Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-03-13


Selling his 640-acre farm near Lola,
H., for s76,S00, George Wunder has
bought 74O acres of reclaimed swamp
land in Paulding county, Ohio.
Governor TooIe of Montana vetoed
bill to create a state railroad commits
sion and a measure designed to pre-
vent the fusion of political parties.
The steamboat Columbia, owned by
the Carter Packet company, and It's
cargo were badly damaged by fire at
New Orleans, La, the loss being about
$4,000
Two blocks of buildings in the busi-
ness center of Monroe, Ind, were de-
stroyed by fire, five stores and the
postofIice being swept away, the loss is
$4,000.
Trainmen vote to call out all en-
ployes on the new subway and ele-
waited lines in New York to support
their demands for shorter hours and
increased pay.
Mrs. Chadwick tainted in court,
bringing to a sudden end the first days
proceedings in her trial in Cleveland
after a jury is accepted and the taking
Of testimony was begun.
The Minnesota house passed a reso-
luton favoring a state implement fac
tory, to compete with the harvester
combine The measure is held up IN
the senate for debat.
Robert Wigner disappeared ten years
ago from Marion, Ind, and had not
been heard of until message was re-
ceived yesterday that he had been
murdered in Atlanta, Ga.
At Wabash, Ind, fire destroyed the
foundry of the Barcus Horse Stock
company and the Wabash Stove com
pany The main part of the plat
was saved. Loss, $4,000.
The jury in the Sanderson murder
case at Bluffton, ind, returned a YER
dict of guilty against the defendant,
William Cook His punishment is
fixed at Imprisonment for life.
A supreme court decision gives
James ]. Hill victory in his fight
with E. H. Hartman and others over
the distribution of the stocks held by
the Northern Securities company.
San Francisco detectives doubt the
theory that Mrs. Stanford was killed
by poison and stop all work on the
case until a report is received Of the
result of the Honolulu analysis.
The twelfth annual debate between
the universities of Iowa and Minnesota
ended in draw, one judge failing to
appear. Minnesota affirmed that the
government should fix railway freight
rates.
Professor Giddings of Columbia
university declares the practice OF di-
yorce is not an unmixed evil finding
in it signs Of the progress of the race,
particularly through the uplifting of
women.
State Pension Agent Jones of Col
umbus, Ohio, who, it is stated in
Washington dispatches, will resign to
make way for Congressman Warnock
of Urban, says he has no intention Of
resigning.
j. H. Whitcomb, a prisoner under
charge Of Sheriff Canning of Council
Bluffs, in some way got his handouts
unfastened and jumped through the car
window and escaped from rapidly
running train.
Pittsburg train bearing the Royal En-
gineers. and the Tippecanoe club from
Cleveland to the inaugural at Wash
ington collided near Pittsburg. The
dead may reach 20.
Mrs. Joseph Britton Of Chippewa
Falls, received word from her daughter
in Chicago OF her marriage Feb. 27 to
Walter Staut, a baseball player. The
mother is frantic and says she will not
receive the couple.
There was a sensational Jail deliv-
cry in Madisonville, KY, in which
freed. The delivery was made by
someone from the outside cutting iron
bars from window.
DR.. Nicholas Nash of Gardner, l. T.,
was fatally shot at Hanna, I. T., by J.
S. Tilley, a deputy marshal, while re-
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ing the peace. Nash was for years a
prominent territorial official.
At a meeting of the executive board
of the Federation of Catholic Societies
in New Orleans it was decided to hold
the next national convention in that
city on Oct 10, and committees were
appointed to arrange all details.
At Grand Forks, N. D., declaring he
had murdered several people, Charles
Morris, a transient, who took strych-
nine with the intention of committing
suicide, is at a hospital with the
chances in favor of his recovery.
At Monroe, Mich, Mrs. Marjorie
Navarro, a school-teacher, made the
mistake of using gasoline instead of
kerosene to hurry up a slowly burning
morning fire. The two-gallon can ex-
ploded and she was fatally burned.