Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-16

Broker Graves ooachman, McKeen
in New York.
Gladstone Dowie is disinherited in
the will of John Alexander Dowie and
Daniel Bryant was named as
apostles successor.
Fire in the Unity Block at Beloit
caused damage of $4,000. The losers
are A. C. Reynolds & Co, c. E. Page
and Keller & Weirick.
At Birmingham, Ala, David Simp-
son, secretary and treasurer of the
Gregory Vinegar company, shot and
killed himself on church steps.
A federal judge dismissed indict-
ments against alleged rebaters hold
ing that violators of the Elkins act
may be fined but not imprisoned
AS the result of too obstreperous
form of celebrating the fourth, 4O1
| prisoners were fined and their re-
volvers confscated in New York City.
AT Evansville, Ind, while hunting
George w. Schnacke, aged Is, was
accidentally shot and killed by Fred
Richert, who is Frustrated with grief
A fresh air camp for sick babies,
ne gift of John D. Rockefeller, to be
| opened in New York is to be fol-
lowed by others if it proves a sue
! cess.
A chauffeur formerly employed by
Stanford White declared that Mrs.
Harry Thaw was Whites companion
at dinner five months after her
marriage
Relatives of Moses J. Van Name, a
wealthy retired merchant of Port
Richmond, S. l., who disappeared in
1900, say they have located him in a
lsanitarium.
Wolf Sugarman, a wealthy Brook
lyn builder, was killed by a Coney
Island express train while fastening
to reach home where his son was to
undergo an operation.
Startling statistics of the extent of
tub erculosis in France are furnished
in report to the department of COM
merce at Washington from Consular
| Clerk-Iagram in Paris.
Governor Hanly in a signed state
ment pledged himself to drive Ma
tiOnal Democratic Chairman Taggart
and others from the management of
Indiana gambling resorts.
Lyman ]. Gage refused to confirm
or deny the report that he has joined
the theosophical colony at Point
Iona, Cal, and resented questions
put to him over the telephone
A. Busch admits at st. Louis that
he bought $500 worth of carpets from
councilman who was opposed to a
franchise bill in which the Busch
family was largely interested.
James K. Allen, a balloonist, drift
ed far out to sea from Providence,
R. l., but was saved by the crew of a
| fishing vessel after having had a
rough experience with wind and
water.
James K. Allen, a veteran aeronaut
spent two days and a night in run
away balloon, at times being two
miles above the clouds and at others
dragged along the surface of the
ocean.
The east-bound Santa Fe limited
was partly derailed near Flagstaff,
Ariz. Fireman Ed Pillsbury was
caught under the engine, which
turned over, and was scalded to
death. Engineer Goldsworthy was in
jured.
Governor Folks Sunday closing
~ IN I
where drinks were dispensed at the
summer gardens, and in ST. Joseph.
where the saloon-k 9epers, despite 100
arrests, kept their places of bust
ness open.
At Bellefontaine, Ohio, John Scott
and an unknown man were killed and
NJ. D. Thomas was fatally burned in
an explosion of coal dust at the Union
Portland cement plant. The main
portion of the factory was saved. The
property loss is 100000
Thomas Taggart outwitted the at
torneys for Indiana, who are seeking
to have the charter of his hotel at
French Lick Springs annulled, by
/ having the suit to cancel the leases
of the gamblers set ahead of the
states plea on court calendar.
H. Nick. TwOmbly, Jr., only son of
H. Nick. Twombly, was drowned
while swimming in Big Squam lake,
| n. H, where re was with others in
charge of a dozen poor boys sent in
/ TO camp at the expense of Groton
! School. from which he was graduated
/ last month.
At Kansas City, Rev. William Car
ter, pastor of The First Presbyterian
church. announced that he had ac-
cepted call from the Madison
Avenue Reformed church of New
| York City. Mr.. Career occupied
pulpits at Rockford H., and Frank
! fort, Ind, before going to Kansas
City
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