Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-02-13
DOMESTIC.


A specific charge of police collision
with crime is made in Philadelphia.
Porto Rico is to adopt civil service
rules submitted by this government.
The Masons of Fond du Lac have
raised SIS, 1000 toward a fund Of $4,000
for a Masonic temple.
At Elkhart, Ind, Daniel Cleary aged
70, a. cobbler recluse, was found dead
with $4,000 in securities on his person.
Estlangement of Richard Croker
and his wife is said to have been
ended by the tragic death OF their
son.
At Waterloo Iowa, WEIGH Brothers,
drygoods merchants, have filed petit
ton in bankruptcy, with liabilities of
$4,000 and assets Of $4,000
The strike of the cab drivers union
in Philadelphia has called out 600 men
but the livermen refuse to sign an
agreement, and are hiring nonunion
men.
Supt. Miller of the Binghampton, N
Y, public schools, is trying to secure
Principal E. S. Martin of the McMynn
school, Racine, as principal of the larg-
est school of the New York city.
The Missouri supreme court affirmed
the Judgment of the lower court, which
convicted William Rudolph of the muir
der. of Detective Schumacher and SEN
fenced him to be hanged March IT,
At Fairbault, Mimi, Thomas H.
Clement of the First National bank has
been arrested on a charge of misap-
propriating $21 900 of the institutions
funds, the bank having failed on Jan.
2.
In the. case of the Morris Pratt es-
tate of Whitewater against the trus-
tees of the Morris Pratt Institute asso-
citation of Whitewater, the court has
rendered a decision in favor Of the
trustees.
At Valley City, N. D., in fire in
steam laundry here Engineer H. E.
Zerverson was so badly burned he
may lose his eyesight, and Miss Nora
Nelson was seriously injured about her
face and hands.
Nine Rejane denies vigorously the
report that she danced a cancan at the
Louis XVI. ball given in Sherry's in
New York City, by James II. Hyde, de-
claring to have done so would have
been an anachronism.
Fourteen horses and two mich
COWS and the Barr livery stable at
Glen Haven were destroyed by fire,
together with two other large barns
and an icehouse. The loss is $1,000
with $3.50 insurance.
J. G. KimbalI, general secretary and
father of the First Council of Seventy
of the Mormon church, has issued a
signed statement in Salt Lake City,
Utah, denying that he has defended
the practice of polygamy.
Joseph S. Jordan, accused of having
given money to State Senators French
Bunkers, Wright and Emmons Of the
California legislature for the purpose
of influencing legislation, has been re-
leased on $4,000 bail in Sacramento.
A bill prepared by Prof. George D.
Watrous, of the Yale law school, has
been presented in the Connecticut
senate. 1t forbids strikes or the re
duction of wages or increase of work
ing hours without three days notice.
The body of Mrs. Martha Kirkpat-
rick was found in an alley in AL
legheny, Pa, and former admirer is
under arrest The womans body
lay on the frozen ground fifteen hours
before it as found, and the crime is
shrouled in mystery
Reports from the Wisconsin woods
say many deer are being slaughtered
by the wolves. The deep snow is MAX
ing it possible for the ravenous ami
mails to easily overtake and kill the
deer. The carcasses of the deer are
seen in all parts Of the pineries.
Postmaster General Wynne has re-