Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-03-31
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ing, caused $500 loss TO the Schlies-
leder Brothers & Dick clothing store
at Manitowoc
Waiter H. Wolfe, arrested at Iron
wood, Mich, on a charge of having
abandoned his two children. was
bound over under $500 bail.
Matt korba, a woodsman of Flor
ence was accidentally killed when
struck on the chest by falling tree
which with companion he was fell
ing.
In the presence of her husband and
children, Mrs. Andrew Benson of
Marinette, drank the contents of a
bottle of cabolic acid with suicidal in
tent.
Henry Foss of Eau Cairo, who killed
his brother, Joe Foss, Tuesday night,
was arraigned on the charge of muir
der and pleaded not guilty. His ex-
animation was adjourned for ten days.
H. C. Putnam of Eau Claire, has do
mated tract of 200 acres, including
Putnam drive to the city, on condition
that the city expend annually $1,000
in improving the tract for park pur
poses.
On his way home from ST. Francis
hospital at La Crosse, where he had
been called to see his sick wife, w. R.
Renken, route agent of the Adams
Express company dropped dead upon
the street
Eau Caire county will continue to
pay bounties on gophers, crows, spar
rows, etc A resolution repeating a
former resolution paying such boun-
ties was ruled out of order at the last
session of the county board.
Thieves broke into the saloon OF
Alexander Tennis of Green Bay and
carried off the cash register taking
it to the switching yards, where they
smashed and battered it until it was
opened Only a few pennies were
found.
Dentist have organized the Sank
county dental society with these Off
GERS: President, w F. Doyle, Reeds.
burg; vice-president. G. w. Snyder,
Baraboo; secretary, E. L. Ritzen-
thaler, Reedsburg; treasurer, j. R.
Clark, La Vale; librarian, P. P.
Kelly, Baraboo.
Notwithstanding his disclosure of
the secret of his plaster" treatment
DR. John Till continue to do a rush
ing business 1t is estimated that his
receipts run to $500 daily. Not only
Lob Il cd
scores are given nightly quarters in
the depot waiting rooms.
According to- E. j. Bost, superin-
tendent of the government Indian
school at Wittenberg the four girls
who ran away from a school near
Wittenberg about month ago, be-
longed TO the Bethany Indian school,
usually known as the Bethany Indian
Mission school near Eland Junction.
A total of SITS @in fines and costs
were paid by Herman Pehlka, the
Augusta temperance saloon-keeper,
convicted of violating the no-license
law of the village. A fourth case
charging him with failure to remove
screens from doors and windows is
still pending.
Victim of a strange spinal disease,
causing fits during which the eyes
turn yellow. and of which there is no
case on record where life extends
over twenty-five years, Emma Heller
died at La Crosse. She had worked
up to wednesday. The disease had
been virtually dormant since she was
two months old
After having been out for twenty
hours a verdict of guilty was re-
turned by the jury in the case against
Frank Latour, charged with highway
robbery. Interest was aroused be-
cause this was the second trial and
also because of the fact that Latour,
who has been in Jail since last Au-
gust, was married in Jail TO a young
Girl who has stood by him. He was
formerly coachman for Mrs. R. NJ.
Burdick. leader in society and
women's club circles. who went on the
witness stand at this trial and testl-
fed to his good character