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Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-15

uFoay. ana sunday morning were being
driven through Foluntown. Although
the horses were not stolen at the same
time it was believed the thieves were
working together. as the stolen teams
Went in the same direction.
Saturday morning man who gave
his name as W. c. Potter Of Lyme hir-
ed horse and carriage to drive to
Ciarlts Falls but kept right on through
the village. and has not been located
since. This man was about 40 years of
age. above the average height, with
dark hair and mOustache. He wore a
dark suit and dark overcOat. The horse
was black. with bobtail. one Of a pair
and weighs about 1850 pounds. He was
carnessed to a Corning top buggy. The
outfit is valued at $3.50.
While the stable man at Milton A.
Youns's stable was driving a passen-
ger to Fort Mansfield, shortly after
midnight, the barn was entered and a
light bay driving horse owned by the
Armour company was stolen, as was
also a rubber trimmed harness and
Concord buggy. Search was made for
the missing team, but no trace was
found until about $50 Sunday evening,
when the Armour horse was located.
At that time the horse was driven
up to the lunch cart on the West Side,
the wagon containing Walter Burdick
and George Boyd colored, and was rec
ognized as the stolen team by William
Partridge. proprietor Of the lunch cart.
When the young men started to drive
off again Mr. Partridge objected. and
Burdick and Boyd, both well known.
Prior to going 70 the lunch cart Sid
Henry was asked to take a note to Mil
ton Young which stated that Burdick
would call Thursday and settle for the
use of the team. but declined This
note is now in the possession of the
police 1t was expected that both |
Burdick and BOYD would be arrested |
before daylight. The horse had evident
" been driven quite a distance.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-15
Westerly HOnOrS Great EmanCipatOr
Patriotic Service at Baptist Church Sunday Evening No
Sale of Dixon Property Sudden Death of Douglass
Anderson-Iwo Horses Stolen Harry F. hiIl of
Mystic, Attached for $4,000 Damages for Death of
Mrs Helen Yemen

Representative Granger has present
ed the petition of the Westerly board
OF trade. forwarded by President Chas
FERRY. lavoring the bin providing that
any state may cooperate with the fed
sral government for the protection of
watersheds and navigable streams and
Tor the appointment of a commission
60 further this work.
i Also the petition In favor Of the con-
1truction Of canal from the protect
ed waters OF Narrangansett hay
through the ponds and lagoong living
along the southern coast OF Rhode Is
land to. Watch Hill and Fishers Island
Sound, ,1ich would avoid the hazard
Gus passage for barges and other
craft around Point Judith. The petit
ton asks that a survey be made Of
the proposed Improvement. These mat
tiers received special consideration at
the February meeting Of the Westerly
board Of trade.
Senator Arnold of Westerly has re-
ported faVUfably for the finance COM
mittee on resolution to appropriate
$4,000 to make provision for the prop
er representation Of the state on off,
cal occasions and public ceremonies.
Inc senator also advocated successful
~ an act providing for the second
highway construction loan, which was
given immediate consideration. and
was passed under suspension of the
rules.
Charles J. Dutton Of Westerly assist
ant superintendent of the Rhode Island
Temperance league for the past year
and half, has rendered his resigna-
tion, 10 take effect March J. Mr. Out
ton since his connection with the
league has, IN connection with his 9th
ers duties. delivered 10 public ad-
dresses in the interests OF the organ
3zation.
Mr. Dutton was graduated with hon
ors two years ago from the Albany
Law school, and he proposes to con- I
tnue to study law prior TO examination |
Tor admission to the bar OF Rhode Is |
land.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-15

