Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-11-18
Some News Notes
BADGER BRIEFS.


Faul Kohler cashier at the North
western road depot in Watertown, has
been appointed agent in place OF A.
F. Bierman, resigned.
Albert and Hugo Donnerstag.
charged with counterfeiting, who-~es-
capped from the Dane county Jail and
were recaptured, were taken back to
Madison.
William Green was arrested for
d. namiting pickerel and pike on Lake
Menomonee. Albert Bendaline, want
ed on the same charge, made his es-
cape and is still at large.
For the first time in the history OF
Fond du Lac Chinese boy is en-
rolled as a pupil in the public schools.
He is n. G. Ylu. the 12-year-old son
of Charley Him, a local laundrynan.
Miss Elsie Nelson of Corliss and
Miss Carrie Jacobsen of West Racine
were seriously injured in a runaway.
Both were thrown from the carriage
and the wheels passed over Miss
Jacobsen, cutting and bruising her.
Egnot Kopel, an employe of the
wausau Paper Mills company at
Brokaw, was robbed of $3.50. The
money was taken from his room in
the company's boarding house. The
thief had to break three locks to get
at the money.
Peter Christensen, who lives near
-c;z anOi-
dent while. working around the feed
mill in his barn. He was climbing up
into the mill to adjust it, when he
slipped and fell about ten feet to the
barn floor, where he lay unconscious.
His kidney was torn in two.
The left leg of Rudolph Donnerstag,
the alleged counterfeiter, who was
shot while resisting arrest, was ampu
tated, the operation being necessary
ito save the prisoners life A dunn
tdum bullet passed through the fleshy
part of the right leg and shattered the
bone of the left.
Allan Reed, the 14-year-old son OF
Mrs A. B. Reed, narrowly escaped
death when he was thrown from a
pony belonging to companion. The
pony slipped, throwing him to the
ground and falling on top of him. He
was picked up in an unconscious con-
dition Young Reed is a grandson OF
former Congressman j. W. Babcock.
George Meyer, foreman at the
Single mill of the Menasha Paper
company. is suffering from a shat
tered right hand. Mr.. Meyer was d.
recting he driving of a large post
when his hand and the heavy sledge
came III contact. Several bones were
broken and the feshy part of his
hand was badly smashed.
The federal district attorney has
been asked to investigate the killing
of Moses Warden. a Menominee Indi-
an, at Breed. AT the time it was
said he had been accidentally killed
a a turkey shoot but Agent Allen, at
Keshena, after an investigation, be-
iieves that the Indian was killed by
being struck on the head with some
blunt instrument
James Jones, foreman of the gov
eminent crew that is installing the
sluice gates at the Menasha dam, had
his left hand badly smashed in the
cog wheels of a machine. Last win
ter while at work he was struck on
the head by heavy plank which fell
from the top of the lock wall A
year ago at Appleton he had his left
n nm Hl,n in
While on the way to La Crosse in
an auto to secure doctor and dur
ing stop at the Milwaukee railroad
crossing at Bangor the machine of
Nicholas Elsen was badly smashed as
the result of collision with box
car Nicholas Elsen, proprietor of the
Elsen house in La Crosse. was driving
the car and was accompanied by
George Gerletti. They were forced to
jump for their lives Both escaped
uninjured.
Threats which he made against the
owner, Oliver Ryan. and testimony
showing that on the night previous
co the fire he had followed RYAN two
miles with the avowed purpose OF
knitting him. was the evidence upon
which Theodore Refs. a Cato man.
was bound over for trial in the cir
cult court on the charge OF arson. |
REFS is charged with setting the fire
which destroyed a threshing outfit
owned by Ryan