Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-10-16

Inc JURY Ill the case OIL n. ~. 4 1OCCu-
er, white man, charged with assault
ing Mary Gladder, a German girl, in
Russellville, Ky, returned a verdict Of
guilty and fixed the punishment at
death
II a collision between a Louis
vile and Nashville light engine and a
Southern railway freight near Boyles,
Ala, H. E. Aberccmbe of Villa Rica,
Ga, extra fireman en- the Southern,
was killed.
The launch Maj Wilcox, owne
by the A. Booth Fish company, with a
half ton of black bass caught with
nets ir Lake Erie, was held and seized
by Ohio game. wardens and may be
corfscated.
A diver located near Michigan
masted schooner believed to be the
Thomas Hum, which sailed from Chi
cago fourteen years ago and was never
heard of afterward
Daniel Mcintyre of Gladbrook, Iowa,
gave $4,000 to the $4,000 endcw-
ment fund being raised by Western
coilege at Toledo, Iowa. Leander
Clark of Toledo and Andrew Carnegie
had each given $4,000.
Missouri demands that Mccall re-
pay the campaign contribution of
/ $148,oO0 and that new officers of the
| New York Life be elected, giving
the alternative of exclusion of the
company from the state.
! A mistrial has resulted in the case
charging criminal negligence
against w. B. Caldwell, who was con-
.iuctor on one Of the trains wrecked
on the Southern railroad near New
Market. Tenn, Sept. "a, 1904.
Failure OF the Peoria National
Bank, of which n. C. Dougherty was
president, caused run on two other
hanks the 60-day notice being invoked
il. one instance. Financiers fear Il
spread of the panic among deposit
tors.
Germany and other European coun-
tries may bar big New York life in
surance companies from doing bust
ness because of the revelation as to
graft and corruption. This action
would mean a heavy loss to the con
Germs.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York asked for a special grand jury
to investigate the big life insurance
companies. The son of the president
Of the Mutual Life was paid Sl,705,
6S1 in commissions besides a salary
of $4,000.
Newton c. Dougherty, superintend-
ent Of Peoria schools and president of
Peoria National bank, was indicted
for forgery and larceny Of public
funds His populations extended
over a period Of 27 years and ag9re-
gate 100000.
Chief of Police John j. Donohue
of Omaha has sent cashiers check
for 5000 to Butte, Mont, to cover the
reward offered by the chief personal
ly for the capture of Fat Grove who
will be brought back handcuffed by
two detectives.
At Hickman, KY, after he had re-
turned from church, Emmett w.
Roach, q prominent citizen and teach
.cr, was shot from ambush Roach
lived thirty minutes and gave the
name of his assassin, which has not
vet beer made public.
At Minneapolis, Ira Riddle, an aged
sailor, has been stabbed almost to
death in his bed in a lodging house. A
deposit certificate for $3.50 was
stolen. The bank refuses to give hini
The money without bond, fearing the
old man may have Endorsed the GER,
tificate to some one.
Alfred, the younger son of the late
David Shepard, founder Of the Nichols
e Shepard Thra9hing Machine COM
pany at Battle Creek. was cut Off in
his fathers will without a cent. The
estate of $1,000,0OO is left to the elder
son Freedom Alfred contested, but
the probate Judge decided against him.
Charles King, whose sentence of
death was executed Sept. 30, at Fort
Saskatchewan, Canada for the muir
der of a young lInglishman, Edward
Hayward, is believed to have been
Robert Martelli, sentenced to death in
1900, but through the Intervention
Of the Italian government given new
trial and acquitted.
At Sheboygan, the damage suit Of
Mic Faber, whose arms were broken,
jaw fractured in three places, one
eye gouged out, teeth knocked out,
and shoulder dislocated, was non
suited, because the supreme court, III
ordering a retrial by the circuit judge,
decided Faber had no case. He had
! been awarded $4,000 against the Reiss
Coal company.
Miss Hattie Dew Hirst, one of the
pretty girls of Huron, Ohio, whose
room was entered by robbers a few
nights ago, received a letter. mailed