Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-12-30

admitting charges of fourteen small
boys, confessed that he killed Roy
Tolzmann, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil
Tolzmann, Milwaukee. The boys
burned corpse was found in a barn
a short distance from the city. Stein
ert in his confession said he took the
boy In the barn. When the boy
screamed he choked him. He said that
after coming to himself and realizing
the boy was dead he became fright
ened and set the barn ON fire. The
confession cleared up the disappear
ance of Roy, the second boy victim Of
a degenerate's attack in the last two
days and the third fiendish crime since
July.
Fond du Lac-Claims Of Fox and
Wolf river valley riparian owners for
flood damages totalling more than
$1,000000, are outlawed by an act
passed by congress in 1887, according
TO Mayor r. d. Haentze, who returned
from Washington where he conferred
with the rivers and harbors board. the
chief engineer of the war department
and the advocate general. The claims
of residents in Fond du Lac and COM
munities along the Fox and Wolf
rivers cannot be presented until con-
gress has passed an additional act,
Mayor HaentZe said.
Wausau-A jury in Circuit court at
Wausau gave Neal WietZman, 5, Of
Tripoli, verdict for $4,000 against
the Bissell Lumber company for per-
sOnal injuries The child was riding
with his mother and others in an auto
mobile which crashed against an ell
CINE of a logging train operated by
the defendant and was injured so that
1t was necessary to amputate his left
leg at the hip joint.
ElkhOrn-The appropriation of ST.
800 to the salary of Judge e. B. Bel
den, whose circuit includes Walworth,
Racine and Kenosha counties, was re-
considered by the Walworth county
board and reduced to $500 Judge
Belden receives a regular salary OF
$4,000. Kenosha county, acting under
a new state law, voted him an addi-
tional $4,000 and Walworth county
$1,000, but Racine county, after re-
considering the matter, reduced It's
first appropriation of $500 to $1,000.
Fond du Lac-The county's investi-
CATION into conditions at the Fond du
Lac county asylum and poor farm was
adjourned following the hearing OF
several witnesses A representative
of the state board of control was at
the hearing, which started more than
year ago. Testimony included
charges of Ill treatment by officials
and attendants.
Wadeno-Wisconsin income from
the tourist business will soon be
brought to $300,000,000 year and will
displace dairying as the leading state
industry, F. H. Reilly of Rhinelander,
secretary of the Land O Lakes asso-
citation, declared in an address at
WabenO. Lake land in northern Wis
consin, formerly purchased by the
acre, is now being sold in many places
for $25 foot, he said.
Stevens Point-The Rt. Rev. John
Cieplak, head of the Catholic church
in Poland, was given an ovation by
congregations in Portage county and
the city of Stevens Point when he
paid visit to a group of parishes In
this district Churches were so crowd
ed that all who wished to attend spe-
cial services in his honor could not be
accommodated.
Appleton-Collegiat fivvers or
their more respectable cousins of later
vintage have been classed as camp1s
pests and have been put under par
tial ban at Lawrence college. Here
after, according to faculty ruling, stu
dents may not keep cars at college
without consent of their parents and
of the college administration.
Monroe-Hope that Monroe may
have new post office in the near
future, is again raised by announce
ment Of the new public buildings bill
to be submitted for congressional APP
prevail A site was purchased 10 years
ago, but appropriations for a federal
building have never been approved.
Wabeno-To Mrs. Walter PireauX of
Wabeno, an expert rifle woman, goes
the distinction of bringing in the first
red fox captured this season. While
a few hunters have reported sighting
foxes, the animals are rare in this
vicinity.
Madison-The first public hearing in
the legislative committees investiga-
ton of the administration and taxation
situation in Wisconsin, will be held
next month, Chairman Max Heck, RAJ
cine. said The dates have not been
fixed.
Rhinelander-A wolf and hound