Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16

ton Junction. Mr.. Clarke is very dear
and did not hear the train. The car
rage in which they were riding was
demolished. Mrs. Clarke is badly
bruised. but Mr. Clarke is suffering
from conclusion of the brain.
Says He Has no Jurisdiction.
Eau Claire-County Judge Blumm
dismissed an order to show cause, ad-
dressed TO the state authorities, Sc
cured by J. Beuleiu, who was endeav-
oring to get his son out of the state
school at Sparta, to which he was
committed two years ago. Judge
Blumm holds that his court now has
10 jurisdiction and that the whole
matter rests with the state board of
control.
Gift 20 la Fayette County.
Observation-Disclosures Murphy of
Benton, who died last week, by his
will gives 40 per cent of his estate
for the purpose Of building a court
house for la Fayette county. The es-
tate IS estimated at $4,000, which
would give the county $125,OOO. T. c..
L. Mackey, cashier of the first Ma
tiOnal bank of Darlington, is named
executor.
The remaining 80 per cent Of the es-
tate is TO be divided among relatives
and friends. Mr.. Murphy was never
marr'ed. He left two sisters, Mrs.
Mary Pardee and Mrs. Rebecca Ma
lone, and a half-sister, Mrs. ]. Morgan,
al living i'm Iowa. Another half-sister,
Mrs. T. X. Gibson, died in Benton sew
eral years ago, leaving six children.
Rabies Caused by Beef.
Grand Rapids-Joe ROepke is dead
from hydrophobia, having eaten meat
from cattle which had been attacked
by mad dogs, then slaughtered and fed
to the family. The raw meat was also
fed to pigs and chickens, all of which
died. The effects came slowly upon
Roepke. his arm first being paraly 1ed,
and the nervous system showing ef-
fects later. He died in great agony.
VandaI Wrecks Light Tower.
Fond du Lac-The electric light
tower, $50 feet high, was wrecked
and the police are looking for the
ones supposed 10 have done il. In
the center of the tower is a carriage,
counterbalanced by a heavy weight
which rides from the ground to the
arc lamps above. Someone cut the
cable, sending the elevator up at a.
rapid rate and allowing the weight TO
fall, crashing through the framework
10 the ground. The structure is all
iron and the pipes and wires are bad
~ bent and broken. The officers say
they have 4 clue TO the vandal.
Footprints Near Harroun Home.
Stevens Point-The defense in the
HarrOun murder case is elated over
q statement made by the deceased
mans cousin, Horatio Harroun, on his
direct examination Tuesday, that he
saw footprints of a mans and WON
ans shoes leading from Walter Har-
roun's house to the field where a dead
sheep lay. Horatio testified that the
day following Walters death he and
District Attorney Dahl visited the
farm, going out TO where lay the
sheep into whose wool Mrs. Harroun
claimed TO have rubbed the strych-
nine, and that at the time he noticed
the footprints. He appeared as al
witness for the state and acknowIedg-
ed being mad at" Mrs. Harroun last
spring, and also that his testimony at
that time was a little strong in some
particulars.
Darlington Mayor Dies.
Darlington-Mayor r. II. Williams
died at Lagrange, H., where he was
taking treatment for cancer. His re-
mains were brought to Darlington
last night and taken to Shullsburg for
burial Mr.. Williams was 65 years
old. He served through the civil
war. He first enlisted in Co. /, Third
Wisconsin regiment, in which he serv-
ed two years. He then organized a
company in the Fiftieth regiment and
served until the close of the war as
captain. In 1872 he was elected sher-
in OF Lafayette county, in which ca
pacity he served two years, after
which he entered the agricultural i'm
plement business in Darlington,
where he has lived up to the present
time. having been elected mayor OF
this city three different times. be
was last elected in 1902. He leaves a
wife and one son. The funeral will
be conducted by the G. A. r. and Ma
sonic fraternity.