Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-04
NEWS NOTES.


Lansing w Bancker. who enjoyed
the distinction Of being the oldest living
clown except Dan Rice. died at the Phil
adelphia almsh0use. He was about -
years old
A London Chronicle dispatch from
Berlin reports that DIR. Behfing, the dis
coyerer Of the antitoxin for diphtheria.
has married the daughter of Spinola the
director Of the charity hospital.
A warrant has been issued 1T Osceola.
Ia, for the arrest Of Joseph Wilyerton,
son of 4 local physician. He is charged
with having been connected with the
death Of Mrs. Mary Gillfllian
"A Frenchman named Fabian has
lodged claim at Berne. Switzerland,
for 46,00OO0O francs some time ago
against Venezuela on account OF denial
of justice by the Venezuelan courts.
Newton Widner shot and instantly
killed his brother-in-laW at NeWtoWn.
Mo. thus ending an old family feud.
Widner is in Jail at Princeton. Excite
ment is high and q lynching is feared.
Lee Burr, lad living at Orient, Ia.
accidentally shot and killed himself. He
was shooting pigeons and the gun
snapped. He looked into the barrel and
it exploded, the ball entering his brain.
The San Francisco police are salts
fed that they have succeeded in tracing
Robert J. Mueller, a young medical stu
dent, into suicides grave. The parents
of the young man reside in Philadelphia.
A coasting party at Ann Arbor,
Mich. collided with an engine of the
railroad and had a miraculous escape
from being ground to death. Two Of
the party now lie dangerously injured
at the hospital.
Jesse Scott. one of Iowa's pioneers,
died at his home in Competine. Wapello
county. He went to Wapello county in
1912 with party which settled before
daylight on the land which the Indians
left at midnight
Max Alvary. the noted German
tenor who has been for the last four
months confined to his rooms danger
ously i'll. has fully recovered and will
shortly again be heard at the Grand
Opera in Berlin.
Passed Assistant Surgeon T. III.
Bryant, attached to the training ship
Constellation. now at Newport. r. L..
died while sitting at the table on board
ship of cerebral hemOrrhage. He was
appointed in 1888.
The armored cruiser Rossa, 12.130
tons displacement, the largest vessel in
the Russian navy, which ran on Il sand
bank near Cronstadt in the beginning Of
November and has been frozen in ever
since. has been relocated.
George w. Gilmore, a wealthy ranch
er in Rawley county, Kas., was assas-
Slnated. beng ShOt as he sat at ms sup
per table by someone unknown who fred
a load of buckshot through the window
as he sat at his supper table.
--Fourty-four families We're driven out
of their homes in New York city early III
the morning, when the temperature was
II to IA degree above zero, by a fire
which started on the third floor of an
apartment house on West Fifteenth
street.
Police Officer Bratton was shot at
Tacoma. Wash, while trying to capture
two burglars in a store. He fired at one
burglar, when another. who was watch
ing. opened fire and shot Bratton twice
in the back of the head. He will prob
ably die.
Frankie Moore. a girl Is years of
age. was drowned in the lake in the
eastern suburbs of Columbia. Mo-.
which furnishes the water supply for the
city. Peculiar circumstances surround
the tragedy and there is talk of foul
play.
Gertrude, the 6-year-old daughter of
Albert Owen. died at Niles, Mich. The
child at the time of her death weighed
but fourteen pounds. She had never
seen daylight. had never spoken Il word,
never talked = step and never tasted
anything but milk Her malady was a
mystery to the doctors.
The Portuguese consul at Boston has
received a petition from st. Michael
Azores. which was sent by the Portu-
guese governor of the province of Don
the thousands of suffering inhabitants
who lost nearly I'll their property in 4
great waterspout on November 2.