Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Three suicides under unusual con-
ditions were recorded at Pittsburg.
The steamer FL Alba of the South
ern Pacific line out OF Galveston, was
picked up off the mouth of the Mis-
.sissippi with its machinery crippled
The Mexican government has ap-
pointed c. c. Young for the purpose
of colonizing million acres OF land
with American and other foreign
farmers.
Daniel ]. McGann, agent for the
louisville and Nashville railroad at
Midway, KY, shot and killed MIN
self. He told his son he was tired
OF life.
Eighteen girls, freshmen OF the
California state normal school. are
suffering from ptomaine poisoning
caused by eating baked beans at a
midnight barbecue.
The body of a man found in Lake
washington was identified at Seattle
as that of Louis Lipman, aged 81,
retired merchant of Philadelphia, who
disappeared on April 8.
John Gardner and August Meyer OF
Pontiac. ILL.,. were bound over in 49,
600 bond each TO the grand jury III
connection with the recent Chats
worth bank robbery.
The property owners OF the CAIRO,
Ill, red light" district were indicted
nv the last grand jury and the own
ars now have been given notice OF
vacatios of the property on May /.
Judge North at Marshall, Mich. ere
ated a sensation by directing a YER
dict of mot guilty in the case against
Lem 10y, Battle Creek Chinaman'
on charges of procuring young girls
for immoral purposes.
A score of wooden buildings in the
oriental quarter of Oakland, CAL,
burned. Because of the high wind the
fire threatened to reach the business
district. Several persons were injured
The loss is 100000
S. r. Nelson. vice president OF
bank and former president OF tie
Missouri State Bankers association,
committed suicide at Chillicothe, Md.
bv drinking carbolic acid. 1t is said
that his accounts are correct.
Attorney John c. Mills, represent
ing Mrs. !. T Vaughn and DR.. James
r Hull. charged with the murder OF
Prof. Vaughn. has filed notice with
Prosecuting Attorney Rieger at Kinks
VILE, Mo that the defense will apply
Tor a change of venue.
Pearl Millison. aged Is years, was
drowned in ten feet of water in a
-ditcn by the side of the road when
her blind horse. driven to a buggy,
stumbled over the edge of twelve
foot embankment near Havana, I'll.
The girls mother saved herself by
jumping.
John White and Thomas Hughes
OF Quincy. Mass were killed and
four other men seriously injured on
the tracks of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad at
Hopeville. a Boston suburb, when an
accommodation train struck an auto
mobile truck.
Caught on a narrow trestle of the
Cotton Belt railroad at RObroy, Ark,
with his wife and two others when
a speeding engine approached them,
Frederick G. Zeisler, a construction
engineer, threw his wife bodily from
the trestle and then met almost in
slant death under the wheels of the
engine.
John McGuicken, aged twenty-six
OF Philadelphia. a union conductor,
was shot and killed during fight
between union and nonunion motor
men and conductors. Victor Farrell,
aged twenty-one, a nOn-union man,
admits the shooting but maintains
that he shot in self defense. He was
hold ,,-itbOlrf hail