Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-05-18

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one costing $4,000 were recently
brought to New York.
Charles Matherson shot Deputy
Sheriff J. c. Baker of Council Bluffs.
Iowa, five times, causing fatal
wounds. when the officer tried to
arrest MathersOn at the latter's home
In Weston en- the charge of robbing
a jewelry store. Matherson escaped.
After being held for a month in
connection with the disappearance of
Mrs. F. f. Knight, Mrs. Lucinda
Dusenbury and her son Melvin were
released on $500 bonds at Omaha.
The police have found no trace of
Mrs. Knights body. Knight is still
at large.
S. f. Wilson, who shot Edward
Knight of Lorimer, Iowa, as the re-
suit of a political feud, was found
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree Knight was unarmed and taken
by surprise by Wilson. who emptied
the contents of his revolver into his
victims body.
The body of ]. Bert Smiley. a
writer of some note in Indiana, was
found in the woods east of Ken
dallville with a bullet in the head.
III health was the supposed cause CT
suicide. His former home was at
Kalamazoo and he once was editor of
a Galesburg, Mich, paper.
Judge Ryan of ST. Louis has
granted a continuance until June / in
the case of Jerry flanagan, delegate,
whose trial on a bribery charge was
TO have begun yesterday Emil Hart
mann is the next member of the
house of delegates TO be tried for
bribery. His case is set for May 13.
Former President H. II. Pearson,
Jr., of the New Orleans Railways
company, desiring to leave New
Orleans, went into the criminal court
and pleaded guilty to eleven charges
of failing to provide screens in the
street cars to separate the races.
Mr.. Pearson was fined S1,100 He
gave his check for the amount.
The Michigan Underwriting COM
pany has completed a combine of the
peanut industries and the American
Edible Nut company. The trust will
! be incorporated in New Jersey, with
81 .250, 900 of Z per cent. preferred and
S2.75O.00O of common stock, and viii
absorb the eighteen plants near Nor
folk. Va.
James McMullen and John
| Ro-ulsh. inmates of the Marathon
county. Wisconsin. roorhouse, quar-
relied, and McMullen, upon being
called a liar. whipped out knife and
stabbed Rogulski. causing his death.
/ McMullen. who is So years old. will
be held for murder. Rogulski was 81
and a cripple.
Friends of George A. Kolb, Lusi-
ness manager of the Marine En-
gineers' association. who mysteriously
disappeared in New York while try
t. persuade men to leave the vessels
against which his union had declared
le strike. are now convinced that he
has been kidnapped and slowed away
in the hold of an outgoing vessel.
Eugen Lewis was scaIded to death
at the Tytus Gardner Paper mill in
Middleton. o.. where he was chief en-
gineer. Lewis was inspecting his
engine when a large steam valve
burst, flooding him with scalding
steam. Lewis was formerly chief en-
gineer of the Cincinnati Brewing COM
pany in Hamilton, o., and was promi-
ent in labor circles.
Phineas Ballard, janitor of the
First National bank at Charlotte.
Mich. was shot twice AMI fatally
wounded while attending TO his
routine duties at the close of bank
ing hours Tuesday night The
weapon used was a revolver, which
/ is kept constantly in the cage oc-
cupied by the pay teller. The back
door was found open. Nothing was
disturbed. the vault not having been
! tar pcied with.