Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-11-20
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The appellate division of the New
York supreme court dismissed the
suit of j. r. Plat to recover $685., 900
from Hannah Elias.
William Conn, a mining expert and
former postmaster OF Winamac, Ind,
is reported killed in the Sonora dis
trict of old Mexico
Frank White, an escaped convict
from Joliet, after lodging the police
for year, walked in and surrendered
to a sergeant at Omaha.
Arthur Goldstein, who was arrested
in Milwaukee charged with stealing
$4,000 worth of jewelry, has been
taken back to Minneapolis.
Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews Of
the University of Nebraska tells uni
versity presidents in Washington he
is a loyal friend of football.
New York's great horse show was
opened before a brilliant gathering
of smart men and women, including
Prince Louis of Battenberg.
Within plain sight of hundreds Eric
Horejs, a switchman, was run down
and killed by hose cart responding
to fire alarm in Milwaukee.
At st. Joseph, Mich, during the
absence Of it's parents the infant son
of John Daring crawled on a red hot
stove and was fatally burned.
New York and Bermudez Asphalt
company charges that Castro and
other Venezuelan officials attempted TO
extort 100000 from the company.
A Joliet brewery celebrated it's open
ing by getting citizens intoxicated on
free beer and a temperance crusade
is inaugurated by church workers.
Percy f. Megargel and D. F. Fassett
reached Portland, Ore, in a sixteen.
horse power touring car after a 4,3O0-
mile journey from New York city.
Fourteen dwelling-houses and store
buildings were destroyed by an in
cendiary fire at Rouba1x, a mining
town twelve miles south of Deadwood
S. D.
the people vote on the proposition Of
having a municipal electric light
plant at Buffalo, N. Y, was carried by
5,741.
Austin Francis has been formally
charged with the murder of Winona
Newton, the 15-year-cld Kansas City
girl Francis was the girls sweet
heart.
Rufus Wood, a notorious diamond
thief and pickpocket, escaped from
the sheriff at Frankfort, Ind, by jump
ing through a car window on the way
to prison.
Delegates of fourteen southern
states in conference at Chattanooga,
Tenn, asked the federal government
to take exclusive charge of quarantine
regulations.
President Mccall of the New York
Life Insurance company was per-
emptorily ordered to secure the re-
turn of Lawyer Andrew Hamilton
from Europe.
Suit of the government against the
Pabst Brewing Company and seven
railroads alleging illegal rebates will
be heard this month by the United
States court.
At Winnipeg, DR.. A. V. Peterson, a
dentist of New York, is under arrest
charged with stealing $4,000 worth OF
furs. The furs were found in his
boarding house.
Markers showing the positions in
the battle of Chickamauga Of the
thi1ty-ninth, fifty-eighth and sixtieth
North Carolina infantry regiments
were dedicated
In a circus train wrecked near AT
kansas City, Ark, several employees
may have been killed. Many of the
animals escaped and others were
crushed to death.
Over $500 sailors attended a great
banquet given at Coney Island by
Admiral Evans fleet to the British Of
Prince Louis squadron and drank
1880 glasses of beer.
The Sunday-closing law was en-
forced throughout Indiana, officers in
every city and town preventing the
sale of liquors, and many saloon
keepers were arrested.
Booker T. Washington has arrested
a Porto Rican student sent to Mont
gomery, Ala, by the Porto Rican gov
eminent, who ran away from school.
claiming to be an alien.
At Kansas City John Dixon, former
ly private secretary of United States
Senator William A. Clark of Montana,
was found dead in his room. Dixon
had been i'll for some time.
A well-dressed stranger giving his
name as M. c. Temple of Detroit but
on whose laundry was the name M. G.
Thompson, committed suicide at Elk
hart, Ind, with chlOroform.
Joseph Hughes of Hamilton, O., for
mer consul to Birmingham, has re
ceived a verdict of $4,000 against
Felix M. Warburg, rich New York
automobolist who injured him.
President Hegeman of the Metropol-