Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-25
GENERAL NEWS,


capital stock By 100.000,000. Upon
the authorization of the increase, &C
cording' to present plans, there will
be offered at par to stockholders an
amount of the new stock equal to 10
per cent of that at present outstand-
ing, or approximately SAL 100000. The
money will be used in refunding a
few securities that mature this year,
in sc-called relief freight lines de-
signed to make the operation of the
New York terminals more efficient,
and for minor improvements along the
route tom this city to Pittsburg.
The Mexican administration papers
in Chihuahua are making much CAPT
tai of the execution of federal officials
at Guerrero by the insurgents in re-
prisal for NavaTro's act in executing
all his wounded and prisoners at Ger
zero Prieto several weeks ago. FL
Norte, daily paper owned by Enrique
Creel, minister of foreign affairs, and
published in his home town in Chi
huahua, says that it has just become
known that a prominent ranchman
was captured and executed at Guer-
zero by the rebels because he refused
to give money and horses for the rebel
cause. His head was cut off with an
axe. the paper charges.
Chicago, as the center of the cold
storage industry of the country, is to
be the vortex of wholesale unload
ing. Chicago wholesalers admit that
the bottom has fallen out of the prices
for dairy products and poultry, and
that a big slump is due as soon as the
contents of the cold-storage warehous
es can be put upon the market
Although the collapse of the "cor-
ner' is likely to be felt most keenly
by the cold-storage men OF Chicago,
the pinch will be felt in many of the
important shipping centers of the east
and middle west.
A Gordon of New York city police
men is standing guard outside the
closed east side banking house OF Cleto
Sciandone, on One Hundred and Sixth
street, as the result of a demonstra-
ton by several hundred frantic for
eigners who had placed their savings
on deposit there. 1t was feared an at
tempt would be made to blow up the
building. The banker is gone, the po-
lice say, since Monday. He had been
in business for five years and had won
the confidence of the uptown Italians
until his depositors numbered more
than 5000
At Washington, D. c., Secretary OF
State Knox and Gen. Juan E. Paroles,
special minister from Honduras,
signed a convention providing for he
negotiation of loan by American
bankers to the . erEment OF Hon
duras. The loan = for the purpose
Of refunding the debt of the republic,
which amounts to slightly more than
$4,000. 900. The text of the treaty
will not be made public until the SEN
ate mas ratified it. The treaty will
also have to be ratified by the con-
gress of Honduras, which is now in
session.
Michael H. McGoverR, a well known
contractor Of Chicago, whose claim
for $4,000 against the city for the re-
moval of "shale rock" from the Law.
renee avenue sewer was made the sub
ject of grand jury investigation, was
sued for damages Of $4,000 on behalf
of the city by Corporation Counsel
E.. J. Brundage in the circuit court.
The action was filed for the purpose
of recovering $45,9S4.20, which it is
alleged was wrongfully paid and
should be returned to the city.
A riot occurred in Chicago between
fifty men and women garment workers
on their way to work and score OF
men who were attempting to dissuade
them from reporting for work.
In the fight bricks, bottles and stones
were thrown at the workers, windows
of an Erie street car were smashed,
and the crowd of rioters was not dis
persed until a patrol wagon loaded
with policemen arrived on the scene.
Realizing the impossibility of fore
ing a passage through drifts from
six to eight feet deep, Western Pacific
officials annuled its stalled eastbound
overland at San Francisco, which was
ready to depart for the east. Vice
ETeSLUSuL OCuldCh6s WHO went over inc
road in a special train from San Fran
cisco, was compelled to return after
reaching Belden. East of Belden the
blizzard ragged continuously all day.
The German balloon Hindebrandt
missing since ascent at Schmargen-
dorf on Dec. 20, was foHnd in a lake
in Pomerania province IN Prussia. The
bodies of the two aeronauts who set
out on the voyage were In the basket
The lost bafloonists were Dr.. Roehrs
and a companion. It had been be-
lieved that they had met death ia the
Baltic sea, the balloon having taken
that direction on rising.
The influx of butter from the farms
has played havoc with the Chicago
butter and egg brokers who have in
vested freely in cold storage products.
Following the decreased demand for
the stored butter and eggs and the
threatening aspect of the butter mar
ket, two firms, E. J. Piggott, 35 River
street, and e. l.. McAdams, 36 La Sale
street, failed.
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