Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-10-20
Badger News
| Briefly Told

Waukesha. - Lee w. Casterisan
of Genesee, brakeman on gravel
train on the Milwaukee road, was cut
in two when he fell under a box car
at the St Claire gravel pit in the town
of Waukesha.
Portage.-Michael Dunn, resi-
dent of Fort Winnebago since 1856,
died at the advanced age of one hun
dred and one years. He was consid-
cred the Oldest man in Wisconsin. He
| assisted in the construction work OF
the first railroad into Portage and on
the Portage canal.
Chippewa Falls.-Wholesale gro
GERS of Wisconsin, at their meeting
here, elected the following as officers:
President, c. j. Dexter; vice-presi-
dents, W. Hoffman and Mitchell
| Joannes; treasurer, A. E. Inbusch;
secretary, Francis ]. Rickert; direc-
tors, Messrs. Dexter, Hoffman and
Joannes, and also T. F. Branham, j. F.
w. Inbusch, A. c. Blackburn of Madi-
son and Edward Dewey, Milwaukee
Madison = That the seed corn
problem of Wisconsin looms up
with greater Importance than ever be-
fore in recent years is the opinion of
L. F. GRADER, secretary of the Alfalfa
Order of the Wisconsin Agricultural
Experiment association. He is of the
opinion that farmers who have large
stocks of seed corn of any good vari-
ETY. on hand will profit greatly by TAX
ing the very best care of their supply.
Merrill-Fred Deisinger and Mrs.
Elwyn Webb, who attempted the
life of Elwyn Webb by poisoning
him with strychnine in this city on
the evening of September 27, were
brought before Judge Reid in circuit
court here and sentenced to serve
eight years in the state penitentiary,
the twenty-seventh day of September
of each year to be spent in solitary
confinement.
Madison.-Attorney General Owen
may be asked to bring a friend
ly suit to test the new law for voting
by mail. Those who have investigated
claim that although women are al
lowed to vote at school elections there
are no provisions in the law for wom-
en- to mail their votes, and further
that the provisions requiring person
to state his qualifications to vote un-
der the mail act are not as stringent
as those where a person goes to the
polls to vote.
Superior. - After spending three
days away from Ladysmith, which
they had left without the knowl-
edge of their parents, Daisy and
Eula Phillips, aged fifteen and seven
teen years. and Margaret Sheppard.
sixteen years old, were found by detec-
tives enjoying life seeing the movies
and the big restaurants here and in
Duluth. Their fathers took them home
wiser and not at all sad, either be-
cause of taking the "trip into the
world" or because of its conclusion
Elroy.-Elroy is all excitement be-
| cause of the unexpected visit of
the fighting parson," Assemblyman
A. E. Frederick of Kendall, here. In
connection with the Elroy fair four of
the six saloons had been turned over
to eight professional gamblers with
every form of gambling device. Upon
the arrival of Frederick they all fed
in automobiles Frederick expressed
great disappointment at their escape.
but has sworn out complaints against
the proprietors of the saloons where
the gambling took place.
Kenosha.-A daring plan for the es
coma of throo pricoporc from tho couU.
ty jail was revealed here by James
Ransbottom, young southern Illinois
man who came into court to plead
| guilty to charges of assault upon l..
| J. lack, with intent to do great bodily
harm. He alleged that the plot was
formed by a negro. The other pris-
oners, however, finally drew the color
line and refused to have any part in
it. The plan provided for a vicious
assault on the undersheriff and a
break for liberty. Ransbottom was
assessed fine of 5000 and the costs.
Milwaukee.-M Members of the Wis
consin State Millers' association
held a special meeting at the Ho-
I, tel Pfister to consider plans for i'm
| proving conditions in the Wisconsin
milling field. The attendance was I'M
usually light Resolutions were passed
| instructing Secretary E. j. Lachmann,
Neenah, to issue letter to all millers
of the state, requesting them to send
| samples of rye -four to the Howard
| laboratory at Minneapolis for a test
of moisture and ash, the results to be
| submitted to the meeting of the Mill
ers' National federation in Chicago,
| October %, when the question of stand
ardization of rye -four will be taken
up Secretary Lachmann was also in
/ structed to ask members to submit
| figures on the yield and cost of manu-
! featuring rye flour. Those present in
cluded: President Carl Haertl, Stevens
Point; Secretary E. ]. Lachmann, Nee
nah; r. e. York, Portage; Fred Fisch-
er, Waupun; j. P, Horton, Depere; W.
4 Seyk, Kewaunee; w. F. Gadow, Bar
4 ton; G. w. Moody. Weyauwega; L. M.