Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-07-27
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900 damage to the Globe Foundry
and Machinery company.
John Splitsloesser died from lock-
jaw at GAINESVILLE For two days the
man worked with his jaws firmly
! locked before he called medical aid
Leland Rocheleau was seriously in
jured in the paper mill at Biron He
was cutting sulphite off the rolls
when the knife slipped, cutting him
in the right thigh
Mrs. Gust Eichsteadt, residing in
Dakota, died from the effect of blood
poisoning after a few days illness
at Wautoma. Mrs. Eichstaedt
scratched small eruption.
Mrs. Ida Schroeder has secured
divorce from Henry Schraeder, a
farmer living near Neenah. The wo-
man is given $4,000 in cash and
$4,000 in paying securities
| Robert Schenock, Is year old
| boy employed on the section crew
of the SEQ line near Grand Rapids,
was thrown from a hand car and
fractured his skull 1t is feared he
can not live.
The largest blast of dynamite ever
set off by a Racine company was
| made at the Ives quarry, when tons
of explosives were discharged, and
thousands of tons of stone fell to
the bottom of the quarry.
The last of the arguments in the
Schwittay disbarment action were
completed at Marinette and the case
is now in the hands of Judge Stew
ems, who will return his decision |
some time during August.
Conductor Frank Baas and two of |
his brakemen, who were sleeping in |
the cabOOSe of a work train at |
GAINESVILLE were held up and robbed |
by two men. The robbers secured /
considerable money and the watches
of the men, and made their escape
in the darkness.
Returning from the funeral of Mrs,
Edward Teeters, who died from burns
received when her home took fire as
the result of an explosion, at Beloit,
her husband, mother and G. T. feet
ers, and baby were injured by the
oVerturning of a hack in a runaway.
The aged mother is seriously hurt.
Emerald Greene, aged "a years,
was arrested at Little Rapids charged
with kidnapping. Greene pleaded
guilty to taking Martha Woelk. aged
Is years, to his brothers farm near
Little Rapids and alleged that they
lived there as man and wife. The
girls father swore out the complaint
Angus Robertson, 81 years old,
farmer of Barron county, was made
a defendant in a divorce action in
Chippewa county by his wife, Chris
tina Robertson, 26 years old, after
a honeymoon of thirty-five days. On
May 81, 1910, Mr.. Robertson married
Miss Christina LancefeId, in Midland.
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City officials of Kenosha have
opened fight against the owners of
sandboats who come from Milwaukee
to Kenosha and take sand from the
beach along the city. Warrants will
be sworn out. The Kenosha city
council recently passed an ordinance
making it unlawful to remove sand
from the beaches.
Charlotte Hermes, II years old, Of
Racine, met with peculiar accident
and now lies in hospital not ex-
pected to survive. The girl was
seated on the top of a board fence I
picking some flowers when she lost
her balance and fell into lilac bush.
a distance of four feet. One of the
limbs of the bush penetrated her
left side.
Julius Fay, aged 80, a truck driver
at the central fire station at La
Crosse was stricken with cramps
while swimming off the head of Peit
Bon island and drowned. Charles
Neibur, a bartender at the Hotel
Stoddard, nearly lost mis- life in an
attempt to save his nefghbor. He
was within 100 feet of the drowning
man when he became exhausted
Arrested for having yenison in his
possession during the closed season,
Bart Nicola, a copper country man,
set up novel defense. He had
found dead deer and had skinned
it and quartered it. Investigation
confirmed his story. The deer had
been frightened by an automobile
near Franklin and had run into a
fence and broken its neck. Nicola
was permitted to go without a fine
PERSONAL.
Official notification was received at
Ripon by former Assemblyman F. r.