Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-09-28
WISCONSIN
BREVITIES

| Janesville.-The mystery of sew
eral robberies in this city in the
last few weeks was cleared up
with the arrest by the police of George
jacobson, ten years old, and Clayton
! Goodman, aged twelve. The boys
| were caught in the act of breaking
! into a hardware store. They were
| equipped with a complete burglars
| outfit, carrying a screwdriver fitted
| into a jimmy, a diamond glass cutter
| and other tools According to the po-
| lice, the boys have confessed they
| committed seven or eight burglaries,
| No great amount of plumber was Sc
| cured in any of the places entered.
Fond du Lac.-The two little
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. Sa-
! gren of this city and their nursemaid,
Louise Grugene, were adrift on Lake
| Winnebago in an open boat. They
were fishing, when a squall of wind
blew the boat out of Lakewood bay
into the broad reaches of the lake. De
| spite the efforts of the maid the craft
was carried out into the rougher wa
tiers and she was finally forced to
| give up rowing and direct her efforts
| to keeping the boat from overturning.
A motor boat from this city rescued
| the party.
Appleton.-So determined was he
| to secure a college education that
Claude Vemme, twenty years old,
walked 80 miles from Tomahawk to
| Appleton to: enter Lawrence College.
| When he arrived he had only five
cents in his pocket and after he had
registered as a member of the fresh
man class he hunted a job and hired
out in local hotel as bell hop He
has been here three days and has al
ready started a bank account in which
he deposits his tips. He has already
saved 1919.
Racine.-Capt. Edward Gillen,
president of the Gillen Dock,
Dredge and Construction company
and one of the best known marine
contractors on the Great Lakes, lies
at the Lutheran hospital at Cleveland,
o., in a critical condition, following
an accident at Nottingham, O. Captain
.Gillen, while directing some construc-
,tion work on one of the company's
scows, was struck on the head by
heavy tackle, causing injuries which
may prove fatal.
Racine-Mrs Hannah A. Foster,
widow of the late A. A. Eos
ter, who settled in Southport, now
Kenosha, when three years Of age and
came to Racine in 1872, died there.
She was born in Connecticut in 1888.
Stephen Spring Chase, a former old
resident of Evansville and GAINESVILLE,
Wis, died here, aged eighty-fve. Mrs.
Ellen Scriben, an old resident of Be
lott, who had resided with relatives
mere, died, aged eighty.
Racine.-Frank and Leo Miller,
Albert Gillen, James Higgins and
T. G. Hegner of this city were
tried at Port Washington, Wis, on
charge of having caused injury to a
farmer near that place. The men
were on the way to Green Bay in an
automobile. A team of horses became
frightened at the auto and ran into a
ditch, injuring the man. Judge Will
liam Cohlen discharged the men.
Madison-The state board of
control rejected all the bids sub
mitted for the building of the pro-
posed addition to the Northern hos
pital for the insane at Oshkosh, be-
cause the figures were too high, rang
ing from $4,000 to $118,000 The ap-
preparation for the new building, in
GLIDING equipment, is 100000.
Janesville.-The families of George
D. Charlton, Edward E. Spald-
ing and M. T. Riker were poi
oned by eating "mocker" mushrooms,
which were mistaken for the honey
variety. Two physicians worked over
them several hours, and all are now
out of danger.
Madison-The Wisconsin supreme
court finished hearing arguments
on the appeals in the Hedger
murder case and other state cases and
adjourned until ten a. m. October 4,
when decisions will be announced and
a new assignment of cases argued.
MISUNDERSTANDING to get his
umbrella after he had started
home at the end of his weeks work,
Joseph Wilger, an emp1oye of the Fox
River Valley stone works, touched an
electric switch as he entered the plant
and was instantly killed.
Racine. = George G. Peterson,
chairman of the Racine county
board of supervisors, is confined to
his home as a result of injuries sus-
tanned when the Wright aeroplane
plunged into the crowd at the state
fair
Delavan.-Dr. Henning of this city
has given to the museum of the school
for the deaf a collection of relics,
curios and works Of art gathered by
him in his travels in various parts of
the world.
Kenosha.-A movement has been
started here to have Robert
Verne Baker, district attorney of Ke-