Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-11-15
WESTERN.

John McNIann was killed by the cars
near Versailles, O.
Armed men are searching for gang of
barn burners in Logan County, Ohio.
Taylor Crum, a prominent attorney of
Fargo, n. D., was fined $500 and SEN
fenced to thirty days in jail for contempt.
Students of the Baptist university Of
Sioux Falls, S. D., went on strike against
the president, who suspended two boys for
a minor offense.
George S. Shaw, president of the Clo-
quet Lumber Company, died suddenly at
his residence in Cloquet, MINI. He was
rs years of age.
Temple Emanuel, the Jewish syna-
gogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth and
Curtis streets, Denver, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Acting Mayor Scobey, of Denver, has
approved the ordinance recently passed
by the Council fixing license fee Of ST.
900 for all dealers in cigarettes.
Nine miles east of Bolton, Mo-, Arthur
Wright killed John Hess and shot the
latters father, William S. Hess, at their
home. All those involved are farmers.
Two brass buttons with the initials Of
| the Duluth police department were found
| in the stomach of q moose dressed in that
city. AS one of the patrolmen is out on
a moose hunt the department is somewhat
| agitated.
State Insurance Superintendent O'Rear
at Jeffe son City has decided that organ
izers of fraternal beneficiary insurance
/ associations must have licenses to do bust
ness in Missouri, the same as regular old
| line companies.
| A slight earthquake shock was felt at
| Helena, Mont, rocking buildings 1t was
! of seven seconds duration. The shock
was also felt in Butte and Anaconda.
Many people were shaken out of bed,
! chimneys fell and plate glass was broken.
Five men were injured by the bursting
of blast furnace at the Illinois Steel
| Company plant in Milwaukee. Two can
not live. The iron worked through the
furnace into the water jacket causing an
explosion which let all of the iron in the
| furnace out in molten mass
At Tiffin, O., James Reed went home,
drew a revolver and with the words, Il
! have decided to kill you, shot his wife
three times. He then turned the weapon
| to his own head and fired, but stumbled
| and the shot went wild. He was captur-
ed By the police and lodged in the county
| Jail. Jealousy.
The schooner Volvano, only seventeen
| tons burden, has arrived at San Fran
cisco after riding out storm in midocean,
| in which her compass was lost. Capt.
William Kissel succeeded in making port
after a voyage of LOO miles with no
other guide than the sun, stars and the
trend Of the currents.
The United States Supreme Court has
affirmed the decision Of the Circuit Court
for the California district refusing writ
of habeas corpus to William Henry The
| odore Durrant, under sentence of death
for the murder of Miss Blanche Lamont
in San Francisco in April, 1885. The
decision permits the law to take its course
with the condemned man.
An Atlantic and Pacific passenger train
was held up by four men near Grants
station, n. NJ. After blowing open the
| express company's safe, the robbers
wrecked the train, which caught fire, the
express, baggage and smoking cars be-
ing totally destroyed. 1t is not known
how much money the robbers secured, but
| it is thought large amount was carried
| by the train.
Nineteen lives were lost by the sinking
of the steamer Idaho of the Western
Transit line The accident happened off
Long Point, in Lake Erie, about sixty
| five miles west of Buffalo, on the Cana
dian side. A strong southwest gale was
blowing at the time. Off Long Point the
steamer shipped big sea, which qucnch-
ed the fires in the engines and the boat
was helpless. The captain and crew were
lowering the lifeboat when the vessel
gave a lurch and went down on her side,
stern first. Two Of the crew managed to