Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-15
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

The lunacy commission ruled that
Harry K Thaw is sane.
President Roosevelt will open
jamestown fair April 26.
Delmas mercilessly dashed Mrs.
Holman in his closing address in the
Thdw trial.
Troops checked rioting at the Ohio
shipyards. Many strike breakers are
gOing to work.
T. D. Bull, Detroit capitalist and
manufacturer, dropped dead while on
a visit in New York.
Testimony is practically completed
in the Thaw case and a verdict is
expected at once
SiXty-ive passengers had a narrow
escape when the steamer City of Troy
burned at Dobbs Ferry, n. Y.
Andrew Carnegie added $4,000, 900 to
the endowment funds of the institute
bearing his name at Pittsburg.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
for the erection of a science hall at
Denison university, Newark, o.
Roosevelt was attacked in speeches
by Ex-Governor OdelI in New York and
ex-senator Thurston of Nebraska.
Frank J. Constantine, indicted for
the murder Of Mrs. A. w. Gentry in
Chicago was caught in New York.
Mrs. Eddy's trustees are cited to
appear in court and may be given
same status as original defendants.
President Roosevelt will fire the
opening shot at the National Schuetz-
enbund at Charleston, S. c. May 6.
San Francisco police sent out cir
-culars describing A. K. Detweiler,
capitalist of Toledo, o., indicted for
bribery
The thirty steamers wintering at
Superior have all steamed up and
are awaiting an opportunity to leave
the harbOr.
The Farmers Cooperative Shipping
association, with exchanges over Kan
ssas, Oklahoma and Nebraska, decided
10 wind up its affairs.
Three men were killed at Hillsville,
Pa, by the explosion of a ton of
powder at the plant of the Burton
Powder Company.
Carnegie foundation officers are di-
vided on the question of extending
pensions to retiring members of facul-
ties of state schools.
Harry H Cheney of Davenport, a
victim of nervous collapse, plunged
neadland from third-story window
and sustained fatal injuries.
The Indiana supreme court ordered
the release of James Gillespie, serving
q life sentence for the murder of his
sister at Rising Sun. Ind, Dec. 1903.
The twenty-seventh battery, United
States field artillery left Fort Ethan
Allen, Vermont, for the Pacific coast
where it will embark for the Philip
pines
Ex-President Grover Cleveland pre-
pared a brief attacking the cOnstitu-
tionality of pending state laws to
presidents.
The threatened strike on western
railroads was averted at conferences
held in Chicago at which both sides
made concessions and an agreement
was reached.
The American National Red Cross
cabled through the state department
S. 900 to the Russian Red Cross for
tthe relief of the famine sufferers of /
that country.
The Mississippi river is flooding the
lowlands at La Crosse and many
homes are surrounded with water. |
Traffic on the main turnpike to Min
nesota is shut off.
Gov Folk of Missouri committed I
to life Imprisonment the death sen |
tence imposed on Mrs. Aggie Myers !
and Frank Hartman for the murder of
her husband.
Three suits to recover policies
amounting to several thousand dollars !
were begun against the German In
surance company at FreepOrt, Ill, by
citizens of San Francisco.
F. c. Gould, who pleaded guilty in
the Vancouver police court to six !
charges of forging checks, IS believed
to be wanted in Norfolk, Va, for MUIR
der. He is accused of killing his room |
mate in February, 1906.
Professor William C. McNown of /
Cornell university has been elected to J
the chair of civil engineering at Earl |
ham college, Richmond Ind, and Pro
lessor H. NJ Holmes of Johns Hopkins |
TO the chair of chemistry
The trial of Stewart Cole, NJ. F. |
Cole, H. I. Ziegler and Louis B. Rob
inson, charged with peonage and con-
spiracy to commit peonage, was begun |
before Judge Newman in the United
States court at Atlanta.
Joseph Varroi, a master mechanic
employed by the contractors who are
digging the Pennsylvania railroad tun-