Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-01-12
DOM ESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
An artificial pond of fourteen acres
in Bedford will yield no ice crop this
winter because muskrats gnawed {
hole through the dam and drained the
pond.
Custer proceedings were instituted
by Attorney General Major of Miss
issippi in the supreme court agains
Welleston, st. Louis county. The lie
gality of the towns incorporation is t.
be tested
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bunno, a French
family Of 500, Mich, were made
happy by the arrival of another son
making the total number of theil
children fifteen, fourteen of whom
are boys and all living.
A letter containing a demand fol
$4,000 ransom for Alma Kellner has
been received at Louisville, Ky. II
came from a town in Ohio and will be
investigated. The girl has been miss
ing since December s.
The New York coroner in one day
handled thirty cases, of which one
was possible murder, one an unusual
suicide by shooting, one a death due
to criminal operation, six were su
clces by gas, and three fatal acct
dents.
We will not only give $4,000 for
the return of Alma Kellner, but we
VIII give another $1,000 for private
interview with her abductor" de-
clares Frank Fehr, wealthy cousin Of
the Louisville, KY, girl who recent
iy was kidnapped from her home
On account of the growing import
ance Of American interest in the far
east and the difficulty of administer
ing the whole fillet as now constitutes
the navy department. has decided To
aVlde the Pacific fleet into two sen.
drate fleets to be known as the
Aslatic fleet and the Pacific fleet
James Middleton, principal witness
III a night rider case set for trial in
the federal court at Mobile. Ala was
shot from ambush near his homo j.,
BALDWIN county and died soon after.
me indictment is against six men
and IS said to have grown out of the
killing of sheep.
Lizzie Crenshaw. aged % wears at
Nashville, Tenn. cut the throat Of
John NJ Jennings, a bookkeeper with
"hoIn she lived. Later she hanged her
sell IN a cell at the police station
using her apron strings as rope. and
was dead when discovered. Jennings
mas a chance to recover.
A woman shoplifter. arrested at
rllht' Mich. as Mrs Wilhelmina
krause said she was Lena Buchanan
OF Milwaukee and that she saved
money from her dishonest
trade in Milwaukee and other places
to buy the house at 1890 Sixth street
milwaukee,, and that she still owns it.
She was born in Germany. When her
parents came to America thew settled
in Kentucky.
A little girl years old. two small
bull terrier dogs, and a doll with a
sore toe We're in the custody of the
Chicago police waiting for some one
10 claim them. According to the girl
her name. is Helen Malone, the dogs
are known as Bunnie and Buster
twins, and the doll, whose name is
Annie" has a sore toe which 40.
accounts for bapdage on it She
SAID her father worked in a place
where they made pennies.
Mrs. Charles E. Spencer. of Rattla
creek, Mich. wife of railroad engi-
neer and mother of children
was found burned to death .after a
Ire had destroyed a shed at the .ear
Oh her home. The police started an in
Festlgation to determine how the wo.
mans night clothing caught fire. The
husband, who turned in the alarm.
said that he was awakened by smoke,
ana discovered his wife's body before
caihng Tor help. Indications point to
suicide.