Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-28

MS Automobile was struck by last
train and wrecked.
James Norfleet, John Champion and
General Bone, three negro murderers,
were hanged at Memphis for killing
women of their own race.
The dramatic order of the Knights
Of Kherassan in session at Detroit de-
cided to mold the next biennial con
vention at Colorado Springs.
Eight gambling-nouses in Milwau-
kee belonging to the trust were raided
by District Attorney McGovern, over
$50 inmates being locked up.
Major Taggar1 practically admits ac-
cepting presents from ship contractors
who repaired the transport Relief, of
which he was in command.
James Hazen Hyde sold his famous
country place on Long island, prepara-
tory, it is believed. to making his
permanent home in France
Delegates to transmississippi con-
gress at Portland, Ore, rebelled, after
five hours Of speeches AMI asked for
less talk and more business.
Mayor Schmitz, unicn labor mayor
of San Francisco, is accused in a
grand jury report OF grating, protect
ing vice and conniving at crime.
Six out Of nienteen prisoners in the
Benton county, Iowa jail, charged with
horse stealing, made their escape, a
posse giving chase and capturing one
man.
Talk Of disseminating the eighteen
hour New York-Chicago train schedule
is ended by the additions of $1,000,OO0
worth Of equipment to the Pennsyl-
vania special.
The 10-year-old son of Philip Sic
bert, residing near Genoa Bluff, Iowa,
was killed by mule, which ran away
while the boy was entangled in the
halter strap.
At Hillsboro, ILL.,, B. C. Pearman,
aged 49, and Mrs. Mira Fry, aged Al,
both of Litchfeld were married, it be-
ing the groom's fifth marriage and the
Brides third.
The court of inquiry finds that the
explosion on the gunboat Bennington
was due to the negligence of Ensign
Wade and three enlisted men VINO
were killed.
dered the withdrawal from entry Of
10000 acres Of land in the La Grande,
Ore, land district on account of the
Umatilla irrigation project.
More than 500 persons were injured
in a series of accidents in Pittsburg,
the most serious being the collapse of
a platform which precipitated 500 per
sens fifteen feet into cellar
The state department has been in
formed That the Russian government
has postponed for enc year the meet
ing Of the fifth international congress
of obstetrics and gynecology.
In her divorce suit at Wooster,
Ohio, Mrs. Grace Culver Taggart be-
gan her real attack on ner husband,
a witness accusing him of improper
relations with Filipino girl
Norman Cooks mysterious murler
at Nashville, Ind, proves a puzzle to
the authorities despite Mrs. Annie
Bankert's confession that she killed
the man in defense of. her honor.
At Ravenna, Ohio, while playing
with a rifle Paul Jones, aged u, son of
William Jones, accidentally shot his
9-year-old brother Henry and the
wound will probably prove fatal
At Syracuse, Neb., Fireman J. c.
Reed was probably fatally injured by
an explosion which partly demoI-
ished the city gas plant and also
wrecked Ia part of the water works
plant.
At Dubuque, Iowa, in a fight between
Mate j. H. Brinl1er and julius Davis,
a negro, on the steamer Quincy, botn
were shot and Davis will die. Charles
Hanthon, deck hand, was hit by a
stray bullet and cannot live.
AT Toledo, as a result of the explo-
sion CT a gasoline stove two small
children of Mrs. Henry Dillon were
burned to death and the mother was
SO badly injured that she may die. The
house was destroyed by flames.
Railroad Masters association closed
in Cleveland, after changing the name
to international, electing D. B. Swinton
of Montreal president and choosing
Chicago as the next meeting place.
The international waterway COM
mission, composed of representatives
Of the United States and Canada, will
meet in Buffalo, N. Y, on Sept. II for
public hearings, and later will hold
sessions in Toronto and Hamilton,
Ont.
A woman said to be Mrs. Pearl Kohl
of Peoria, H., committed suicide by
jumping into the Mississippi river
from the upper deck of the steamer
Silver Crescent near Canton, Mo. She
was with two men and another wo-
man.
Vinson Walsh, son of Thomas F.
Walsh, Colorado millionaire mine own