed the late Bishop Joseph j. Fox.
Archbishop Messmer and Secretary
Marx of the Green Bay diocese are
unable to state who has been named,
but, according to rumors, the cardinal
a. Washington has the information on
hand to release when so advised from
authorities at Rome
Members of the Zeta Psi
fraternity are living at the different
l, rn-
suit of a fire which badly damaged
their houses over the weekend. The
house was drenched with water. The
estimated damage is placed at $4,000.
This is the second fraternity fire at
Madison during the school year. The
Acacia house was damaged in the
same way last January 1t is thought
the cause of both was defective fiue.
Madison.-Governor Philip received
a letter from B. j. Jacobson of Blaine,
Mimi, urging him to pardon Jacob
sons sweetheart, Miss Helen Ham
mers, sentenced in Superior on Janu-
airy % last, to one year in the state
prison at Waupun for grand larceny.
Jacobson says if the governor will
pardon the girl he will marry her be-
fore she leaves the prison and take
her to his farm in Minnesota. The
governor was favorably impressed
with the letter and may pardon the
girl
William Priebe of this
city has received word of the death of
his brother, Emil Priebe, who died last
February from wounds while fighting
with the German army in the Carpa-
THAN mountains. Priebe was twenty
two years old. He came to America
In 1909, attended Hoffman's college in
Milwaukee, later went to Beloit, and
in 1913 returned to the fatherland to
enlist in the army. When the war
broke out he went to the East Prus-
sian front, and was later transferred
to the Austrian battlefield. He has
two brothers in the German army. One
sister, Mrs. August Brandenburg, lives
in GAINESVILLE, Wis, and another sister,