Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-12-01

mems Clubs commended John D.
Rockefeller for giving $100,000,000 to
fight the hookworm in the south.
Max o. Dreicorn was killed and
William B. Ried and A. La Laberte
were probably fatally injured in an
automobile accident at West Spring
field, Mass.
Miss Goldea Friedlander of Carmel,
N. J., died in Bellevue hospital, New
| York, of hydrophobia. She was bit
ten by dog five weeks ago, but paid
| little attention to it.
| Garrett Johnson and Arthur Cloar,
alleged night riders, were formally
arraigned for the murder of Captain
Rankin and pleaded not guilty. The
state is ready for trial.
| The bureau of Indian affairs Is
seeking to have the Navajo Indians
return to the use of vegetable dyes
they formerly used in coloring their
blankets, holding out the inducement
of higher prices for the product.
Peter Tenhunen, a Finnish work
man in the employ of the Console
dated Fuel and Lumber company, at
Negaumee, Mich, dropped dead while
jshoveling coal, heart disease being
the cause. He was so years old and
is survived by wife and several
children.
On the night of November 16, Leon
De Vries, Waterman on the steamer
Holden, which is now in port at SUI
perior, was washed overheard and
drowned in Lake Superior, about
eight miles east of Manitou island.
The accident occurred during a rag
ing storm when the waves were
breaking high.
AS a result of the voters of Wau-
kegan, H.. defeating s55,000 bond
issue Mayor Fred Buck ordered all
street lights put out of commission
and the fire and police department
will be on duty days and one nights
and only one policeman on days and
one nights.
A suit for $4,000 was fled in Chi.
cage against Miss Blanche Walsh, the
actress, on behalf of Miss Jennie
Jacobs, play broker of New York,
the result of an alleged breach of con-
tract. The suit is to recover 10 per
cent commission on the salary and
profits paid Miss Walsh from the
show in which she is now starring.
Tonnes Peterson Line of Rushford,
+A Cfofn 20,
Attorney Smith to prove that his
brother, Samuel Line, aged IS years,
who disappeared in April, 1908, was
one of the victims of the Guinness
murder farm Line had $1,000 in his
possession when he disappeared af-
ter receiving love letters from the
multi-murderess.
If Adam Gensler's 14-pound bull
frog is to be believed, there will be an
early and severe winter this year.
The bullfrog lives in a meadow dur
ing the summertime and in winter in
diets the weather by the time of the
amphibian's return to the spring
house each fall If he returns early,
it means an early winter, says the
owner.
remarkable murder story was
revealed following a confession by
Mary Batson Howard at washington,
D. c., negro woman, that she had
killed her S-year-old daughter be-
cause Raymond Carver, man the
woman loved, threatened to leave un,
less the child was sent away TAX,
ing the little one into Palmer's woods
near Seat Pleasant, Md, the woman
said she slashed the girls throat with
Caryer's razor.
Herman B. McElwain, an automo-
bile agent, considered the handsomest
young man in Pittsburg, was arrested
charged with bigamy by the Rev. Jo>
seph Jacobs of the First Methodist
church of Massilon o. Mr.. McElwain
a month ago eloped with Helen Lu,
ellie Jacobs, daughter of the minister.
and the father followed them to
Pittsburg and took his daughter
home. The father alleges McElwain
has another wife in Michigan.