Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-02-05

causing panic. One of the employees
threw pail of water on the iron caus-
ing it to fly into the air, striking sew
eral men and burning Charles Thomas
and Robert Neiss, both foremen Gere
Antula, who threw the water, was also
badly burned
Appleton = Sergt. Harvey J. Piett,
who was reported missing in action
during the first battle of Chateau
Thierry, is home on furlough from
the hospital in Columbus, o. Sergr.
P1ett was struck on the head by a
piece of shrapnel. He was able to
crawl out of no mans land to the first
aid station and after that became I'M
conscious, losing his powers of speech,
hearing and eyesight for over three
weeks.
Fond du Lac - Becoming despond-
ent over the loss of a tax receipt,
Julius Edwin, Green Lake county farm
er, II years old, committed suicide by
hanging. Edwin rose early, MIXED two
COWS, then stood on the milking STOOL
fastened rope to rafter and kicked
the stool out from under him. He
strangled before help came
Oshkosh = w. H. Oliver, a repair
tailor here for thirty years was found
unconscious in rooms over his shop,
as the result of gas escaping from a
hot plate gas stove, and died at To-
col hospital shortly afterwards. In
dications pointed to the asphyxiation
being accidental
Rhinelander - At the coroner's in
quest in the deaths of Frank Buris and
Chris Filos, who were killed in
wreck on the Northwestern road
here, the jury found the railroad re-
sponsible for the accident, but did not
place any blame on the train crews.
Rhinelander - Zodn Strope, son of
Frank Strope of this city has arrived
in this country on the Italian liner
Kiuseepi Verdi Strope enlisted in
Milwaukee in March, 1917, and has
seen twenty-one months of service as a
navy fiier in France and Italy.
La Crosse-President E. A. Birge OF
the University of Wisconsin will be
the guest of honor and principal
speaker at the fifth annual banquet of
the University of Wisconsin club of
La Crosse in the Chamber OF Com
merce Feb. 8.
Fond du Lac-Dorothy c. Roberts,
20 years old, of Cambria, and a stu
dent at Ripon college, committed sui
eide by throwing herself in front of
train. Dependency over the death of
her father is believed to have led her
to end her life
Rhinelander - Lumbermen operat-
ing in Oneida and other northern Wis
consin counties declare that it will be
necessary to lower the wages of
the woodsmen, the present scale being
too high. Men for logging work ale
reported plentiful.
Green Bay-Arthur Hendricks was
while working inside a
boiler in the Chicago, Milwaukee &
ST. Paul shops. He was using an cleo
trio light and short circuit was
formed within the boiler
Janesville-George School, a section
laborer of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad, shot and killed himself
when he became violently insane
while suffering from an attack Of
Spanish influenza.
Oshkosh - Benjamin Edwards, for
many years a member of the county
board of supervisors, and former
treasurer of Winnebago, died at his
home in the town of Utica, aged IS
years.
West Washington county has
voted it's entire S5,250 of the Arme-
relief quota out of its
war chest. This is the third county to
actually make this appropriation.
La Crosse-Ross Bankus was bound
over to tie federal grand jury by
United States Commissioner Alfred
Harrison after having been arrested
in Viroqua blind pig raid.
Neenah-Dr. Ronald B. Rogers Of
the medical corps is back in the coun-
try after seeing active service in
France and on shipboard. He was one
of the first Neenah men to enlist.
Madison - The Wisconsin high
school, conducted by the university,
has nearly 800 students, compared
with a maximum of $50 heretofore.
Beloit--ne federal labor board has