Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-01-15

! freight trains on the Baltimore anu
Ohio railroad near Chester, Pa, Henry
A. milford Of Baltimore, a conductor,
was killed.
Julius Badtke, aged 55 years, we'll
known farmer, was struck by falling
] tree near Woodwork Wis, and killed.
His son William narrowly escaped a
similar fate.
The United States tug Potomac, one
of the conveys of the floating dTydock
Dewey, which arrived at Bermuda for
coal and provisions, sailed to rejoin
the drydock.
| Dr. William Osler, regius professor OF
medicine in the University of Oxford,
arrived in Baltimore and is guest
of DR.. Henry M. Hurd of Johns Hop
| kins hospital.
| Fire broke out in the public library
at st. Louis and before it was eX
tinguished 1900 books had been de-
stroyed and the sixth floor consider
ably damaged.
A. T. Keliher Of Chicago, convicted
of forgery in connection with land
frauds in Oregon, has been sentenced
at Salem to imprisonment In the peni-
Tertiary for five years.
Mrs. Jesse W. Hall of Detroit tele
phoned to the Palmer house, Chicago,
her fear of suicide by her husband and
a search of his room resulted in the
finding of his dead body.
Fire of probably incendiary origin
/ J.
building at Des Moines, Ia, destroyed
the cafe and caused 100000 damage
to the block and contents.
The large fly wheel, weighing eigh-
teen tons, of the Corliss engine and
power house Of the Morgan engineer.
ing works at Alliance, O., burst, wreck.
ing one end Of the building.
Twenty year old Roy Hull Of Tama,
Ia, has been sentenced to life inn
prisonment for murder. Hull killed
Daniel Leary, foreman Of the Ar
mOur paper mill at Toleda, Ia
Daniel B. Jacobs was indicted by the
| federal grand jury at Helena, Mont,
for running a lottery. Jacobs was
secretary of the Montana Mining,
Loan and Investment company.
The snow blockade which has tied
up Rock Island trains north of FL
Paso, Tex, was broken, but snow is
again falling heavily north of Ell Paso
and another blockade is feared
The president has confirmed the
sentence of dismissal in the case of
First Lieutenant David A. Snyder,
sixth infantry, who was tried by court
enlisted man and failing to repay it.
Attorney General Hadley Of Mis-
souri,, who has the Standard Oil com
pany on the rack in New York, re-
fused to pose as a reformer, but says
Rear Admiral H. Glass retired from
active service on the 7th He will
be continued indefinitely in his duties
as commandant of the Pacific naval
district, with headquarters at San
Francisco.
Distinct earthquake shock was felt
/ in western Missouri, eastern Kansas
and southern Nebraska, but did little
damage aside from soaring residents
of several points so that they fed to
the streets.
Harry H. Baird Of Pataskala, O.,
was appointed receiver Of the Newark,
/ O., Water company, the cOmpany'-
difficulties having resulted when the
city Of Newark built it's own water
works plant.
A verdict OF murder for the killing
of Henry Love at Middlesboro last
February against Clarence Gray and
/ Jesse Bull was returned at Pineyille.
/ Ky The sentence was fixed at life
/ imprisonment.
The Ogle county, Illinois, grand jury
at Sterling returned indictments
against Samuel Elgin, charging him
with burning his own creamery, and
against Emo Bookholder for the MUIR
der of John Anderson.
Justice McKenna has delivered the
opinion of the supreme court of the
/ United States in the case of J. Ed
ward Addicks and A. w Hallinborg
VS. the Cobre Grande copper company
! favorably to the company.
1t was announced in brunswick,
Me-, that William j. Bryan had given
prize to Bowdoin college for the
best essay discussing the principles of
free government. 1t is called the
Philo Sherman Bennett prize.
Representative John Sharp Will
Jams, minority leader in the house,
has returned to Washington from his
home in Mississippi where he was
called by the Serious illness of his
daughter, who is much improved.
President John A Mccall resigned
his 100000 job in the New York Life.
Alexander E. Orr is his successor at
half that salary A resolution re-
questing Depew's resignation was with
drawn in the New York legislature
Under the law, having BEEN absent
without leave for three months, Lieu
tenant Frank l. Otis, fourth cavalry,