Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-08-20

| Tor week WIFI Ming NICIOT EuuudH-
! uel shooting ibex and chamois in the
royal preserves in the Alps, returned
to Rome.
Employment of Chinese coolies in
Panama canal arouses the ire of Sam
uel Gompers against Chairman
Shonts, who he alleges is guilty Of
violation of law.
Charles H. Chamberlain of La
Crosse, head of the United CONNER
cial Travellers of the state, was
stricken with paralysis. He is in a
serious condition.
Sam Miles, aged 10, of Tell City,
Ind, was shot by his own gun, the en-
tire load entering his leg. His re-
covery necessitates the amputation of
the wounded limb.
In a rear-end collision on the Penn
sylvania road near Franklin, Pa, Pat
| rick Barrett, fiagman, of Pittsburg,
was killed, and J. w. Miller, brake
man, fatally injured.
Claude Starke, aged 10, of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, fell from wagon near
Stonington and broke his neck. He
had Just earned a scholarship in the
| University of Illinois.
Ten Of the twenty shot mills of the
| South Sharon plant of the American
Sheet and Tin Company resumed OPP
erations after long idleness. About
/ e0O ,,o0,, o,.a
Superior water traffic was not as
seriously crippled by Saturdays
bridge accident as was first supposed.
The channel remained clear to yes
sells of 81 feet beam.
Representative Joseph M. Dixon OF
Missoula, Mont, announced his candi-
dacy for the United States senate to
succeed William A. Clark, whose term
| expires in March, 1907.
The body of an unidentified man
was picked up on the Chicago and
Northwestern tracks north Of Black
Wolf, Wis. The man had evidently
J been thrown from box car.
| In a race war between two gangs of
Armenian and Italian laborers at
! Somerdale, O., Tony Brand was killed,
Charles Anthony fatally injured and
! several others seriously hurt.
The body of Abner Jones, said to
have been a member of Frank Balls
gang was found near the scene of the
| recent battle between Ball and the
Kentucky officers at Rose Hill, Va.
Mrs. Harry Stevens of Chicago conf
mitted suicide in San Francisco by
! taking laudanum. She had been de-
pressed over a divorce suit against
her husband, pending in Chicago.
Twelve Austrians working on the
railroad near Wallace, Wis, were ar
rested on a charge of breaking into
Peri3os mill there and destroying $400
worth of betting to make new soles
for their shoes.
Rev. w. T. Rodgers has resigned as
| pastor of the First Cumberland Pres
byterian church of Knoxville, Tenn,
| to accept the pastorate of the Lucas
Avenue Cumberland Presbyterian
church in st. Louis.
Joseph Bedoule, a bridgetender and
one of Green Bays Oldest residents,
was found dead under the tenders
| house on the Walnut street bridge. 1t
is thought death was due to heat
failure.
John B. Freeman, aged %, of La
| Crosse, was arrested for the attempted
murder of William Boye during the
Elks' convention. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to ten years at
Waupun. The motive was robbery.
County Treasurer F. E. Smith Of
Akron, O., who was found nearly $685.
900 short in his accounts by exam
iners appointed by the probate court
resigned the Office of treasurer of the
county He remains treasurer of the
city and school funds
The Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
authorities are investigating the muir
der of an unidentified well-dressed
man whose body was found in Nasham-
my creek at Langhorne, Pa. 1t IS
! the opinion of the coroner that the
man was attacked by highwaymen.
]. l.. Schruben, formerly of Racine,
is trying to recover damages amount
ing to $4,000 from Horace S. and
Charles H. Fairbanks of that city for
manufacturing a hat fastening de-
/ vice on which Mr.. Schruben, according
to his complaint has secured pat
| ent.
| The Home Protective league of Mar
| inette has begun its first legal pro-
ceedings to compel the observance OF
the Sunday closing laws and made
| complaint to the city council against
Fred Skubitsky, a saloon keeper, for
alleged violations of law and asked
| for revocation of his license.
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