Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-12-19

vice.
The ted States supreme court de-
cided for the Pennsylvania railroad
in the suit involving the right of the
railroad to remove Western Union
Telegraph equipment. The telegraph
company also is declared powerless
to condemn railway right of way
for it's lines.
The Irish-American influence was
brought to bear to defeat any arbltra-
ton treaty between the United States
and Great Britain. 1t is declared that
opponents are using the question OF
the bonds of the confederacy as an
argument to influence southerners. But
the treaty was signed.
DOMESTIC.
Dr. G. r. Koch was arrested at New
Ulm, Mimi, for murder of Dentist
Gebhardt
AT Galesburg, ILL.,, Henry, the little
son of Frank Murray, is dead from
drinking lye-
The jury disagreed in the fifth trial
of former Mayor Ames for bribery in
Minneapolis.
Zion City paid the last of the big
debt which threw it into the hands OF
receivers a year ago.
A mysterious contagious disease
has attacked Nebraska cattle, the
symptoms being like poisoning.
Jenkins Ferguson, a negro who kill
ed Willis Hampton over a 25-cent debt,
was hanged at Lake Charles, La.
John Allen, who in July, 1903, shot
and killed his wife near Luther, Ok,
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Two men who robbed the Peoria Ma
tional bank were captured at Toulon,
III, with 81 $50 of the stolen money.
Ira Marlatt of Cuyahoga county,
Ohio n prison at Columbus, stabbed
John Jones, a Clark county prisoner.
Elias Johnson, a farmer living near
Orearville, Mo- shot and killed his
wife, believing someone was stealing
his chickens.
President Eliot of Harvard declared
that trade unions destroyed good will
and that the output limitation rule
WOULD XIII lu0m-
At Cadillac, Mich, E. G. Snider &
Co.'s general merchandise store was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; In
surance, $4,000.
A maniac. clad in red undershirt,
wrealled havoc in a Grand Rapids
church with an ak, four men being
hurt, one fatally.
Milwaukee report says State Treas
urer-elect Kempf may be kept out Of
office by a demand of the governor for
an excessive bond.
Four more bodies have been re-
covered from the coal mine at Burnet,
Wash, making a total of 16 victims OF
the recent explosion.
| The sale of the American Fisheries
company to w. A. Peters for 100000
has been confirmed by the federal
count in Seattle, Wash.
| At Evansville, Ind, Mrs. Emma
Frances Francisco died from the eff
fects of carbolic acid, taken, it is sus-
| pected, with suicidal intent.
The Continental Tobacco company is
| to concentrate its plug business in
Louisville, KY, it is reported, closing
| it's factories in other cities.
At Madison, Wash, the house of
Arthur Rains was destroyed by fire
and children aged 5, 4 and 2 years, re
spectively were burned to death. The
parents were away.
The engagement of Miss Daisy
Letter and Henry Molyneux Paget
Howard, earl of Suffolk, has been an
Christmas week.
Mrs. Frank Jarzewski, a farmers wife
who lived two miles from Manitowoc,
is dead from burns, the result OF an
explosion when she attempted to start
a fire with kerosene.
B. T. Robertson of ColfaX, ILL.,, WHO
was engaged in shipping poultry to
New York. is reported to have been
killed in wreck at Shelby, Ohio,
while accompanying a car.
The American Sheet and Tirplate
company started thirty-seven tinplate
mills, which leaves only seven of its
242 mills idle, and these will probably
| US Ill OpCl dtIOu WlIAAI1 q WYNN.
All cars of the Great Northern west
bound train except the two baggage
cars were derailed by an open switch
at Harvard Lake, Mimi. Several pas
sengers were injured, none seriously.
The bench and bar of New York
City, republicans as we'll as demo
Gratis, welcomed Alton B. Parker's re-
turn to the practice of his profession
with a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria-
Thieves entered the postoff1c at Har-
rison, Westchester county, N. Y, and
stole $3.50 in cash. 500 in stamps,
three registered letters and watch
which was being sent through the
mails.
Howard Gould is sued by New York
dressmakers for $3,760, the cost of six
teen dresses delivered to his wife. An
artist sued Mrs. Gould for the price
of portrait she ordered, but failed to