Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-03-02
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WISCONSIN WAITS.

driver, Respondent slashed his throat
twice with a razor. He will recover.
William Fischer of Johnson's Creek
as killed by a falling tree while
cutting timber on his fathers farm.
There have been eight deaths from
scarlet fever at Wausau and there are
now tWenty-one cases under quaran-
tine.
Postmasters nominated for Wiscon-
sin as follows. Matthew j. Connors,
at Hustler William J. Guetloe, at
Kiel; Peter Mckenzie, at Poynette.
Walter Porath, Is year old lad, of
Menasha, is suffering from an injury
to his left hand, inflicted through the
accidental discharge of a % gauge
rife.
Charles Schafer, aged "a, died in a
hospital at Eau Claire, as a result of
an injury received in being run down
by an Omaha passenger train in the
Altoona yards. Schafer was in the EN-.
ploy Of the company.
Nicholas Betz, a member of the
firm of Betz & Eidenberger, Port
Washington, owners of fast horses
was kicked in the head and breast
by trotting stallion receiving injur-
les that may prove fatal
Amelia Nelson of Superior, was
granted $3.50 damages against Detec.
tive ". A. Mead for false arrest In
connection with the theft of a hat
from a millinery store. Amanda
Seigne. proprietor of the store. also
sued in connection with the arrest
The case was nonsuited
The Racine city council voted unan.
imously to revoke thew liquor license
Of Theodore Kosterman. prominent
saloon keeper, charged with selling
liquor to three girls who were minors.
kosterman did not put in any defense
He was found guilty in the municipal
court and fined 800, but took an APP
peal.
1t is now thought that the death of
Charles Hinkle of Sullivan, whose
body was found hanging from a rafterl
III his barn near Jefferson, NAV NOT
have been self-infiicted Clashes in the
head indicate that the man was in
Jured, before death and further inves.
tigation may disclose that he was
murdered
A seYenty-seven acre farm in the
town of Dane, valued at betweenI
$4,000 and $4,000 was escheated to
the state by the death of William
Harris. He died in 1901 and since
then the state has kept up a search
Tor some heir, but none could be-
found. The farm will be sold and the
money will be turned over to the
school fund
Ward Wilson, Is years of age, son
OF well to co people at Racine, was
arrested on charge of having burg
iarized the drug store of F. L. Fan.
cher. The boy admitted the crime and
said he only secured about 1915. He
was formerly employed in the drug
store and said that early in the night
he unbOlted the rear door and went
back and entered at II o'clock.
H.
foreman of transfer line at Madison,
did not give him employment, John
Shida, Jap, made an assault on
Johnson beating him over the head
with a weapon which he had tied in
a handkerchief and might have killed
him had not passerby interfered.
Shida was arrested after an exciting
chase.
The Beloit Humane society will
take up the report that Beloit college
practices viyisection Years ago
Mrs. J. H. French gave the college
$4,000, with the understanding that
ytvisection should not be permitted in
the school, The systematic loss of pet
cats from homes in the vicinity of the
college has called the people OF the
neighborhood to arms, and they viii
try to learn whether pets go to the
dissecting tables of the school.
Henry Gottstein, aged 4 years, died
at. Monroe of frightful burns received
IN fire at the home of his father.
The father poured kerosene into a
heating stove and live Goals caused
the explosion of the kerosene can.
The flames set afire to the bed occu-
pied by the boy. The father returned
to the room to rescue the boy and
received severe burns about the legs
and arms. He is now in the hospital
The boy lived two hours and the ply.
sieians marvelled that his charred
body could contain life so long.
DOMESTIC.
More than a million Red Cross