Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-21

poisoned her two boys. aged 10 and II,
to collect $50 life Insurance on eacn.
At Bedford, Ind, Frank Ames,
farmer, was waylaid and beaten SO
badly that he has died Of his injuries.
Two Of his assailants are under ar
rest.
BY the capsizing of a boat in a
Whirlpool at Christina lake, near
Grand Forks, B. c., Miss Agnes
Ruckle and Hiss Ida Anderson were
drowned.
preliminary returns rece4 ed by the
bureau OF statistics, department OF
agriculture, indicate that the winter
wheat crop amounts to 424, 400. 900
bushels.
A Nebraska professor told Uniyer-
sity Of Chicago students that the
modern SIM is responsible for more
wrongs than crimes cIassed as law
violations -,
Si1ty-three new cases and seven
deaths mark the spread of yellow
FEVER IN New Orleans in spite of the
fact That United States officials direct
the fight
President Roosevelt addresses
10000 persons at the assembly at
Chautauqua, N. Y, on the Monroe
doctrine and the nations 1nternat
domestic policy
Calvin j. Hendricks, city attorney
mere and master in chancery of Nc
Henry county, ILL.,, bank, was ar
rested at Fruitdale, Ala, charged with
grand larceny.
President Roosevelt was given a
magnificent reception at Wilkesbarre
Pa, by crowd of miners and tenn
perance workers who had gathered to
hear him speak.
In freight wreck on the CHICAGO,
Rock Island and Pacific railway near
Llmon junction, Colo, DR.. Wright
Andyman and Joseph Miller, beth of
omaha, were killed.
Yellow fever, declares medical
Journal, is making it's last stand in
New Orleans; the public is being
taught by the present epidemic that
The Western Bank, a state institu-
tlon OIL Denver, closed it's doors. fol
lowing the run on the Denver SAVINGS
'Sank, and Leonard B. Imboden is said
20 pc responsible for the failure.
Inc Louisiana board of health NAV
ASK the governor to call cut troops to
protect traffic against yellow fever
quarantine regulations. The plague
IS spreading in districts outside the
city.
Mayor Rose characterizes M1lwau-
kee graft investigation 5 revengetul
and insincere, smacking OF n1ittcaI
collusion and adds that the indictment,
or Phster seems to be an unprecedent-
ed outrage
Accused OF stealing three watches
by JeWeler Mathew Manner and
Nicholas k1ttln in Chicago Officer
Oscar Benson killed the first namen
wounded the second and them com
mitted suicide.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
union gave vote OF thanks to Pres1-
dent Roosevelt for his visit. adopted
resolutions for temperance reform ana
adjourned to meet next year at
Providence, R. 1.
At Paris. ILL.,, an Indignation meet
ing has been called because the CITY
council leased Reservoir park to 8
club for twenty-five years at 500
Year, when it is alleged that 81 900
a year might have been obtained.
Charles Johnson, member Of the
sixth Regiment of the state militia
VINO IS accused of deserving his bride
OF two months, has been arrested in
Springfield, ILL.,, where it is alleged he
was arranging &c elope with another
woman.
Attorney Underwood OF Bedford,
Ind, predicts that Sarah Schafer,s
murderers will yet be convicted ana
hanged, and says ne will make a
political issue OF the case to thwart in
fiuences that have shielded the guilty
parties.
Immigrant inspectors arrested
gang OF smugglers near Niagara Falls,
the members OF which have been re-
ceiYing 81 mead for smuggling
Chinese and other aliens into the
United States in violation OF the IN
Spection laws.
At Misnawaka, Ind, double tragedy
resulted when Henry Watt, promi-
nent paper manufacturer, was caught
in machinery belt and killed, and
William Grau, an old friend, dropped
dead of heart disease an hour later on
hearing of the accident.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.
During an alteration at Jefferson
vile, Ind, John Taylor killed Lou
! Phelps with a knife