The February session oF the suparior
court for WASHINGTON eou,7fv onens in
West Kingston TO-DAY CMondavj THE
grand Jury will convene b1t fbai,. de-
liberation win he sbort rs tI1ora arc No
cases from the second ,7ist,ict and hut
few from the Third district co,1,.t
Tuesday win he rivan oI,ey. sccord-
ing to custom to the hearing Of divorce
petitions. and the trial Of iurv cases
will not come until WedneSday sew
eral cases are already assigned for
trial and n H. evnecfad 80 sc+l,a'r,
win he nIacad an tbe t,.isi ogIer,7s, az
opening dav yyben he 1870 ~
heard The~e a,.s aIa,-e,i ,,1,- ,tir1,
law. a larger nu9ber than usnaI
ore case which viii probabIy he fried
at this session is the oyster case so-
called, in which Aston TIno,rIas is
charged with tairfne- ,a.I- ~ o[-sta,.s
from q leased bed in Poi,+ I,l1itI, ',7e,,i
Tbis is M he mai a ta5t o'sa - ''i IT,
farrnfne lie constftI,tionaift,- of tte ~ ,,V
which GRANTS 10 tbo TO- ~ S. ~
Kingston the mover IN les $500.
grounds i'm the noud Tho a+torney
generals criminal docket * exnncfed
to come up next Monday.
The grand Jurors summoned for tho
opening d9y Of the session ara. Ill
Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-15
Annual Clearing Sale
Upholstery DEPT.

Come early, for the best choice Of
these bargaips.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The American Can company, ac-
colding to Manager Allerton, plans to
erect an edition to it's La Crosse
plant for the manufacture of fruit
cans with a capacity of 100000 cans
the first season.
The official opening of the Virginian
railway. H. H. Rogers new coal road,
will take place on April 5. The road
lis 443 miles in length and has cost
approximately $4,000 600. About
half of this amount, it is said, has
been put up by Mr.. Rogers personally.
The La Crosse Gas and Electric
company has leased the entire output
of electric current available for that
city and vicinity in radius of six
miles, to be generated at the Hatfield
dam of the La Crosse Water Power
company.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
HUNGARIAN MINERS
ORDERED TO LEAVE

Terre Haute, Ind, March 31-The
Hungarian miners employed at the
Boyle colliery at Jasonville, who en-
gagged Monday night in a battle with
American miners, in which II per-
sons were wounded, yesterday accept
ed the inevitable and have scattered
to different parts of the country.
Harry st. John, an American, was
most seriously wounded. He was
shot in the stomach and may die.
There was more or less shooting all
night and yesterday armed Americans
ordered the Hungarians to leave at
once. Knowing the odds were all
against them. they piled their goods
on wagons and drove away in all di-
rections. An American flag was fly
ing over the mining camps school
house last night.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
BURNED AND ITCHED.

Eczema ON Hand, Arms, Legs ana
FACET Was Something Terrible
Complete Cure by Cuticura.
about fifteen or eighteen years ago
eczema developed on top of my hand.
It burned and itched SO much that /
was compelled to show it to doctor.
He pronounced it ringworm. After
trying his different remedies the dis
ease increased and went up my arms
and to my legs and finally on my face.
The burning was something terrible. l
went to another doctor who had the
reputation of being the best in town.
He told me it was eczema. His medi-
cine checked the advance Of the dis
ease, but no further. 1 finally con-
Guided to try the Cuticura Remedies
and found relief in the first trial.
continued until was free from the dis
ease and l have not been troubled since.
c. Burkhart, 236 w Market ST., Cham
bersburg, Pa, Sept. 10, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07

