Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-06-12

Improvement Co.'S lease for Is years.
Japan placed contracts In the
United States for $1,000 900 of electr1-
cal equipments. tools anu machinery.
At Massoula, Mont, Chess Thomas
was stabbed in quarrel by }. Ii.
Cooley, his brother-in-law, and is not
expected to live.
The Interstate Paper company, IN
Guiding every book paper mill IN In
diana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Mimi
esota. has dissolved.
Jimmie" Hope, son OF cracks
man and one of the Manhattan bank
robbers of twenty-seven years ago,
died in New York
The strike of the 500 employees OF
the American Can company at Daven-
port, Iowa, terminated in a complete
surrender OF the strikers.
William Ziegler, patron OF arctic
explorations left an estate worth $780,
! 100000, the bulk of which goes to MS
14-y ear-old adopted son.
James Dalrynple told a cleveland
audience that municipal ownership
would fail in American cities under
present political conditions.
A New York magistrate held twenty
! four theater managers on conspiracy
charges for barring James S. Net
calfe from forty seven playhouses.
Laborers at Olitic, Ind, who found
and restored 100000 in securities
stolen rom bank in Wilmington, LII,
were given SIS reward.
| The Mohonk conference on interna-
tional arbitration adopted platform
setting forth the achievements and
purposes of the movement.
| Threats of anonymous letter writer
to murder his daughter leads an
Oswego, n. Y, man to offer reward
of $4,000 for the miscreant's arrest.
George Kruzich was shot and killed
yesterday by his son-in-law, Frank
/ Pedarek, near Grape Creek, Ill. Pc
darek claims he acted in self-defense.
The Lewis and Clark exposition was
| opened. President Roosevelt in the
white house touched an electric key
that started the machinery 5000 miles
away.
Attorney J. D. O'Brien was brought
back to Vinita, l. T. from Lewiston,
Idaho, and placed in Jail on charges
of forgery preferred by the federal
grand jury.
A Philadelphia locomotive works
has received an order for ESQ locomo-
tives for the Imperial railway OF
Japan, in addition to the 100 ordered
the first of the year.
Warren A. Carpenter of Woonsocket
was nominated for governor of Rhode
Island by the socialist party and
James w. Higgins of washington for
lieutenant governor.
John Welker charged with the muir
der of Minnie Melchin at Fort Wayne,
Ind, entered a plea of not guilty.
Former Sheriff Melchin, father of the
dead girl, said: well make him
stretch hemp
President Roosevelt has proclaimed
new forest reserve IN California to
be nown as the Lassen Peake reserve,
which covers part of the northern
Sierra range and contains a fraction
under 100000 acres.
J. L. Galloway, tax collector of Fan
ming county, Ia, and his brother
George Galloway? were killed on an
excursion train near McKay's, Tenn.
by an officer of the railroad company
named Ewin, who was badly cut.
That the general conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church in 1908
be held in Cincinnati was the object
sought by a movement set under way
there by the Methodist ministers at
their weekly meeting.
Hyde and Alexander combined in
an effort to make Robert T. Lincoln
of Chicago chairman of the equitable
directorate, to rank over all other Of
ficers They buried the Ratchet and
joined forces to fight Wall street in
fiuence.
Walter Damrosch, director of the
New York Symphony Orchestra, has
settled for the present the controversy
with the New York Musical Protective
Union by paying under protest fine
of $1,GQ0 for putting five imported
musicians at work without ''advertis-
ing sufficiently"
James w. Alexander is to be shorn
of power and supplanted by the chair
man of the board of directors Of the
| Equitable Life Assurance Society.
James Hazen Hyde is requested to sell
his stock inside of three months. The
| Frick committee report was rejected
/ by the directors, and Prick, Bliss and
| Hartman resigned.
LABOR STRIKE.
The Chicago grand jury indicted 70
| labor leaders for cOnSniracY Twelve