Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-12-22
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WISCONSIN, WAITS

d. z. Banker fell on an Icy walk and
received severe injuries at GAINESVILLE
He in a critical condition.
TIE Elks of Baraboo will erect an
s8 900 clubhouse and will issue shares
of SIS each to members only
James Montgomery, burglar, thirty
seven years old, was captured at Mia
dore. after he and an unknown com
nanion had tried to break into a meat
market.
The George Starks store at Stevens
Point, in which was located the post
Office, the opera house and Jensen
restaurant, at Amherst Junction, was
burned to the ground.
C. ]. Kemph, arrested In kenosna
while attempting to rob hardware
store of the Hoernel Hardware com
nanv in Racine and he informed the
nolice where the stolen property could
be found.
Walter Christianson, of Racine,
while engaged in placing storm WIN
dows at the home of James II. Kelly
fell from ladder a distance OF SIX
teen feet, sustaining fracture OF the
skull and internal injuries.
pug Nose" Kelly, at preliminary
hearing in Portage, was held to the
March term of the circuit court to
answer to a charge of murderous as
sault upon Justice Bunker here on
Nov. "a. He was captured in Berlin.
Frederick Boelter, a farmer residing
on what is called the tcannibal Is
lamds,' north of Eureka, committed
suicide by hanging. Family troubles
are alleged to have made Boelter de
spondent. He was 65 years Of age.
FROM injuries sustained in a cavein
George Thompson, aged 60 years, died
at Viroqua While examining sand
Dit a section of it caved in upon him,
inflicting severe internal injuries. He
managed to crawl to the highway,
where he was found and taken to his
home.
Dell Quick of Fennimore had the
misfortune to lose the sight of an eye.
While helping at the raising OF the
new barn on the Sheppard farm,
someone on top of the barn dropped
nail Quick happened to look up and
the point of the nail struck him in
the eye, penetrating the ball.
By the explosion of a bottle of acid
in one of the rooms of the Hotel
Foeste at Sheboygan, Miss Emma
Decker, an employee, was seriously
burned about her face and lands. Miss
Decker was removed to her home and
is under the care of a physician. The
burns about her face may impair her
eye sight.
The case of A. B. Van Alstine
against Secretary of State James A.
Frear and State Treasurer A. H.
Dahl, brought to test the constitution
atty of the Wisconsin primary cleo
ton law and decided recently by
Judge Martin Lueck in the circuit
court, adversely to the plaintiff, has
been appealed to the supreme court,
filed.
Al Hartman of West Bend had
three small shots fired into the thigh
of his legs by a companion hunter.
Mr. Hartman was on top of a ridge
and his companion below, when a
rabbit hoped between them. The
companion fired at the rabbit, the
result being that part Of the charge
struck Hartman, three of the leaden
pellets imbedding themselves in his
leg.
Returning from a camping trip,
David Ray and Ernest lube of La
Crosse were caught in floating ice in
the Mississippi, between Dakota and
Dresbach, and narrowly escaped being
drowned. They were carried away
from shore at Dakota, and fioated
three miles to Dresbach before they
were able to effect landing. The
temperature was below zero lube
and Ray have been fishing for pike
during the fall.