Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-02


to this country when boy and given
an excellent education.
A number of passengers and the
crew of the British steamer Taft, which
plies between the island of Mauritius
and Bombay, were landed at Colombo,
Ceylon. They report that the steamer
foundered during n heavy gale on Sep
TENDER "a and that twenty-seven ma
tiyes We're drowned.
-Ex-Pope Tolstoi of the Russian
church, who was recently deposed from
the priests functions because he had
refused TO clear himself of an accuSa-
ton that he had been converted to
Catholicism. has been arrested at Mos
COW and taken to Mini, where ne was
condemned by a church tribunal to seven
years Punishment from st. Petersburg
and Moscow, and was forbidden to hold
any state Office for twenty years.
"A number of Cuban prisoners who
were landed at Cadiz were followed from
the harbor to the jail by mob. The
Cubans were Kissed and stones were
thrown at them, the mob finally growing
difficulty that the police landed the pris-
oners safely in the Jail.
Morris Landa, manager of the In
ternational Export and Grain company.
was shot and killed in his Office at the
Stock Exchange building at Kansas
City. Mo-. by Fred III. Waite, book
keeper whom he had discharged and
whom he had attempted to put out of the
room. Waite had been drinking.
"A report has been received from Bat
tie Creek, Cal, that Santone c. Nunez.
a Portuguese, was shot and instantly
killed by his stepson, Joseph Sosza. IL
years old Joseph Nunez, the nephew of
the dead man. has sworn to complaint
charging the boy and his mother, Anna
Nunez, with having committed the crime.
The Supreme court, in an opinion
rendered by Justice Biiddick at Little
Rock, Ark, held that the governor has
the right to appoint members of the
Legislature where vacancies have beer
caused by death. resignation or other
causes This is said to be the first case
of this character decided in any state III
the country.
-Ronald's factory building, FIVE
story brick structure on Borum place,
in Brooklyn, was burned. The loss is
estimated at between 100000 and $125,-
600. covered by insurance. The men
employed managed to keep their wits
and with difficulty succeeded in getting
the 200 young women on the upper floors
out in safety.
The effect of transfer of artillery
troops to Angel island and the placing
of the first infantry troops at the
Preside leaves the latter reservation
with no one competent to handle artillery
defenses constructed at the Preside.
The government has spent over $1,000
600 on these guns and defense works,
which are now virtually neglected.
Peter Lenster a night clerk in the
Drovers' hotel at Collinwood, committed
suicide at Cleveland by hanging himself.
Lenster had wife living and was about
to marry a Collinwood girl. His first
wife was on his trail and he had just
learned that she had discovered his
whereabouts and was coming from Chi
cago, where she was stopping with
friends.
1t developed at the coroner's inquest
at Cincinnati that Virginia RivouX, aged
"a. who died as a pauper from an over
dose of laudanum, was the owner OF
several trunks containing quantities OF
silks. laces and jewelry. She had stored
the trunks seven or eight years ago and
had been living ON charity all that time,
clad in the meanest garments. She was
buried in silks and laces.
A year ago the New York World
published an article on DR.. Ashton Bu-
chanan Talbot of Philadelphia, in which
it was stated the physician had q PEN
chant for marrying stold ladies and
riches " For the latter statement DR..
Talbot brought suit for libel against the
World in the United States circuit court,
asking $4,000 damages The jury rem
dered a verdict in favor of the World.
The Chanler Paris art scholarship,
consisting of a five years course in the
art schools of Europe, has been awarded
to LaWton Parker a student of the Stu
dents Art league of New York. Twenty
seven students participated in the pre-
liminary competition. OF these, thir-
teen were selected for second trial.
and, by a unanimous vote. the judges
awarded the prize to Mr.. Parker. He
is % years old and a native of Seattle,
Wash.
Mrs. Cora Gabrielle Smith and Fred
M. Ranken of New York were married
at the residence of Mrs. n. Coe Stewart
in Cleveland.
Gov Benjamin Franklin of Arizona,
in his annual report to Secretary Fran
els, says the people of Arizona are unani-
nous for statehood
John B. Long, a cattle dealer and
prominent Mason from Pleasantville, Ia,
committed suicide in a room at the Ok
ford hotel, Denver, by shooting himself
in the head.
Reports are current on the other side
that the Japanese are secretly aiding the
Manila rebels against Spain and the
matter is now being made the subject of
official inquiry.
Pablo Ute Indian, under sentence
to be hanged this week for the murder
of a squaw of his tribe and her lover
and brother, died in the Colorado peni-
Tertiary of consumption.
William W. Newton, Jr., aged 20,
only son of the pastor of a Pittsburg
On. W church, has married Mrs. Hen
rietta A. Richardson, aged 40, whose
daughter was recently married.
j. H. Embree, a prominent Lebanon
q. t. farmer, was shot and killed just
outside Marietta by one of two outlaws
who stopped Embree and a neighbor on
the roadway. A number of deputies are
in pursuit.
Joseph w. Hamburger, a wealthy
business man Of Harlem, n. Y, drank a
pint of carbolic acid and killed himself.
Mr.. Hamburger was 81 years old,
member of the Columbia club, and reput-
ed to be worth $500,000.
Father libra, a well-known Roman
Catholic missionary who came to Canada
from France more than forty years ago
with Bishop Charbonnel and who la
bored in the vicinity of Lake Simcoe for
a quarter of a century, is dead.
A car on the Pittston Electric rail-
way crowded with passengers who had