Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-12-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

/ was killed by passenger CfdlH.
At Mason City, Ia, Ex-State Senator
H. G. Barker is dead, of Brights dis
eose.
Lead Leland, aged So, one of the
f mily of famous hotel men is dead in
New York city.
Adam McGraft, colored rag picker,
while intoxicated, froze to death at
Cedar Rapids.
Patrick Murphy, a pioneer resident
Of Temescal, CAL, was murdered by an
unknown assassin.
George Sheehan, a peddler, shot his
wife in a cheap lodging house in Gin
cinnati and then shot himself.
While out hunting near Flora, Ind,
Richard Scules accidentally shot and
killed his brother, Willis Soules.
At Danville, ILL.,, the Golden Rule
department store owned by Schmitt &
Heinly, was burned. Loss $4,000.
Near Lima, O., Jeremiah Stoffer was
assaulted and robbed of nearly $4,000
on the highway and left in a dying
condition.
The Lettis- Fletcher company gro
Gerry store at Marshalltown, Ia, was
completely destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
One man was killed, one fatally in
jured and a. number of others slightly
Iurt by the bursting of a fly wheel in
Pittsburg.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, Jack McCunee,
T.: A
Aug. 6, committed suicide in jail by
taking morphine.
Mic Rub, a motorman Of Dubuque,
Ia, awoke and found that he was
Blind The blindness is attributed to
facing strong, cold wind.
Mrs. Darlington Booth of the Volun-
teers of America, who is being treated
at the Presbyterian hospital in New
York City for an ailment in the region
Of the heart, is much better.
A ST. Louis grand jury has returned
an indictment charging Daily, the ex-
puglist, with murder in the first de-
gree. DAILY shot and killed Lulu
Clark.
James Greiner, proprietor of Pull
man hotel at Duryea, Penn, shot and
killed his step-daughter, Caroline Sha-
fer. in quarrel over money matters.
| Greiner is an ex-member of the legis-
ture.
A colored boy named Decker shot
and mortally wounded Marshal Muir
| ply of Patoka, Ind, who was trying to
arrest him. He escaped. He will be
lynched if captured.
At Ely, Mimi, Anton Bernie, an Aus
trian, was murdered by one Of his as
sociates under the name of Frank
Permitz, alias Frank Zogar. The MUIR
der was committed during a drunken
quarrel.
Notices of 10 per cent. reduction in
wages on Jan. have been posted in
the Amory and Stark and Jefferson
cotton mills in Manchester, Mass. The
Amoskeag mills, employing 5000,
posted similar notices last week.
The extensive establishment of
Crook, Horner & Co., dealers in plumb
ers', machinists' and millers' supplies,
in Baltimore was partially destroyed
ny nI6, SuLGIllLIS d 1OOo VI cIOO0I P1oV,
900 to stock and building.
| The schooner Anne and Mary, Capt.
John Sigsworth, which sailed from
Gloucester, Mass, on hand lining
trip to George bank Oct. 1, has been
given up for lost She carried an eX-
ceptionally good crew of thirteen men.
Theodore Durrant says: 81 will
never be hanged. I know that help is
/ coming once more, as it has always
come to me before in my extremity"
This statement has caused revival of
the opinion that he will commit sui
eide if possible.
J. Hanway, stockholders agent of
ne National Bank of North Dakota,
It Fargo, has been arrested on
charge of misappropriation of funds.
He recently submitted his final report
as agent and shortage of $4,000 was
found.
North Texas has just suffered the
worst snow and sleet storm in many
years. Dallas was completely isolated
for over "a hours and communication
with the outside world is only partly
resumed There is probably a heavy
loss of stock.
George Gardner, member of the law
firm of Gardner and Taylor, is dead of
heart failure, at Grand Rapids, Wis
He was leading counsel for the state
in the Lord and Emery murder trial
at Wausau, where he completed an ad-
dress to the jury just previous to re-
turning TO his home.
The Auditorium, the finest play house
west of Chicago, and the Auditorium
hotel in Kansas City were Quilted by
fire. Total loss, 100000; insurance
only sS5 ,O0O Owing to the high rate
Of insurance many policies were al
lowed to lapse.
Isom Lawson, the 18-year-old boy
who murdered his father in Brush
Creek, was given a life sentence in the
penitentiary. Lawson killed his par
ent. who was minister, by striking