Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

about three months ago on cruise, is on
her way back.
-Bradley's bank at Eldon, Ia, was
robbed. The safe was blown open with
nitro-glycerine and all the funds, from
$4,000 to $4,000. taken.
The dead body Of Francis Wolff,
who was suspected of the murder OF his
mistress, Mrs. Sprinznik, has been found
in room on Howard street.
Fred G. Riebe, aged 40, a fugitive
from justice, shot and probably mortal
ly wounded his wife at their home in
Denver and then killed himself.
Bartholomew Race shot and killed
his wife while she was sick in bed at
Goshen, Utah. and then turned the weap-
on upon himself with fatal results.
The Earl of Kinnoull is dead He
was born in 1927, and is succeeded by
his eldest son, Lord Hay of Kinfauns,
Il well-known Anglo-Egyptian army Off
Ger.
Henry Snyder, a conductor. of Ro-
chester and Trainman George Craston
were killed in a wreck on the Buffalo.
Rochester & Pittsburg road five miles
west of Leroy, n. Y.
AS the result of a misplaced SWITCH
an engine drawing train of empty cars
collided with a loaded passenger train on
the Brooklyn Elevated railway and six
persons were injured, two perhaps ia
tally.
J. B. Inks, the murderer of John Pat
terson, was hanged at Oregon, Mo. He
died bravely and mounted the scaffold
without tremor. Inks neck was not
broken, death resulting from strangula-
ton.
"A feature of the inaugural parade
will be a band of Indians in their full
regalia. The idea, which was first sug-
gested by the civic committee, has re-
ceived the approval of Grand Marshal
Porter.
The Standard Eagle Box and Lum-
Der company of st. Louis has placed it's
property and plant in the hands of a
trustee to satisfy the claims of it's cred
itors Liabilities amount to more than
100000.
-Guiseppi Randella. % years old, liv-
ing in Eighteenth street, New York, shot
and killed Rocco Desio. Randella also
fred at Desio's mother-in-law, Mrs. An
gelo Vreano, the bullet taking effect in
her face Randella escaped.
Mrs Amelia b. Post, one of the lead
ing woman suffragists of Wyoming, is
dead. 1t was mainly through Mrs. Posts
influence that the first territorial Legis-
lature of Wyoming passed a law grant
ing woman suffrage in 1869.
At a meeting at Lincoln, Neb, of
the state relief commission it was found
that there are now loaded for shipment
five cars of corn at Hastings, one at
Aurora and one at Wilcox intended for
the relief Of the poor in Chicago.
Oscar A. Barker died at Davenport,
Ia, aged 81 years. He was a son of
Col Samuel Augustus S. Barker, aid-de-
camp and interpreter for Gen. Lafayette,
and was one of the oldest members of
the society of the Sons of the Reyolu-
ton.
Sims Reeves, the famous English
singer, who recently married young
wife and returned to the stage, has
been declared a bankrupt. He was born
in 1922. During his career he made sew
eral fortunes, but has been unable to
keep them.
Two German universities are mourn
ing the loss of most prominent theOlo-
gians. In Heidelberg, Prof. DR.. Karl
Holster of the Protestant Theological
faculty, died, and in Tuebingen, Prof.
Dr. Franz Won Koebes, of the Catholic
theological faculty.
The north wing of the Denison ho-
tel one of the finest in Indianapolis.
was damaged by fire to the extent Of
about $4,000. The fire had gained con-
siderable Roadway before an alarm was
sounded, and the damage caused by wa
ter was greater than by fire.
Judge Lafayette Dawson, one Of the
most prominent attorneys in Missouri,
is dead at his home in Marysyille, Mo.
Hendricks ticket in 1875. President
Cleveland appointed him judge Of ALASKA
in 1885, but he resigned in 1888.
"A 12-year-old gray Mexican parrot
whipped large Yorkshire terrier in a
pitched battle for $500 a side at Haw
thorne, n. ]. The victorious bird was
unframed, but the grip of it's beak upon
the dogs snout was so powerful that
the handlers had to pry it open by force
in order to release the dog.
Taylor, the noted Missouri outlaw
and murderer. was captured on the ia
cobs ranch near Hanford, CAL Sheriff
Buckner suspected Taylor's identity for
some time and secured employment for
him on the ranch pending an investiga-
ton Satisfied as to his Identity, the
sheriff brought him to Jail.
-Ex-Sergeant of Police Walter Whit
sit made the first specific charge Of police
corruption in Kansas City, Mo-, before
the Senate committee when he said that
Charles Cole, a cigar dealer told him
that he Cole paid certain police detec-
tives $40 month each to be let alone
and escape raids on his place.
John r. Breeze, deputy sheriff OF
Westchester county, n. Y, left st. Louis
for home, having in custody Arthur
Palmer, charged with the murder of his
mother, brother and sister, near Larch-
mont, n. Y. He went without requisi-
ton He had been stopping i'll st. Louis
for two weeks under an alias.
Near bonneville, Ga, a woman
named Lizzie Chapman started to whip
one of her children, when the youngster
ran. The woman ran after the child
and chased it some distance. Not be
ing able to catch the child, she picked
up a light wood knot, and threw it at
the little one, killing it instantly.
Finance Minister MIGUEL is happy
over the very prosperous state of Prus-
sian finances. The time was when the
Prussian treasury had to contend with q
yearly deficit, but the past fiscal year
yielded surplus of 60,000,000 marks,
while the present year is estimated tO
show a surplus of S0,000,O00 marks.
One of the most daredevil feats OF
the Cuban war is reported from the
Pinar Del Rio section, it being an at
tempt to abduct Col. San Martin from
his camp, the Texan Lone Star com
pany'' being the heroes. San Martin is
YerY obnoxious to the insurgents on ac-