Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-28


collapse of the floor of the vestibule
of st. JarIaths Catholic church, Chi
cago. at the close Of services, and
three rescuers met harm.
AT GAINESVILLE, w. G. Landreth of
Chicago was arrested for passing a
forged check, alleged to have been
given him in poker game by a univer-
sity student at Madison.
Henry Medium, formerly United
States surveyor, has been found guilty
Of forgery on twenty-one counts by a
jury in the United States district
court at Portland, Ore.
National irrigation congress at Ell
Paso received a letter from Fresident
Roosevelt commencing the work done
but urging the necessity of retaining
the lands for actual settlers.
John G. Heckscher, sec. etary of the
National Horse Show association, was
knocked down and seriously injured
while Judging horses in the ring at
Madison Square Garden, N. Y.
Francis ]. Dewes, president of the
Standard brewery of Chicago, was
seriously injured and his son pain
fully bruised in collision between
their carriage and a street car
At Sterling, ILL.,, Eugene Watson,
colored, given the alternative of leav-
| ing the city or suffering the conse.
quences, left for Chicago. He was
given protection Friday night in the
city jail.
William P. Hayde, for many years
county license inspector at Kansas
City, killed himself. He sat UP in
bed next to his young son and fired a
bullet into his head, dying within a few
minutes
Louis Kane was sentenced to prison
for life at East st. Louis for killing
Robert Nelson of Chicago, and when
he pleaded guilty to killing George
Green the court added a sentence for
fifty years.
The Italian ambassador working on
plans to divert the flood of Italian i'm
migration to the United States from
congested northern cities to farms of
the south. Success means solution of
the negro problem.
At Metropolis, Ill, John B. Kimball,
who was revenue collector for the
dent Cleveland's first term, attempted
suicide by cutting his throat and both
wrists with a razor
John A. Fagg, former clerk in the
registry division of the postoffice at
the union depot in Kansas City, was
found guilty of stealing a package
containing $4,000, and sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary.
Miss Mary Byron has been sent to
Bellevue hospital in New York for ex-
animation as to her mental condition.
She is alleged to have threatened Rev.
DR.. William S. Rainsford, rector Of st.
Georges Episcopal church. Sunday
during the services.
Cardinal Gibbons suffered indigni-
ties at the hand of a mob of 100 Poles
at the rectory of st. Stanislaus churcn,
Baltimore, and 50 bitter was the at
aack the police had to be- sum
moned. He recently removed pop
ular priest from that parish.
Contributions aggregating $4,000 to
the Irish parliamentary fund have been
forwarded to Ireland from Boston by
the United Irish league within week.
The amount included $4,000 from
Philadelphia and $1,311 from Toronto,
Ont
William Bate, chauffeur, was found
murdered in an automobile near Lee
mont The machine was ordered the
night before from the Auditorium by
a "Mr. Dove who disappeared. The
mystery battles the police. Bate was
Fl and lived in Racine.
William Coleman of New York, who
has been confined in Jail at Coopers-
town, N. Y, since last August, has
been released, the grand jury having
failed to find an Indictment He was
arrested on suspicion of stealing
jewels valued at nearly $4,000 be-
longing to the wife of F. Ambrose
Clark, stepson of Bishop Potter.