Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-06

road making from Milwaukee county
and under the auspices of the Keno
sha Automobile club more than sixty
prominent men of Kenosha will make
an automobile trip over the concrete
roads of Milwaukee county. The
party will include the members of
the Kenosha county board and the
members of the city committees in
charge of streets and alleys.
Madison-Four woman students,
three in the long course and one
a special student, are registered
in the University of Wisconsin agri-
cultural school. Two of these. Miss
Julia Avery of Philadelphia and Ellen
/. Cavanagh of Fond du Lac, are soph-
omores Nina Willis of Rewey is e
junior, and Mrs. r. F. Avery, mother
of Julia, is registered as an adult
special.
While excavating foI
a dry we'll in the back yard OF
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Holtz's place,
Benjamin Haby unearthed the skele-
tons of two human beings. The
bodies, which were probably those of
Indians, must have been buried many
years ago, as the bones were so far
decayed that they crumbled upon
coming in contact with the air
Sheboygan.-Whi hunting ducks
at Lake Puckaway, Adolph Book,
a druggist of this city, was shot
by a companion, August Kavel. Book
was concealed in the brush when Ka-
vel fired at brace of cartridges. He
was shot in both thighs. Seven shot
were scattered through his chest, one
going through his lip, two into his
forehead and one through his right
ear. He will recover. Ray Saeger was
shot through the hand by 32-caliber
rife while walking along the lake
shore.
Plymouth AS the sequel to
marital troubles dating back six
months, Alvin Roehr, aged twenty
three, shot and killed his father-in-
law, Phillip OFT, aged forty-five, his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Phillip OFT, aged
forty-two, and his wife's grandfather,
Fred Haul, aged eighty. Then, after
vain search for his divorced wife,
who had concealed herself in a closet,
Roehr hanged himself in a nearby
wood. That Roehr did not Stay his
divorced wife and her baby was due
to the fact that the girl sought safety
behind sliding partition in closet
in the OFT farm house With her
baby clasped to her breast, one hand
over the infants mouth to still its
cries, the girl wife of Roehr crouched
behind partition while her husband
armed with a shotgun and with the
blood lust in his heart, searched the
closet for her. For three hours the
girl remained in her hiding place,
only coming out when she felt it safe
to Go So
Marinette. = The body of John
Miller of MenOminee, Mich,
woodsman who had been missing
since August, was found hanging to
tree near Florence. Fred Langen-
berg, close friend of Miller's, killed
himself few months previously It
is reported that suicide pact existed
between them.
Westfield-Mrs. Jane Hamilton,
aged one hundred years and six
months, and resident of Milwaukee
in the early fifties, died at her home
here. Mrs. Hamilton up to short
time ago had enjoyed the best Of
health. She observed her one hun
dredth birthday anniversary on April
Is last, and the residents of Westfied
turned out to pay honor to Grandma
Hamilton" as she was known in the
community.
Racine.-Myron, the fve-year-oId
son of Ernest King, was burned
to a crisp on a farm three miles
east of Elkhorn, where the fam
lily was visiting. The child and his
brother were smoking cigarettes in
play and accidentally set fire to the
barn and the granary of Charles Blu
chow, which burned to the ground,
entailing loss of $4,000. The child's
charred body was not found until Sun
day noon
Baraboo-Martin Singo was ar
rested at Merrimac, charged with
the murder of Heber Navick, and
placed in Jail here, while awaiting Elk
animation. Both men were employed
by the Northwestern railroad as la
borers and during a quarrel Singo is
said to have drawn a knife and
stabbed Navick in the groin, from
which he died shortly afterward.
Marinette-A touring car owned
by Charles Matson of Marinette.
turned turtle on the Peshtigo road
three miles from Marinette at
Deaths curve while travelling at a
fast rate. Four occupants were In
jured. Nels Page of Marinette was