Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-28
LATE NEWS CONDENSED
DOM ESTIC.

; the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Boettcher of Mound Prairie.
Mimi, met with a tragic death.
Ambassador Thompson, United
States representative in Mexico. was
robbed of $4,000 by a trusted en-
ployee, according to a letter received
from Mr.. Thompson.
G. H. Watson, farmer, who shot
his son-in-law, Welsey Crabtree, at
Allison, Oklahoma, last August, was
found guilty and his punishment fixed
at life Imprisonment
Herbert, the 9-year-oid son OF
Emanuel Erickson, who mysteriously
disappeared from his home at Mont.
rose. Mimi, was drowned in Crow
river. His body was found.
A young man who gave his name
as Charlie Ross, drowned himself in
the Missouri at Pierre, S. D., after
a quarrel with his affinity and a
failure to drown his sorrows in Ii
quor
Mrs William Oliphant of West
Branch, Iowa, who gave her four
children poison, causing the death of
the youngest, and then attempted
suicide, was arrested for murder.
She admits her guilt
Lon Deeds shot and killed E. D.
Real in Spencer County, Ind. and
seriously wounded Oliver Rout The
men were riding home in a farm
wagon, and is is said all had been
drinking. Rout may die. Deeds
has not yet been caught.
Alfredo Alvarez, of Tampa, Fla.
proprietor of West Tampa saloon.
was assassinated as he was enter.
ing the gate of his home by an un-
known person, who made his escape.
Near by was found a single-barreIed
shotgun marked H. " K
Charles Boyd a farm hand in
western Clark county, S. D., was
kicked by a frightened horse, his
jaw being broken and his skull frac-
tured. Death resulted before a doc
tor could be summoned.
William D Calverly of Houghton,
mining man and capitalist, was ap-
pointed by Gov. Warner a member
of the board of control of the Mich
igan College of Mines of Michigan
to succeed Walter Fitch, resigned.
Roy Evans, farmland from Lake
Crystal, Mimi, passed a confederate
S. bill on a North Mankato store
keeper. and was arrested and paid
a fine of SIS and COSTS Evans said
he got the bill in change and did
not notice it's character
While running thirty miles an
hour. a freight train on the Rock
Island struck handcar heavily
loaded with rails near Iowa City,
Ia The engine turned turtle and
the engineer, C Shannon, and Fire
man Michael were seriously injured
The Michigan hunters whose car
load of deer was confscated at
Green Bay by a Wisconsin game
warden have secured from the Mil
waukee road nearly $4,000 DANA ges
for allowing the official to seize the
game in transit
Both of the union pickets captured
at the ore docks at Escanaba, Mich.
were put on the street to work out
their sentence. Three hours after
they began work they slipped away
from the overseer The sheriff is
considering fastening a ball and
chain to the street workers.
That the Mexican revolutionary
junta is creating unrest in northern
Mexico and along the Texas border
is shown by the fact that Eugene
Nolte, United States marshal for the
western district of Texas, has depu-
ties IN the field to preserve peace
If conjectures are true. the outbreak
! is planned for early in December
Realizing that heart disease was
sabout to kill him. Rev. D. D. Bah
cock. widely known temperance
worker, asked his wife for a pack
age of needles while he lay in bed
at Marshalltown, Iowa. Twenty min
utes later he died suddenly An
undertaken discovered two three-inch
needles driven into his heart. and
the coroner declared the case sui
eide.
Miss Mary Mallon. formerly cook
In the homes of many rich New
York families, has been sentenced to
live an indefinite time, possibly the
,rest of her life. on North Brother
island. where the board of health
isolates contagious diseases. Ap-
parently she enjoys good health, but
the officers contend she is walk
ing repository of typhoid germs, and
PURELY PERSONAL.