Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-11-21

Cornelius vanderbilt secured pat
ent on elliptical tenders for locomo-
tives which meets with the favor of
railway men.
DR.. Yamai Kin, the Chinese woman
lecturing on war in the orient, declared
Japan owed it's advancement to the
Chinese empire.
The steamer Coptic, which arrived
at San Francisco from the orient,
brought $2,OO0,OOO worth of raw silk
and over 100000 in gold.
Grace Rose" who figured in a
fatal automobile accident in Gin
cinnati, says that she is Miss Grace
Ornodorff Cooper of Baltimore.
The Chinese reform league is seek
ing 1000 American officers for an
army of 100000, whose purpose is the
overthrow of the doWager empress.
Walter R. Mason, the Wisconsin
university student who shot mem
Der of a hazing party in the leg, will
continue his studies at the institution.
A heavy snow fell in Pennsylvania,
wires were wrecked and many rail-
other southern cities experienced
snowfalls.
The signal corps of the army, &C
cording to General Greeley's report,
has installed vast Geographic and
cable systems in Alaska and the
Philippines.
Business in Wall street was
practically paralyzed by the storm or
Sunday and Sunday night, telegraph,
telephone and railroad service being
demoralized.
Hugh Murray, a woodsman, was
found dead on Manitou island, near
Ashland, Wis, with a bullet hole
through is head. 1t is believed he
was murdered.
Adolph Weber, in jail at Auburn,
CAL, for the murder Of parents,
brother and sister, is thought to be
the man who robbed a bank there a
short time ago.
At Pittsburg George M. Cochran,
wagon man for thirty years in the
city service, was thrown from his
patrol wagon and killed by collision
with telephone pole.
An angry crowd beat and threaten
ed to lynch William Vanderheyden,
whose electric cab ran over woman
and killed her at Twenty-ninth street
and Seventh avenue, New York.
President Smith of the mormon
church will be unable to accept the
invitation to address the national
irrigation congress at Ell Paso on &C
count of the pressure of other BUSH
ness.
The contract for the construction OF
the new postoffice building at Law
renee, Kan, has been awarded to
Richey Brothers Of Hastings, Neb.,
at $44,63S, to be completed Jan. l.,
1906.
B. T. Brue, a farmer residing eight
miles southwest of Stanhope, Mo-,
committed suicide by cutting his
throat. Brue was prominent in the
community. No cause is known for
the act.
Lieutenant General Prince Saduu
Fushimi, cousin Of the Emperor OF
Japan, arrived at San Francisco. He
comes to America to try to cement
the bonds of good feeling between
the countries.
Gen. A. Mackenzie, chief of engi-
neers, has submitted a report to the
secretary of the navy recommending
the expenditure of more than $1,000
600 for additional improvements to To-
cal rivers and harbOrs.
Mrs. Amelia Fischer, wife of the
United States Brethren pastor at
Sciotoville, O., was fatally burned and
her two sons seriously burned by the
explosion of gasoline she was pouring
on q smoldering fire.
By an explosion in the mine Of the
Peabody Coal company at Sherman
twelve miles north of Springfield, H.,
a wareroom and tipple wer destroyed
and two miners, James MCGEE and
Anton Meruscha, were killed.
Lawrence De Falio, aged 81, shot
and seriously wounded Carrie Unity
and her brother Frank at Southington,
Conn. De Falio then put a bullet into
his head, probably with fatal effect
De Falio was jealous of the girl.
United States Judge Dole at
Honolulu sentenced L. P. Kaukoe, for
merly postmaster at Kappa, Kauai
island, to one years Imprisonment fol
enlightenment of funds of his office.
Kaukoe's defalcation amounted to
$1,S92.
Delaware is counting the result ot
the third harvest this year, the first
being the peach, the second the grain
and the third the election. Crisp $40
bills are to be found everywhere in
the saloons and votes are said to have
come as high as $40.
At st. Paul Sarah Hill of West
Gouldsboro, Me-, has filed petition
in court asking that Congressman
elect Fletchers' acts as administrator
of the estate of the late Jedida S.
Eases be revoked and that he be re-
moved from that position.
Mrc Erad Owen Of AuduhOn Iowa