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

| SaSSin. With bullets IN MS head the
man lives.
A gold dredging company of Iowa
discovered a $4,000 shortage and
found that the stenographer had burn
ed all books.
Bishop Potter of the Episcopal
church before the diocesan convention
said that divorce is leading to "practl-
cal barbarism."
The jury in the Sitter case, farmer
accused Of poisoning his wife at
Grundy Center, Iowa, returned a YER
dict Of not guilty.
Stephen w. Townley is dead at
Mobile, Ala, Of sunstroke This is the
first fatal sunstroke recorded in the
history of the city.
A distributing station Of the East
Ohio National Gas company in Cleve-
land exploded and two men were prob
ably fatally injured.
By the will of Miss Maria Terry, who
died at Venice a month ago, the Hart
ford, Conn, hospital will receive ap-
proximately 100000.
Fire destroyed the extensive rug
factory of the Fries-Breslin company at
Camden, N. J., entailing loss esti-
mated at 100000.
No trace has been found of Alonzo j..
Whiteman, the prisoner who jumped
from the fast mail on the Lake Shore
road near Dunlzirk, N. Y.
Charles F. Kelly, indicted for bribery
| fox cjn n
Ed Butler, the democratic boss, gave
him $4,000 to go to Europe.
Fred SCHNEIDER, former deputy mar
shall of North Dakota, sentenced to the
penitentiary for classifying government
accounts, died as the result of an oper-
alton.
Hilary Altman, Charles Altman and
Iver Harvey are being held in Florida
for the Georgia authorities in connec,
ton with the Duncan-Altman feud
murder.
A huge prairie fire, which for sew
eral days has swept the Rosebud res
ervation and portions of Trip and
Gregory counties, South Dakota, was
quenched by heavy rain.
The British embassy secretary who
violated the laws of Massachusetts
and pleaded exemption may be pun
ished. The facts are to be laid be-
fore the British ambassador.
Angry because of his attempts to
force his undesired affections upon her,
Mrs. Rose Barbadi, % years old, shot
and killed Michael Rago in an east
side tenement-house in New York.
Jealous of rivals growing bust
ness, Adrian Gaudron, gunsmith and
cutler, aged X years, shot and fatally
wounded P. Serge Kisslow at Portland,
Ore. and then blew out his own brains.
Four officials of the Nonpareil Cork
company at Camden, N. j., were ar
rested on the charge Of making six
pound cork life preserves out OF
four pounds of iron and two pounds o.
cork
Demos Dakay of Herkimer was killed
and four other men were seriously in
jured near Mountain View, N. Y, on
the Mohawk and Malone railroad,
when scaffold on railroad bridge
gave way.
A change in the course of the Rio
Grande, the international boundary be-
tween the United States and Mexico,
put several thousand Texans in panic
for fear they would become subjects
of Mexico.
The st. Augustine, Fla, authorities
have arrested a man supposed to be
while under sentence of death for
murder escaped from the Birming-
ham. Ala. Jail.
At Alto Pass, Ill, Robert Elder, a
16 year old negro, who shot Walter
Forbush, white man, aged "a, has
SURRENDERED to the authorities and is
now in Jail. 1t is believed that the
danger of a lynching has passed.
Bert Jones, colored, who was ar
rested for robbing a DoWagiac, Mich,
store, and who fought extradition, has
escaped from the Michigan City jail
by breaking a lock. Jones was wanted
at Dayton, O., Terre Haute, and other
places.
D. Knapp, a prominent grain dealer
of Portal, N. D., is to be given hear
ing before United States Commissioner
Blaisdell on the charge of smuggling
Canadian wheat into the United States.
Knapp was bound over to the federal
grand jury.
At Hartford City, Ind, Shirley Cum
minis, II years old, who has been
missing since Friday afternoon, was
found with bullet hole through his
head in a wood near his home. He
had been hunting, and it is supposed
he accidentally shot himself.
Hugo Donnerstag, arrested on a
charge of having murdered his father
near Woodboro, Wis, has been held to
the November term of the circuit court
without bail. Sadie Slack was discharg-
ed as an accessory, but held as wit
ness under a $500 bond.
The South Canadian river in Oklaho-