Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-10-29

visited Maine cities and the bridge at
Portland was destroyed by the earth S
movements.
Many we're injured, three perhaps
fatally, by the collapse of crowded
bleachers during a football game at
Syracuse, N. Y.
The $1,O0O,000 safety fund of the
Hartford Insurance company was at
tached by 10000 certificate holders,
charging fraud.
A storm raging for two days in the
Rocky mountain region inflicted great
loss on sheepmen and on growers OF
beets and apples.
Albert Johnson, II years old, shot
and dangerously wounded Edward
Gague, a Chicago neighbor, who or
dered him away.
The city of Atlantic, Iowa, having
found municipal ownership of it's
lighting plant a failure, will sell out
to Chicago men.
The Standard Oil Company an
nounces that it will fight conviction
in Ohio case to the extreme limit
and through three courts.
Worst blizzard since 1882 ragged in
New Mexico. Denver was snow
blocked and Salt Lake City was al
most blown to pieces by gale
The manager of the international
policy holders committee demanded
the arrest of the New York Life Of
f1cials for violations of the law.
The w. G. T. U. world congress is
to appeal to Roosevelt to renew the
proposal for the international treaty
On tile liquor and opium trades
Thomas A Edison has succeeded
in solving the storage battery prob
lem and says his device will do
away with congested street traffic.
The steamer George FarwelI, once
in the lake lumber traffic, is total
loss off Cape Henry and the crew
was rescued by means Of breeches
buoys.
Former Senator Burton was in a
jocular mood when he was incar-
cerated in the Iron county, Mis-
souri,, Jail to serve a six months SEN
tence.
A verdict imposing the death pen
atty on Thomas Brady, a white man,
for an attack upon a 16-year-old girl
was returned by the jury at Alex
andre, La.
The teller and bookkeeper whose
populations from the Pittsburg trust
company aggregated nearly 100000
were sentenced to eight years in the
penitentiary.
Survivors of the storm along the
Florida coast describe how 101 men
persisted when a houseboat was
swamped. There are hundreds dead
in Salvador.
Mysterious woman in black" who
figured sensationally at the funeral
of Senator Quay, was identified as
Pittsburg claimant in suit against
Peter McCool.
Judge Holt fined the New York
Central railroad 100000 for violat-
ing law prohibiting rebates and
scored the company for willfully Yio-
lating the law.
Life insurance agents from all over
this country and Canada went to st.
Louis for the seventeenth annual con-
vention of the National Association of
Life Underwriters.
A speaker before the Worlds Won
ems Christian Temperance Union
convention burned two patent medi-
cines before the audience to prove
that they contain alcohol.
Congress will undertake no reVi-
sion of the currency during the short
winter session. The committee of
the house is badly split up and ready
to submit a new system on any pre-
text
Two balloons raced from Pittsield,
Mass, attaining such a height that
the aeronauts were forced to remove
their clothing owing to the heat OF
1O6 degrees. They were up 5000
feet.
Howard G. Nicholas, a friend of
Mrs. Margaret Leslie, the actress
found dead in Chicago hotel,
was rearrested on suspicion of know
ing the facts about the woman's
death.
]. H Langdon, son of rich Phil
adelphian and accomplished, reported
to have operated in the worlds big
cities as a forger, was arrested in
Chicago and will be taken to Balti-
more for swindling.
The body of man tied in cotton
sack was found in the river near
Pawpaw, l. T. The sack was bound
with wire, to which had been fastened
a piece of railroad iron, evidently in
tended for a sinker.
The boy murdered Oct. at Amaril'
10, Tex. was identified as Earl Dock
cry by his father, Silas Dockery OF
Ashville, Ok. Earl Dockery had