Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-22

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Three volunteers lost their lives in
the Pennsylvania tunnel at Long
Island City while attempting to
rescue comrades.
F. G. Fairbanks, son OF the vice
president, and Miss Nellie Scott of
Pittsburg, eloped and were married
in Steubenville, o.
Catholics in France worked a ruse
whereby lay associations will take
over the property and prevent its
seizure by the state.
Forbes Robertson and his wife,
Gertrude Elliott, arrived to produce
George Bernard Shaw's new play,
Caesar and Cleopatra.
Secretary Taft announced that the
United States is not ready to set
time for turning the island govern
nent over to the Cubans.
An Omaha woman saw vision OF
the brutal murder of friend by a
negro an hour and a half before the
commission of the crime.
A Cincinnati actor used Hotch-
kiss shell, a war relic, as a hammer
in driving nail and was mangled by
the explosion that followed.
Mrs. Louisa NJ. Steton, whose
daughter, Mrs. Alice Kinnan, was
murdered last June at her home in
the Bronx, New York, was declared
insane.
The Spanish ministry is shaken by
the popular uprising against treaty
with France which will result in an
Increase in the price of wine through
duties.
The activity among the fanatical
nomad bands in the lower part of
Morocco is causing considerable
anxiety in French government
circles.
Action was begun at New York by
a Great Northern stakeholder to com
pei J. J. Hill to make restitution Of
{ exceeding S1O,OO0,00O, alleged illegal
profits.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
president of the confederacy, died
after a weeks illness of pneumonia
in New York. She was 80 years
old.
The United States supreme court
denied rehearing in the case of for
mer Senator Burton of Kansas, under
sentence of $1,000 fine and six months
| Imprisonment.
A boy in Iowa and another in
Waynesboro, w. Va, $500 miles
away, installed wireless stations by
which they are able to converse
with ease.
Night steamers collided on the
Hudson between New York and Al
bany, hurting passengers from berths
! into the river. One is reported dead,
! one missing.
A list of charges against the Pea
body administration of the Mutual
Life Insurance company was filed by
Calvin Tomkins on behalf of the
policy-holders.
District Attorney Jerome intimates
that there may be more indictments
/ in the Thaw murder affair. 1t is be-
lieved that one may be against
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw.
The contest for the $60,000,0 900 es-
! tate of William Weightman Of Phila-
delphia was halted by the production
in court of a mysterious slip of pa
per, the contents of which were not
revealed.
Major General Leonard Wood, in
his annual report, opposed reduc-
ton of the army in the Philippines
on the ground that the present force,
in case of war with a foreign power,
would be inadequate to defend Man
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The Chilean congress at its coming
session will discuss a project to raise
a loan of $25, 100000 to be devoted to
the work of reconstructing the pub
lie buildings destroyed by the recent
earthquake.
A unique hunt was given in the
royal forest near. La Granja by King
Alfonso. His majesty invited a
battalion of troops and dozens of deer
were killed. The forest had become
OverStocked
Street Cleaning Commissioner
Woodbury. of New York City resigned
his position after a clash with
Mayor Mcclellan, in which each
charged the other with using the Of
fee for political purposes.
Major General Leonard Wood in his
annual report opposed the reduction
of the army in the Philippines on the
ground that the present force, in
case of war with a foreign power,
would be inadequate to defend Man
| lila.
Viscount Almeida, a well-known
member of Rio Janeiro society, com
mitted suicide in novel manner. He
invited a number of his friends to
dinner and afterward led them to a