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

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rearend collision between the Santa
Fe limited and local train at Glen
dora, CAL
Norman Hapgood, oditer of Col
lier's Weekly, was acquitted of crimi-
nal libel in the sensational Town
Topics case
! Lieut-Gen. Chaffee, Lieut-Gen.
Young and Maj-Gen Bates will attend
the dedication of the monuments on
Cuban battlefelds.
Felix Gaidsis, a Russian, was arrest
ed on the steamer MOltke as it arrived
in New York He is held for the st.
Petersburg police.
The country around Morehouse, Mo,
is flooded and many houses are under
water on account of a break in the
Little river levee.
New York police believe they have
in custody the last of the famous
Liverpool bank swindlers to be
brought to justice.
An Iowa staet senator in a bitter
speech declares the McCurdys are out
done by officials of the Des MOines
Insurance company.
AS a result of open shop agita-
ton the employing electrotypers have
organized an association to be known
as the electrotypothetae.
New York faces a dry Sunday
General Bingham, the new police COM
missioner, announcing that he will
enforce the excise law.
Warrants are issued at Mongahela,
Pa, for the arrest of thirty-one an
archists who plotted to assassinate
governors and public men.
J. H. Edwards, private secretary to
Secretary Shaw, has been elected
secretary of the government board for
the jamestown exposition.
Victor Peltoniem, who was buried
under twenty feet of sand in the Lin
coin mine, near Virginia, Mimi, was
rescued alive after ten hours.
The earl and countess Of Yarmouth
sailed from London for New York on
the steamer Baltic. The countess was
Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg.
Fritz Rueter, a well-known hotel
and restaurant keeper at John Mar
shall place and Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington, committed suicide.
The captain of the burned steamer
General Slocum was convicted at New
York of criminal negligence and SEN
fenced to Sing Sing for ten years.
Edward Fay, charged with robbing
a Racine tailoring establishment of
property valued at 5000, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to prison for one
year.
A prominent Kansas, an ex-judge,
declared his willingness to join in
movement to destroy the Standard Oil
trust in Kansas by the use of dyna-
mite.
Dennis J. Collins, a sailor, who stole
the winter months, was burned to
death in the village lookup in Alanson,
Mich
A convention attended by 900 dele
gates from various parts Of Kansas
met at Topeka to consider plans for
holding a semi-centennial exposition
in 1911.
Seven buildings connected with the
United States naval training station at
Newport, R. l., were destroyed by
fire, causing an estimated loss of
100000.
Thomas F. Howe, manager OF the
Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit COM
pany, admits that the rebate system
was universal before passage Of Ell
| kins law.
w, ]. Odell, Cincinnati broker, was
permanently enjoined from interfering
with $500 obtained by the sale of
the New York exchange seat of Holz-
man & Co,
The Kansas City limited on the
Frisco Road went through a trestle
early near Horse Creek, Ala. No
lives were lost and no passengers SER
iously hurt
The house Of Paul Mosczynski at
Worcester, Mass, was destroyed by
dynamite bomb. The twenty sleep
ing occupants of the building were
not injured.
In order to obtain a speedy settle
ment with the United States Colombia
gave the Washington minister Aull
power to conduct negotiations regard
ing Panama.
Attorney General Hadley secured an
admission from a Cleveland witness
that the Standard Oil company's lead
ing Ohio branch poses as an indie
pendent concern
Justice Davis in the New York
supreme court denied the petition OF
Klaw & Erlanger that the investiga-
ton of the so-called theatrical trust
be prohibited
Mrs. Frank w. Shattuek, wife OF
the pastor of the Advent Christian
| Church of Whitman, Mass, was burned
to death in the parsonage by the over,