Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-12-22

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| from the explosion OF frozen water
pipes in a heater in which she was
| building a fire.
About Is per cent of the people who
/, die in the District of Columbia from
tuberculosis contract the disease as
result of drinking milk furnished from
| diaries in and around Washington,
according to declaration made by
Health Officer Woodward.
| Stephen Cole and his son George
who are confined in the Washington,
Ind, jail as the result of their arrest
following the finding of an Indictment
charging them with the murder OF
George Cole a year ago, asked to be
released on a writ of habeas corpus.
Joseph Garsaw was instantly killed
at the Northern Lumber company's
mill at Clouquet, Mimi. when the leads
and hammer of the pile driver, 20 feet
high, aggregating $500 pounds fell
ON him. Almost every bone in his body
was broken. He leaves a wife and
three children.
Edward Phelps, foreman for the
Hull-Rust mine at Hibbing, Mimi,
was instantly killed by switch en-,
CINE near the mine. Phelps was abb
sorbed in looking in a direction OPP
posite from which the engine was
coming and was struck down. He was
thirty-eight years of age and leaves
family.
Fifty white men raided the negro
section of Boston and when the
smoke of battle cleared away fifteen
of the negroes were found to be
wounded. The whites quickly dis
persed and no arrests were made. 1t
is claimed that the recent outrages at
Savannah, Ga, were responsible for
the attack.
William Crandall, on trial at Mar
shall, Mich, for he killing of his wife
at Battle creek last August, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
by jury in the circuit court He will
be sentenced next Monday. Crandall
cut his wife's throat and then tried
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ner, but failed.
The state board of regents of West
Virginia investigated the hazing of
Miss Matte Taylor, student of the
state normal school at Fairmont. She
was given an ice bath and painted
red, it is alleged because she rooted
for the wrong football team recently.
Her father is a prominent attorney
of Elkins, w. Va.
The trial of Albert Ryan, formerly
an organizer for the Western Fedora
ton of Miners, who killed two men
and wounded third in Los Angeles
hotel on the night of July Is, came to
an abrupt ending in the superior
court when Ryan pleaded guilty to
murder in the first degree. Judge
Davis must sentence the prisoner to
hanging or life Imprisonment.
Thirty-five passengers on a street
car in Indianapolis were injured, some
fatally, and few seriously, when the
car was struck by an inbound Penn
sylvania passenger train and hurled
thirty feet. The car fell on a cement
sidewalk and lay across the track,
but the engineer stopped his train be-
fore hitting it a second time. Most of
those hurt were injured in the panic
which followed the crash
That robbers first tortured and then
shot to death Mrs. Halls Cummings
and her father, A. Robertson, house
boat jewellers at Shawnee, Ariz., is in.
dictated by the condition of the bodies
which were found in their boat. Rob-
ertson's body, badly burned, was
among the charred remnants of a
FEATHER bed, which had been soaked
in Oil before it was set afire. Mrs.
Cummings, it is apparent, was INNER
sed in a tub of hot water and then
shot.