Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-02-09
DOMESTIC.

Seven pupils and teacher were
hurt when a cyclone demolished a
schoolhouse twelve miles from Orange
burg, S. C. The injured teacher is
Miss Julia Reed.
BY a majority of S14 III vote of
6,504, prohibition was defeated at
local option election in Joplin, Mo.
Women served free lunch at the
polls.
Thomas Hays, claim agent of the
Canadian Pacific, succumbed to In
iuries received in the wreck at Span
ish river. He died at his home IN
North Bay, Mich.
For the first time in the history OF
admitted to the courses in law and
medicine They will be received at
the summer session.
Thirty persons were fined $50 and
costs at Gary, Ind, and sentenced to
thirty days in Jail was later sus-
pended. Nearly 100 warrants were
served on alleged violators of the law.
George Grimm and Herman Blue,
miners at the Cuba shaft near Collins.
vile, H., were killed by falling 1926
feet They pushed a coal car into an
open shaft and fell with the car to
the bottom.
In an interview at New York, For
mer Judge Dittenhoefer asserts thar
second marriages are the happiest
because a woman profits by her mis-
takes and is more apt 10 make a
home ideal.
Four railroad men were killed when
a Pennsylvania freight train jumped
the track near Titusville, Pa. The
dead are: William ]. Pastorius, Fred
Wall
Eugene Mayrand of Hancock, Mich,
a 81 year old electrician for the
Quincy Mining company, was instantly
killed by being struck by skip. The
top of his head was cut off. Mayrand
had a premonition of approaching
death.
The federal jury in New York con-
sidered new evidence submitted by
| United States district Attorney Wise
relative to F. Augustus Heinze and
| the latter's connection with the Mer-
! camille National bank. 1t is charged
that the names of dummy borrowers
| were used.
! The dedication of the Wisconsin
! monument in the National park at
i Vicksburg, Miss, will take place May
| %, according to an announcement
made by the park commission. Gov.
Davidson and large party of proml-
nent citizens from Wisconsin will at
tend the ceremonies.
Beach Hargis must serve his sem
tence of life imprisonment for the
! murder of his father, James Hargls,
the feudist A finding to that effect
was handed down by the Kentucky
court of appeals. Hargis had asked
! for a rehearing of his appeal to the
: court
Fought only by volunteers with gar
den hose and dampened blankets, a
fire starting shortly after midnight at
Baker City, Oregon, did damage estl-
mated at $2S4,0O0 For while the
F, greater part of the city was threat
ened and only the snow on roofs
saved much of it.
Vern Barr, aged 16, and Lima Am
mer, aged IS, both of Monroe, were
found dead in a buggy in the barn
yard of Alfred Barr. a prosperous
farmer, and father of the boy. They
had returned from dance and taken
strychnine. The refusal of their par
ents to consent to their being lovers
is the cause.
With the formation of the 81 .0OO. 900
copper combination, which Wall street
has long been talking about comes
the announcement that Samuel Inter
myer is getting $4,000 for his work
in bringing about the big merger.
This is generally admitted to be the
largest fee ever obtained by a lawyer
! in a single case.
A draft for 500 issued at Sacra-
/ mento fifty-two years ago by D. Q.
! Mills & Co.'S bank has just been hon
ored by that institution. It was re-
Gently found in the effects of the late
George Gridley of Libertyville, III.
1t was payable by the American Elk
change Bank of New York In one
corner is shown an ocean liner with
side wheels.
Information received at New York
from Odessa by the American jewish
committee says that harrassment OF
the Jews in Russia has not ceased.
The committee hears that new artl-
cles of incorporation for the Jewish