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

Milwaukee, Nov. 12.-As the cul-
minatIOn Of one OF the hercest fights
ever recorded in the Milwaukee
courts OF a mother To obtain posses
sion OF her child. Mrs. Rebecca
smith. mother OF little Lillian Jose
phine Smith. whose. commitment to
the home for dependent children is
now pending in the municipal court
Wednesday began habeas corpus Pro
ceedmgs % get possession Of her
child. Through Attorney 5. l. Simou|
the application for the writ was grant
ed By Court Commissioner w. J.McEl-
roy. and summons have been served
on the authorities Of the Milwaukee
Infants Home. where the child is con
fined, to appear before the court com
missioner 1t 10 o'clock this morning.
and show cause why they should not
turn the child over to the mother.
Claiming that the child has been
kept from its lawful mother without
any process Of law; that the proceed
ings started i'm the municipal court to
commit the child to the home for de-
pendent children are not regular, as
that court has no Jurisdiction in the
case under the juvenile SQUIRT law,
and that there are certain persons
who are anxious to adopt the child
and thus eifectually bar the mother
from ever claiming il. are the facts
embodied in the petition to Court
Commissioner MeEIroy and on which
the writ was granted.
II is claimed that the mother has
been repeatedly denied permission to
see her child by the authorities OF the
home. and that her intentions towards
il have been wholly miscOnstrued
Omcers OF the infants home say il
is nonsense to charge them with any
object in the controversy save the
best interests OF the child.
Supposed to BE Dead.
Superior-Axel Abramson was sup
posed to have been killed at Saund-
ers. Wis. in a railroad accident some
time ago: a few days ago Axel
AbramsOn put i'm his appearance here
i'm municipal court and was sentenced
TO the Waupun state prison for rob
berry, and he insisted thai he was not
dead; now another AXel AbramsOn
hobs up i'm Duluth and he says that he
was not dead nor In prison.
When a man was killed at Saunders
in a railroad accident he was positive
" identified by friends and a woman
who claimed TO be his wife. as Axel
AbramsOn and his grave was marked
with that name Later. when a man
was arrested on a charge of robbery.
the police were positive that he was
the Axel Abramson who was suppOs-
ed TO be dead and the man said that
he was the person.
The Axel AbramsOn who has come
20 Duluth says he Is the man who is
supposed TO be both dead and I'm Jail.
Girl Bear Slayer Will Hunt Deer.
Superior-Niss Ruth Jackson of
Snohomish. Wash. is at the Hotel
Superior and viii hunt deer I'm north
en Wisconsin this season. Miss Jack
son is celebrated I'm the western couE-
try for the hunting trips she has
made and for the success attendant
upon them She has had consider
able nOtoriety since early in the pres
eut summer when she killed a big
grizzly bear I'm the Sierra Nevada
mountains. At the time a number OF
eastern periodicals sought and pub
Hshed her portrait
Judge Hans Hoverson Dies.
Judge" Hans H0versCn
died Of heart trouble yesterday morn
ing at his home. at the age OF 81
years. He was for many years Judge
en- this city. He came to America in
1913. Only one OF six children sur
yive him.
Accident at Milton. I
MIlton-W. d. Clarke, aged 81, and
his wife were struck by the passenger