Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-07-20

George Herman, a farm laborer,
ystu,Inllted suicide at Rio by drink
ing sarbolic acid.
The boy of Andrew Aramo, VINO
disappeared from Racine was taken
o,,f Of the lake. He left his home
complaining of poor health
Franz Kirst, aged AZ years, COM
united suicide by drowning himseh
N the river at the dock OF Ross-Hel'
Ginger company at Sheboygan.
cora RuggIes, a telephone operator
ar Rhinelander, was shot in the race
nv a brother with toy pistol. me
left eve was flied with powder put
the sight may be saved.
John Kuepper, a wealthy farmer OIL
sherwood. was struck by passen-
ger zraIn and is dying at Hilbert.
He was hurled 200 feet into heid
and his horse was killed.
John Schup, a farmer residing
mile and half from Port Wasnlng-
eoH. accidentally fell from load OIL
hay ON a pitchfOrk, which passed
through his intestines, causing IN
slant death.
Johu To1leforson, one of Dane
county's oldest settlers and one OF
ebe wealthiest men of Stoughton'
died. aged 70 years. His death was
5,,a 10 a sunstroke received two
weeks ago.
hudson H. Clark, a Westfield bust
ness man who was arrested on
sharge Of manslaughter, was acqu1t-
I'D. An automobile driven by Clark
struck Ferdinand Drahheim on June
s. killing him.
Ferdinand Harms of Menomonle,
carpenter, aged 43, committed suicide
bv hanging himself on woodshed.
Mental arrangement caused by the
extreme heat is supposed to have
lead TO the act.
Aiming himself with shotgun,
Frank Vevera, a Bohemian, Al years
old. entered the barn of Joseph Rep
Eex IN Caledonia and shot himself
through the heart. The shot set fire
20 the barn and it was with diff
nifty saved.
John Kent, charged with the MUIR
Der of George Warren, had his hear
ne before Justice c. S. Briggs. He
was bound over to the circuit court.
When his bail bond, fixed at $4,000,
has been approved he will be re-
leased from jail.
A fire destroyed the barn and two
borses. all of the farm implements,
several sheep, pigs and over 2OO
chickens on the farm of William Lett
near GAINESVILLE. The loss is in the
neIghborhood of $4,000. The house
was saved by a bucket brigade.
The 5-year-old daughter of John
FFar6jes of Oconto Falls, and her
sass1n. two years older, were poi
sosea by drinking the juice of some
kmd Of wild flower, mixed with wa
Ter The girl went into commissions
and died in ten minutes. A pnysi-
.cian saved the boy.
AS gfhe result of an explosion of
tov cannon while he was looking
-nto the mouth, Frank Swokawsky,
IF Manitowoc, IA years old, may be
otally blind anad will be disfgured
5or life. The sight of one eye is
beyond hope, but physicians are
working to save the other eye.
Mike Purcell, aged "a, of Chicago,
was killed at Marinette when alight-
ing from a blind baggage. He was
travelling with Richard Lehman and
Albert Brahm, also from Chicago.
Roth legs were severed and he lived
only a few hours. Lehman and
Brahm are being held at Menominee
by the authorities.
Joseph Stanbridge, arrested in Win
tIsrOp Harbor on a charge of attack
ing Edward Walsh, soldier in Camp
Logan, following an argument over
she Johnson-Je ffries fight, was held in
nonds OF $4,000 by Magistrate Swartz
An Winthrop Harbor, pending his re-
4urn 10 Kenosha for trial on extradi-
ton papers issued by the governor
OF Illinois.
Her dress catching fire from paper
which she lighted while starting a
IRE. Mrs. Carl Henschel, a pioneer
resident of Centeryille, was fatally
burned and died within a few hours.
Her aged husband was in the room
at the time of the accident, but, be-
Eng deaf, did not hear his wife's
screams for help. and the woman
rushed from the house into the yard, |
where she attempted to extinguish
the flames under pump
1FraxIz steele. was was rescued from
lMse wilds of Bayfield, county, near
Gable after having lain in the open
ssr two weeks, enable to move on
account of paralysis which overcame
him while on his way to the home
stead, he died from exposure. He sub
sisted on porcupines. killed by his
14-year-old son, who was with him,
mill fha raSosla nartv under the