Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-04

Extremely lax conditions and the
existence of an unwritten code OF rules
among students at Annapolis naval
academy were disclosed in the trial
for manslaughter of Minor Meriweth-
err, Jr., in connection with the death
of Midshipman Branch.
In the Wabash, Ind, circuit court
John D. Patton filed suit for $4,000
damages against the Big Four rail
road as the administrator of the estate
of Michael McGoyern, engineer, killed
in the wreck at Foces station two
years ago.
At Thornburg, a suburb OF Pitts
burg two residences owned and oc-
cupied by. Eugene j. Beck and S. T..
McClerren, together with the con-
tents, were completely destroyed by
fire. The loss is $4,000.
w. S. Manning of Albany, referred
to in the Depew-Nichols correspond
ence as "our cantankerous friend up
the river" expressed anxiety to be
called before the Armstrong commit
tees. He said he could tell many
things.
The government Of Bolivia, in viola
ton of the rights Of Eeru, contracted
cents and Illuminating at IS cents a
thousand cubic feet, and there is
prospect that the rate will be lowered
further on account Of the efforts OF in
dependent companies.
Formal announcement has been
made at the state department at
Washington of the appointment OF
William H. Michael, former chief clerk
of the state department, as consul
general to Calcutta, India. His COM
mission dates from Nov. 16.
At Jackson, Tenn, Hugh G. Ryals
was killed and Warner Blackard OF
Paris, Tenn, seriously injured by fall
ing over banister while engaged i'll
friendly scuff1e at the Southwestern
Presbyterian university. Both were
students and the sons of ministers
There are rumors of friction at the
white house over the struggle OF the
Morgan-Hill coterie to have the sec
rotary of the treasury come to the re-
lief of Wall street with the nations
funds, and the efforts Of the Rookie
feller-City Bank crowd to prevent such
action.
The call by Chairman Melville E.
ingalls, of the public ownership COM
mission recently appointed by the Ma
tional Civic Federation for meeting
Nov. 27 in New York, with plans for
visits to the various public utility
plants owned by cities, has revived in
terest in the investigation.
Nine Sarah Bernhard arrived in
New York to begin her farewell Amer
lean tour, was caught at the docks in
a crush of spectatrs so dense that her
attendants were alarmed for her
safety, and started for Chicago on an
eighteen-hour train. Her opening
there was a great success.
At Presque Isle, Me-, Mrs. Isaac
Barnes was arrested, charged with
murder. 1t is alleged that she placed
strychnine in epson salts, thereby
causing the death of Pearl Barnes,
her Is year old stepdauyh+ y. The
authorities maintain that the poison
was intended for her husband.
At Schoolcraft, Mich, two section
men, John Thomas and G. J. Hover
man, were struck by an east bound
fast train and killed. They stepped
from the track upon which they were
working to allow a freight to pass
and did not see the other train an
preaching. Both men leave large
families.
Attorney General Lorrin Andrews OF
Honolulu, who went to Shanghai two
months ago on a vacation, has sent
! his resignation to Governor Carter.
He has been retained as an attorney
by American firms in Shanghai to con-
duct negotiations in an attempt to
settle the Chinese boycott on Ameri-
can goods.
At Albany, N. Y, the grand jury
has found indictments against John
Dyer Jr., contractor, and Clark l..
Daggett, his supervising architect,
charging them with manslaughter in
their alleged responsibility for the
collapse on Aug. of the department
store building in which thirteen peo-
pie were killed or fatally injured and
tbllly others hurt.