Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-04-09
WISCONSIN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD.

Racine. = Lillian johnson. avos
four, daughter of Peter Johnsor
was decapitated by street car. Win
another child she ran from a csrd1
store into the street, not seeing the on
/ preaching car and was struck ana
dragged under the wheels. Her head
was severed. 1t was necessary 10 nut
jack screws under the car to releasa
the body. The car was in charss =,
Paul Tharming, new motorman ana
with him was William Keller, who w.a
learning Tharming the work Evo
witnesses say the car gong was NOT
sounded.
! Fond du Lac.-Mr and Mrs
! E. Downey, North Fond du Lac 70
! ceived word that IA of their relative.
persisted in the Ohio and Indiana
| floods The dead are John Dowpav
forty-five years old; Mrs. John Dow,
ney, thirty-eight years old; six chill
! dren. four to nineteen years old ca,
| lumbus; Frank Burnen thirty-fou,
years old; Mrs. Frank Burnell, twenty.
eight years old; four children threa
months to twelve years old, Logaps
port, Ind. The Downey home at ca
| lumbus, which was in fiat above
dry cleaning establishment. was swept
away.
Black River Falls.-Former State
| Treasurer A. H. Dahl. who has
been a member and treasurer of the
| Black River Falls relief committee
since it's appointment by the governor
few weeks after the food at this
city, has rendered his resignation from
the committee because of continued
i'll health and removal from Madison
| to Westby, his old home
! Watertown-At the meeting of
| the directors of the Watertown IN.
| ter-county Fair association it was de.
cided to hold the 1913 fair on the
same dates as last year, September %,
| "a, % and 26. Charles Mulberger was
| elected as chairman of the speed com
! mittee. The election of two directors
will come before the association on
| April 4.
Appleton.-At the last session Of
| the county board it was decided
I to double the bounty to be paid
for the killing of a wolf, making it
$40 instead of $40. George Andrew Of
the town of Seymour was the first
man to collect the increased bounty on
a wolf.
Sheboygan-Boys playing about
pile of refuse uncovered hui
man skull, apparently that of an edu'
Gated man, one side of which had been
crushed by heavy blow, evidently the
| cause of death. No other bones weTs
| discovered and city and county off
Gals are trying to solve the mystery,
| Appleton.-Preferring certain death
to crossing a floating bridge,
| horse driven by a collector of rags
and junk jumped from the bridge TO
the water. The horse evidently diei
of heart failure during the jump, al
when it's body was recovered no water
was found in its lungs.
Baraboo-Martin Singo was sen
fenced to seven years in Waupui
I penitentiary for the murder OF PeIeI
| Nayisch at Merrimac last October.
Appleton.-Winton c. Lansing ant
Sherman Leroy have invented an aa
tomobile wind sled which embodle'
the principles of the bobsled, automo
bile and aeroplane.
JanesvilIe.--While playing with 10
volver, Allen Smith, fourteen years oa
son Of Frank Smith, accidentally Sno'
himself in the hand. He was cleaning
the gun at the same time
Baraboo. - Matthew Falkensteln
Of the town of Prairie Du Sac
who fell from his wagon while Oh Ils
way home from this city ana OroA'
his back, died two days later An op
Grafton failed to save his life.
Marinette.-Because about lVO ~
dams, and considerable NUMBER
children, were almost staryiHe .to
Crandon, R. G. Rodeman, clerk a. a, ~
government Indian agency at ASliaI Ss
dealt out rations to them furnished =.
tho government The Crandon Indians
do not belong to any particular w." and
under the reservation system elm are
hence get no rations from the so .aant
ment, ordinarily, but when Cover nl Lore
officials were notified that they ""
starving aid was sent at once
Madison.-Andrew Grady nlg 3dant
years old, carpenter, former Co and
Of St. Paul. was hit by stree. % hos
died two hours later at Madison ~
| pital.
Couderay William Vol loser
| Tdion living in the -