Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-12-08

Bank of Columbus, Ohio, whose dis
appearance was followed by an an
nouncement that he had embezzled
$1,642, returned to his home in Col
umbus.
Frank Pate was killed at Mount
Cornell, ILL.,, by William, alias "Jum-
bo," Adams. The men quarrefed at
dance. Pate obtained a shotgun.
but Adams fired frs with revol-
yer. The coroner's jury held Adams
to await the action of the grand
jury.
Ora F. Havill, editor of a daily
newspaper at Mount Carmel, ILL.,, will
move his sanctum to the county Jail
for sixty days unless the Appellate
court intervenes. Havill was found
guilty of criminal libel, and announce
es that he would edit his paper from,
his cell.
John Riley, an inmate of the Mis-.
souri, state hospital for the insane,
died of injuries inflicted by some
learned, and Coroner Hornbeck's YER
dict has paved the way for an in
vestigation by the proper authorities
Three trainmen, dead, two others
believed to be badly injured, five
out of six cars ON a Great Northern
passenger completely destroyed by
fire, but every passenger safe, is the
summing up of wreck on the
Northern Pacific railway about a
mile from Lind, Wash.
Eluding his roommate and shout
ing frantic goodbye" William NC
Cormick, 81 years old, a student at
the Moody Biblical institution at Chi
cago, jumped from a third story win
dow of the institute dormitory and
died while being taken to a hosp1
tai. Mccormick is believed to have
been mentally deranged.
Garfield Bohall shot and killed his
brother, Thornton in front of their
fathers home at Seymour, Ind.
Thornton and another brother, Jo-
seph, were quarreling, Garfield ap-
peared as a mediator and Thornton
struck him. Garfield went into the
house and returning with revolver
fired one shot at Thornton, killing
him
Without explanation or warning
Charles Stroll, an employee of bar
cry, walked into the reading-room OF
the Buffalo public library and shot
and instantly killed Franz Stantz.
The body Of John H. Jansen, aged
80, OF Buffalo was found on the Min
eral Range railroad tracks at CaIu-
met, Mich. 1t had been cut in two
by train during the night.
Firing from the doorway of their
home on a sheriff's posse to give
their father and brothers time to es-
cape, Mrs. Charles Daniels and her
l6-year-old daughter were shot to
death near Devon, Mingo County, W.
Va, by the officers. The shooting
OF Mrs. Daniels and her daughter
grew out of family feud between
the Christians and Daniels on the
border of Kentucky and West Vir-
ginia
Stricken with apoplexy while tying
his shoe, F. w. Weston, state agent
of the International Harvester com
pany, fell dead at Fargo, N. D. He
was a resident of Illinois from his
youth till the organization of the In.
ternational in 1908, when he was
sent to Dakota as state agent. Prior
to that time he was local agent in
chicago for many years for the Me-.
Cormlck Harvester company and lat
er was agent for the same comnanv
at Aurora, I'll.
After cutting the threats of Burr
WOODS, a Snowman attending a car.
nlVal at GAINESVILLE, Fla, and John s
smith, companion, Jesse Altman
was shot and killed Altman and
omlth hrst quarreled with Woods
Altman slashed Woods's throat. kill
ing MIN. Smith and Altman escaped
TO suburb, where they also quar-
relied, and Altman drew his razor
across Smiths throat. AS Smith foil
ne snatched a revolver from All
mans pocket and shot and kirloo
him.