the Advancement association of that
place. 1t is believed that other in
Gustries will be located now that
cheap power is available.
At meeting of prominent lumber
men of Eau Claire and vicinity held
at that city it was decided to send a
delegation to Madison to bring pres
sure to bear to prevent the passage of
the resolution in the legislature urg-
ing removal of the lumber tariff by
congress.
A strike in the building trades is
threatened by the refusal of Appleton
contractors to agree to the new rules
laid down by the bricklayers and
form an organization of their own,
but will try to arbitrate the differ.
ences.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
asked the secretary of the treasury
to give to the bureau of engraving
and printing the authority to pre-
pare 100000 additional 15-cents
postage stamps, the demand for which
has exceeded that which was an
ticipated when the estimates were
prepared.
Because Colorado is the national
playground, according to former
President Roosevelt, Representative
Taylor of that state has introduced
a bill appropriating $250,000 for the
erection of an executive mansion at
Glenwood Springs, Col, for the use
of the president during the summer
months.
The transportation committee OF
the Women's Municipal league OF New
York has asked the public service
commission to require the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit company to equ'p
the rear car on each subway express
train for women and children exclu-
sively. The company has been re-
uuired to answer within ten days.
State Veterinarian Clark has been
called to Albion to examine a herd OF
cattle thought to be afflicted with
newly discovered contagious disease
known as johnes. He finds many iso'
lated cases of tuberculosis in the
dairy herds supplying the city OF
GAINESVILLE and as a result of his re-
port stringent milk ordinance is
being prepared.
Despite efforts to keep her identity
secret. it was learned in New York
that the donor Of the 100000 fund
to the Children's Aid society for es-
tablishment of sanitarium for Grip
pied children, is Mrs. Elizabeth An
derson, wife of A. A. Anderson, the
artist, and daughter of the late Jere-
miah Milbank, founder of the Chi
eago. Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
DOM ESTIC.

Paul Mite of Sheboygan has
brought suit against the Northwestern
for $4,000 damages for injuries al
legged to have been sustained in being
struck by the company's crossing
gates.
Society has turned to Reno. New,
as the Mecca for would-be divorces,
it being the easiest place to secure
freedom since Sioux Falls turned
the trade down
More than seventy varieties of corn
were exhibited at the corn institute
which closed a two day session at
New London. is. About $125 in
prizes were distributed.
Three persons were killed, two
probably fatally hurt and fifteen
others less seriously injured in a
head on collision between two cleo
tric cars near Bryant station. Penn.
The Pauly & Pauly Cheese company
has been organized at Manitowoc with
Il capital stock of $4,000 to take over
the business formerly conducted by
the cold storage department of the
Northern Grain company.
James Tennyson, engineer of the
Illinois Steel company's plant which
was wrecked by gas explosion,
died from injuries received in the
catastrophe. Tennyson was 40 years
old.
4 manufacturer who plans TO erect
Wis. employing about 200 men is In
correspondence with the officers OF
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
OBITUARY..

