Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-01-29
DOM ESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Missionaries report that Japan is
becoming a Christian nation.
/ Six men were mangled to death by
an explosion in a sawmill near Hol-
comb, Wis
An uncle of President Roosevelt
must account for $4,000 in building
! association case.
Robert E. Ward, the Equitable
agent at Joliet, disappeared, leaving
! 500 900 of forged notes.
Senator Depew is a very sick man
and even his secretaries are not per
mitted to see him at times
! Fifty-year search for relatives Of
Milton H. Lucas Of Montana formerly
! of Illinois, has been in vain.
| Friends close to the late Marshall
Field believe the bulk of his estate
will go to his grandchildren.
H. H. Rog@ rs is depicted as a Jekyll
and Hyde type of man by Attorney
General Hadley of Missouri.
Minor MeriWether Jr., of louisiana
the midshipman who figured in a prize
fight, was arrested for hazing.
Dr.. John Alexander DOwie abdicated
control of Zion City. A new era OF
progressive action is planned
Suicide of L. w. Prior, the Cleveland
broker, caused the failure Of Parsons,
Snyder & Co., Of the same city.
Viola Allen, the actress, was secret
| ly welded to Peter Duryea, multimil-
liOnaire hOrseman, last August.
Israel w. Durham, the deposed re-
publican leader left Philadelphia, fear,
ing arrest in the filtration scandal.
Mayor Edwin Bidaman Of Terre
Haute was placed on trial before
council for his liberal saloon policy
Sugar kings are accused of illegally
! restraining trade in Ohio and whole
sale grocer tries to start legal action.
A bill was introduced into Ohio leg
, islature permitting physicians to kill
patients in the case CT intense suffer
ing.
Ohio authorities are still baf1ed by
the mystery surrounding murder Of R,
X. Lewis, the West Farming stock
man.
Professor E. /. Peacock Of Rich
mend, Ind. has been elected to the
faculty of the Carnegie institute, New
York.
Mayor Mark Pagan of Jersey City
urged members of the Young Mems
Christian association to help reform
politics.
Mrs. Grace Taggart says she will
resist to the end her former husbands
effort to secure absolute custody of
children.
Ohio temperance pepole try to or
ganize an army of 100000 women to
march on state capital and pray for
moral reform.
Cadets of the Rock river military
academy went on a strike because of
alleged cruel discipline Of command
ant, Major Floyd.
Miss Lucille Mcleod of Chicago
reiterated her assertion that William
Niemann Jr. committed suicide after
trying to murder her
The presence of Scotland Yard de-
tectives in New York reveals a theft
of $4,000 worth of jewels from Lady
Parker in London recently.
William Herman, German coal
miner, aged ~. years, was killed at
Lincoln, Ill.,, by Police Officer William
Ayres while resisting arrest.
McReynolds & Co., the insolvent
| Chicago board of trade firm, are &C
cused of borrowing 100000 from
banks on security of 100000.
B. s. Catchings said to be sen of
Congressman Catchings of Alabama,
was arrested for writing civic cadets
letters to President Roosevelt.
Judge Kavanaugh overruled the mo-
ton to quash the Indictment for man
slaughter against Will J. Davis, man
ager of the Iroquois theater, Chicago.
The Michigan state board fixes the
state tax on railroads at 5000, 526.
increasing the assessed valuation TO
$207 $50, coo and reducing the rate to
$1461
The Eberhart manufacturing com
pany of cleveland is about to close a
! deal fer the purchase OF the Racine
Malleable Wrought Iron company
| plant.
Through President Roosevelt's eff
forts the directors of a New York con-
Germ claiming to be able 10 raise the
dead have been arrested, charged with
fraud.
Miss Esther Westergreen, aged 10,
committed suicide at Sycamore by
jumping into a cistern. Desertion by