Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-12-29
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
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Mrs. Arthur Osborne, formerly
Helen Maloney of Philadelphia, IS
the mother of baby boy, born at
Lakewood, n. j.
Commander Peary was presented
with a gold medal by the Natlonai
Geographic society in Washington III
recognition of his discovery of the
north pole.
One person was killed and 18 in
iured some badly, when the Santa
Fe limited collided with the Over
land passenger train near Winona,
Arizona.
Although a reward of $4,000 mas
been offered for the finding OF Anna
Kellner. the Louisville girl who has
been missing a week, the police are
still without a clew-
Mrs. Maud W. Johnson, on trial at
Seattle. accused Of being profes-
sfonal claimant, was identified by
number of railway claim agents as
a woman who collected damages
from them in various cities.
The bodies of two men, blown 10
pieces by some high explosive, were
found near Tulsa, Okla. They are
believed to have been bank robbers,
killed accidentally by dynamite they
carried TO blow safes
Putting his hand into a caldron Oh
steam while clinging to the outside
Of the cab, Engineer Davis put on
the emergency brake and saved MS
train near CIarkson, Ga, after an ac-
cident to the locomotive.
Russell SmalIwood, alias Russell
Smith alias Russell Morgan, alias R.
G. Thompson, charged with forgery
was given a hearing before Justice
Amos at Fairmont, w. V. He was
held for the action of the grand jury
Conservation of all the timber
lands living within the bounds OF the
Yosemite national park in California
is urged by Maj Forsythe, acting
superintendent of the park, in MS
annual report to the secretary OF the
interior.
After , hours elaboration the jury
in the $4,000 breach of promise case
of Miss Irene Brown, the Bowling
Green nurse, against Laqufnna Colt,
returned a verdict for Miss Brown
for SIS. the reputed cost of her wed
ding clothes. Both sides gave notice
of motions for a new trial.
George Parish, an English expert
on statistics. who is in New York,
saws England is the greatest money
lender in the world and the United
States is the greatest borrower. He
places the wealth of Britain at Sl,ll9
per capita and of the United States
at S1,310 per capita.
Burglars may have turned on the
gas which suffocated Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kelly of New York in the Kelly
fiat on West Forty-eighth street. The
burglary theory was supported by
the fact that the fat was in disorder,
with the contents of trunks and bu-
reaus scattered about the floor.
General approval by the Indiana
Supreme Court decision unfolding
the county local option law will re
suit in agitation of statewide proh1-
bition. Many saloon men are on the
waiting list, expecting the overthrow
of the law, when they will go to
work
Charles Bowler of Ashbury Park,
n. J., decided to save a few dollars
by repairing his own automobile.
The next day he was in bed with
painful injuries. While he was search
ing for a leak with a lighted match
he was blown through the side of
the garage and auto and garage We're
both wrecked.
Bound and gagged by two robbers,
who fled after securing a small sum
of money. Boyd Coates, agent of the
Grand Rapids G Indiana railway at
Hunterton. a small station ten miles
north of Fort Wayne. Ind, managed
to crawl to a telegraph key and ask
the dispatcher at Fort Wayne to
call some one in Hunterton by tele-
phone to release him.