Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-11-25


fraction Of one point. This year at
VirOqua they resumed their leadership
by winning three points over all COM
peting bands.
Baraboo-Hope Of any light on the
triple murder Of William, julius and
Mary Balzer, who were dubbed to
death at their farm home in Sank
county in 1922 and robbed OF their
boarded savings, faded when Dist.
Atty. Bohn, Baraboo, announced that
repeated questioning of William and
Delbert Bills had convinced him they
knew nothing at all Of the murder.
The Bills brothers were recently ar
rested for attempting to cash two
bonds owned by the Balzers, but con-
WINGED the district attorney that they
had found the bonds on the Balzer
farm The Bills brothers worked the
farm for awhile after the murder.
Tomah-H Hazel Brandau, 6, suffered
fatal gunshot wound while accOmpa-
nying her father on a rabbit hunt on
his farm near Tomah. The father,
Ernest Brandau, laid his shotgun
across a brush pile while he went to
look at trap, leaving Hazel and an
other child with the gun. He heard
shot, and rushing back, found the
little girl shot through the side. She
died shortly after at a Sparta hospital.
1t is believed the children attempted
to play with the gun while the father
was away.
ShiOcton-While residents of the vii
lage listened idly to the changing of
a burglar alarm, thinking it was be-
ing rung as a test, four armed bandits
looted the Bank Of Shiocton Of $4,000,
and escaped in an automobile driven
by a fifth member of the gang. The
robbers entered the bank five minutes
before closing time, and drove the
cashier, John Wagner, two other en-
plOyes and four customers, into the
vault at the points Of revOlvers. Then
they proceeded to loot the cashiers
cage, taking all the currency in sight.
Madison-An alleged extortion plot
against persons in Edgerton and
Evansville with threats of death for
failure to pay, was reported to state
officials at Madison Sheriff Charles
l.. Burtis and Dist. Atty. George S.
Gets, Rock county, are understood to
be investigating the case In an anony-
nous letter to Mr. and Mrs. Nalan,
$1,000 was demanded and threats were
also made against d. Willard North
of Edgerton.
Fond du Lac-Seventy-fift anniver-
sary services were held on Nov. Is In
all Lutheran churches on the Evan
gelical Lutheran joint synod of Wis
consin of which the Rev. G. r. Berge-
mann, Fond du Lac, is president. st.
Peters church, Fond du Lac, has been
a member of the Wisconsin synod
since its organization in 1858.
Chippewa Falls-At one Of the most
important meetings ever held by the
Chippewa county board Of supervisors,
the board unanimously passed on the
program outlined by the road commit
tee to build As miles of concrete road
op state highways IS and II, at an
estimated cost of $1,323,000.
Baraboo-The same day that Mr.
Of
burg celebrated their fiftietb wedding
anniversary, their son Martin and his
wife observed their twenty-ffth an
niversary and another son, Dennis
was married to Miss Christina Peter
son Of Spring Green.
Ladysmith-In circuit court at
Ladysmith, Paul Marley, convicted on
an arson charge, was sentenced to not
less than one year nor more than two
years In the state prison at Waupun
Leon Prochnicki, found guilty of as
sault with intent to kill, was sentenced
TO one to three years.
WauSau-T h e dore Ezydore. 10,
pleaded guilty in Circuit court at Wau-
sau to a charge of manslaughter in
the first degree and was given five to
ten years in the Green Bay reforma-
tory. Ezydore shot and fatally
wounded William Kluck. 10, Sept. 80.
following a drunken row at Galloway
Madison-The proposed Kenosha
county ordinance declaring certain
highways TO be arterials and to compel
all vehicles entering them TO come to
stop, is invalid. the attorney general
has informed Lewis w. Powell. dis
trlct attorney of Kenosha county.
Chippewa Falls-Goidsmith council,
knights of Columbus Chippewa Falls,