Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-08-13
will be cut up into town lots.

chief marshal of the big Grand Army
parade in Minneapolis Aug. Is.
Twelve-year-old Edward c. Knight
was swept out into deep water at
GAINESVILLE while swimming by the
wake Of a passing steamer and
drowned
June Is to II are the dates fixed
for the annual reunion and conven-
ton Of the Wisconsin Kreiger verein,
which is to assemble in Manitowoc
next year.
Peer Wylie, a Scotch immigrant,
shot and killed the 13-year-old daugh-
ter of J. Swackhanner, his employer,
at Guelph, Ont. is attentions caused
the trouble.
Crazed by the heat, James Lupo, a
New York tailor, shot and killed his
wife and then sent a bullet through
his own brain, inficting a probably
mortal wound
Friends of Estes G. Rathbone, con-
yicted of completely in the Cuban
postal frauds, are preparing for a con
gressionaI investigation, and hope to
clear his name.
The 200 pounds of butter in twenty
pound firkins, stolen from a Poy-
nette creamery a few evenings ago,
were found hidden in the woods a
mile from Portage.
The remains Of Engineer Robert
Kerr. killed in a Milwaukee road
wreck at Wausau. were taken TO
Portage for burial He was prom
inent in masonic circles
The Russian government aims a
blow at Finnish liberty by causing the
arrest Of Captain Kock leader Of
the red guard, after the governor gen
eraI of Finland refused to act.
superintendent James NJ. Allison Of
the Cincinnati house Of refuge and
his assistant, Peter Costello, are to
be permitted to resign, having been
charged with cruelty to inmates.
Robert s. Critchell Of Chicago, who
was injured in the wreck of the
steamer express from Plymouth on
July l, has suffered a relapse, and it
is feared the end is not far distant.
Mrs. Florence Maybriclz, travelling
incognito, arrived in New York on
board the Gascogne, having been
abroad three months She declined
to say whether she visited England.
Colonel w C. Gorgas, chief SAM
tary officer of the isthmian canal
zone, will represent the zone at the
meeting of the public health associa-
ton at the City of Mexico in Deem
Der.
Edward Bateman, negro found
guilty of assaulting young woman
at Aurora, Mo, last February, has
been hanged at Mount Vernon, Mo.
Bateman, on the scaffold, denied his
guilt
A grand jury at Philadelphia has
found true bills of indictment against
fourteen members of the Philadel-
phia ice exchange, who are charged
with conspiracy to increase the price
of ice.
The two days carnival at Oconom-
owOc ended in a burst of gayety. The
total proceeds were $4,000, and the
money will be devoted to the i'm
provement of the roads around the
resort,
Clinton Wray, secretary of the
Union Trust company Of Pittsburg,
Pa, has been arrested at Toronto, &C
cused of having stolen over $125,000
of the stand trial without extradition
Gen. Antoni Peredes Of Venezuela
arrived in New York He had been
a political prisoner and released with
the understanding he would aid
President Castro. InsRad he escaped
to Trinidad.
Formal notification of his election
to a fellowship at the University Of
has been received by
Grover Heubener Of ManitOwOc. Mr.
is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin.
Despondent because he was told he
could not marry Anna Kirch,
daughter, Alois Turkinsky
aged 95 years, the oldest resident OF
the village OF Reedsvill, Wis, com
mitted suicide by hanging.
James OclaiCe, a IabOrer Of Mari
nette, suffered d fractured skull by
being struck by a trolley car and
thrown twenty feet while he was
working on a pavement in Menomi-
nee. He is expected to die.
Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for
the international policy holders COM
mittee, has declined to be candi-
date for trustee of the Mutual Life
Insurance company and the New
York Life Insurance company.
Walter Lord, aged II years, was
killed at the Pewabic mine, at Iron
Mountain, Mich while working in
the rock pile. He was struck by a
tram car, which jumped the track on
the trestIe above, knocking him down
the embankment.
Margaret Hoppe, a 2-year-old girl