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

her sweetheart is supposed to be the
cause.
A. W. Gentry OF Chicago finds the
Frank j. Constantine who has been
located in Wisconsin is not the man
with the same name who killed Mrs.
Gentry.
Simon Frankenstein, a Chicago junk
dealer, was shot and killed by a North
western railway detective while en-
gagged in footing a supply car of brass
journals.
George McClevey, identified by a
victim as a hold-up man, was shot
and instantly killed by Detective Gar
vey while trying TO escape arrest in
Chicago.
Arthur Magnus, manufacturer OF
brewers supplies, committed suicide
in Chicago, owing to i'll health. He was
a son-in-law of Busch, the st. Louis
brewer
The inheritance tax on the Marshall
Field estate, which is estimated at
$1O0,O00,OO0, will amount to $1,C00,00O
for the state of Illinois and $4,000 for
Cock county Chicago.
Colonel Mann of Town Topics tes-
titled that he received big loans
from ]. P. Morgan, James R. Keene,
w. K Vanderbilt, William c. Whit
ney and other financiers.
The prairie fire which began in the
northern part of Duell county, Nebras-
ka swept south over forty miles of
prairie before being eXtinguished. The
loss to ranches is $4,000.
John Wallis Baer for many years
secretary of the Presbyterian board of
home missions, announced that he had
accepted the presidency Of Occidental
college at Los Angeles, Cal.
The prevalence of crime, intensified
by the HOLSTER murder, aroused the
people of Chicago and movements are
started for protection from the VIC
lence now gripping the city.
The sentence of Lieutenant Pendle-
ton Of Manila, who was condemned to
life Imprisonment for murder, has
been reconsidered and changed to i'm
prisonment for twenty years.
Wholesale bribery and corruption
are charged to Pittsburg millionaires.
who are declared to have nominated
their candidate for mayor at the
primaries by buying thousands of
votes.
Following the examples set by
Washington retail lumber dealers, the
retailers of British Columbia and
Oregon have advanced their list
price So per thousand on lumber to be
shipped east.
Four persons persisted in a sleet
storm which swept New York and
New Jersey, while many persons were
imperiled by the falling of a huge
chimney which caused the upper floor
of a tenement-house.
Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the
isthmian canal commission, in q
speech before the Cincinnati Com
mercial club Declared the eight-hour
law will add millions of dollars to the
cost of canal construction.
The annual collection for the Amer
lean board of foreign missions in the
Old South church, Boston, Sunday
night amuonted to $1,000, the largest
ever made for congregational missions
by any che parish in the country.
Chicagoans We're held up as a model
for their fight AGAINST graft by Lincoln
Steffens. who in an address in New
York says the residents = the city
have learned that The streets belong
10 the people and not to the railways.
The rural free delivery, which was
opposed by the postal authorities when
first undertaken, has proved to be
great success, and has been extended
rapidly until it covers almost all of
the more thiclly populated districts Of
the country.
Drawing a gale which for two days
defed the government life savers,
Captain Caste and a picked crew in
sailing yacht reached the steamer
Cherokee. stranded near Atlantic City,
and rescued the passengers and crew,
sixty in number.
Mrs. El1ZaD6tn II. HOMES, IHe New
York woman who went to see Presi-
dent Roosevelt and who was detained
by the police at the instance of her
husband and who was examined as to
her mental condition, was taken to
New York by Mr.. Holmes.
Richard Ivens, "a years old, con-
fessed to the murder of Mrs. Franklin
c. HOLSTER and gave details of the
horrible crime Rev.. John Norris
Hall, pastor of RMS. HOLSTERS church
believes the woman was yilely mis-
treated by a gang before being MUIR
dered. Women's clubs probably will
join in the movement to secure more
police protection.