Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-18

was necessary.
The report that Perkins will resign
from the vice presidency Of New York
Life are confirmed.
Sunday closing law is enforced at
Joliet and Rock Island to the conster-
nation of the saloon-keepers.
The c., H. and D. and Pere Mar
uqette are declared insolvent by the
federal court at Cincinnati.
Dowie collapsed while addressing
his followers in Zion City and made his
talk while seated in a chair.
Federal Judge Philips in a rebate
ruling at Kansas City blamed shippers
and advised their prosecution.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago appointed committee to
secure far reaching reforms in foot
ball.
Edward Guthrie was killed with a
pitchfork by his brother Frank near
overly, N. D., because the former was
abusive.
| Columbia university students ap-
prove prohibition of football, but asked
that the date of prohibition be de-
layed.
While standing in front of an open
CRATE the 3-year-old child of Mrs.
Jane Ponyard of Evansville, Ind, was
burned to death.
The Chicago council defeated two
traction matters which Mayor Dunno
wanted passed and knocked out his
gas program.
A hotel proprietor on the Mutual
Reserves pay roll for $500 a week al
mitted before the Armstrong commit
tee that he had nothing to do.
Willis Lawrence was shot accident
ally and led at Pittsburg, Kan, by
| John Graham, his stepson. Graham
was playing with a target rife.
immigration is not a peril to the
country, asserted Andrew Carnegie IN
/ speech in New York. but aliens are
eeded and are worth paying premiums
for.
Joliet brewers were fined for giving
! free drinks to schoolboys at the open
ing of the plant Exciting scenes in
court marked the trial of the accused
4 officials.
Jesse Kosher was found guilty at
Sterling, ILL.,, of the murder of Jacob
Weaver on June "a and sentenced to
life at Joliet. His father and brother
were acquitted.
Mrs. Elizabeth Copeland, aged 50,
who for fifty years put a plate on the
table at every meal for her husband
who deserted her, died at New
Lebanon, Ind.
Illinois freight rates were cut 20
per cent. by order of the state com
mission. The decision affects all
kinds of shippers. An appeal to the
courts is unlikely.
Louis Rhodes, a Posey county, In
diana, farmer, was found in the road
near his home, where he had fallen
from his buggy. Hogs had eaten off
several Of his fingers.
Archbishop Messmer, in a letter,
defended the action taken by Bishop
Scanned in his accommodation
edict. He declared a lesson to Cath
olics was sadly needed.
Edward Tomlinson, distiller al
Keokuk Falls, Ok, was shot and
killed by F. NJ Grundy as the result OF
a feud. Grundy took refuge in a barn
and resisted arrest.
DR.. Emil G. Hirsch warns the Jews
of America that an anti-Semitic dem
onstration may come in this country
unless a broader principle OF dealing
with other races is practiced.
Governor Samuel w. Pennypacker
of Pennsylvania and party were at
i Andersonville, Ca, to attend the dedi-
cation of the monument to the Penn
sylvania dead in the civil war.
The vice president of the Mutual
i Reserve Life Insurance company de-
clared that large sums had been ex-
torted from the company by lawyers,
employees and state examiners.
District Attorney Jerome OF New
york takes the first step to obtain
information to De used in bringing to
! Justice life insurance officials who
lave been guilty OF criminal acts.
O0uCIOI AIIlSQA GhbCla CPO1i 'AAN
thirty-third year of his service in the
upper house and the forty-third OF ais
+. career in congress, a record exceedeo
by but one other American states nan
President King of Oberlin college
has announced a gift through the will
of Miss Anne Walworth of Cleveland
valued at $4,000, the proceeds to be
4 used to maintain the Slavic depart
ment.
Oliver Mote, 80 years old, formerly
! a brakeman on the Vandalia lines,
living in Chicago, was killed at Mum
Gle, Ind, while switching on the Lake
/ Erie and Western. He fell between
the cars.
AS a result OF the decision OF the
Michigan supreme court declaring IN
constitutional the new Juvenile court
law thirty-seven boys sentenced to the