Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-10-07
Newsy Combinations
WISCONSIN WAITS.

An automobile club has been or
gained at Monroe with charter mem
bership of twenty.
On pleading guilty, at La Crosse
Leroy c. Russell, a pickpocket, was
sentenced to two years in the state
prison.
Hans Buruseth, who took orders for
liquor from Stoughton people and
then bought the goods in Edgerton,
was fined SIS.
Missing eight days, the body of Her
man Wehausen, a 12-year-old Mantle
voc boy, was taken from the lake 800
feet from shore.
Thieves broke into the store of
Charles H. Miller at WATERFOWL steal
ing valuable meerschaum pipes and
other smokers articles.
Robert Blass OF the town of La
Prairie, Rock county, was fined SIS
and costs for horse whipping Earl A.
Lomis. an II year old boy.
The northern Wisconsin state fair
at Chippewa Falls closed with a def
cit of $4,000. The receipts, $2S, 900
from all sources, were the largest in
its history.
During a temporary fit of insanity
caused by i'll health Leyina Ducharme,
of Viroqua, aged 16 years, swallowed
carbolic acid Her life was saved
While her father was cutting wood
with a bucksaw little 1 year old Tillie
Martz OF Merrill got her hand in its
way and it was nearly severed at the
wrist
Ethel j. Slayton was appointed post
master at Leon, Monroe county, vice
Sadie l.. Link, resigned; Fred Height
man at lander, Manitowoc county,
vice F. Elmer, resigned
Ernest Bluhm, of GAINESVILLE who
was states witness in the notorious
Zimmerman murder case, was SEN
fenced. to eighteen months in state
prison for indecent exposure.
Descendants of ]. M. Alden, VINO
came to GAINESVILLE sixty-two years
ago, held a reunion. Three of the five
children who took part in the celebra-
ton arrived here with their pioneer
father.
Application for the pardon Of
Albert Ullman of GAINESVILLE who was
given ten year. sentence on convic-
ton of having shot his daughter with
intent to kill will be made to the
governor.
The remains of Francis Rogers, an
inmate of the ST Croix county asylum,
were found in the Willow river, near
New Richland Rogers escaped from
the institution Sept IS. He was 80
years old and was committed from
Hammond, Wis.
Gov Davidson has offered a reward
of $500 for information which will
lead to the arrest of the murderer of
Henry Rankin, near Mineral Point,
Iowa county The body was found in
the bushes with a large gunshot
wound in the breast.
Bernard Strassins of Sheboygan was
the center attraction at a Lithuanian
christening party which developed
into a general fight. He had three Of
his alleged assailants arrested and
also demands damages for torn cloth
ing and injuries to his person.
Mayor Mulberger of Watertown has
appointed C. e. Straw, J. w, Wiggen-
horn, o. r. Kruger and E. F. Vie
man to act in conjunction with the
park commissioners to solve a plan
for buying the Schurz homestead, Oct
II, when it is to be offered at public
auction.
When a member of drilling crew
lighted match to see whether the
vegetable gas that came up out of the
we'll the crew was drilling at Apple
Creek near Appleton. would burn the
flames shot stones and earth into the
air fifty feet and badly burn II the
Potts Wood e Co. cheese factory.
While cleaning away underbrush on
his land near his summer home at
Salmo. Bayfield, county Charles Leihy
found two old fintlock guns, relics OF
the last famous battle fought by In
dams in this section, which took place
between Salmo and Sioux river
DR. c. F. King, of Hudson. Wis, as
sistant surgeon of the Third regiment,
Wisconsin national guard, with rank
of captain of the medical department,
will retire from active service as a
member of the national guard on ac-
count of she age limit sixty-four
wears. Dr.. King is q veteran of
three wars-Civil. Indian and Spanish
American.
DOMESTIC.