Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-14

oldL6ll6uI I0aU the assets amounted 10
100000 and the liabilities to $4,000.
The drug store of D. L. Buckworth
at Leroy, H., was closed by the
sheriff, the liabilities being estimated
at $4,000 and the assets at much less
Celebration Of the senli-centennial of
the ship canal at Sault Ste. Marie
came to an end with speeches by noted
men, including Vice President Fair
banks
A record case of synesthesia, the
seeing of sounds, is discovered in
the case of a Baltimore clergyman and
five children, all Of whom are affected
similarly
The showing for seven months of
the present year indicates the Equit-
able Life Assurance society's business
for 1905 will be $5O,00O,O0O less than
for 1904.
Attorneys for Charles F. Pfister Of
Milwaukee state that money was not
used for bribery in transactions he
tween him anG Wisconsin Rendering
company.
Fire insurance companies are pre-
pairing to retire from Tennessee be-
cause of the refusal of Commissioners
Folk to allow the local board to in
crease rates.
Hypnotism Of boys and girls will be
employed in his courtroom by Judge
Lindsey of Denver to reform young
incorrigibles who come before him in
the Juvenile Court.
The body Of William c. McKelvey,
manufacturer of concrete mixers, was
found in Toronto. His clothing was
weighted with heavy stones. McKelvey
came from Chicago.
A. B. Loutzenheiser the absconding
teller OF the First National Bank of
Duluth arrested in st. Paul, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary.
Six deaths and foTty-two new cases
of yellow fever are reported in New
Orleans. Mississippi soldiers, acting
as quarantine guards, invaded Louis
lana and clash is imminent.
The weather bureau reports general
ly favorable progress by crops. though
cool weather retards corn in Ohio Val
ley, while rust is reported in scattered
fields of wheat in South Dakota.
The net earnings of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for the
year ended June 80 show a decrease of
more than $3,OOG,0OO, as compared
with the preceding fiscal period
Insurance Commissioner O'Brien Of
Minnesota says the Proposed joint in
yestigation will help the big life in
surance companies by clearing up ru-
mors and restoring public confidence.
AT Minneapolis the Northwestern
Hotel Mems association convention
appointed a committee to draw up
measure to be used as a model in
securing uniform hotel laws in the
northwest states.
The Chicago wife of Major Elmore
F. Taggart is accused in her husbands
ycrce of having engaged in a drink
ing bout and entertained an army
officer late at night
At Wabash, Ind the corner stone of
the new $4,000 thaater to be erected
by the Eagles was laid, addresses be-
ing given by Judge Ermston, head Of
The Eagles in Indiana, and by Con
gresham Fred Lands.
Everyone should ask the tax collec
tor to raise his or her assessment, for
the sake Of the schools, Mrs Clarence
II. Mackay told voters of Roslyn, N.
Y, in her fight for election to the
school beard. she won.
A gasoline explosion at Dale, Wis.
fatally injured John Running Jr., and
severely injured G. G. Kretscnmann or
of her children The saloon of Frank
Kuehnl and several other buildings
were damaged.
The 100000 damage suit brought
~ George H. Robinson, vice presi-
dent c. the Gorham Manufacturing
company Of Providence, r. l., against
Edward Holbrook, president Of the con-
Germ, was settled out of court, the
terms net being made public.
President Roosevelt's idea when he
instructed the Keep commission to
the possibilities of estab-
fishing an official gazette for the gov
eminent is said to have probably been
founded on the precedent which he
found in Porto Rico and Manila.
President Van Else of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, who has just return
ed from two weeks i'll Colorado, denied
that members of the faculty will be
given time off for outside work, such
as teaching city schools or writing
text books as a private enterprise.
At Huntington, w. Va, Captain Will
lam Croker, prominent hotel-keeper
and horseman, was fatally cut in an
encounter with f. II. Jergen. w. E.
Ingram and Walter Mayhem Of Ohio,
all horsemen, and an unknown jockey,
who escaped into Kentucky.