Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-09-11

Allegheny, Pa, police, convicted on
charges of graft, was sentenced to six
months in the workhouse.
Former Mayor Thistlewood of Cairo
ILL.,, was arrested for defying the health
authorities who were enforcing the vel
low fever quarantine.
The Nebraska supreme court issued
an alternative writ commanding that
the reserves of fraternal organizations
be spread on the tax books.
William Dickens, who shot and
mortally wounded Frank Lawson at
Harmoy, Ind, was captured in field
where he was hiding
Senator Clark's new railroad
through the desert from Salt Lake
City to the Pacific coast promises to
be boon to Los Angeles.
At Danville, Ill, Fred Boxman, aged
II, of Murphysboro, ILL.,, and Frank
GreeWald, aged 81, of Adrian, Mich,
were killed by a train.
Tipping servants or corporation
purchasing agents for the purpose OF
influencing trade is made a crime
under New York's latest law.
Foreman Oscar ]. Ricketts, of the
government printing Office retains
counsel to fight dismissal threatened
by Public Printer Palmer.
Surgeon White declares that he has
the yellow fever situation at New Or
leans under control, and is confident
OF stamping out the disease.
! Rev. Francis J. Barry resigned his
post as chancellor of the homan Cath
Ollie archdiocese of Chicago, and was
succeeded by Rev. E. M. Dunno.
| A lighted candle carried into the
cellar Of two-story building in ST.
Louis ignited accumulated gas and the
| explosion wrecked the building.
The Depew Improvement company
took up its mortgage given the Equit-,
able Life Assurance society, paying
1923, 850.S2, principal and interest.
Receivers of failed Merchants Trust
company at New York dispose of the
company's securities and will settle
claims OF depositors and creditors.
William Todd and Ida Seibert. who
had eloped from Kalamazoo Mich,
committed suicide by drowning them
selves in CURL lake, at Allendale.
America is in no danger of being in
vaded by cholera, owing to the strict
precaUtion at Hamburg, according to
the harbor physician of that city.
Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady sued
the Ess Ess Publishing company and
Tim Murphy for $4,000 damages for
dramatizing story written by him.
Pedro Alvarado, the "peon mining
king" struck a vein of almost pure sill
yer in his famous mine and renews his
offer to pay the public debt of Mexico.
Eleven persons, after an all-night
battle with the waves, reached shore
from the wreck of the steamer Sevona
in Lake Superior, but others may be
! lost
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte or
dered court-martia1 for Commander
Luclen Young, who was in command OF
the gUnboat Bennington at time of ex-
plosion
Capt. Charles E. Ducross is on trial
at South Norwalk, Conn, on a charge
of cruelty for piercing the flppers OF
huge sea turtle he had on exhibi.
ton.
At Bellefontaine Ohio, in saving
her home from the flames and carry
ing out a gasoline stove that had ex.
ploded Mrs Eberhardt was fatally
burned.
Requ1sition papers were received by
Governor Pardee OF California from
Arkansas for Robert Chestey, who is
under detention in Fresno, charged
with murder
By the breaking of a steel chain in
the elevator at the Eldora Qowa)
Pipe and Tile company's plant five
German laborers were severely
injured,
j. ". Gleitsman of New York has
applied to the court of chancery in
Trenton, N. j., for the appointment OF
q receiver for the American Machine
company of Erie, Pa.
At Kewanee, H., McClure's Opera
house was sold for $4,000 to a
hdASctCC VI IOCd1 luSI, n. IL.
Taylor, c. c. Wilson, S. L.. After, Fl.
E. Heise and F. F. Shuts.
Augustine de la Cruz, the Filipino
beauty" SO prominent in the Taggart
case, is described as being a chewer
o. tobacco, and hardly suitable for a
ballet, by Major Newberry.
Massachusetts state census shows a
startling decrease in the growth OF
population in the last five years. Old
maids are more numerous and short
age of the bean crop is factor.
A rear-end collision on the Rockford
and Interurban electric line resulted
in the injury of six persons, none
fatally. MOtorman Harrington will
be laid Up for several months.
A great strike of both anthracite AMI
bituminous coal miners next spring is