Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-05-29
of Grace Trunphour, aged

nruder of Grace Trunphour. aged
20.
Minister John Barrett to Panama
declared the yellow fever problem on
the isthmus was greater tnan that OF
administration or Of engineering
canal.
Mrs. o. H. F. Belmont and other
leaders of the New York "400' Will
build a model tenement, the largest In
the world, exclusively for families
with children.
Water used to extinguish a fire at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, caused q short cir
cult from a large dynamo and started
second blaze that results i'll losses OF
100000.
The sulphite plant of the Riverside
Fiber and Paper company at Apple
ton, was destroyed by fire. The insur-
ance is 100000. The loss may be
20 per cent. more.
The Standard Oil company's new
pipe line from Kansas City to Whiting,
Ind, is completed and the system Will
reach half across the continent, ending
st Bayonne, N, j.
Governor Johnson of Minneapolis
has fixed Aug. 8 as the date for the
execution Of William Williams, con-
y;cted of the murder of Mrs. F. G.
! Keller and son John.
A woman and two men, believed to
be ring-lea1ers of the band which
blew open the safe in a private bank
at Gilbertsville. N. Y, stealing $4,000,
were arrested in New York City.
At Salisbury, N. c., HI. Clay Grubb,
acquitted of the charge OF numbering
his brother-in-law, was ambpshed with
a companion nine miles from sails
bury, and both were badly wounded.
John Yarras, Is years OF age, OF
Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, was shot
and killed by his father, Jacob Var
ras, miner. In an arte-mortem state
ment the boy said they were shooting
at a mark
Robert Shaw. supposed crazy
negro, after killing one man and
wounding seven others while defying
arrest near Waitman, Ky, was driven
from his house by fire and riddled with
bullets.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Winona Lake, Ind, voted for union
with the Cumberland church and
authorized a committee to arrange the
details of the consolidation SO as to
safeguard powers.
At Harrisburg, ILL.,, Chief of Police
Koerner shot and probably fatally
wounded Clifford Mason, miner.
Mason had attempted to shoot Harvey
Strickland, a pit boss, who had dis
charged him, and when Koerner tried
to arrest him he shot the officer in the
leg.
Professor John Herbert Leonard, a
PIANIST, who says his home is in Chi
cago, is under arrest in Jane stown, N.
Y. on warrant sworn out by Bal
timore man. who declares his wife's
mind has been wrecked by Leonard's
undue influence and that a diamond
ring and $500 was stolen by Leonard.
In the case CT the United States
against Senator w. A. Clark, involv-
ing the title to 100000 woi tn of tim
United States circuit court of appeals
affirmed the Judgment of the lower
court in favor of Clark, holding that
he was the innocent purchaser of
the land under the timber and stone
act.
The trial by court-martial of the
second case against Captain Kirk
man was completed at Fort Nibrara,
Neb., and the third case was put on
trial The findings will not be made
public until they have been reviewed.
A deal is said to have been practi-
cally consummated by which the Port
land Consolidated Street Railway
company, operating nearly all the
street car lines in Portland, Oregon,
has been SOLD to syndicate Of Penn
sylvania capitalists for 100000.