Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-08

DOMESTIC

debts.
Three fishermen of Jones island,
Wis, were adrift for twenty-four hours
fifteen miles from shore.
President Roosevelt signed the or
der calling for general election OF
delegates to the Philippine assembly.
abe" Ruef, Frisco boss, on the eve
of the trial for extortion, made new
but unsuccessful effort to have Elisor
Buggy removed.
District Attorney T. ]. Conner of
Chippewa county says there will be no
investigation of the Deitz case this
spring by the grand jury.
Northwestern railroad officials have
received word that the Northwestern
will run no freight trains on Sunday,
beginning March 81.
The test Of an Altoona cobbler's in
vention for burning ashes leads to the
discovery that it also almost wholly
does away with the smoke evil
st. Louis brewers issued an ulti-
matum to the strikers, threatening to
declare an open shop in breweries I'M
less the strikers return to work.
The suit against the trustees of
Christian Science church in behalf Of
The relatives of Mrs Mary Baker G.
Eddy was called at Concord, n. H.
Harry K Thaw hopes to be free by
next Sunday, and when his wife visit
ed him in his cell in New York he in
vited her to a dinner on that day.
Prokon Plecity, who was found shot
in his Office at Haugen, Wis, has a
fighting chance for his life. 1t APP
FEARS now that Plecity did the shoot
ing.
Victor L B erger of Milwaukee,
founder Of the social democratic party,
declares that President Roosevelt, by
his exposures of corporations, is MAX
ing votes for the socialists.
Owen Shaw, a young farmer living
near Jackson, Mich, attended the
funeral of a friend who had shot him
self, and then returned home and
killed himself n the same manner
A truce was declared in the threat
ened strike on western railroads when
agreed to meet the government medi-
ators. The men identified most of
their demands.
At GAINESVILLE deeds have been
signed whereby the local Palmer Mem
orial hospital is transferred to the
charge Of the Sisters Of Mercy, nurses
coming from Mercy hospital, Chicago,
to take charge.
Chicago population by the United
States official figures was 2,049, 1856 in
1906, a gain of 350,610 in six years.
The United States gained 1863
over 1900. New Yorks population
is over four millions.
At KenOsha it has been learned that
Lloyd Blackstone, who was arrested
there, is wanted on a charge of en-
bezzlement at Bottineau, n D.. and Of
fcers from that city will come to
Kenosha to take the prisoner back.
Lizzie Davidson. aged IA years, was
accidentally killed at Lynxville, Wis.
She was watching her father pull a
pump from the ground when a dog
broke and lever struck her on the
side of the face, killing her instantly.
A witness in the San Francisco
graft investigation testified that Abe
Ruef was paid $1,000 a month by the
Pacific States Telephone company for
3 legal services" while that corpora
ton was seeking to get a franchise.
Harry X. Thaw's direct and cross
examinations before the New York
Iunacy commission were passed with
flying cOlors by the prisoner, who al
so was declared sane by the prison
guards who have had charge of him.
Lightning struck big barn on the
Thompson farm in Seneca, Crawford,
and burned it to the ground with
seventeen head of mich COWS, a span
of horses, number of hogs, and farm
machinery. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
At GAINESVILLE Mrs Harriet McKin
ney. sister of General George NJ.
Randall U. S. A, retired, and
leader in society, was frightfully
burned by a grass fire, which caught
her skirts as she passed. But for
timely aid she would have been
burned alive.
At Marinette Chief of Police Cook
has publicly announced that he will
not resign as requested by the mayor
and that if he is removed he will de-
mand an immediate trial. in which he
claims facts will be shown which will
show that he is not responsible for the
alleged failure TO have city ordinances
enforced
Kittie Bruna, a married woman,
created a sensation by leaping into
the river at Racine with suicidal in
tent, because her husband abandoned |
her. Frank Van Doozer, clerk of the |
Barry Brothers, slid down and held
the woman, who was clinging to the
dock, twenty minutes before William |
Johnson came and helped pull her out.
The woman said she believed she had /