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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1907
Page
12
Wisconsin items report a woman killed by a train near Portage after escaping restraints, a farmer losing a hand in a shredder accident, a child drowning in Pike River, a boy escaping an elevator entrapment, a gun accident injuring a boy, a playmate shooting, and a call for a new police station to house prisoners with fire safety concerns.
Wisconsin leaders join a university extension drive starting January 3 to educate the public on tuberculosis. A traveling exhibit will visit cities, lectures will be given, and the effort promotes the new 125000 dollar sanatorium at Wales in Kes County. The facility, though recently opened, houses twenty patients with more awaiting admission. Dr. Chester A. Pauli oversees the sanatorium and reports patients sometimes refuse treatment, though the center mainly serves early stage cases.
In Beloit Mussell a clerk was held up by masked armed men who demanded his money. In Glayebn Bay fishermen raise funds to test state license laws as they refuse to pay without prosecution. In Green Bay two teens from Escanaba were arrested on request of authorities and sent home. In Janesville Mrs Fish leaves most of her estate to nephew Charles W Reeder, furnishings to Mrs Mary Reeder. In Kaukauna Charles Grignon robbed by three highwaymen of a gold watch and cash. In Marinette George Matthews arrested for stealing from a hotel guest on Christmas Eve. In Marinette Armour Institute students will camp near Penaneti falls for engineering surveys. In Sheboygan vandals damaged Pred Fehling’s barber shop. In Bau Claire Demarce fined 25.40 for selling liquor to a minor. a 17 year old got 30 days probation. O’Leary fined for keeping a saloon open late. In Barron game warden seized venison on a train en route to Chicago. In Janesville track doubling and a new bridge completed on Northwestern line. In Kenosha cherry blossoms appear at the poor farm, unusual Dec bloom. In Kenosha Joseph Caruso and Manuel Canello held to circuit court for holding up a foreman. bail set at 5,000 each.
Dan Gerin arrested in Kenosha on suspicion of being Jim Baker, the man sought for the Eugene Courtney murder near Waukesha last month, released after Waukesha detectives confirmed he is not the suspect. Gerin joked about needing disguises to avoid further arrests. Additional oddly mixed remarks follow about unrelated medical and financial notes.
Ragged escape from the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun ends after five hours when Rudolph Fullnweiler, serving life for the 16 year old Jennie Reible murder near Stratford, is found hidden in the yard vines. He sawn through a cell bar with a knife made from utensils, then fled into the outer courtyard before woods and vines hid him. Detectives from Milwaukee joined local police, arresting him July 6 after questioning. Fullnweiler later confessed to the crime, and was sentenced to life by Judge Silverthorne.
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