Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-01-28
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homeless thousands of flood victims
III the Ohio river valley.
General Robert E. Lee was praised
by President Roosevelt as a powerful
agent in reuniting the north and
south.
An epidemic of diphtheria grips
University of Illinois at Urbana and
several fraternity houses are quar-
-sntined
indictments may be returned in
New York charging conspiracy
against certain members of the theat-
rical trust.
Lumbermen pay as high as so
apiece to railroad employees for empty
<ssrs. according to evidence in a Seat
tie hearing.
Former Secretary John D. Long
characterized Roosevelt's action in
The Brownsville affair as impulsive
ont honest.
New York was in the grip of the
drst heavy snow of the winter and
street car and suburban traffic were
delayed.
ployed by the Big Four railroad was
ground to death under a gravel dump
car at SheIbyville, Ind.
President Eliot of Harvard says
chat theology must progress as any
science, that the finality in religion
has not been reached.
The graft scandal at Peoria is be-
ing investigated by a grand jury.
The county is alleged to have been
swindled out of $50O00.
A thousand delegates were at Salt
Lake City to attend the forty-third
annual convention of the National
wood Growers association.
Fred c. Fairbanks lodged an Ohio
sheriff and appeared voluntarily in
court at Steubenville. to plead not
guilty to the charge of perjury.
The foundation was laid for a test
case to settle the San Francisco
school controversy by excluding
Japanese boy from a school.
In New York Mrs. J. Phelps Stokes
says she and her husband have quit
settlement work because it blinds the
eyes of the public to the real issue.
Fifteen were slain and thirty
eight injured by the explosion of a car
of powder at Sanford, Ind, which
wrecked a Big Four passenger train.
Mrs. Jack Wilmerding, New York
divorce, q Vanderbilt scion. who was
once confined in a madhouse, welded
James Coates, an Englishman in Lon
don.
Sensational charges are made by
American refugees from Kingston.
that British officials refused food and
shelter to American women and
children.
The Western Paper Box Manufac
turers' Association, representing 40
manufacturers and a capital of $780,
GEO 600 met in convention at St
Louis.
Richard Strauss operate setting of
Wildes play Salome was presented in
New York and the throng at the
Metropolitan Opera house was
amazed at the audacity Of music.
Enormous damage may be done at
Joliet if floods break the drainage
canal dam The Ohio river is still
rising and $4,000 people are home
less near Cincinnati
An unidentified man with the
laundry lhark B. H. W. on his cloth
ing committed suicide at Pana. Ill.
7e said that his home was in Chicago.
where he had a weo and child
Elmer Dempster, the 19-year-oId
negro who was convicted of killing
Mrs. James Pearce and her three
children on July % at Canonsburg,
Pa, was hanged at Washington. Pa
George Lever Weidemann. declared
70 have been an American, has been
found dead in the snow on Mont
Aiguille, near Castillon. Exposure is
believed to have been the cause of his
death
In Chicago the jury in the Shea
labor conspiracy case failed to reach
an agreement after being out fifty
sour hours and was discharged by
,5udge Ball To impanel this jury
cost $4,000.
Mrs. Jacob Blakey and her son Sam
mel ? years old, were drowned and
ner husband and another son, Will
sam, 10 years old. narrowly escaEtt a
similar death while attempting to ford
East Pike run in washington coun-
rs. Pa
The eastern improvement and vehicle
dealers finished the work of their
annual convention at Kansas City af-
fer adopting resolution condemning
The parcels post bill and referring the
question Of excessive express rates
10 the national federation.
Lewis Pennis, SO years of age. shot
his wife and S-yearold daughter at
Gheir home in Boston, and then made