Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-03-21


custom-house brokerage firm OF Ston
& Downey of Boston, the largest houst
of its kind in New England, has bee
indicted by the federal grand jury a.
an accomplice in the alleged lace
smuggling cases which government
officials have been investigating 70.
several months.
William Gunsaue-, a white man
shot and killed Mrs. Anna Palmer
colored. at Leavenworth, Kan, anO
then killed himself Three young
children of the woman were the only
witnesses TO the tragedy. Gunsauer
who was a grocery clerk, had been
sent to collect a small account from
the woman. Mrs. Palmer refused TO
pay.
After being speeches. for five
months as the result of a fall from a
street car, Rev. ID. E. Standard, pas
tor of st. Luke's Methodist church of
st. Louis. suddenly recovered his
voice. He had learned the sign
language, and while conversing in
this way with his wife suddenly felt
impelled to speak, and shouted: 81
can talk"
Two men were killed and six in,
jured in a snowslide at the Queen of
the West mine, in the Cornucopia
district, sixty miles northeast OF Baker
City. Ore. The dead are II. w. Hol-
land and A. Cox. The injured, none
OF whom is fatally hurt, are: G. w.
Estea. Thomas Smith, 7. II. Mills,
John Hunt, Frank Larimer and Nels
Lundstrom.
The body of Asa Mathews, aged II,
was found in a well on the Taylor
farm in the eastern part of Brown
county, near Georgetown, o. She was
a domestic in the family of John
Beasley. She had returned her ring
to Joseph Kelch. but he persisted in
calling ana took her away in buggy
last Saturday night, since which time
neither had been seen.
w. l.. Collins, ex-cashier of the
Indiana National bank at Elkhart,
pleaded guilty in the federal court
He was the first of the bank officers to
come up for trial. He was indicted on
eighteen charges in connection with
the failure of the bank. ExPresident
Borderick's trial will begin today.
Collins will be sentenced after the
other trials are completed.
The coroner's jury which has been
investigating the death of Miss Rena
Nelson of Pierre, S. D., who died from
the effects of poison sent her in a box
OF candy, reported that she came to
her death from the effects of eadng
candy tablets cont aimed in a box post
marked Boone, Ia, and that the tablets
contained corrosive sublimate in suf-
fcient quantities to cause death.
The discovery in time of home
made bomb at the rear of s. Barrons
+ secondhand store, in the thickly
settled business district of Sioux City
Iowa, doubtless prevented conflagra-
tion of large proportions. Inside a
fve-gallon can partly filed with
gasoline was a dynamite percussion
+ cap generally used in safe-blowing, to
which was attached a fuse six feet
long.
A special grand jury called TO in
vestigate last weeks riot went into
session at Springfield, o. Judge ]. X.
Mower delivered a vigorous charge.
Prosecuting Attorney J. b. McGrew
announced that transcript casss would
be considered first. II Will be a week
before the actual investigation of the
riots is started. The three saloon
keepers arrested for defying Mayor
Bowlus order TO close were released
in police court, there being no law for
their punishment.
Plans have been made by the DOrcas
Coaching club of New York, said to be
the only wOman's coaching club in the
world. to run a public conveyance dur
ing the coming season. Members of
the organization, which includes the
leaders of the younger set in fashion
able society, will handle the whip. II
is likely the coach will make daily
runs from an uptown New York hotel
TO Morris park during the racing sea-
son. While the novel trip will be
nominally open to the public, the club
will exercise its discretion as to who
may become patrons.