Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-10-21
THE NEWS ABRIDGED
WISCONSIN WAITS.


dota hospital.
The store of W. H. Hawthorne at
Oshkosh was entered and robbed of
small amount of money
Wilbur F. Carries general merchan-
disc store at GAINESVILLE was entered by
burglars who secured about $40 in
money.
Much excitement is be ng caused by
the operations of dog poisoner, who
has thus far killed about fifteen can
ines. at Glenwood.
The whereabouts Of Mrs Charles
Crouch of Evansville who disappeared
from her home in that city ten days
ago, is still unknown.
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Footville are organizing for a hunt for
a pack Of dogs that have killed many
valuable sheep in that vicinity.
Breaking open the back door of the
millinery store Of Mrs Thomas DeLane,
at Hilbert Junction burglars stole over
$3.50 worth of plumes and fancy trim
mings.
After attending church, Peter Muir
ray, an inmate of the Chippewa county
asylum escaped. For several Sundays
past he had been given permission to
attend church.
John James of La Crosse, while rid
ing on a tricycle. to his place of bust
ness, was run down by an automobile
and suffered fractured rib and other
lesser injuries.
John A. Killeen, the veteran editor
of the Kenosha Union, was injured by
falling from pear tree. The ladder
on which he was standing broke and
he fell fifteen feet to the ground.
Valley Lindsey, recently released
from the Green Bay reformatory,
where he had been serving sentence
for burglary, has been arrested for
robbing a residence at Fond du Lac.
Harry Smith and Eddie De Mar, the
latter from Milwaukee, who were ar
rested near Monroe for threatening a
brakeman with a revolver, have been
taken to Orangeville, Ill., to answer
10 charge of burglary.
Deputy Sheriff O. A. Halliday OF
Charlotte, Mich, came to GAINESVILLE
and took Lester Cook and John Jones,
who have confessed to robbing several
stores and residences in Michigan cit
les.
Leslie Lee Sanders the 'tboy
preacher" will be ordained as Bapt-
list minister Friday night, following
which call will probably be extended
to him by Tabernacle church at La
Crosse which he has served the last
two years.
w H. Miller, 81 years. old, from In
diana, was driven out of Racine by the
police He had a number of pawn
checks for watches, pawned for vari-
Gus sums, which he offered for 81. 1t
is charged that this was obtaining
money under false pretenses.
County Superintendent of Schools
H. A. Aune and Sheriff Andy Kealey
of ST. Croix county, have jointly under
taken systematic enforcement of the
truancy law throughout that county.
SO far they have instituted proceed
ings in twenty-seven cases.
Once wealthy, Samuel Olsen, a pio-
neer res dent of Chippewa county, is
now an inmate of Soldiers home
near San Francisco and every evidence
of his former wealth is gone Three
years ago he went west after selling
all his property and there was married
to a widow from which time his down
path to poverty dates.
Dr. Adolph Gehrmann of Chicago in
an address at Kenosha, declared that
the water taken from the lake was
good water and that the only way
to purify the water was for the states
bordering on the lake to take up the
matter and provide for state super
les
An important point is involved in
the ruling of Judge Grimm, of Jeffer-
son county denying motion for a new
trial in the case against Charles Dono-
van, who was convicted of criminal
assault on a young girl. A new trial
was asked for on the ground that evil
dence had been used against him
which he had given as a witness in
the case against Ida Gruetzmacher of
Watertown, who was convicted of
keeping house of i'll fame in that
city. Donovon was sentenced to eight
years at hard labor in the state peni-
tentiary.
DOMESTIC.