Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-07-16
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Rochester.
LATEST.
W. Bourke Cochran of New York is
passing his vacation in California.
Mary Southland, the Newark. o..
woman who assaulted Dr. William
Jackson on his return from his honey
moon, has now instituted a breach
of promise suit.
A New York court has ruled that a
stock certificate stolen from John
I.Longmaid by rohber gang in Italy
must be replaced by the company that
issued the stock.
Russian mutineers at Tamboo in
trenched themselves, Cossack regi-
ments in the Don revolt and leader in
the douma says the rumblings will
end in thunderclap.
Constantinople is opposing the ele-
walton of the American legation in
Turkey to an embassy. Fresh instruc-
lions have been sent TO the Turkish
minister in Washington
At La Crosse the body of the nude
man found in the river was identified
as that of Calogero Santo, an Italian
The victim lost his life at Dresbach
on July while bathing.
The sixtieth anniversary of the
first raising of the American flag in
fSan Francisco was celebrated at
Portsmouth square under the auspices
of the Veterans of the Mexican war
Richard Olney has been elected
chairman of the international policy
holders committee of the New York
Life and Mutual companies H. N.
Higinbotham of Chicago is on the ex,
ecutive committee.
When an engine jumped the track
at Canalon, Mo, last night two
brothers-in-law, who had been quar-
reling on board the train, took to The
woods and fought duel. One had
his left eye shot out
American donkeys taken to the
Philippines by the war department
drowned in the torrential rains of
the wet season because they did not
know how to seek shelter like the ma
tive beasts of burden
Secretary Taft in a speech at
Greenboro, N. c., said justice and i'm
Partially before the law is slogan of
republican party and President Roose-
welt; solid south" idea acts as a
boomerang for that section.
DR.. William J. Patterson of Den
yer, a criminologist, is in Jail there
charged with passing forged checks.
He said his study of crime had de-
veloped latent criminal instinct and
that he could not help his acts.
G. w. Morley of Saginaw, Mich,
has arrived in San Francisco from
China, where he investigated the sup
posed murder of his brother, R. H.
Morley, by La Verger, French
tourist. He will continue mis- search
for La Verger.
Attorney General Stu devant OF
Wisconsin decided that a special cleo
ton must be held to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Congressman
H. c. Adams in Chicago John NJ.
Nelson of Madison is the only candi-
date in the field
Prof. Arthur NJ. Wheeler of Yale
university told delegates to the Amer
lean Institute of Education in ses-
sion in New Haven, n. j., that the
Monroe doctrine was The embodiment
of selfishness and that its tenets were
spread at the point of the bayonet.
At WATERFOWL Mile Scherburth,
aged II StpD-d3uQhtpr of JOSPDh Wal
czak in business at 525 Barclay
street. Milwaukee, drowned in Rock
river The body was recovered with
in a few minutes. Miss Scherburth
in company with Adeline Beisner with
whom she was visiting, went for a
ride in the early evening and their
boat was swamped
At Minneapolis employees of the Ma
tional hotel found the body of a wom-
an. identified as Nellie Ellison of Ellis
worth, Wis, in her room nearly burn
led to a crisp When found, though
Iyet alive. she tried to tell the story
Iof her being assaulted but was in
such an exhausted condition that she
was hurriedly sent to the hospital,
but died as the ambulance reached
the institution. II is believed she
was attacked while resting in her
sroom. Her skull had been fractued
lby a blow from a hammer. The
lpolice suspect a man by the name Of
IM. B. Wilson from Milwaukee as
lbeing implicated in the murder. A