Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-08-04
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ira FdTkS, dS0u IL years, OI dit
field, Iowa, died from tetanus result
ing from a revolver accident July 4.
Palmer Hornseth aged Ia years, son
of P p. Hornseth of Coleraine, near
Duluth, was accidentally killed by a
work train
The man killed by Great Western
freight train a short distance south of
Randolph, Mimi. is supposed to be
J. H. Clifford, his home being in Penn
sylvania.
Nils Swenson, accused of giving his
daughter-in-law poison from which she
died, was held to the circuit court at
Vermillion, s. D.
N. L. Parsons, wealthy farmer Of
Newton, Iowa, was instantly killed by
being jerked from load of hay. His
neck was broken
Tipping from a high chair, in which
it was growing with laughter, the babe
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H Reager sus-
tanned injuries from which it died at
Emmetsburg, la.
T. j. Cunningham of Chippewa Falls
was reappointed member of the civil
service commission for term of six
| years. He was secretary of state in
Peck's administration
| district court jury brought in a.
verdict of guilty of manslaughter in
the first degree in the case of Pas
| quale Barilla, accused of killing Cas-
! par Zumbarilla, at Duluth, MINI.
| Three men are dying and two Sc
riously injured as the result of the
collapse of derrick used in the con-
struction of the new town hall at
| Chisholm, Mimi.
Patrick J. Lynch, SO years old, stew
ard of the Beaumont, Texas, Elks
club, was murdered. The body was
found in the morning Several ar
rests have been made.
! Cornelius P. Shea, ex-president of
the international Brotherhood Of
Transfers. was convicted in New
York of an attempt to murder Alice
Walsh. a former Chicago waitress.
When Levi Corner, a 13-year-old
| boy, living near Dumont, Iowa, at
! tempted to ride fractions horse, he
was thrown and trampled upon by the
animal, sustaining injuries that caused
his death.
| During a sham battle in the Alaska
| Yukon-Pacific stadium between the
| Improved Order of Redmen and state
militiamen, Joseph Morhinway of Ev-
erect, Wash, one of the Redmen, was
shot and killed.
J B. Kelly, superintendent of a
steel plant at st. Louis. committed sui
eide by cutting his throat at the Ham
ilton hotel, a fashionable west end es-
Enlistment. Domestic difficulties
prompted the deed.
mob chased Umpire Eldredge Of
the Southern Michigan league from
the grounds at Jackson, Mich. In the
rush of the spectators the grand stand
collapsed, injuring eighteen persons,
three seriously.
Walter Stephenson, who was presi-
dent of the class of 1907 at Miami uni
1 versity and was former fullback of
the Miami football team, was drowned
| III g. copper mine at Anaconda, Mont,
where he was employed as chemist
| Further reports from isolated points
alorg the gulf coast of Texas continue
o swell the death list resulting from
the recent hurricane. Angleton, Texas,
reports eleven dead instead of one,
bringing the total death list of the hur-
| ricane up to thirty-eight.
joan w. Heron of Cincinnati.
father-in-law of President Taft, is Sc
riousiy i'll following a mild stroke of
paralysis. Owing to Mr.. Herrons ad-
vanced age, 81, it is said the stroke
will prove serious.
William S. Meredith was killed,
George Blackwell severely hurt and
Harry Styner painfully injured when
an automobile driven by StynerI
dashed down an embankment near
Wabash river at La Fayette, Ind, and
was wrecked against tree
Private kilograms state that the
wife of A. p. Dorrance, a Helena mer-
chant, was instantly killed by bur-
glar at Hot Springs, Montana No Ge-i
tails are known. Dorrance had gone
there for the benefit of his health and
was joined by his wife few weeks
age
Bert Holcomb was instantly killed
at Bioomir gton, H.. when an automo-
Bile driven by w. t. Shorthose
ST,.,,clS The o,Iard raiJ of q briSge, ,DfI
overturned. Shorthose had a rib
broken ana John Cas-, another oecu-i
pant of the car, was badly bruised.
Miss Ida Galloway, her sister, Mrs.
Anna Myer, and two children were
KILLED in collision between a carriage
in which they were riding. and 2
freight train on the Mobile & Ohio