Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17

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was derailed near Cranky, Mo. M
one was killed.
William Wainwright, of the Gran(
Trunk Pacific railroad announced tha
the Dominion government would con
struct a floating dry dock at Prince
Rupert at a cost of $500 600.
Mrs. Fred Younger, to save her sol
whose clothes caught fire in bon
fire, wrapped her arms about him ant
saved his life. She breathed flames in
to her own lungs and may die.
Driven to despair because he
sweetheart in New York had married
! former chum, Celia Duberstein
aged 10, leaped to her death from the
ninth floor of the Card building il
Cleveland.
After buying mourning for her old
er daughter, Mrs. Mary Gels of Chi
cago, killed her daughter Erma, one
year old, and then committed suicide
by asphyxiation here. Mrs. Gels hat
been i'll for more than a year.
While saving his brother Carl, Al
bert Modricker was killed at Wabash
Ind Albert saw his brother step up
on the track and dashed forward tt
push him aside. He himself failed
to jump in time and was hurled long
distance He died few minutes later
John Duff, a Greenwood colliery
miner of Scranton, Pa, who walked
into a shaft and fell distance of 124
feet is not only alive, but, as far as
can be ascertained by the doctors, is
not seriously injured There was 6
foot of water where he landed.
The university of Illinois has expel
led F. d. Wheeler, sophomore Of
Sterling, I'll. for alleged participation
in hazing. FL. P. McGregor, Champaign
ILL.,, and R. H. Doherty, Morris, Ill.
also sophonlores, were dismissed fol-
the remainder. of the academic year
Following confession that he
murdered Mrs. Mary Short, a Topeka
woman, in the hope of gaining pos
session of her property, Fred Tanning
implicated Mrs. Minnie English in
the crime and she was arrested as an
accomplice.
The third case of bubonic plague
contracted by human being in Sac
ramento in the last three months was
reported. The victim is Frank Bel
fills, an Oakland butcher He became
infected through eating squirrel. The
fatal cases reported previously had
their origin in the eating of squirrels
Joseph Pickering, seventeen years
old, of the Casanova, New York
football eleven, sustained probably
fatal injuries in game with the
Colgate eleven at Hamilton. 1t is
stated that his injuries are practically
the same as those which resulted ia
tally to Cadet Byrne at West Point.
Roy D. Cannon, realty dealer
who is said to have formerly lived in
Kansas City and Chicago, was found
dead on the roof of ten-story build
ing at Oklahoma City, with rope
about his neck with which he had
been strangled. There was deer
wound in his head. Cannon was sc
years old, well dressed and wore dia
monds. No arrests have been made
but the police are Investigating.
Twelve nuns at st. Vincent's Or
phan asylum at Cleveland, organizing
bucket brigade, put out fire in the
top of the building and quelled an in
cipient panic. The older boys of the
asylum, which houses 400 little ones
were the first to learn there was dan
ger. The sisters, passing buckets Of
water up the stairs and pouring it on
the blaze, sent the biggest boys tc
oversee the little ones at their studies
A spark from the engine of leak
ing automobile started a fire that
completely destroyed the residence
of Peter Firsinger, a wealthy con
tractor of Washington, D. G.. Firsinge1
and his chauffeur were cranking the
automobile in the garage in the rear
of the house preparatory to taking il
out, when spark worked back to the
gasoline tank and an explosion fol
lowed The flames spread from the
garage to the house and the loss is es
timated at $4,000