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

master General Madden says rural
free delivery is responsible for tire
deficiency in the departments
finances.
Supreme Chancellor Shivley of the
Knights of Pythias OF the World has
approved the proposition to make
I eighteen years the age limit for ad-
mission to the order.
Annual report of commissioner OF
immigration shows marked improve
ent in the class of foreigners coming
! in and recommends a rection OF the
evil of contract labor importations.
The ship Continental, belonging to
the Alaska Packers association, was
partially destroyed by fire at Oakland,
Cal. Captain Stannard was severely
burned. Damage, $4,000; uninsured.
The national convention OF the
| Womans Christian Temperance
Union in Philadelphia was formally
ended with the convention sermon
preached by Rev. Eugenia F. st. John
of Kansas.
At Miller, S. D., John Bush, d pro-
fessional, left last summer by a
circus, after spending the evening
in saloon was burned to death in d
barn where he went to sleep. Five
horses also persisted.
President Charles w. Eliot of Har~
ward university announced that the
qualifying examinations for the next
Massachusetts appointments to the
Cecil Rhodes scholarships will prop
ably be held in January.
Sixteen of the persons injured IN
the Missouri Pacific wreck near
Holden, Mo-, are still in Kansas City
.ospltals Mrs. Mary Gillette OF
Canton, N. Y, is the only one whose
condition is considered serious.
The yarnmill Of Andrew Flanagan
It Manayunk, suburb Of Phila,
lelphia, was partially destroyed by
re. Eighty girls became panic
ticken, but none was injured. The
oss IS placed at $4,000; insured.
j. w. Heidecke of Detroit, Oregon,
n the land fraud cases testified he
lad accepted BRIDE from S. A. d.
2uter to aid in the conspiracy to de,
fraud the government. His testimony
involved Special Agent Loomis.
Kentucky relatives OF Mrs. Frank
McClain, who died suddenly in Living
ston county, Missouri had the BODY
exhumed and the stomach removed
and sent to ST. Louis for analysis. 1t is
said Mrs. McClain showed symptoms
of arsenical poisoning.
Suffering from the long drought
farmers in Butler and Westmoreland
counties, Pennsylvania, are call ne
meetings to pray for rain. In Licking
county, Ohio, hundreds of wells have
gone dry. From Kentucky it was re-
ported that rain fell.
Fire at Pittsburg started in a three
story building, $50 Liberty avenue
occupied by John Flocker rope ana
Irvine dealer, and spread to the build
ings occupied by the Pittsburg Phono
graph company and w. H., Williams
commission house. Loss, $4,000.
The body of Thomas McGraw, sup,
erintendent of the Dallas, Tex, water
works, was found under a trestle OF
the Texas and Pacific railway across
Trinity river. The body was badly
bruised and one leg and arm were
broken. He is supposed to have
fallen from the trestle.
The body of Albert Holbrook, the
wealthy manufacturer of Providence,
who mysteriously disappeared Nov. Z,
was found under the ice. There was
nothing to indicate foul play. Mr..
Holbrook had been sufferer from
nervous trouble He was SO years OF
age and leaves family.
An aged Oberlin banker, under ar
rest, confessed that he had indorsed
notes for Mrs Chadwick for $1,250000
and signed by the name of Andrew
Carnegie. He broke down and says
he Will reveal everything. Carnegie's
signature is a forgery. The filing OF
a petition in bankruptcy against Mrs.
Chadwick was followed by the ap-
pointment Of a receiver for all of hel
property