Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-04-26
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the victim of ptomaine poisoning,
caused by eating lettuce with salad
dressing while dining on the train
going into Minneapolis, was learned
when relatives arrived from that city
with her remains.
Just before reaching Minneapolis,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Batchelder and Mrs.
Treleven had dinner in the dining
car Lettuce with salad dressing was
served to them Both Mrs. Treleven
and Mrs. Batchelder partook of the
dish Both Mrs Treleven and Mrs.
Batchelder felt i'll. Mrs. Treleven
felt worse than did Mrs. Batchelder,
the latter suffering only a slight at
tack, lasting about two days. Mrs.
| Treleven, however, suffered intense
ly and upon reaching Minneapolis her
ailment was at once diagnosed as
ptomaine poisoning, death following.
Wausau.-A wage scale has been
agreed upon by Anderson Brothers
& Johnson of Granite Heights and
their former employees and the men
have returned to work
Bangor.-The need of room for
growth in the village has resulted in
the formation of a company composed
of most of the villagers to purchase
a large farm south of the Milwaukee
tracks here which has been plated
for an addition to the village.
Superior-Lowell Beglinger and
Chester Adams, Superior high school
students, were drowned in Bass lake,
near Gordon, when the canoe in which
they were crossing the lake was up
set by windstorm The overturned
canoe, together with the paddles and
the hat of one of the boys, was found
on the shore of the lake, but the
bodies have not yet been recovered.
eboygan.-Testifying at the trial
of George Theme, motorman of the
street car which plunged into the
river February 9, carrying three
women to their death, Paul Eitsold
of Milwaukee, the only surviving pas
senger, declared that the car before
the plunge was going 20 miles an
hour, and when it leaped into the
river was going at least five miles
an hour
Green Bay-The meeting of the
carpenters and painters committee
in an effort to settle the strike which
has been on here for several weeks,
was unsuccessful. P. L. Wyman, ar
rested at Hustiford by the deputy
sheriff, pleaded guilty before Judge
Monohan of issuing a check on a
MI wit
in the institution.
Waukesha-Harry Carney, who
was arraigned before Judge Armin in
municipal court on a charge of high
way robbery, was bound over to the
next regular term of court. He plead
ed guilty to a charge of grand lar
ceny and was sentenced to serve a
term of one year in the state peni-
Tertiary at Waupun. Carney is the
man who, together with Harry Ber
ger, held up H. ]. Moore, operator at
the 500 depot, on the night of De-
cember %, 1908.
Burlington.-Five yeggmen. be
lieved to be tramps, blew the safe
at the Milwaukee depot at Lyons and
secured about three dollars. They
used so great a charge of explosive
that the building also was damaged.
dgerton.-Found in mail sack
in Philadelphia over q year after it
had been stolen, William Mcintosh,
well-known leaf tobacco dealer Of
this city, has just received a draft
for 500 from the postmaster at
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stopping at Philadelphia hotel
Waupun.-LaTs Hanson, a prisoner
in the state penitentiary here, forced
open the door Of his cell, climbed
through a venti1ator onto the roof of
the prison, and after reaching the
ground made his escape unnoticed by
the prison guards. The cell door
was pried open with a piece of iron
bed which was in the prisoners cell.
After reaching the roof, Hanson let
himself down into the prison yard, en-
tered the knitting shop, where he
changed his convict garb for that of a
workman and climbed over the wall
by means of an improvised rope.
Waukesha.-What is believed to
have been an attempt to wreck one
of the fast passenger trains on the
Milwaukee road was frustrated by the
arrival of the stone train at the quar-
ries mile and a half east of this city.
Two Italians working over the track,
where two large piles of stone had
been placed, fed as the train ap-
preached. The train was partly
stopped, and owing to its slow speed,
plowed safely through the obstruc
ton The train was run upon siding,
and the engine backed to Waukesha,
where the police were notified.
Chippewa Fails. j. Hogan
of this city has purchased a
herd of Swartzenburg mich goats
from the agricultural school of the
university at Madison The goats will
be placed in Irvine park. Hogan has
authorized the park board to have the
milk from the goats retailed in the
city
Appleton.-After an absence of over
half a century, swans, believed to be
of the trumpeter species, have reap
peared on Lake Winnebago, in the vi