Harry Teal, a prominent farmer OF
Winnebago county, is dead.
Ruperto Chapi, a popular Spanish
composer, is dead at Madrid.
Henry Reiser, a member of COM
pany K, ninety-fifth Illinois infantry,
civil war, died at the age of rs years.
L. H. Day, a prominent business
man of New York City, died in Sioux
City following an attack OF pneu-
monia.
DR.. r. Reyburn, one of the physl-
clans who attended President Gar
field after he was shot by Guiteau,
died in Washington, aged 76.
Hiram j. Bullock, who conducted
a creamery in GAINESVILLE UP to the
time of his retirement few years
ago, is dead at the age of II.
Christian Koelsch of Neenah, 80
years of age, is dead. He was a
member of the famous Iron Brigade
under the command of General Bragg.
John B. Chisholm, stage carpenter
in Ford's theater in Washington when
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
died at La Sale, Ill.,, aged IA years
Harry B. Shaw veteran of the civil
war, who enlisted twelve days after
the firing on Fort Sumter, died at
Nora Springs Iowa. He was promi-
nent in Grand Army affairs.
Casper Sturenburg, prominent
German-American editor and author
died in New York aged IS years.
For ten years he was managing ed
itor of the New York Stats Zeitung.
Fred Bede1l, a prominent railroad
engineer of Green Bay. is deaf at the
residence of his father, Deputy Game
Warden A. B. BedeIl, at Menominee.
Mich. of Bright's disease, aged
thirty-seven years.
The bill providing for the survey
of land between Washington and Get
tysburg battlefield for boulevard
$50 feet wide. to be known as "The
Lincoln way" has been introduced
by Representative Lafean of Penn
sylvania.
Henry Bausher, sixty-six years
old. president of the III. Bausher
company, commission merchants, died
at his home in Chicago. At one
time he was the head of one of the,
largest packing and refining compan-
les in Chicago.
Mrs Elvina Thomas. aged Is years,
widow of Thomas Samuel, sea cap
tain is dead. Two weeks ago she
married John Thomas, her cousin,
aged II years. They took a wedding
trip. arid she contracted a cold re-
sulring in her death today.
Representative Edwards of Georgia
is tired of drawing $500 for MS
services as a member of congress.
He is willing to hold the job for
$4,000 a year. Accordingly he intro
duced a bill on Friday to reduce
the salary of members from $500
to $4,000
E. c. Bohne. vice president OF the
Southern National Bank OF Louis
vile and widely known financier.
is dead at his home in Louisville,
Kentucky Mr.. Bohne was sixty-nine
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
BOY MISSING; $4,000 DEMANDED.
Pittsburg Police Think Brickiayer's
Son Is Attempting Joke.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 27.-Lawrence
Gibson, IA years old of Tioga street,
this city, disappeared and about mid
night his father received a sepcial-
delivery letter demanding a ransom
of $4,000 for his sons return. The
police were notified and after inves-
tigating the case are inclined to be-
lieve the lad, with the aid of boy
friends, is trying to play a joke on
his father. Mr.. Gibson is a brick
layer.
Mrs. Gibson, the boys mother, was
worried yesterday, but admitted that
the handwriting in the letter resem-
bles her sons. The police are trying
to find the boy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Julia Kuttner Earle, the affin-
ity wife of Ferdinand Pinney Earle,
the Monroe On. W artist, has begun
suit for annulment of marriage.
e. A. Tostevin, for TWENTY-FIVE
years business manager of the Racine
Journal, Printing company, has re-
signed and sold out his interests.
Mrs. Russell Sage has purchased
the old Nathan Hedges place, the
home of some of her ancestors at
Poxabogue, l.. l., near Sag Harbor. 1t
is to be rebuilt in the same style of
architecture.
dispatch from Santa Clara, Cal,
quotes Father Thomas Ewing Sher-
man, son of the famous general, as
saying that he is in accord with the
California sentiment against admis-
sion of Asiatics to this country.
A. S. Whitney, University of Michi-
gan, was elected president OF the
North Central Association of Colleges
and Secondary schools. H. A. Hol-
lister, University of Illinois, was elect
ed vice president, and F. C. Ensign,
University Of Iowa, secretary
j. Edward Addicks, former presi-
dent of the Bay State Gas company
and thrice candidate for United States
senator from Delaware, was adjudged
guilty of contempt of court by Justice
Hendrick of the New York supreme
court, and fined $410 He will go to
Jail if the fine is not paid.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
MOST BRUTAL MURDER.
South Dakota Farmer Kills Wife's
Parents With Axe

Alliance, Neb., March S1.-News
reached here yesterday from Provo,
S. D., just over the Nebraska line, of
the murder last night of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tucker, ranchers, near that place, by
their son-in-law, Richard Barton, who,
it is alleged, killed them with an axe,
after which, the dispatch says, he mu-
tilated the bodies. Barton, it is said,
threatened his wife and cautioned her
not to reveal his crime until he had
had an opportunity to escape, but
after he left she informed the neigh
bors and pursuit began, resulting in
Barton's capture at Edgemont, S. D.
Domestic trouble is supposed to have
prompted the crime.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07

as the senate is concerned, in a ses-
sion of the senate committee on
waterways held last night when 1t
was decided that a bill be drawn for
a waterway constructed, if necessary,
without government aid
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07

Because the owner of the field
chosen by the Italian military Off
Gals for the flying machine tests by
the Wrights doubled the rental an
other field is being sought. 1t will
be SO far from a city as to make
crowds unlikely.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
pRYs APPEAR CHEERFUL.
Predict Victories All Along the Line
in Coming Contests.

