Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-30

Almond was rob- ID of considerable
entered and several registered letters
opened, the amounts taken being IN
! known.
Richard Fredericks died while slit
| ing on a curbstone in La Crosse. He
was on his way down town when at
tackled by hemorrhage. He was the
last of a family of five to die of lung
trouble.
An effort was made to burn the res
idence of DR.. Fl. G. Hahn in Racine.
Kerosene was sprinkled in several
rooms and set fire. The fire depart
ment saved the building. The house
was vacant and not insured.
Robert Sutherland, a travelling agent
for New York Insurance company
was arrested at Fall River, Edward
Moody the father of 7-year-old-girl
being the complainant. Sutherland
waived examination, and was held I'M
der $500 bonds.
E. D. LOTUS, Green Bay volunteer,
has returned to that city from the
Philippines, where he spent sixteen
months. He was member of Co. E,
thirteenth Minnesota, and took part
in eighteen engagements in the is
lands.
The new Methodist Episcopal church
of Sturgeon Bay was dedicated Sunday
by Bishop Joyce. The services were
attended by about 7G0 Nearly $4,000
was raised toward paying of the in
debtedness of $4,000. The church cost
$500.
julius Behnke of White Lake, aged
about 70 years, broke his neck while
returning home from church. Just he
fore reaching home, boys along the
roadside attempted to ''catch on for a
ride and as they took hold of the back
seat it came off and the old man was
precipitated to the ground.
George Harlon, end man of the Fe-
hoy Willard Minstrel troupe, was ar
rested in Menasha on suspicion of be-
ing the murderer of William J. Tulis,
the Waterman of the Finke-Ehen
brewery at Burlington. Tulis was shot
and killed by robbers Oct. IA.
A severe electrical storm passed over
Abbotsford. Lightning struck tel
egraph pole within fifty feet of a hand
car of section men, throwing splinters
and debris all over. The bolt followed
the wire into the depot and burned out
the connection, stunning the operator.
John Driscoll Of the town of Som
ers, who has seen service in the
Philippines for the last year as mem
Der of the eighth army corps, returned
to his home near KenOsha. He was a
member Of the eighteenth infantry,
under commend Of Gen. Miller. He
was in the battle of IlOilO.
At Waupaca, the case against
O'Grady, Macarthur, Mannigan, Con-
nors and Craven, charged with the
robbery of the Wisconsin Central
train, was called in the circuit court.
The defendants made an affidavit OF
prejudice on the part of Judge Webb
and the only thing to do is for the
court to call in another jurge to try
the case or send it to an adjoining cir
cult
At Monroe Judge DunWfddie SEN
fenced Fred o. Atwood to an indeterm-
mate term of from three to five years
in the Green Bay refOrmatOry. At
wood is of wealthy family and has
SO 900 held in trust for him upon an
understanding that he was to be given
chance in the reformatory. His
brother paid STAT the amount Of At
woods escape and return cost the
county.
Architect c. B. Pride of Appleton
has put force of engineers at work
on survey of the Wisconsin river at
Scofeld. 1t is understood that the
work is being done in anticipation of
the erection of a paper or pulp mill.
The site is at the junction of the Wis
consin, Eau Claire, Dig Rib and Little
Rib rivers and will develop, it is esti-
mated, about 1000 horsepower. A
dam to be constructed across the river
will be 500 feet long.
At Fond du Lac Willie McDougal,
school boy, was frightfully mangled
and seriously injured. He was just
leaving the Washington school and ran
to catch a passing wagon. In some
manner he missed his hold and was
caught in the wheel, his right leg
passing through the spokes. The
team was moving rapidly, and the boy
was whirled around at rapid rate,
his head coming in contact with the
hard ground at every turn. The boy
will probably die.
The discovery of a rich copper vein
in Gogebic county, near the Wisconsin
border, and the knowledge that it eX-
tends into Iron and Ashland counties,
has brought the attention of copper
experts to that region, and already
land has been bought up. A company
for the DEVELOPMENT of the copper