Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-08-29

. regulars at Athens, o.
F Michael Callahan and John Mark
ham of Van Horne, Iowa, were killed
by a Chicago and Northwestern freight
train at a grade crossing.
The body Of Miss Nellie Burbury of
Elgin was found in a submerged stone
quarry at South Elgin. IL is thought
that she committed suicide.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was sentenced
F for the second time to a life term in
/ California penitentiary for poisoning
I Mrs. John p. Dunning of Delaware.
/ Another negro was lynched near
/ Statesboro, Ca, two shot, and several
whipped. The whites say that bad
characters must leave the vicinity.
Henry Schafer, an emplOye of a
photograph gallery, committed suicide
at Rockford by drinking some of the
chemicals used in developing plates.
Monroe Fulkerson, city fire in
spector of Chicago, resigned. His
connection with the Iroquois theater
inspection scandal proves his undoing.
Sixteen dead. scores injured, and
property damage exceeding $2,OOO,OOO,
is the record of a tornado which swept
I the twin cities and other parts of Min
|nesota.
! Miss Edna Van Dreal of Harvey,
H.. sued DR.. f. F. Laughlin for $4,000
damages for breach of promise. A
former suit filed last June was with
drawn.
In Chicago Justice Grant ruled that
a landlady has a right to folding bed,
even though it jars the plaster off in
a tenants parlor and drives away her
daughters beau.
1 -Four persons were killed and twenty
seven injured when an manageable
trolley train struck a Chicago Great
Western train at the Forty-eight
avenue crossing. Chicago.
Ethel Barry, daughter of a we'll
known business man of Pennsylvania
who has been spending the summer at
! Oceanport, n. J.. eloped with a mo-
7 tor man on the trolley line.
When the Kronprinz Wilhelm ar
rived at New York a cab was waiting
Y for II. NJ. Stevenson of Chicago, who
. MhM bA0NAEu IL UN MAANACNN AGA1E dHh
when he was 200 miles out at sea.
A quarrel about an open barroom
door led TO the killing of Frank z.
Brett. a travelling salesman, by
Andrew A. wallin. superintendent of
the Florodora Tag company, at At;
lanta.
Experts place the total damage to
the wheat crop at 100000 bushels
I in the United States and Manitoba.
. This is a cut in previous figures, and
the yield in the United States is es-
timated at 533. 900, 900 bushels.
Tie United States general land Of
fee has instructed its officers in the
Santa Fe, n. NJ, land district to with
draw for irrigation purposes from all
forms of disposal fourteen townships
in that district, aggregating $4,000
acres.
At Camden. y. J., six persons es-
capped from the county jail and are still
at large. The bars in the front win
dow were filed off and all the prison
( ers would have made their escape had
( it not been for a "trusty," who gave
the alarm.
I At Grinnell, Ia, after a fight between
John Parker and George Mitchell, IN
which Mitchell was badly bruised up,
he got a shotgun and shot Parker, kill
ing him instantly. Mitchell served
in the Spanish war.
The coroner's jury, after Investigate
ing the death of Mrs. Jennie Helms,
who died in a St. Louis hotel, returned
verdict of manslaughter against
Charles M. Farthing, the drug clerk
who sold Mrs. Helms husband tartar
emetic for cream of tartar.
Two Norfolk and Western freight
trains collided at Portsmouth, o.
I Twenty-Five cars were wrecked and
f one engine. Two tramps were killed
and buried under the wreckage. En-
4 gineer Staten was fatally and Conduc-
tor Hensley seriously hurt.
Minnie NJ Lane has been missing
from her Pittsburg home for several
weeks. Within twenty-four hours two
T letters have been received from her,
one mailed in St. Louis, the other in
i Chicago. The girl says she is mar.
ried. One brother started to Chi.
cago and another to st. Louis. The
family is quite wealthy.
4 Dr. L. J. Jones, a physician and
+ stockman of Benjamin, Tex, attacked
+ mis- wife with a knife while she slept
and stabbed her TO death. He then
went to the residence of County At
I torney BrooIson and attacked him.
4 Brookson threw the doctor down and
broke his hip and had him placed I'M
Y der arrest. Mrs. Jones was suing for
I divorce and Brookson was her attor-
ney.
A fast Wabash passenger train col
lided with a Baltimore and Ohio
f. freight train at the crossing of the two
roads at Massillon. o. The freight
train plowed into the second coach OF
the passenger train. G. v Hawley Of
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