Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-05-21

engaged in a riot and blows were
struck.
A preacher, his wife and seven
children were slain by unknown
assassins and their bodies burned
near Milton. Fla.
F. S. Monnett, ex-attorney general
of Ohio, is to be investigated by
grand jury in connection with a S.
600 bride scandal.
The Reid Memorial United Presby-
terrain church, erected at Richmond,
Ind, by Daniel G. Reid of New York
at cost Of $25O,OOO, was dedicated.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who has been
i'll for several days at the Hotel
Gerard in New York, was reported to
be showing continued improvement.
During quarrel about a birds
nest Clark Dunherman, aged II years,
OF Lockhaven, Pa, killed Thomas
Berry, aged 20 years, by stabbing him.
j. L. Yarnall of Philadelphia, aged
80 years, shot his wife, who is 70
years old, and 'afterward killed him
self. The woman's condition is crit
ical
The Hamburg-American line steam
er Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, the
largest vessel afoat, sailed from
Dover on her maiden voyage across
the Atlantic.
The steamer Corwin, the first vessel
to sail for Nome since the ice last
| season, went north from Seattle heay-
lily loaded with freight and crowded
with passengers.
Theodore Scott and Lolay Crom-
well, aged 4 years, sons of prominent
Fort Wayne families, are dead as the
result of swallowing strychnine tab
lets while playing.
Bondholders of the New Amsterdam
Gas company of New York seek to
have the application Of the 80-cent
gas law enjoined, claiming interest
on paper can not be paid
The president has nominated to the
senate Andrew j. Houston as marshal
for the eastern district of Texas and
George Randolph as attorney for the
western district of Tennessee.
Ed Freeman, foreman in the case
making department of the Van Brunt
factories at Horizon, was waylaid
and robbed of sos and a gold watch
while on his way to pay the men.
The reported loss of the BURBERRY
crop and other small fruit of early
variety by the recent frosts in the
vicinity of Black River Falls, is un-
founded. The prospect of a big crop
was never better.
The paper trust was completely
beaten by the government and decree
is entered at st. Paul dissolving the
combination of the General Paper
Company and twenty-three other de-
PENDANTS. 1t will be reorganized.
Joaquin NabucO the Brazilian am
bassador to the United States, reach
ed Seattle on pleasure tour of the
country. With him were Vicomte
De Alte, Portuguese minister, and
Colonel A. De Pederneiras, Brazilian
attache.
The engagement was announced in
London of j. Austen Chamberlain,
| chancellor of the exchequer in the
late Balfour cabinet, and Miss Ivy
Mural, daughter of H. L. Dundas of
Datchet, Buckinghamshire. now chief
| staff officer at Gibraltar
The trial of Frank Hildreth. alias
Colo, charged with murder in the first
degree for the killing of James C.
Shellenbarger, sheriff of Knox coun-
tyr
Miller township on the evening of
May 81 last year, has commenced.
DR.. Rufus P. Johnston resigned the
pastOrate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church of New York, the church
which John D. Rockefeller attends. 1t
will take effect June 90. The reason
given is that he wishes to travel in
Europe and that he has an impera-
tive need of rest.
Though Colonel D. Frank Powell
(White Beaver was buried in Los
Angeles, a monument will be erected
IS under way to procure a large
marble image of a beaver, which will
be placed in park there, to be paid
for by public subscription.
New York State Superintendent of
Public Works Franchot has awarded
the contract to construct three NOV
able dams in the Mohawk river west
of Schenectady to the Eastern Con-
tract company of Troy and Pittsburg
for $1433,S SIT. The work is in con-
nection with the canal improvements
OBITUARY.
Bishop Fallieres, cousin of the
president Of the French republic, is