Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-02-19

murder in the first degree, at Phila-
delphia
Prof. Behring, discoverer of a con
sumption cure, told a Berlin audience
he would keep his cure secret until
autumn.
Attorney General Hadley of Mis-
souri, declares all of Rockefellers
money could not atone for the wrong
he has done.
Miss Agnes Mulhall, daughter of
lack Mulhall of Mulhall, o. T., who
was injured by horse falling on her,
is improving.
| In Chicago Thomas Nolan shot at
Mrs. Mary McCarty, his benefactress,
and believing he had killed her com
mitted suicide.
| Mai. Gillette testified how Greene
Gaylor tried to make government pay
nine times the real cost of the Savan-
nah harbor work.
The report of the New York Life
! self-investigating committee urged
proceedings to recover big sums from
Hamilton and Mccall.
Hereafter automobile parts will be
carried by railroads from Chicago to
San Fancisco for SO per 100 pounds
instead Of Sc as formerly.
| Thomas Johnson, a Chicago travel
ing man. was shot and killed in Den
yer by Policeman Charles Seilfest in a
quarrel over a dice game.
| Two burglars were captured after a
fifteen mile chase near Exeter, N. H.
They robbed factory, killed a passen-
ger. and jumped from a moving train.
A finger toast to Miss Alice
Roosevelt was given at the twentieth
annual dinner of the pear Mutes
Union League club in New York last
night.
Postmaster General Cortelyou as
sailed yellow journals in a Lincoln
day speech at Grand Rapids, Mich,
and deprecated attacks on men of
wealth.
The new armored cruiser Tennessee,
| in her screw Standardization trials at
Rockland Me-, showed a speed of
twenty-five knots an hour are figured
at 1868.
w. w. Lockwood one of the oldest
editors in northern Indiana, had his
right foot amputated as result of in
/ juries received in d buggy collision at
Peru, Ind.
Mrs. Craigie, English authoress,
made a stirring address at Baltimore
before the Woman's National Suffrage
association on the right of women to
the suffrage.
Conductor Silas Alder, Engineer
John C. Baughman and Brakeman
Frank McFadden were struck by a
Northern Central train and killed, near
| Seitzland, Pa.
The authorities at Duluth, are wait
| ing for the body Of Martin Brecken to
thaw in order to perform an a>aopsy.
Brecken's body was found frozen
hard as ice.
Peter Heinzelman while engaged in
tsteadying a large stick of timber for
pile driver was killed at Minneapolis.
His feet slipped so that his head fell
upon the pile.
All the presidents Of coal carrying
roads have agreed to a conference
with miners regarding an increase of
wages. 1t is believed the increase
will be denied.
District Attorney Jerome engaged
Mathew G. Fleming, who was assO-
ciated with Inquisitor Hughes, to as
sist in prosecuting the New York in
surance grafters.
! Mrs. Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, a
prominent musician, while in a state
of nervous collapse wandered away
from her Chicago home but returned
eight hours later.
Captain Norman E. Webb, we'll
known capitalist, took his life at
Birmingham, Ala, by firing a pistol
bullet through his forehead while his
family was at breakfast.
A live rooster in a cage was sent
through the pneumatic mail tubes in
Philadelphia as a test. The bird
came out alive and we'll, having made
mile in three minutes.
Mrs. Frances w. Graham, president
of the New York w. c. T. u, denied
that she had said it was nobody's bust
ness if wine was served at the Long
worth Roosevelt wedding.
Mrs. NJ. c. Hulse, a widow, formerly
of Circleville, O., fell to her death
from a fourth-s.ory window of the
Ithaca hotel at Ithaca, n Y, while
leaning out to get fresh air.
| Several Russian naval officers have
! been ordered to the orient for asking
an open trial for Lieut.. Schmidt, who
was in command of the cruiser Otcha-
| kOff when the crew mutinied.
The high waters in Rock river, Hi
nois, for the past month have
caused enormous loss to manufacture
ers. A section of the Oregon dam
/ has been taken out by the flOOG.
! Tho trustees of ST Iukp'S hospital