Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-25

Asa d. Clark and Mrs. Gill were ar
rested at Louisville. Ky, on a re-
QUESTION Of Governor Yates, arson be-
ing alleged. They are accused Of
burning their $4,000 house after in
surfing.
The Santa Pc fast mail. west bound,
struck a broken rail and left the track
near WfIliamsfeld twenty miles east
iof Galesburg. III. The engine, five
mail cars and enc coach went into a
ditch.
At Syracuse. n. Y, the boiler of a
locomotive drawing the west-bound
New York Central freight train blew
up. killing the engineer and a brake
man and prcbsbiy fatally injuring the
lcman.
In Kenova. W Va. Professor Lyman
EIlitt Smith Of Kentucky shot himself
through the head. leavins "a note say
! ing that an dnfavo able criticism of
mis- work as a writer had Unveiled him
10 the deed
ID. w. Fernandez. president of the
/ Oshkosh school board, will ask for
an appropriation by the county board
and city school board for $4,000 fer
I the establishment of a school for in
corrigibles.
AS a result of drinking ginger ale
Benke. Albert Lewis, and William
Prudence are dead at Alexander, Ark,
and Wash and Walker Lewis are dan
3 gerously i'll
The Oshkosh Typographical union
has inaugurated a movement to bar
the sale of intoxicating beverages at
labor picnics. The suggestion has
/ been favorably received by the Trades
and Labor council.
The board of Erin, National Order
OF Hilbernians has expelled James
/. Doherty. national DELICATE. II is al
legged he entered into an agreement
with the Ancient CTt e. of Hibe~nians
without sanction.
n. Lisberg CT Beaver Dam was near
~ drowned while driving across Bea-
yer Dam lake. his horses breaking
through the ice and being dragged to
the bottom by the lead of junk in the
wagon. Lisberg escaped.
Raymond Hall. aged Il years. while
playing on the grounds of the Haw
thorn school at Helena. Mont. took hold
Of the end of a live electric wire which
had dropped TO the ground. He received
1900 volts and died instantly.
Mrs. J. c. Pope of Mora. Mimi.
after notifying her husband her body
would be found in a nearby lake. tied
a rope To her body and walked into
deep water and drowned. The rope
supposedly. was to permit of the recov-
cry of the body.
Adrian W. Brown, the former Juda
school teacher. who nearly died at the
Madison police station from an over
dose Ct morphine. was recommitted to
the Mendoza insane asylum. He was
there last spring taking treatment
4 for the drug habit.
Large depredations of the mails in
rural districts near New York is be-
lieved To have been indicated by the
discovery Of about 200 letters in the
Cortlandt street ferry house. All of
the letters had been opened and their
contents tempered with.
In New York DR.. Morton explained his
theory g treating cancer by the liber-
atiCn &C actinic rays in the system
through application al Y or radium
iays 10 certain solutions taken me1i-
Cinally. He hopes It may also cure
iubert diOsis and ria1aria.
, It. great speed carried the Chicago
bou-d diamond special on the Illinois
Central over an open switch near Glen
Carbon. H.. and foiled the attempts OF
train wreckers. Three cars of the
freight train. which followed the fast
Z train, were derailed and piled upon
each other.
1 Clarence d. Taylor, a well kncwn Of
fetal of the Minneapolis General Elec-
trio company. is missing. Shortly
after he left the city it was discovered.
. IL is said. that he had borrowed money
from different friends and had issued
several checks after Withdrawing all
his money from the bank
Join Robinson was hanged for the
murder CT his father-in-law, George
COnkle. at Kirksville. Mo. He died de-
claring he had made his peace with
God and had been forgiven for the
murder. At his request he was al
lowed to shake the hands Of 500
friends. who went to say good by.
Jumbo" Clark, a negro, was lynch
ed at High Springs. Fla, after he had
attacked a 14-year-old girl ElmOre
MOsely. a negro, was lynched in Sus-
sex county. Virginia, by a mob of
negroes after he had been acquitted of
murder. Butch" Riley. a negro. who
killed c. c. Mcmillan near Tallu-
lab. Miss. was lynched.
A new religious sect known as the
Christian Israelites has appeared in
Boston. with members scattered
through Charlestown, Somerville. Med
ford and Roslyndale Part of the creed
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