Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-23
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOM ESTIC.

DOmE IL.
Wisconsin bankers decide to wage
war on the alleged bonding trust.
Jacksonville, Fla, ice men were
found guilty Of criminal intent to de-
fraud.
Alton railroad and former officials
sentenced TO pay 100000 fines for re-
batting.
A family of five in North Caro-
lima was dubbed to death by sup
posed robbers.
St. Louis summer gardens again re-
moved the Sunday lid in open defiance
of Governor Folk.
Ohio bridge concerns will have to
pay $4,000 for violations of the law
against restraint of trade.
A Cincinnati grand jury indicted
thirty-nine laundrymen, charging VIC
Iation of the antitrust law.
Woman followed RoOsevelts to
Oyster Bay church and demanded a
seat directly behind the presidents
pew.
The Elks national convention met
in Denver and a report showed an in
crease during the year of 27,597 mem
bers.
Harold E. Pyles, colored, was
hanged at Towson, Md, for the MUIR
der of his sweetheart. He con
fessed.
San Francisco disaster forced a
Milwaukee insurance company to ask
the federal court to administer its
affairs.
The American consul general at
Rio Janeiro warns Americans against
Investing in alleged diamond mines in
Brazil.
While driving to Burlington, Iowa.
10 attend circus Mrs. H. H. Van
Atten of Danville expired Of heart
disease.
The court decided for Taggart's
hotel companies, holding that the
state of Indiana had not stated just
cause for action.
Chicago probate court records
show the estate OF Peter Fahrney to
be over $3,OOO,OOO 1t was assessed
for years at 100000.
Failure to prove charges resulted
in an adjournment of the investiga-
ton into the Standard Oil company
and railroads at Cleveland.
Three were killed and twenty in
1ured when a powder mill blew up,
and plate glass in Ashland, Wis
seven miles away was broken.
Facts come out in the Kansas City
ice inquiry showing that the trust
while holding famine prices in thai
city, sold to outsiders for So per ton
a decision to hasten the Guatema
Ian peace plans reached al a confer
ence between President Roosevelt and
Secretaries Taft and Bacon at Oyster
Bay.
Mrs. Leslie Carriers marriage to
William Payne was preceded by a
huff, during which she destroyed the
first license and then went on a gay
lark
Leroy Yakish, a Coe college stu
dent of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died OF
Jetanns following an injury to his
hand by blank cartridge on the
fourth.
Mrs. George J. Jackson, whose hus-
band is said to be the son of a mil
nonaire of Fort Worth, Tex, drank
.carbolic acid after a quarrel in Los
Angeles.
Tom Jones and Charles A. Wod-
ruff, negroes, were hanged from the
same scaffold at independence, Va,
for the murder of Wiley Jones, also
a negro.
Mrs. William Thaw took full charge
of her sons defense and re-engaged
the firm of attorneys the prisoner had
discharged The plea of the defense
will be insanity.
The bituminous coal strike in cen
trail Pennsylvania is practically ended,
the men getting a slight increase
over 1905 scale and the operators
getting open shop.
Andrew L. Davenport, a negro, was
hanged in the jailyard at Newport
News, Va, for the murder of Will
lam Thomas, also a negro. Daven-
port made a confession.
Henry Kraft, a Bellaire, O.. saloon
keeper, was fatally shot and his por-
ter, Michael MaxsOn, dangerously
wounded by two masked men who at
tempted to rob the saloon.
Charles Davenport, who was con-
victed at Trenton, n. j. of trying to
kill his daughter Josephine by send
ing her a box of poisoned candy, was
sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
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