Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-02-05


berg of st. Louis, Mo-, charged with
forging the name of the Interstate
Life Assurance company in Cincin-
natl, O., was nolle pressed.
Lightkeeper Dakin at Carmanah, B.
&C., reported yesterday finding the
name board of the sealing schooner
Fawn. There were six white men and
twenty-one Indians aboard.
Michael Berger, a married man,
aged so years, has been arrested at
Sheboygan on a serious charge prefer
red on behalf of Irene Denzen, his
16 year old granddaughter.
A public school for the deaf has
been established at Waupaca, with
Miss Jessie Banford of Union City,
Mich, as instructor. The school will
be maintained by the state.
John Baker, formerly of Milwaukee,
aged IS years, is dead at Beloit from
the effects of a fall on the sidewalk.
He broke an arm and some ribs, and
was also internally injured.
By a vote of rs to % the Ohio legis-
lature decided not to reject bill pro-
viding for the killing of the incurably
i'll or fatally injured, by physicians, in
order to end their sufferings.
Rev. William Francis Irwin has re-
signed as pastor of the Second Pres
byterian church of Springfield, H., TO
accept the pastorate of the Fourth
Presbyterian church, Louisville, Ky.
The Northwestern depot at Sheboy-
gan Falls was broken into, the safe
blown open, and its contents extracted.
The robbers. however, secured little
booty, as the safe contained but 81
or So.
Charles Daniel, general manager of
the Atlanta News, has obtained a
temporary injunction restraining John
Temple Graves, the papers editor,
from boosting his senatorial candi-
dacy.
Panama Canal affairs were satirized
at the midwinter dinner of the GridirOn
club in Washington, the president,
as a guest, hearing many jests at the
expense of himself, his aids and the
senate.
The Missouri Pacific Express train,
west bound, crashed into a freight
train standing on the main track at
Jefferson City, Mo, and nearly 200
passengers were bruised, but none
seriously hurt.
, Fifty temporary clerks are to be
dropped from the rolls of the Chicago
postoffice, according to the statement
made to Postmaster Busse during his
visit to Washington, D. c., to urge
more assistants.
The New York state capitol build
ing, which has cost $25,OOO,0O0 and
had been under construction for forty
three years, not being finished, is
decaying, and part of it is closed be-
cause of danger.
The body found in the Ohio river
near Cairo, ILL.,, was Identified as that
of Mrs. Rosa Mangrum of Nashville,
Tenn, who disappeared Dec. whila
on her way to Chicago on business for
the w. G. T. U.
In the case of Mayor Mccarthy Of
Richmond, Va, for calling a News
Leader reporter a liar in the police
court and placing himself in con-
tempt he was fined $40 by the justice.
He took an appeal
The trial of Ona and Dellbert Hay
slip on the charge of killing Alfred
Fisher by beating him to death On JAN
1 was closed at West Union, o., and
the judge sentenced both men to the
penitentiary for life. :
Amid spirited tilts of opposing
counsel l.. c. Krauthoff, former coun'
sci for Armour & Co., told of con-
versation with Commissioner Garfield
in which the latter promised i'm
munity to the packers.
Rev. Father Francis Gigot, the Rev.
DR.. James Driscoll, head of Dun
woodie seminary in New York, and
three other priests resigned from the
Sulpician order because of criticism of
Father Gigot's biblical works.
Edward A. Vaughan was arrested at
Denver on the charge of using the
mails to defraud in a commission bust
ness in Minneapolis. He was In
dieted with Henry T. Raymond and
three others at Minneapolis last May.
George Damn, a cooper, aged 60
years. was found dead in bed at his
GAINESVILLE boarding house. The gas
was turned on and he died from
asphyxiation. He leaves sister,
Mrs. George Swallow, living in Mil
waukee,
Lincoln Steffens, continuing his in
vestigation in Washington, writes
that the senate considers IL
self the savior of the republic" and
has no faith in the people, but he sees
things hich lead him to entertain
grave doubts.
Mr. Hioki, the charge d'affaires OF
the Japan legation at Washington, an
nounces the receipt of advices from
Toxic stating that Ambassador Aokl
will leave for this country the latter