Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-01-08

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prisonment in the penitenttary
An immense wave swept the steam
ship Celtic, carrying away part of the
rail and flooding the second cabin dur
ing Il Christmas entertainment.
Aroused by the success of convicted
cattle barons in escaping the laws
penalty the government officials will
soon bring more cases in Nebraska
General Bingham, New Yorks new
| police commissioner, in outlining his
policy, declares he is absolutely in
dependent and will enforce the laws.
The National Civic Federation
! plans to organize a permanent depart
ment on immigration to investigate
the important phases of the subject.
! To prevent his securing a writ of
habeas corpus by which he hoped to
obtain freedom, Thomas T. Tyner,
wanted at Joliet, Ill.,, during the night.
The supreme court at st. Paul
handed down an opinion in which the
court holds the inheritance tax lay
constitutional and a valid legal enact
ment
The Carnegie Institute has set aside
$4,000 for the compilation of an
| economic history of the United States
under the direction of Carroll D.
Wright
St. Louis society circles are agog
with excitement over the frustrated
elopement of the youngest daughter of
Adolphus Busch, a multimilliOnaire
brewer
Two midshipmen at the naval
academy at Annapolis, Md, testified
in the hazing trial of Stephen Decatur
Jr that they were tortured by the
defendant.
Rev. John l. Scudderj Jersey City
pastor, opened a school where girls
will be taught how to use revOlyers
and bring down burglars who visit
their homes in the night
A new isthmus line by way of the
Tehuantepec railway, with fleets of
steamers on the Atlantic and the
Pacific, is expected to be an active
rival of the Panama route.
Retaliatory measures against the
railroads in revenge for the cutting
off of passes are planned by Pennsyl-
vania legislators and may cost the
roads many million dollars.
Engineer James o. Reid of Lake
Forest seminary succumbed to burns
received in the Ferry hall fire while
attempting to rescue his wife, who
IL
Renaissance of the Treuga Del, on
scale that will bring about the abso-
lutte cessation of war for 100 years, is
urged on President Roosevelt in an
anonymous open letter from Boston.
The general committees of the
Northern Presbyterian churches in
Joint session at st. Louis adopted a
report favoring the union of the two
bodies, with but one dissenting vote.
A man claiming to be the nephew of
Charles T. Yerkes was denied admis-
sion to funeral of the dead traction
promoter in New York. Yerkes left
two wives, and two children and q
mistress
The New York bank superintendent
asks for the control of railroad and
steamship ticket agencies, which are
often run as banks and some of
which annually swindle immigrants
OFT OF $1.000000.
Frank Steunenberg, former Cover
nor of Idaho, was murdered by Il
bomb at his home in a suburb OF
Boise. His fearless prosecution of
{ the Occur d'Alene gang directs sus-
pic:cn that way.
A letter from Walter Scott, the
cowboy miner who was reported muir
deTed in Death valley some days ago,
was received in Los Angeles, Cal,
stating that Scott had been shot but
not seriously hurt.
Governor Johnson Of Minnesota has
! agreed to give $500 as an additional
reward for the arrest and conviction
/ of the men who murdered Charles O..
! Bader in his hotel. This makes a
! total reward of $1,000.
Henry Lane, the second victim of
! Officer John Howery in a fight on a
Chesapeake and Ohio train because
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pay 10 cents for chair in the car,
is dead at Charleston, w. Va.
Captain Orman Johnson, who had
sailed lake and river craft for near
ly forty years, was, accidentally killed
at Ogdensburg, N. Y, at the George
Hall Coal COmpany's plant, where he
had recently been employed as SUI
perintendent.
, William Murphy, 81 years of age,
son of Jeremiah Murphy, wealthy pork
packer, is held at st. Louis on the
charge of stabbing his friend David
Leahey, who is probably mortally
wounded. Murphy claims highwaymen
stabbed Leahey.
The state department has been for
mally notified that the Olympic
games will be held at Athens, Greece,
from April % to May ,. The contests