Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-10-24


J. M. Culp, fourth vice president OF
the Southern railway, has been elect,
ed to the office of third vice presi-
dent. 80 80
David Belasco, the theatrical man
ager, relates a story of having been
assaulted and blames rivals for .he
attack.
Edward Donahue, alleged slayer OF
M Northrup, is still at large in the
Michigan woods after a man hunt of
IA days.
Thomas Jones and Matthew He'll
were killed in Newport mine, near
Ironwood, Mich, falling 60 feet down
the shaft.
The Italian ambassador presented
to Secretary Hay, Senior Brumiatti a
prominent member of the Italian
parliament.
Fire at Frankton, Ind, caused loss
of $4,000, destroying L. A. Wells
drug store, the opera house and othel
properties.
The king of Siam has purchased a
supply of souvenir gold dollars issued
in commemoration of the Lewis and
Clark exposition.
Extravaganza in dress was de-
nounced as ruinous to women by
speaker at the Illinois Federation of
Womcn's clubs.
United States court of appeals
affirmed the convictions and SEN
fences in the st. Louis naturaliza-
ton frauds cases.
A coroner's jury laid the scalding
Of patient to negligence Of the
management of Bartonville, ILL.,,
hospital for the insane
NJ Juserand, French ambassador
to the United States, and Nine.
Jusserand arrived in New York on
the steamer Lorraine.
The Episcopal bishops have adopted
an amendment to refuse marriage to
all divorced persons, but the house
Of deputies may reject it.
The light-grade rail plant at the
Edgar Thomson Steel works at Brad
dock, Pa, went on double turn, giving
employment to 200 men.
Hundreds of armed farmers engage
in man hunt near South Haven,
Mich, but Edward Donahue, an
Indiana murderer, eludes them.
The Panama and worlds fair ap-
preparations made the treasury report
show deficiency of $41, 0,571 in,
stead of balance of $12,S29,42S.
Judge Judson Harmon of Cincin
natl, attorney general in President
Cleveland's cabinet, arrived on the
steamer Minnetonka from Europe.
Rev. DR.. Arthur S. Lloyd of New
York, who was recently elected to the
Episcopalian bishopric of Kentucky,
has declined that office, it is reported.
Forty people were killed in an
Alabama feud in connection with
which Wild Bill Sullivan has been
given a life sentence in the peni-
tertiary.
Owing to an attack of rabies, it was
necessary to destroy the hounds of
the Chester Valley, Pa, hunt, said to
be one of the most valuable in
America.
Pic Boggio, an italian, who shot and
killed Rodolph Lenzi, a farmer, at
Spring Valley, ILL.,, May 8, 1904, plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to life
Imprisonment.
The Sac and Fox Indians object to
a sachem from the Winnebago tribe.
A party of travellers was exposed to
furious sandstone for 4S hours on the
Nevada desert.
The formal opening to navigation Of
Ohio river dam No. 6, at Merrill, N
Y, was made a gala affair by thou
sands of eastern Ohio and western
Pennsylvania people.
Edward O. Johnson, 38 years old,
lawyer of Syracuse, N. Y, was found
dead in his bed. He had saturated
the bed clothing with chlorofOrm and
wrapped them about his head.
The American ambassador, Mr..
Meyer, arrived in Rome. He was de
tanned a day at Turin, where he was
the guest of the duke of Aosta,
cousin of King Victor Emmanuel.
Ambassador Juserand of France,
who has just returned from Europe,
where he went on a vacation, present
ed President Roosevelt a personal
message of felicitation from President
Loubet.
Paul Herbert Schmidt, who con
fessed to the murder and robbery of
William Taylor at Sherman, Conn,
has given information that will
lead to the recovery of a portion Of
the property.
The bronze statue of Frederick the
Great, presented to the United States
government by the present emperor OF
Germany, has arrived in Washington.
The unwilling exercises are to take
place Nov 10.
Argument was begun in the United
States circuit court at Trenton, N. j.,
on motion to dismiss the suit of
George Rice against the Standard
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