Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-05-01

charge OF manSlaughter. Cleland SnOt
and killed Mrs. H. H. Cox last May,
mistaking her for burglar.
Grant Bacon, a Indiana convict,
who escaped three years ago, has been
captured in Danville, H., and will be
brought to Michigan City to serve out
his term, which was for two to four
teer years.
George w. Berge, fusion candidate
for governor of Nebraska last fall has
purchased the Nebraska Independent,
and will make an issue of the free
pass, used to influence legislation.
The moultry house of Railsback B
Hadley at Bedford,> Ind was burned
with $50 cases of eggs, 500 chickens,
$50 geese and fifty barrels of produce.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Photographers association OF
Pennsylvania, whose membership rep
resents several states, at it's annual
session in Washington, D. c., elected
A. T. Proctor of Huntington, w. Va,
president.
Fire broke out in Bliss cottage of
the Michigan industrial home for girls
at supper time last evening, badly
, burning the second and third stories
and frightening the fifty occupants OF
the building.
The three-masted undertaken
schooner Ida B. Gibson was rammed
in Hampton Roads by the steamer
Tampican during gale and sank to
the waters edge, later being towed to
! Norfolk by tugs.
A new abbattoir being built by New
York butchers to break the grip of the
beef trust is expected to be in opera
ton by the end of May. 1t has several
novel features, including a ''roof
garden for cattle.
Counsel for Mrs Mary Rogers, now
under sentence of death in Windsor
/ Vt.) prison for the murder OF her
husband Marcus Rogers and who was
granted a reprieve until June 2, filed a
petition for new trial.
Victor Morawetz of the Santa Fe
railroad, in testimony before the senate
committee On interstate commerce in
Washington, denied that his company
paid $1,000,000 in rebates to the
, standard OH In Kansas.
Andrew Carnegie announced the
secret marriage of his favorite niece,
Nancy Carnegie, a year ago, to James
Hever, coachman formerly employed
by the young woman's mother and
says he is satisfied with the match.
At Hamilton, Ohio, Roy Greenfield,
aged Is, somnambulist, left his home
in the night and his body was found in
brush pile beside Seven-Mile Creek
The cause of his death is a mystery,
as there is no evidence of violence.
Philadelphia has officially decided to
request the government to designate
that city as the place for the burial OF
the remains of Admiral John Paul
Jones, his commission in the navy
having been received from that city
General agents of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, at stormy meet
ing in New York, adopted resolu-
ticn demanding the resignation of Mr..
Hyde, but the latter declares their
action 'insolvent" and says he will
not retire.
County Prosecutor Keller of Cleve-
land, is considering the advisability of
bringing Cassie L. Chadwick to trial
upon the indictments for forgery re-
turned by the county grand jury de-
spite the proceedings against her now
pending in the federal court.
Mrs, James LingafGlter, whose hus.
band and son Robert were recently
/ convicted of forgery in connection
with the failure of the Newark, Ohio,
Savings bank, was indicted on a
charge Of aiding in the forgery. The
entire family is now implicated
i State Examiner John A. Bliss re.
ported an apparent deficit of $2,114.4O
/ in the books of the treasury OF
Columbiana county, Ohio, which he
! thinks is a clerical error, and Illegal
compensation fees and purchases
amounting to $9,877.S9, of which
$23S.19 has been turned back into the
treasury
Edward Hilton, aged so, of East
Waterford, Maine, shot and killed
! George Young, As years old, slasheo
his wife terribly about the head and
neck with knife and then killed him
SELF The women, it is thought, vii
! recover. The tragedy is, said to have
! follow ed a quarrel between the mer
j regarding Mrs. Hilton.
The Judiciary committee of the New
York state assembly completed it's in
vestigation of the conduct of Warner
B. Hooker of Fredonia, justice of the
state supreme court, for alleged il
regularities in connection with ap
|, pointments in the Fredonia and For
Plain postoffices and the leasing Of
building for the postoffice in Dunlxirk
!; and will report to the assembly.
: BY CABLE.
Bulgaria threatens independence