Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-01-21


accidentally fired from a gun.
Venezuela will not take part in the
jamestown exposition, according to a
decision reached by the government.
The illness of President Castro is
1.-THE reason given for this action
Judge Boyd in the United States
circuit court at Greensboro, N c., ap-
pointed Caeser Cone as receiver for
the O'Dell Manufacturing Company,
big cotton mill at Concord, N. G.
J.B. Barlow, president of the de-
funct Bank of Thornton, was arraign-
ed in the district court in Mason City,
Iowa, under indictment by grand jury
for fraudulent banking and embez-
element.
The North German Fire -Asurance
company, according to a decision rem
dered by a German court, must pay
the losses which it incurred as re-
suit of the San Francisco earth
quake
George c. Deyine, the engineer who
is held responsible for a collision of
his train and a work train in the
Cedar Hills, Conn, yards in which
placed on trial on a charge of man
slaughter
Governor Higgins of Rhode Island
has issued a proclamation offering
$1,000 reward for the apprehension
and conviction of the murderer of
Samuel Slater, who was killed re-
Gently at Say1esvile, r. l.
| J. NJ. Dickinson, general counsel for.
the Illinois Central, told the New
! York Bar association that President
Roosevelt's doctrine of increasing fed
eraT powers is revolutionary and dan
gerous to nations life
The tinworkers employed by the
American Sheet and Tin Plate Com
pany near Pittsburg, Pa, a sub
sidiary concern of the United States
Steel Corporation, have been given a
II per cent advance in wages, effective
at once.
New York's personal tax list shows
that Carnegie is taxed on $5,000,000
and John D. Rockefeller on $2,500,000
A farmer near st. Joe, Mich, fatal
! ly shot his wife and an officer, then
tried four methods of suicide in
vain.
Attorneys for D. P. Dyer, Jr., the
United States subtreasury teller at
st. Louis, Mo-, charged with the en-
bezzlement of $61,500, whose trial is
set for today, furnished the United
States district court clerk with their
| liEt OF witnesses.
The will of Captain John NJ Clapp
of Washington, formerly of Tidioute,
Pa, invoking personal property
amounting to $1,500,00O and real es-
tate valued at $4,000 has been filed
for probate. The widow and three
children are the chief benenciaries.
Al a meeting at Nashville, Tenn,
of the executive committee of the
board of education of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, a PROPOSE
/ tiCn in regard to the establishment
| of high grade training school On the
Pacific coast was favorably con-
sidered
Two deaths from beri-beri and
three in a serious condition is the re-
Lclt made by Captain Larsen of the
Norwegian bark Gulport that arrived
in Mobile, Ala, from Sel1oude on the
gold coast of West Africa The dis
ease was caused by bad drinking
water.
An examination of the books of the
Norwood, o., Savings Bank and
Trust company, recently merged with
the Norwood National bank, mas re
suited in the discovery OF an alleged
discrepancy of $500. Clarence F.
Turner, treasurer, claims the discrep-
ancy is due to bookkeeping error.
verdict was rendered by Judge
MCKINNEY in the Clayton circuit
court in Missouri that Henry Ziegen-
helm, former mayor of ST. Louis, who
was sued by the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition Company for his
$4,000 subscription, must pay the
$4,000 and $1,37333 interest.
E. J. Watson commissioner Of i'm
migration of South Carolina, caned
on Commissioner Sargent of the i'm
migration bureau and said that an
other ship load of immigrants from
German cities for South Carolina
would leave Bremen on the steamer
Wittekind Feb. %.
United States Circuit Judges San
born and Hook at St. Louis handed
down a decision directing that State
Treasurer Gemlich of Missouri turn
over to the Mississippi Valley Trust
Company, receiver, over $1000,000
which he holds to guarantee the pay
ment of the claims of the defunct
American Reserve Bond Company of
Kentucky, the American Reserve
Bond Company of Delaware, the
COLONEL Securities Company and the
North American Investment Com
pany.