Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-24
LATE NEWS CONDENSED.
WISCONSIN WAITS.


Kimball of Waukesha.
Chief Scheck and officers raided "a
Greek coffee house at Sheboygan and
arrested three men gambling The par
aphernalia was confiscated.
Will Barr. a farmer near Columbus,
was struck and fatally injured when
a fast freight struck his team at
crossing. Both horses were killed and
Barr thrown q distance OF ninety feet.
After two unsuccessful attempts to
end his life, Martin Biley pioneer
resident OF Franklin, succeeded. His
body was found hanging in the gran
cry on his farm
John Klopoteb. a married man OF
80, probably was fatally hurt, and his
horse cut in twain by train On the
Green Bay &c Western railroad, neal
Amherst Junction.
Mrs. P. O. Means and Mrs. George
Chatham of Wausau have the honor
of bringing down the first deer in that
county this season, the women killing
two at Beaver lake. Both are expert
shots.
Victor Houge, an S-year-old boy was
accidentally shot at his home near
Osceola and died from the wound in
st. Paul hospital. The brother who
accidentally shot him is almost fran
tic. -
Frank Carey. treasurer of the Ra-
cine theater, is in the hospital and
may lose his arm. A few days ago
a pet bear of a travelling company bit
him on the hand. Blood poisoning set
in.
Howard RobeCts and Walter Lace,
both young men, who had been sen
fenced to the Wisconsin Industrial
school, Waukesha, for petty thefts,
filed their way out of the jail in the
city hall at Green Bay.
The body of man was found on
the bay shore 81 Washburn with ev
cry appearance Of having been MUIR
dered 4 bad wound over the eye
evidently caused death. He has only
one arm.
A hunting accident reported from
Horse Greek, Polk county, where Vic
tor Anderson. aged years, was acct
dentally shot by a rifle in the hands
of his older brother The bullet en-
tered the boys stomach and his recov-
cry is doubtful.
Gus Wahlman, an insane man, has
been roaming the fields and woods in
the vicinity of Osceola begging for
something to eat from the farmers in
the daytime and sleeping in straw
stacks at night. He escaped from the
Eau Claire county asylum.
John Burnett. who is conducting a
general grocery business at Tell was
found guilty of exposing for sale food
products without having the same Sc
curely protected from filth, flies, dust
and other contamination and fined
SIS and costs by Justice McCabe.
Matthew w Ford, capitol police
man and a relative of Attorney Gen
eral F. /. Gilbert, died at Madison
an hour after taking a packet of po-
tassium cyanide in the bathroom OF
a barber shop Ford became tenn
porarily insane after a long attack
of insomnia.
Joseph Cooper. humane agent of Ra-
cine county. experienced an exciting
time with a live electric light wire.
The wire caught the buggy between
the thills and the horses heels and
the display was brilliant Every min
ute the agent expected to be killed,
but the horse started to run and
cleared the wire
The state board of control has ex-
onerated Eugene Derse, superintend-
ent of the Dodge county asylum, who
had been accused of cruel and inhu-
man treatment toward Ella Walsh, an
inmate. The board criticises the con-
duct Of trustees who had adopted al
resolution declaring Mr. Derse's of
fee vacant
Frank Balda Of Oshkosh, aged II
years, sacrificed his left foot to save
his life He caught his foot in the
railroad tracks as train was bear
ing down upon him. and throwing
himself outside the rails he saved
his body but the train ran over his
left leg shory distance above the
ankle.
A bundle containing about S0OI
pounds OF cut copper cable was
brought to Portage and placed in the
custody Of the sheriff on Sunday. The
wire was stolen from the Southern
Wisconsin Power company last spring
at the time of the construction of their
transmission plant TO Milwaukee. Nor
itz Berlovitz of Rio is charged with
the theft and is held under $500 bonds
A. z. Graham who was arrested
charged with selling imitation butter
as creamery product, has been held
on warrant and issued by the feder-
al court to answer to a charge of vio-
lating the pure food laws. Acting on
advice from Wisconsin officers. the
Chicago federal officers arrested
proprietor owning sixteen stores in
Chicago. and it i believed the source
of supply OF the Wisconsin grafters
have been discovered