Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1906-09-03

pleted, shows a falling off Of 81 names
in the last year. The total number
of school children in the city is
4,003.
Old employees of the government at
Washington are much "vext" by
President Roosevelt's order thru"
which spelling reform is to be intro
duced.
Stella Everson, a somnambulist, fell
ten feet from window onto picket
fence at Sterling, ILL.,, and was dis
emboweled. She died after suffering
much agony.
J. J. Hardwick of Phoenix and Los
Angeles has secured a concession from
the Mexican government for the con-
struction of a railroad 500 miles long
in Sonora.
The Chinese boycott against Ameri-
can goods was halted by the San
Francisco earthquake, which cut off
the funds sent from that city to CARY
on the fight.
immigration officials in New York
say the law forbids the entry Of the
Jew children from Russia just land
ed, but the case is taken to Washing
ton on appeal.
Arthur J. Clark, former instructor
in the GAINESVILLE high school, has
gone to the Michigan agricultural col
Iege to take up work in the chemis-
try department.
One person was killed and four
in the running down of mountain re.
sort stage at Azusa, Col, by Santa
Fe limited passenger train.
Unusual efforts are being made by
the wife of Young Wells of Newport
to free him from his enlistment in the
navy, which, it is reported, was the
result of shanghaing methods.
The master butchers of America
closed their annual convention at Mil
waukee after selecting Niagara Falls,
as the next place of meeting during
the second week of August, 1907.
Katherine Mccarthy, 19-year-old
wife of a prisoner in the New York
Tombs, was arrested while talking
to her husband in his cell on charge
of passing a forged check for $3.50.
Heavy rain fell for several hours,
putting out fires which have been run
ming over the largest part of the Sault
Ste. Marie end Of the upper penfnsu-
lar, Manitoulin island and northern
Ontario.
Field parties from the United
States geological survey are doing
important work in Illinois in connec-
ton with the state biologists, and
tablets showing the elevation of vari-
Gus sections are being erected.
p. M. Reynolds, an aged Beloit
teamster, purchased three ounces Of
laudanum, stating he wanted it for
horse medicine. Near midnight he
was found unconscious in a GAINESVILLE
alley. He is now out of danger.
Joseph Lebling, editor of the Jew
ish Daily Press, accused of maligu-
ing a rabbi and being a renegade, is
communicated and pronounced an
outcast by delegates representing all
| orthodox and it was voted to make
| the penalty worldwide.
Mrs. Lowery, aged Y years, at
tempted to jump from a moving
buggy while driving near Evansville
and was thrown down, her dress
catching on the step of the vehicle,
and was dragged for several blocks.
Her shoulder blade was fractured and
one ear was nearly torn off.
In Chicago Chief Collins files
charges against Inspector Patrick j.
LAWN, in which the inspector is &C
cused of instigating the Haggarman
jewelry store robbery in 1901 that
the capture of the robbers and the re-
turn of the booty might aid him in
seeking a higher place in the depart
ment LAWN denies the accusation
and says he will have no trouble III
disprOving them.