Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-07-24

UulIOu States O0udCOI OldIh COiA
tinued to rally, but MS condition Is
serious. He had an operation en- he
skull
Elihu Root n a letter urges Mayor
Weaver OF Philadelphia to start
criminal prosecution against corruGr
tionists.
Kansas is growing ricn very rapidly,
the recent huge crops having paid Oft
the mortgages and left millions in TIE
! banks.
Strikers wrecked Brooklyn cloth
! ing factory and probably fatally in
/ jured the proprietor in an education
al' fight
| President Roosevelt will not try to
name his successor in 1905, but will
leave the field open. Root and Taft
! are in line.
! At Detroit Daniel V. Gray, saloon
/ keeper, stabbed his wife to death be-
cause she upbraided him for his
! habits.
Pearys snip, Roosevelt, sailed
from New York on voyage to the
north pole. He will join the vessel at
Cape Breton.
John d. Rockefeller, through his at
! torney, denies the charge Of Miss Tar
bell that he wronged his former friend
John Ccrrigan, in stock deal.
Thomas F. Ryan is said to have
agreed to sell Hyde stock back to the
Equitable for $2,50O,OOO, thus insuring
thorough naturalization.
| Superintendent OF Insurance Hera-
ricks issued a statement defending
his action in the Equitable case. Sup
preston of testimony is denied.
The Milwaukee grand jury takes up
| the purchase OF the new morgue site,
in which the gang in the county
/, board is said to have made $4,000.
- Sentiment among members of the n.
y. legislature in favor of an EQuit-
able Investigation is growing and Gov
3rnor Higgins will be urged to act.
A former German army officer disap-
pears from Marinette, Wis. and is
supposed to hav killed himself as the
result Of a grewsone duel compact.
At Broadhead, Wis, Lafayette En-
I sor. aged 55, shot himself after at
tempting to kill his wife, aged so, as
the climax to a series Of family
troubles.
Samuel Reymer, who married a
dancing girl, is practically disinherit-
ed by the will of his millionaire father
which is filed for probate in Pitts
: burg.
: w. B. Howell, millionaire cotton
planter of Pine Bluff, Ark. committed
suicide in New York because phylicans
were unable to save him from bl1na
ness.
District Attorney McGoyern OF Mil
waukee, considering the batch OF 81
indictments returned by the grand
jury says: I'VE hope to do mucn bet
ter
! The president has decided to eel
congress to meet in extra session
Nov. 10 to consider rate legislation
: and will send in a strong n message on
the subject.
Equitable disclosures start clamo1
for the scalp of Chauncey M. Depew
who may be forced out as q director
Of the society and thus lose a Yale
trusteeghip.
George H. Drake and Howard -Appl :
gate were appointed receivers OF the
closed Citizens bank Of Yellow
Springs, Ohio. The bank probably
will be recpened
Chairman ShOnts policy as to 500 6
Of the engineering problems OF tie
canal will depend On a VISIT o Ia
iatnmus. He is determined to MAKE
zone healthy and habitable.
President Roosevelt, in an address
to physicians of Long Island, scored
the Panama 'quitters, and in prais.
ing the medical profession pays a
tribute to General Leonard Wood.
Morris K, Jesup of New York gave
$4,000 for Commander Peary'
$4,000 needed, and the explorer lie
clares ne surely will reach the north
pole.
Startling revelations Of the affairs Of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society,
contained in the testimony taken at the
|
superintendent Hendricks report, are
| printed.
i A negro named McGill murdered ten
! men, a woman and a baby, and caused
the scutting of the boat in which all
were sailing from Utilla, on the coast
/ OF Honduras, to the mainland He
! was captured. 49,
The Morgan & Hawley company, a
wholesale jewelry concern OF Dallas,
Texas, recently forced into bankruptcy
/ by creditors, filed schedules showing
the assets to be c153,65O.1 and the
liabilities $90,341.96.
j. G. Gilman, who was arrested in
| Hymera, suspected of being implicated
! in the assassination OF RalstOn Caro-.
we'll at Coalmont, made confession
in which he charged Henry Sluier
! x1yi lzjIIino Cor,Juyon