Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-02-20
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Alton B. Parker lost his first case in
the New York supreme court.
Ex-Mayor J. S. McCue of Charlottes-
vile, Va, was hanged for the murder
of his wife.
One person was killed and twenty
are injured in a railroad wreck near
Melbourne, Iowa.
President Leighton of the defunct
South Side bank at Lima, o. was in
dicted for embezzlement.
The Kansas supreme court holds that
the law does not forbid the soliciting
of bride by public officer.
At whitman Neb., as the result of a
previous quarrel over a game of cards
G. B. Phillips shot and killed J..
Boehme.
E. w. Settles five private banks in
Illinois and Indiana collapsed, he dis
appeared and many depositors lose
savings.
Austrians in Boston swear that
Grown Prince Rudolph, long supposed
to be dead, is alive and hiding In
America.
Deputy Tax Commissioners Himmel-
stein Of Milwaukee, accused Of graft
ing" was released by the court ana
reinstated
Long missing stanza of Edgar A.
Poe's Ulalume is found, and the manu-
script of the poem is to be sold at
auction in New York.
Richard Croker inherits the 100000
estate of his son Frank, who was kill
ed in an automobile accident in Flor
ida and left no will
Fire in the Casino theater, New
York just before the matinee hour,
caused a panic among chorus girls,
four of whom are injured.
AT Spencer, Iowa, Canrad Weigman
was found not guilty of the murder of
II. N. Deter. He was acquitted on
the ground OF self-defense.
A committee of twenty-five citizens
of Oakt0wn, Ind, filed charges against
'ex-Trustee James E. Cullop, alleging
ne was short in his accounts $4,000
Governor Higgins of New York com
muted the sentence of w. f. Miller,
manager of the Franklin Syndicate
swindle, and he will be released from
prison.
Hannah Elias won case in the
New York supreme court, the decision
releasing funds said to have been
wrongfGlIy obtained by her from John
r. Platt
Fred Hossfield, aged 40 and deaf,
was killed by a train in Fort Wayne
dnd. He left a 500 insurance policy
in favor of his clearinghouse keeper,
Mrs. Ireland.
The Kansas legislature will consider
three bills which practically will drive
the Standard Oil company from the
state and the legislation probably will
be speedily passed.
James N. Richardson, SO years old
and president of the Mclean Drug
company, committed suicide at his
home in st. Louis by shooting. FL
nancial difficulties was the reason.
At Clarksburg, w. Va, Charles
STOu1Q SnOC anu k1Il0Q BUCK hanger,
a negro, at Glen Elk. Hanger assault
ed Gould with large knife and the
latter pulled his revolver and fired.
Abijah Baker, aged so years, OF
Pawpaw township, near Wabash, Ind,
was cutting timber in the woods on
his farm when a limb fell from a tree
and fractured his skull, causing death.
A man supposed to be E. G. Allen,
general sales agent for the Appleton
Car Mover company of Appleton, was
killed by an express train at Port
Chester, N. Y, while crossing the
tracks.
Hayden Clogsdon of Virden, Ill,
was found unconscious near the rail-
road tracks at Desola and died. A
large gaping wound on the side of the
head gives evidence that he was foul
by dealt with.
Detective Charles Snyder, who had
been employed by the Anti-saloon
league to secure evidence against
gamblers and saloon-keepers violating