Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-11-13

| injuries that made her unconscious
several hours.
A former salesman for the N. X
Fairbank company tried to kill the
| cCmpany's New York manager be
cause the latter prevented him receiv
| ing the usual bonus.
| st. Stephan Faulkner, an oil opera
ter, who has been missing a week
was found dead in a cabin in the
woods near Marion, Ind, with a bull
let hole in his head.
| Hall Game, before sailing from
New York for home, said honor is de-
caying in America and England, and
that the rich set bad example by
lying and cheating in business.
A. o. Scott, farmer OF the town Of
Atlanta, six miles north of Bruce dis
appeared on Oct. q and has not been
seen since. From the appearance OF
his home foul play is suspected
Everett B. Thomas, former super
visor of the government forest re
serves in south California. has been
indicted charged with having pre-
scented false and fictitious claims.
Four former officials of the Nor
western National Life Insurance com
pany and E. E. Darth, former state
insurance commissioner of Minnesota,
are indicted by the Minneapolis grand
jury.
At Petersburg, Ind, by the explo-
sion of boiler in a sawmill William
Casey, the proprietor, and Jacob Ded-
man, an employee, were killed, and
Lemuel Morton and Cleland Bird were
injured.
Paul Morton, at a Pittsburg banquet
to Equitable agents, told them the
assets Of the company were intact
He promised radical reduction in
expenses, but pockets one of $4,000
himself.
Tammany has a well-organized sys-
tenn for reducing the taxes of bust
ness concerns which pay literally to
the tigers fund, and that other favors
are granted at the expense of the
city for cash.
The tunnel under Bakers hill on
the Louisville and Nashville road, six
teen miles west of Nashville, has been
completed and the first trains went
through. The tunnel is nearly mile
long and cost 100000.
At Bloomington, Ill, John Roeder,
widely known as ttHoly' John, through
his charity and efforts in behalf of the
wanderers and homeless, and also his
great piety, killed himself with a re
volver because of ill-health.
Charles NJ Schwab satisfied
mortgage of $1O,O0O,OOO entered in by
the recorders office at Allentown, Pa.
by the United States Ship-building
company in 1902 and covering his
property Of the Bethlehem Steel com
pany in Lehigh county.
G. V. Van Dousen, appointed by
President Roosevelt to look into
naturalization frauds, reports that
from Is to 35 per cent of those ad,
mitted to citizenship are not en-
titled to it, and declares labor con-
iitions are largely responsible.
Laws to protect song birds from
being killed by cats, requiring license
tags for the animals and holding
their owners responsible for their dep
relations, are urged by the pres1
dent of the National Assonciation OF
Audubon Societies in New York.
By the explosion of the boiler of
big oil-burning freight locomotive
near Dallas, Texas, Engineer James
Davenport and Brakeman Monroe
Glenn were killed and Fireman j. N.
Taylor was badly scalded and one or
his legs was broken. Valuable freight
was destroyed.
The 1rvine-Talbot scandal in the
Episcopal church is followed by the
announcement that Rev. DIR. Ingram
N. w. Irvine, who was expelled from
the priesthood of the Episcopal
church as the result of the dispute,
will be received as a priest in the
Orthodox Russian church.
At Washington, Ind, after binding
and gagging Jacob Shield, aged 40.
four cracksmen, presumably the same
men who robbed the bank at Sand
born, Ind, blew open the safe of the
Odon bank, fifteen miles from Sand
born, but were unable to reach com
partment holding $1,000 in cash