Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-10
LATE NEWS CONDENSED.
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May was recently married in Mil
neapolis. He came from New York
city last winter.
Four negroes were lynched by a
mob in Kemper county, Miss, after
they had murdered an Assyrian ped
der named Kahn.
While fishing in the Ohio river near
Parkersburg, w. Va, on Thursday,
William Johnson, a negro, hooked
woman's skull on his line.
Orville Sullivan, of Urbana. Ill, ID
years old, died from a broken neck
caused On October II, while he was
playing football with schoolmates. The
boys ailment was first diagnosed as
scarlet fever.
Frank Leque, the insane man who
escaped from his guards while being
taken to Newberry by jumping head
foremost through the window of
moving train, has been recaptured at
Menominee, Mich.
Mrs. Walt McNallan of Kellogg,
Mimi, was decapitated and her hus-
band was probably hurt by passeng-
er train of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul road when they tried to
cross in front of it at the station at
Lake City.
Flat charges of fraud and wholesale
violation of the law were made in
Chicago against the Cook county jury
commissioners Office by the October
grand jury, which adjourned following
the presentation of an official report
to Judge Tuthill
George Ryan, alleged to have been
a member of the bogus foot racing
game which was operated for years
here, was arrested at Hot Springs on
indictments brought against him IN
Omaha alleging implication in the
Maybray syndicate.
Edward G. Steinhauer, aged "a
years, who is connected with a steam
ship company of Nicaragua, was found
fatally wounded in the room of a
Pittsburg hotel A revolver lay beside
him and it is thought he shot him
self. He died in hospital.
Fred Chapman, yardmaster, and
Rhine E. Strassner, fireman, were
killed in a wreck at Rochester, n Y,
when a train took the wrong switch
and crashed into a string of freight
cars, which were demolished. Three
other men were injured
Mrs. Charles H. Edgecomb, 30
years old, and her son of were found
dead in their room in a fashionable
apartment building of Chicago, both
asphyxiated by gas. A physician,
summoned by the husband who discov-
cred the bodies, said they had been
dead several hours.
During quarrel Mrs. Frank STAN
ley, of Pana, Ill.,, shot and killed her
husband. Mrs. Stanley gave herself
up and asked the officers to take her
TO Jail, as she was afraid of violence
at the hands of friends of her hus-
band. Mrs. Stanley took her baby, less
than a year old, along to Jail.
Notwithstanding the recent bust
ness depression, more funds were
raised during the past year by the
Women's Foreign Missionary society
of the Methodist Episcopal church
than during any other time in the his
tory of the organization, according
TO reports made at Pittsburg during
the session of the fortieth annual con-
vention of the general executive com
mittee of the society.
Harry May, an inventor who came
recently from New York, was killed at
La Porte, Ind, by the accidental ex-
plosion of secret waterproofing
compound used in the manufacture of
artificial stone. Elmer H. Harding,
owner of a cement block works. to
whom May had sold the patent on the
compound, was severely burned, but
will recover. The explosion took place
in the office of Harding's cement
plant and the fire that followed partly
destroyed the factory.