Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-09-16
TRAG EDIES.

and had his right arm and leg cut OH.
He died a few hours later.
While bathing in the Mississippi
river at Dubuque, John Schwendinger,
aged 40 years and Lewis Traut, aged
10, were drowned
I A revolver dropped to the floor by
her young brother was discharged,
killing Agnes the IS months old child
of William Boil of Trenton, N. J.
| Seventeen year old Irwin Otto of
Detroit was drowned within twenty
feet of the golf links at Royal Mus
toka, Ont. His canoe capiszed.
Lille Wheatley of Wichita Falls,
Texas, was shot and killed by Mrs.
Walter Allen. Miss Wheatley was
in carriage with Mr.. Allen when the
shooting occurred.
In attempting to arrest an alleged
horse thief at Ware, Mass, Chief of
Police Maurice Fitzgerald was shot
-four times and fatally wounded. The
imam then committed suicide.
| William Neitzel, of Oshkosh, aged
p years, was instantly killed by a
street car. The car struck the child,
breaking his back and almost COM
ipletely disemboweling him.
While a party of West Liberty, Ia,
men and women were driving to- OF
tumwa, their automobile slipped into
a ditch and overturned, killing one
man, G.. H. Mines, and injuring four
others.
Miss Helen Cullen Of San Francisco,
a young woman of wealth. swallowed
the contents of bottle of iodine, and
without word of warning leaped to
the court yard below She died a few
hours later.
A cowboy, George Price, supposed
to be from Oklahoma, committed sui
lcide at Liverpool England Price was
playing with wild west show. He
pool waitress.
A. S. Waters, visitor at Hot
Springs, Ark, from Tampa, Fla, made
"a Spectacular leap to death from a
third story window of the new Pres
ton hotel to the pavement below, a
Instance OIL HICy I6eC.
Mrs Elizabeth McNeal, aged Is
years, and her invalid daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Joe McNeal, aged SIS years,
were burned to death in fire which
destroyed their home on Lookout
mountain near Gadsen Ala.
Dock Watson shot Carl Horn and
Miss Ethel Edsal operator for the
Southwestern Telephone company at
Waso, Texas, then turned his pistol
on himself. Both men died and Miss
Edsal is fatally wounded.
An unidentified man was found dead
at crossing of the interurban line
at Watertown, Wis. He had been
struck by a work train. A memoran-
. dunn book found on his person con-
tanned the name Gajo Goranovic
Bernard Fishbeck, foreman of the
erecting department of the Olds Auto
mobile works at Lansing Mich, is
dead and George Hunt seriously in
jured as a result of a machine running
off the testing track and turning over.
Harold Coyle, the year old SON of
Mr.. an Mrs. John Coyle of Chicago,
who have been camping at Grain and
Chase's lake, seven miles northwest
Of Phillips, Wis, was burned to
death when he was left alone at the
camp for only few minutes.
Peter J. Schollert, head Of the Schol-
lert company, and a st. Paul pioneer,
his wife, Mrs. P. j. SchoIlert, and
Lewis Christensen, a brother of Mrs.
Schollert, are dead at the Schollert
home as the result of asphyxiation by
illuminating gas.
Crazed by jealousy when informed
that his sweetheart, Edna Kennett,
was about to marry William Witt,
Daniel Godell Of Omaha, shot Miss
Kennett on the street. INJECTING
wounds from which she died an hour
later, and then attempted to blow out
his own brains.
DR.. A. H. Sayres, a prominent physi-
clan of BIuefieId, w. Va, was shot and
instantly killed on train. Wesly
Wilkes, an insurance man, is accused
of firing the two shots. Wilkes had
filed charges against Sayres, ending in
the doctor being expelled from the
lodge of Ellls.
Following a struggles for the pos
session of a revolver Harry Spiegle
was shot and MORALLY wounded by
his brother, George NJ. Spiegle, a. well
known lumber merchant of Philadel-
phia. Harry Spiegle, according to
the information received by the police,
called at his brothers Office and de-
,manded money.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
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