IN Coming ConteStS.
Chicago, March 31.-Predictions OF
a sweeping victory for the dry forces
in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and
Ohio at the coming elections, and OF
the adoption of prohibition laws in
Florida and Arkansas before the year
ends were made here yesterday by
Charles R. Jones, chairman of the pro-
hibition national committee.
Jones said the national committee
was prepared TO furnish its ablest de-
baters for a large number of public
discussions in the principal cities OF
the country.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07
THE BIRD HAD FLOWN.

Old Man Leaves Money With Fiancee
While He Searches for Minister.
South Bend, Ind, March 31.-Wil-
liam Lacy, 70 years old, of Harvey,
Ind, has asked the police of this city
to help him find Annie Thode, 40
years his junior, formerly of Lyons,
ILL.,, who he alleges, took $500 of his
money and disappeared.
Lacy says the two went to st. Jo-
seph, Mich, to be married, and that
he left his fiancee at the hotel, hand
ing over to her the money for safe
keeping, while he went in search of
a minister When he returned, he
alleges, Miss Thode had gone.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-07

of the town of Porter, Rock county
was killed at Harrisburg, Ark, by a
falling tree.
Failing over a chair in his home
proved fatal to Stengrin Olson, OF
La Crosse, aged "a years. He was
81 years of age when he settled in
Bostwick valley, where he resided
until twenty-eight years ago.
Having become infected by kiss
bestowed by request on a patient
dying of blood poisoning, Miss Mar
ion C. Shier, trained nurse, died
at her home in Cumberland strick-
en- with the same malady
The old Neenah Touring mill on
the water power is being RACED. 1t
was an old landmark and was the
first -four mill owned by private
parties in the Fox River valley 1t
was built in 1850 by John and Har-
vey Kimberly.
Norman Wilkinson was arrested
at Chicago on a charge of burglary
and brought back to Manitowoc and
is being held pending a search for
an alleged accomplice of the man.
The police recovered five of the
twelve suits stolen.
Edward H. Bower, former propri-
etor Of the College Inn, Madison
restaurant, found guilty of a statu-
tory offense, was sentenced to two
ho1f h. a+o&o
During the trial he admitted he had
been married twice without going
through the formality of securing
divorces.
tween the vestibules of two cars as
the train rounded a curve proved
fatal to a man supposed to be
Charles Zettel, 125 Ninety-first street,
New York. His body was found on
the bumpers when the cars were dis
connected at La Crosse. He was
about % years old.
n. T. Woo, Chinese student in
the Wisconsin university has re-
ceived an order from his govern
ment for two teachers to be en-
ployed as instructors in the city of
Hong Chao, China. There is a pos
sibility that Mr.. Woo will send Wis
consin students.
D. E. Smith, his wife and three
children were at the isolation hos
pital at Racine suffering from small
pox. Smith conducted saloon on
Main street in the center of the
city and hundreds were exposed.
One of his children attended the
fashionable public school of me
Second ward
Ole Stromberg, section foreman
at New London for the Green Bay
and Western, found, in a pile OF
ties, a purse containing $4,000 in
checks and notes stolen from the
Graef store at Hortonville several
months ago. The purse was found
concealed among the ties when the
pile was torn down for track re-
pairing.
Mrs. Belle Guinness, the murder
Mrs John Davis of Mount Pleasant,
Racine county. Davis is farmer
and declares that woman with
pack on her back, peddling soap,
called at the farm and made an eff
fort to sell goods. Davis says that he
recognized in the woman Mrs. Gum
ness, from pictures he saw in the
papers.
Frank Smith died from the effects
of being crushed between two logs
in the Hines camp at Hines station.
Some twenty Eau Claire saloon
keepers, against whom cases are
pending for selling liquor on Sun
day, decided to plead guilty and pay
fines rather than fight any longer.
In all about forty saloon keepers
have been arrested as the result of
no license crusade.