Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-11-06

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Ellsworth Hacker, a life prisoner
in the Kansas penitentiary, died from
| the effects of wounds inflicted with
knives by two insane cOnyfcts.
President of the National w. G. T.
T., addressing the convention in Los
Angeles, urged war on mormonism,
patent medicines and race suicide.
For the third time the Chicago
council administered a crushing de-
feat to Mayor Dunno and by vote of
46 to 20 rejected his traction policy.
Rings found on the severed hand
discovered in a suitcase in Boston
harbor lead to the Identification of the
victim as Susan Geary, chorus girl.
Miss Alice Roosevelt arrived in Jer
SCI City on the Hartman special,
completing the trip across the con-
tinent in few hours more than three
days
George M. Wheeler was arrested in
civil suit at New York charging that
his firm swindled a Philadelphia cor
poration out of $21O,000 in notes and
stock.
The Philadelphia ring is said by an
investigating committee to have rob
bed the city of $6,330,000 in the ex-
peniture of a filtration plant and
boulevards.
At Waterloo, Iowa, the sixteenth
annual convention of the Epworth
League CT Iowa opened with about
90 Of ftr,
state present.
Robbers made an unsuccessful at
tempt to wreck the safe in the Saw
ings Bank at Atkins, Iowa. AS re
suit of their raid they secured only
$3.50 in pennies.
The Iowa grand chapter of the Or
der of the aEstern Star elected Mrs.
Allena d. Ward of Eldora grand ma
tron. Mason City was chosen as the
next meeting place.
President Roosevelt had a narrow
escape from death in a collision on
Mississippi river, the boat conveying
him to the West Virginia running
down a fruit steamer.
Former President Grover Cleveland
and his wife spent a day in Chicago,
on their way to Nebraska City, where
they took part in the unwilling of the
statue Of J. Sterling Morton.
President Roosevelt ended his
southern tour with a day OF remark
ably enthusiastic demonstrations in
New Orleans and sailed for Washing
ton on the cruiser West Virginia.
Upon te discovery that tenyear
old boy was locked accidentally in a
freight car, the Pennsylvania railroad
officials ordered that every freight car
east and west be opened and searched.
President Hegeman told the Arm
strong committee that in the last
eight years the Metropolitan Life had
voluntarily given 100000 to policy
holders who had no claims on the sur
plus.
Professor Charles G. Gates, arrest
ed at Vinton, Iowa, for attempting to
rob county treasurer''s office, is de-
clared to have been convicted once
before by fellow teachers Of robbery
and freed.
In order that the people Of New
York ''may not forget the Lord"
man who had his name withheld has
had a verse of scripture painted on
billboard liz full sight of Brooklyn
bridge passengers.
Judge Worthington granted writ
of habeas corpus to Newton c. Dough
erty, alleged defaulter Of Peoria
school funds, who declares his entire
innocence of crime and asks for re-
duction in the amount of bail
William Leduc, who killed his broth
er-in-law, Mayor Charles Nickel of
Chenoa, H., and Hugh D. Jones, talks
wildly of his crime in Jail at Bloom
ington and seems to have no memory
of shooting more than one man.
Stewart L. Pierson, a student at
Kenyon College, Gambler, ONO, was
killed by train while awaiting initia-
tion into the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra
ternity, but the rumor that he had
been tied to the rails is baseless.
An excursion train bringing NOR
mons from Salt Lake City will arrive
IN Mexico THIS week. mormon agents
have purchased tracts of land in the
state of Oaxaca for colonization pur
poses, the extent being more than
! 10000 acres.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, the trial of
! John NJ Welker for the murder oG
Minnie Melching on April 25 began,
attorneys for the defendant withdraw
ing the plea of not guilty and enter
ing special plea Of not guilty and I'M
soundness of mind.
| The interstate commerce law con-
yention at Chicago was split into two
gatherings on the question of indors-
| ing President Roosevelt's rate revision
! policy. Bitter words were spoken in
both meetings. Big shippers are
against regulation.
President A. B. Stickney of the