Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-11-15
The second bank of Durand has been


Thieves broke into the Bohemian Cath
Ollie Church at Prairie du Chen and stole
the sacred vessels Of the altar.
Peter Graef, hotel proprietor, shot and
instantly killed Louis Klaus at Crivltz
He was in Graef's saloon trying to run
the place.
Wolves are reported unusually numer-
Gus between TrempeaIeau and New AM
sterdam. One farmer reports the loss of
forty sheep.
The general merchandise and drug
store of l.. Nickcrson at Waucoma was
entered by thieves and number Of artl-
cleS were stolen.
Alexander Kirkwood, postmaster at
Kirkwogd, committed suicide by taking
laudanum. Financial trouble is supposed
to be the cause.
Louis Wilson, bootblack at Fond du
Lac, has just received word that 5000
crowns were left to him in Denmark by
the death of relative.
A Dane County farmer recently gath
cred fifty bushels of hickory nuts from
a few wild trees on his farm and sold
them for 81 per bushel.
A stranger from st. Paul, giving the
name Of Patrick Burke fell under a pas
senger train at Hudson and had both feet
crushed. Both feet had to come off.
Wesley Vanderhof of Sherman has an
eagle which he secured alive, a rifle shot
having broken it's wing. 1t measures
more than eight feet from tip to tip.
Francis Warnes, an inmate Of the Mil
waukee Soldiers Home, died as result
Of falling down the stairs at the home Of
his wife on West Huron street in Chicago.
A factory for the manufacture Of axles
will be established at Racine Junction.
Fifty thousand dollars will be spent in
the enterprise and 100 men will be given
employment.
In a fit Of dependency caused by lack
Of work, Charles Golbeck of Pewaukee
made an unsuccessful attempt to end his
life by taking rat poison. He will prob
ably recover.
Charles Danfeldt, wandering farmer
boy, was adjudged insane at GAINESVILLE
and taken to Mendoza. Where Dan
feldt's home is, or where his relatives live
is mystery.
The Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha
ly opened between Racine and Kenosha.
The first run was made to the kenosha
limits in less than an hour.
Mrs. Frank Bomahock of Kewaskum
committed suicide by hanging herself i'll
her COW barn. She had been in poor health
for the last two years. She leaves hus-
band and eight small children.
The first of numerous eviction cases of
the Illinois Steel Company against squat
ters on Jones Island was decided in favor
of the Illinois Steel Company in the Unit
cd States District Court at Milwaukee.
BY means of skeleton keys several Of
fees in Superior were entered. The New
York Life Insurance Company's office
was ransacked and money and stamps
stolen. Titus & Mcintosh, attorneys, lost
SIS.
At Big Bend young man by the name
of Anderson from the southern part of
the State was badly wounded. While go
ing through the woods he was taken for
a deer and shot by a member Of party of
hunters.
Berlin people are circulating a petition
to have the county seat removed from
hartford to that place. If enough names
can be secured, the proposition will come
before the people of the county at the next
election.
Marshall & Mcdonald Of Chippewa
Falls are erecting a large flour and feed
mill at Boomer The site is that occu-
pied by the saw and grist mills, which
were swept down the river by the flood
six years ago.
The barns on the farm of John Callen-
dar, in Racine County, and occupied by
Gus Boyer, were consumed by fire, to-
gether with cow, hay, straw, fodder and
other property. The loss will amount to
nearly $4,000.
At Fond du Lac, the amount Of 1,436
was paid over to the county treasurer to
cover the shortage of County Clerk Fergu-
son, who shot himself last January and
died in June. The money was paid out
of his life insurance.
Articles of association have been filed
by the Goddard & Allen Company of Be-
lott to manufacture carpet stretchers, etc.;
capital stock, $4,000. Also the Mann
Gerber Company Of Milwaukee, to ham
die woolcns: capital, $4,000.
While hunting near Sullivan, Leonard
Hoffman of Milwaukee succeeded in
shooting and wounding large gray
eagle. The enraged bird then attacked
Mr.. Hoffman, who had a lively skirmish
before he dispatched the eagle.
The Danish-American Lutheran College
Investment Associat ton purchased the
Rowland property in Racine on which will
be erected the Danish Evangelical Lu-
theran College. The purchase price is
$1,000. The site is beautiful one.
The store of G. w. Thomas at Trempea-
lcau was entered by burglars and many
articles of value taken. Checks for ST.
500 in a desk drawer were overlooked.
Several private residences were also en-
tered, but the burglars were frightened
away before doing any damage.
A sensation was created at Mayville by
the receipt by Dr. L. NJ. Bachhuber Of an
explosive contrivance through the mails.
The machine consisted of q small wooden
box with a sliding cover lined with sand
paper and so adjusted that the person
opening the box would set fire to row