Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-12-05
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A wedding party near Monastil,
Macedonia, was slaughtered by Greek
bands. Thirteen were killed and five
wounded. The Greeks escaped to the
mountains.
At Washington the final hearing by
the interstate commerce commission.
in the matter of the complaint of Win,
lam r. Hearst against the coal carry,
ing roads, was begun.
At Norway, Mich, the hydraulic
works owned by the Oliver Mining
company were destroyed by fire. The
loss will reach half million. The fire
was caused by an explosion.
The collection of caricatures in oil,
pen and pencil, the property Of Chaplin
& Gore, Chicago, was ruined in a
10000 fire which started in the Rubel
G Allegretti chocolate factory.
The official vote of Iowa was can
vassed with the following result.
Roosevelt 3O7,9O7, Parker 1914,
Swallow II sol, Debs 1887, Watson
2,2O7, Roosevelt's plurality 1876.
At Camden, N. j., the marriage of
James Buchanan Duke of New York,
president of the American Tobacco
company, and Mrs. Lillian N. Nc
Cready, a wealthy New York widow,
took place.
A crusade against persons who sell
adulterated drugs was begun in Chi
cago by Col. J. e. Stuart of the post
Office department Five arrests were
made on charges of a fraudulent use
of the mails.
Elverton Chapman, aged %, whose
home is in New York City committed
suicide at the Carlton hotel, London,
by throwing himself from a third
floor landing to the yestibule, where
he was shockingly mangled on the
marble floor.
At Cincinnati Coroner Weaver rem.
dered verdict in the case of C. A.
Parker. vice president OF the Cincin.
natl Hamilton, and Dayton and Pere
Marquette railroads who died sudden
ly Nov 10, finding that death was
caused by suicide with prussic acid.
At Philadelphia the thirty-first con-
vention Of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union began,
Five hundred delegates, representing
over 100000 members from every
state and territory are in attendance.
Mrs. Lillian NJ Stevens, president,
spoke.
Following the defeat Of the lawless
elements as a result OF the municipal
elections Sunday all radical members
Of the municipal council at Milan,
Italy, have resigned. A royal commits
sioner will conduct the administration
of Milan until the general administra
tive elections.
At Alpena, Mich, a big gale has
driven the steamer ID. w. Blanchard
and the schooners Johnson and Kelder
House on shore. The Blanchard has
broken up and the johnson, fast go
ing to pieces. will be total loss. All
are exposed to heavy sea. The
crews. were rescued.
Recently, Japanese have been using
dogs as scouts, sending them out from
the trenches with long cords attached.
1t is almost impossible to detect these
wary ANIMALS which unerringly locate
the Russian position and give warning
Of any movement against the Japan
csc. Some Russians have strewn the
neutral, ground with poisoned pork,
thus thinning the ranks Of the dogs.
With children held under their
arm, clinging around their neck or
hanging to their shoulders, New York
f1remen carried 46 screaming young
sters from a burning tenement in
Ninth avenue. Thirty adults followed
the rescuers down fireescapes. Mrs
w. A. Connaught, an aged woman liv-
ing on the second floor who had been
bedridden for two weeks from paraly-
sis, arose, climbed into the street I'M
aided, and hurried to a neighbors
home without d twinge of pain.