Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-11-27

him were mysteriously paid yester-
| day.
At Detroit for the second time a
jury disagreed as to the guilt of Coro-
ner Otto T. Toepel on the charge of
obtaining money from the state under
false pretenses, when the jurors in
the second trial, after being out
twenty-three hours yesterday, report
ed that they could not reach a deci-
sion.
At North Greenfield, Wis, after an
all-night search Mrs. Matilda Mack,
living with her son on a farm, was
found burned to death. The family
went away for a visit, leaving Mrs.
Mack who was 70 years of age, at
home. 1t is thought her clothing
became ignited and she fed from the
house
President Warfeld of Lafayette col
lege announces that the college has
received a gift of 100000 from Ralph
Voorhees, of Clinton, N. j., the fund
being raised for the celebration of the
seventy-ffth anniversary Of the col
lege. Other gifts bring the total
amount of the fund already raised to
$162,5O0.
The Wisconsin division of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton reelected Mrs. Thomas Hoyt
Brown of Milwaukee as regent and
chose Mrs. o. H. Fethers of James
vile vice regent, Mrs. Frank B. Hos
kins of Fond du Lac recording secre-
tary and Mrs. G. F. Gilkey Of Oshkosh
treasurer.
A stranger is under arrest at Water
bury, Conn, on suspicion that he is
Charles Rogers, wanted In connecT1on
with the triple murder at Middletown
N. Y, last October. He says his
name is John G. Hamlin. He has ad-
mitted that be was in Middletown in
October, but denies any knowledge OF
the crime.
/ Mrs. Marie Santangelo, an italian
immigrant, is detained at Ellis island
while making the choice between part
ing possibly forever with her two
4 children in order to make her home
here with her husband or of giving
up her husband to return to Italy with
/ the children Her husband is living
at Youngstown, o.
Senator Depew, hastily summoned
4 before the legislative investigating
/ committee in New York, pale at the
sight of a card bearing a name at
tached to a voucher of the Equitable
Life Assurance society, and Attorney
Hughes, with remark about mot
blasting a reputation" decided to
/ keep the matter secret.
The National grange Patrons OF
] l1usbandry went on record in favor OF
4 temperance and the curtailing OF
4 saloons, declaring "That they should
! be abridged until they are abolished. =
The grange condemned all influences
4 brought to win legislation by lobby
lists or others, and deplored the use
Of money in campaigns.
After abducting a 15-year-old girl
named Crosby, forcing his wife to
leave and installing the Crosby girl
in her place at his home at Lookout
KY, Ebert BARLEY tired of the latter
and while in a rage shot her He was
arrested, and in making break for
liberty was killed by an officer. The
Crosby girl will recover.
At Biggers, Ark, John Shipey and a
young man named Dennis are dead
and Lee Jones, Deputy Sheriff James
Wisner and Marshal Jesse Johnston
/ are seriously wounded as the result OF
a clash between. a gang Of alleged
cotton thieves and a sheriff's posse
j Shipley, Dennis and Jones are said tc
have been members of the gang.
The steamer Californian of the
Hawaiian line has arrived al
San Diego, CAL, sixty-four days out
from New York. Shortly after the
steamer left New York one member
Of the crew was killed and four others
were badly scalded through the burst
! ing of a water tube on one Of the boil
ers. The injured men were placed
in hospital at st, Lucia, in the West
Indies.