Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-05
LATE NEWS CONDENSED
BADGER BRIEFS.

Jesse Carter agent for the North
western Casualty company of Milwau-
kee, learning of warrant for his ar
rest on charges of embezzlement, has
disappeared.
Charles Dodge, negro known as
"Chalky" Dodge, was caught in the act
of robbing the store of ScholIer &
Funck at Kenosha He had already
rified the cash drawer.
Deputy Fire Marshal G. H. Kiland
secured a confession from William
Vida at Manitowoc that he burned
barns on the farms of W. J. Ahrens
and William Cooper, April 81.
Joe Herman, while charging a well
ninety-five feet in depth at Bass Lake
six miles southeast of Hayward was
pinioned forty-five feet beneath the
surface by the earths caving in on
Saturday.
Rushing to her assistance when he
heard groan from her room, Charles
Monk found his wife dead in her bed
at Manitowoc. Mrs. Monk had not
been i'll. The couple was married
thirty-four years ago.
All efforts on the part of the police
and others to trap the stranger who
made an attempt to kidnap little Ken
meth Adams at Racine, have been fu-
tile The little fellow is being closely
guarded by his foster mother.
Death at the ironing board was the
fate of Mrs. Harry French at La
Crosse. She was chatting with a
neiehbor when she reeled and fell to
the floor dead Her husband, who is
a conductor on the Burlington was
on his run"
While SEEMING for pike in the Fox
river at Winneconne William John
ston, son of Deputy Game Warden c..
w Johnston. pulled up an Indian
peace pipe from the river bottom.
The pipe is known as the Iroquois
ceremony pipe.
Flick Anderson of Okes was picked
up by the engineer of train No. 504 at
Dane in a dying condition. Anderson
had evidently been struck by freight
train as his skull was fractured. He
died before reaching the hospital. He
was about SO years old
Unless their demands for closed sa-
looms on Sundays are complied with,
Vicar General P j. Lochman of the.
Green Bay diocese and the Rev. +. X
Steinbrecher, pastor of ST. Mary S
church, declare that they will at once
take steps to bring about no license in
Kaukauna.
An epidemic of German measles has
developed at the University of Wis
consin. One of the afflicted is Milton
j. Blair, who takes the leading part in
the comic opera The Dancing Doll, to
be presented by the Haresfoot ORA
matte club.
The supreme court has sustained
the circuit court at Waukesha which
upheld the claim of the county that
Drs. Hugo Pfiller and Walter Kemp
ster. alienists, for the defense were
not entitled to $50 a day, or an aggre-
gate of $4,000, in connection with the
Daniel Mclean murder trial.
The throwing of a switch between
the trucks of the Madison train Satur-
day night was responsible for a
wreck on the Milwaukee road at
WATERFOWL. The parlor car of the
second section crashed into the rear
car of the Portage passenger train,
damaging both Thomas Curry,
brakeman was injured. but not Sc
riously.
The whole city is interested in
wagers made by business men at
Chiffon that they can or can not walk
from Chiffon postoffice to the Fishing
clubhouse on Lake Winnebago in fou<
hours The distance is between 9 and
10 miles AS soon as the weather i'm
proves the contests will open. The
wagers range from a key of beer to-
SIS.
John Rather, aged 40. residing at
Madison, a brewery driver employed
by the Breckheimer Brewing com
pany. fell from his truck and one OF
the whee's of the wagon passed overI
his head, killing him almost instantly.
Andrew Bringe. De Sofa farmer,
has disappeared and relatives fear
foul play. His team was found tied
10 a tree two days after he had left
Lansing for his home.
DOMESTIC
In an accident near Geneseo. n. Y,