Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-10-30
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

the stand in a suit by Cuban countess.
Dir. Edmund James James was in
stalled as president Of University of
Illinois,
Forty-three ships and twenty-five
men are known to be lost in the great
lakes storm.
Pesident McCurdy declared nothing
can drive him from the Mutual Life
Insurance company.
United Bank and Trust company or
San Francisco was closed by the state
banking authorities.
At Arcola, ILL.,, j. w. Longenbook
was indicted yesterday for shooting
Policeman H. A. Thornton.
The national purity conference de-
mands investigation of the alleged in
ternational traffic in girls.
The giving of Indian funds to Catho-
lie tribal schools caused discussion in
the Lake Mohonk conference.
cyclone struck Sorrento, Ill, kill
ing eight persons, tajuring twenty
five and demolishing many homes.
A wireless telegram from the liner
San Jacinta, at sea, reported the ma
chinery of the steamer Lansing dis
abled
American theatrical men are to-
meet and formulate plans for erection
of a monument to the memory of
Irving.
Evidence of H. H. Rogers shows
that William Rockefeller and Rogers
each made $3,5OO,O0O profits in the
Boston gas deal.
National purity league is divided
over a proposition made by delegates
to the La Crosse meeting to form a
new organization.
The National League batting aver
ages are announced and show that
Seybour is the leading batsman OF
that organization.
Edward G. Cunliffe who stole $101,-
900 from Pittsburg express office,
was arrested in Bridgeport, Conn, and
made a complete confession.
Developments in the life insurance
scandal point to perjury or forgery
in the case of an Office boy who was
paid 1901 for legal expenses.
Ex-Mayor J. L. Holden of GAINESVILLE,
O., weds within month Of his first
death and is cut off from $4,000 by
the provisions of the latter's will.
Sergeant Petrosino said New York
city is at mercy Of 5000 Italian ban
ditti and that the help of the govern
ment is necessary to drive them out.
President Roosevelt spent quiet
day in st. Augustine, Fla, attending
church in the morning and enjoying a
plunge in the ocean in the afternoon
The unhappy life of Mrs Schandein
is revealed by Mrs. Anna Richard,
an actress, who testified in Heyls be
half in Milwaukee's famous will case.
President Roosevelt arrived at Jack
sonville, Fla, and discussed the Pan
anna canal and relations with West
Indian and South American republics.
At Shelbyville, Ind, burglars blew
open the safe in R. w. Smiths gen
eral store, taking Sill that had been
deposited with him and valuable pa
pers.
Senator Dolliver, speaking at Sedan,
Kan, declared that Rockefeller in
fuence in University of Chicago
makes the campus smell like a Kansas
oil town.
Traffic managers insist before the
interstate commission that the rail
roads are mere agents, acting under
contracts with the private refrigera-
tor car lines.
Jacob Meyer tried to break into the
office of District Attorney Jerome in
New York, saying he wanted to kill
him. He was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will accom-
pany E. H. Hartman on the trip by
which he hopes to break the cross
continent record Of railway travel,
Frisco and New York.
President Roosevelt continues his
tour of the south, his appearance in
Atlanta, Ca, being marked by an en-
thusiastic public reception, 100000
Georgians participating.
H. H White, states attorney Of
Whiteside county, ILL.,, issued sweep
ing order to county officers that all
slot machines and other gambling de-
vices should be conf1scated.
James w Osborne, the Tammany's
nominee for district attorney of New
York, declared Jerome's charge that
he is a puppet in the hands Of Murphy
is false and demands an apology.
Kentucky women agree to give to
the church the proceeds Of all eggs
laid by their hens on Sunday, declar-
ing the money is not tainted because
Sunday-laying is an act of providence.
At Kokomo, Ind, because the old
farm home had been sold and steps
had been taken to send her to an in
sane asylum, Mrs. Sarah Wheeler
committed suicide by hanging yester-
day.
Observers in Washington believe