Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-09-24

told graduating mdSnlpmen InaC one
of their essential duties is to be gen
tlemen at all times.
Experiments are being made in Ok
lahoma with the Indian cotton plant
with a view to doubling the crop Of
the southern states.
Three men were electrocutad in lG-
diana while trying to climb through a
barbed wire fence which had been
charged by lightning.
Colonel F. w. Blees, founder Of the
Blees Military academy in Macon, Mo-,
was found dead in a ST. Louis hotel
Suicide is suspected.
Ricardo Forte was hanged in West
Chester, Pa, for the murder of two
children, Marie and Dominick Di
Lucca, aged and years.
Daniel O'Day, worth $4,000, 900,
right-hand man Of John D. Rockefel-
Ter and one of the big five in Standard
Oil Company, died in France.
That leprosy is hereditary, but
neither contagious nor incurable, is
the belief of DR.. Eugene H. Plumacher,
American consul at Maracaibo.
While alighting from a construction
engine in Morris City, ILL.,, Rufus
Wright, aged 20 years, living near
McLeansboro, H., had his left leg cut
off.
Mail advices received in Washing
ton say the antiforeign feeling in
China is growing and that all foreign
ers excepting Japanese, are to be
driven out.
The big Pennsylvania railroad tun-
mel under the North river is COM
pleted and officials walked from New
Jersey to New York. But cars will
not run for two years.
1t is reported that Carroll college,
Waukesha, is to have new chapel, to
be erected by a citizen of Wisconsin,
the details of which President Carrier
is not ready to make public.
Mrs. o. G. Olson, who killed her
child and cut her own throat in Mil
waukee will probably be sent to Men
dota asylum. Her life is no longer in
danger. She confessed to killing her
daughter.
From the entire tobacco-raising re-
gion of Connecticut come reports of
banner crop. Old growers say they
can not remember year when there
has been a season as favorable as the
present one.
The president shows a firm attitude
on the crisis in Cuba and the whole
army is in readiness for service on the
island if intervention becomes neces-
essary, the warships have been sent
to Cuban ports.
Mayors of forty Illinois cities con-
vene at Rock Island Sept. 13 and IA to
discuss ways and means to conduct
campaign in legislature against fran
chise grabbing.
R. W. Arnett and William Jackson,
who escaped from jail at Carthage,
Mo-, in June, were captured at Musko
gee, I. T. They are charged with
forgery and burglary.
The announcement is made by Re-
cording Secretary Colonel Cornelius
Cadle that the thirty-sixth reunion of
the Society of the Army of Tennessee
will be held at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Nov. and 9, 1906.
The convention of the Chapter Gen
eral of America, Knights of St. John
and Malta, completed its work in Buff
faIO, n. Y, and adjourned to meet
naxt wear at PhjIa dpIDhja
Investigators into the affairs of the
wrecked Real Estate Trust company
of Philadelphia, the deeper they go
into the affairs of the concern, are
amazed at Nipples boldness in his
stealing.
In a concealed ledger in the vault of
the Milwaukee Avenue bank. Chicago,
was found proof that Teller Kowalski
land Herring and that fear Of his en-
ploye was what drove the president
away.
On his farm near Pleasant Hill, Mo,
John Carter, aged As, shot and killed
his wife Nita, aged %, and then
killed himself. Carter had been away
from home and when he returned
found his wife writing love letter TO
his nephew.
After quarreling with his wife,
Freling Walter of St. Louis, a one
legged man, ended the Argument by
beating her senseless with a hammer
and then cut his throat with razor.
He died two hours later at the city
hospital The woman will recover.
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