Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-12-28

/ ylcted of staDbing William O'Neal 10
death in Pratt mines prison. where
both were serving sentences.
Rufus r. COnneila, president of the
I dcfunCt banks at IndiahOma, Sterling
and Oiusta. Ok, small concerns. was
found guilty OF forgery i'm the district
! court at Guthrie. He will be sen
fenced later.
Four Italians were killed and two
probably fatally injured by a dynamite
explosion at Cramer. Pa. The men
were lab0rers on grading work for the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg road
and were blasting.
w. J. Clark, a wealthy mine owner
/ OF Montana, was seized with a cramp
while on the street at Joplin, Mo-, and
died a few moments later. His wife
was with him. Clark was a relative OF
/ United States Senator Clark.
In a running fight between five
burglars who had broken into an Office
. in East Boston. and two policemen
one OF the burglars was shot dead.
, The others escaped, but it is thought
General Lew Wallace of Indiana.
who is in New York with his son,
denied all reports to the effect he was
TO undergo an operation of any sort.
Il was reported he was taking the
X-ray treatment for cancer.
The report that Princess Charlotte
OF SAKE Meiningen, sister of Emperor
William. is suffering from cancer and
that the verdict of the physicians has
created CONSERVATION in the German
court. is officially defined at Berlin as
nonsense"
At Riverhead. l. l., Tuthill Reeves,
the Cemented farmer who shot and
killed William II. Rafford, a deputy
sheriff. and warden of the county jail.
while the latter was trying to serve
an execution for debt, surrendered
after an all-night siege.
Two Croatians. Petrovitch Lepanae
and Mlovat Keobar, were brought
back from England on the TeutOnic
in custody of detectives of Pittsburg.
They are charged with the murder OF
Samuel T. Ferguson near New Middle
town. Pa. last September.
The first shovelful of earth was
turned on the Huntley fats irrigation
canal project, which has for its pur-
nose the reclamation of 10000 acres
near Billings. Mont. 4 canal fifteen
miles long and piercing a small
mountain will be constructed.
Ten Chinese who had been deserted
BY their guide who piloted them
across the international boundary
line into this country were arrested as
they made their way into Whatcom.
wash. in a famished and exhausted
condition. They will be ordered de-
ported.
The Nebraska supreme court passed
uDol the ccnstitutionality OF the
revenue law enacted by the last
legislature and sustained it in its en-
tirety. Il IS. estimated that the grand
assessment roll of the state will be
increased from S1ST,000,000 10 at least
$3.50. coo.
TIE ccrOner's jury investigating
into the cause of the wreck on the
Milwaukee near Abel. Iowa, in which
three lives were lost. held the wreck
was due To the carelessness and mis-
tai Of d. w. Sleater. the 17-yearOld
telegraph operator at Ciiva, who
failed 10 carry out the instructions OF
the dispatcher.
n a conference attended by Gov
e-n0r Wells aud ether state officials,
plans were formulated for saving
GrC-t salt lake. watch is gradually
dis rpearing. The plan in brief is
to utilize the LuCin cutoff as a dam
I'd separate the upper part Of the
lake from the lower and let the upper
part 20 back TO the desert.
TIE ways and means subcommitte
on internal revenue heard arguments
for and against the Tawney bill pro-
nititing the packing of anything
other than the manufacturers wrap
pcrs and labels and the internal
revenue stamps in packages of manu-
featured smoking or chewing tobacco,
snuG. cigars or cigarettes.
worldwide observance of March
Z. 1904. as Bible Sunday. proposed by
the British and Foreign Bible society,
has been approved by the American
Bible society. On that date fails the
centenary of the British society,
which during the century has dis
tributed 100000 volumes of the
scriptures in about $40 languages.
Charles Pierson, a local anarchist,
was arrested at Galveston, Tex,
charged with disorderly conduct. He
was tried on a charge of obstructing
the streets. found not guilty and dis
charged. There is no foundation for
sensational stories that plans of
President Roosevelt's home at oyster
Bay were found in Persons pos
session.
L. {. Humbert of Pontiac, H., COM
mitted suicide by drowning himself in
a cistern. The suicide was caused by
mental worry over a loss due to the
failure of the Indian National bank OF