Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-06
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL
WISCONSIN WAITS.

WISCONSIN, WAITS.
Frank Maryatt of Milton Junction,
about so years old, has disappeared
from his home
The New Lisbon Times and the
Juneau County Argus have been con-
solidated and will be conducted by
Donald NJ. Leicht
The eleventh annual exhibition of
the Southeastern Wisconsin Poultry
association will be held at Delavan
beginning on Tuesday.
Monroe cheese dealers have sent a,
contribution of about 1000 pounds of
cheese to various eleemosynary insti-
tutions of the southwest.
Louis Elfinger drove horse and
wagon over sixty foot embankment
at Racine and came out alive Elfin-
ger took the wrong road
Wisconsin postmasters have been
appointed as follows: billy, Vernon
county, Frank Havlik, vice F. A. Wo-
pat; Whittlesey, Taylor county, Ma.
tilda A. Sorenson, vice A. Sorenson
The First National bank of Mad
purported to have been signed by L.
b. Gilbert, which were found to be
forgeries
The Baptist church of GAINESVILLE
is in receipt of $1L174, a bequest left
the organization by the late Mrs.
Fannie l. Smith, who had been life
long member of the church
Thomas B. Jeffrey sent to the pen
sion fund of the Kenosha fire depart
ment a gift of $500 as a recognition of
the work done by the firemen at the
recent fire at the Jeffrey home His
loss was $4,000.
With w. c. Landon as postmaster,
the. postoffice of Glandon has been es-
tablished in the town of Hewitt. The
place was formerly known as Algonac.
All the logging operations of the
Barker & Stewart Lumber company
are centered at this place.
Claiming that he had a message
from God to kill her. Antonio Backleit-
ner, former Superior policeman,
sent his wife to secure a razor, after
beating her She escaped and got a
warrant for his arrest, but he had left
before it could be served.
Branch No. | of the Kenosha post
office was robbed on Saturday, the
thieves getting So in stamps and
money and several registered pack
ages. The branch is in the Lamb
drug store. The men took $50 from
the drug store
J. w. Durr, % years old, of South
Minneapolis, Mimi, pleaded guilty at
Racine to having passed a forged
check, and was sentenced to two years
at the state reformatory. Durr said
his father was rich carpenter con-
tractor.
Relatives of .Melcher Warner, who
was killed by a train near Stanley two
weeks ago, have commenced a $4,000
damage suit against the Wisconsin
Central. Henry Nelson who was in
jured at the same time will sue for
$4,000 damages.
Two boys were as near to death as
it is possible to be and still survive,
and two others were made i'll by in
diligence in liquor which they pur
chased, according TO their story, at
two Marinette saloons and as a result
prosecutions may be made.
Policemen in plain clothes, sent tol
the south side Racine, with hopes of
catching burglars who have been op-
Grating there. are experiencing an ex
citing time Two of the plain clothes
men were nabbed by citizens, underI
the impression that they were bur-
glars.
A A. Triton, night towerman for the
Northwestern road at Fond du Lac
narrowly escaped death when two cars
of an extra freight train jumped the
track and completely demolished the
tower. Tilton was buried beneath the
wreckage which caught fire, and would
have been roasted alive but for the
timely arrival of two car repairers.
William Lesard, aged 20 years,
pleaded guilty at Prairie du
ChiGn To the charge of burglarizing
the Henry Metz residence of $170 and
rare old coins and was sentenced byI
Judge Ciementson to three years in
the state reformatory Sheldon Fer |
ris of Stuben pleaded guilty of steal
ing railroad ties from the Wisconsin
Western road and was fined 50 each
for 1870 of them.
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