Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23

500 by burglar who entered his
Fifth avenue home just after dark
Preliminary steps were taken in
New York to form council of civic
organizations" to take action in any
thing affecting the people.
J. Ben Peoples, a former prominent
contractor, who had been paroled
from the penitentiary, committed sui
eide by shooting in Plainfeld, Ohio.
United States supreme court up
holds the Iowa anti-cigarette law IN
two cases by deciding that box of
ten cannot be considered an original
package.
Because it is in arrears $4,000 for
texas, the Lincoln, Neb., traction COM
pany, which owns all the street car
lines here is to be placed in the hands
of a receiver on Jan. 80.
At Hoopston, Ill, Mr.. and Mrs. j. S.
| McFerren have ordered $4,000 pipe
organ for the Universalist church as
memorial for a former wife of Mr..
McFerren, Mrs. Ida McFerren.
The Chicago and Alton Railroads
red limited ran through the inter-
locker at Wann, Ill. The engine and
mail car left the track. Conductor
Stewart and Mail Clerk Petit were in
jured.
Engineer Miller and Fireman Hal
pick were killed at the Creston, Ohio,
station of the Erie railroad by the ex-
plosioD of the boiler of their engine.
Joseph Newman, who was in the en-
CINE cab, was fatally injured.
An injunction to prevent the en-
forcement of the ordinance recently
passed by the city council fixing the
price of artificial gas at SO cents
thousand cubic feet was asked by the
Indianapolis Gas Company.
The American Mailing Company
sued Robert Nunnemacher of Milwau-
kee for $1,850,350, which, it is assert
ed, he wrongfully voted in dividends
while director of the company.
At Garrett, Kan, ]. w. flashing and
Frank Johnson are dead and seven
perosns are suffering from injuries as
the result of an explosion of natural
gas which destroyed a bakery and two
stores and damaged other buildings.
At the annual convention of the
American Institute of Architects in
Washington, the president, W. S..
Eames of st. Louis, deprecated the les
sening interest on the part of con-
gross in the architecture of public
buildings.
Counsel for William J. Bryan filed
in New Haven, Conn.,, notice of appeal
to the supreme court from the deci-
sion of Judge Robinson excluding as
evidence the sealed letter by which
Philo S. Benentt requested his widow
to turn over to Mr.. Bryan the sum of
$4,000.
Henry Phipps, associate and life
long friend of Andrew Carnegie, es-
tablished a fund of $1,000,000 with
which to erect and maintain model
tenements in New York city. His gift,
it is said, is only "a forerunner Of
others to be made by prominent and
wealthy men.
The Union Pacific railroad has let
contracts for the double-tracking Of
the Union Pacific line in Kansas from
Kansas City to Topeka and for the
construction of a new line from Men
oxen and Onaka, Kan, which will
complete a cut off from Topeka Kan,
to Grand Island, Neb.
The Board of inquiry in the case of
Bishop Talbot met in Reading, Pa,
and decided that, under the canons of
the church which went into effect Jan.
/, it had no authority to take up the
investigation of the charges of DR..
inquiry now, but the case may be re-
vived under the new canons.