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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
BARON Won BlEBERSTEIN,
SECOND BISMARCK" DEAD
Succumbs Suddenly at Badenweller
Where He Had Gone for
Water Treatment.

Badenweiler, Baden, Sept. 26.-Ger-
manys most brilliant diplomat, sue
cessor to Bismarck as the strong
man of the Fatherland" and promoter
of world peace, is dead
The baron was appointed ambassa.
dor to London only last May, and his
assignment to that difficult post was
hailed by the most progressive polit-
ical writer's of Europe as long step
toward the removal of friction and
agitation which for months had
threatened the peace of the world. ~
Marschall Won Bieberstein, the most
brilliant diplomatist of Germany was
expected to bring about better rela-
tons between the English and Ger
man peoples and to harmonic their
conflicting interests. His death is
great disappointment to those who
had pinned their faith to his coHcilia-
tory endeavors.
The baron had come here to take
course of alkaline water treatment and
was In comparatively good health I'M
TIL a week ago. Then he suddenly
fell i'll and rapidly became worse un-
til he died.
The baron, who was native OF
Baden, was seventy years old.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
WiCKERSHAM TO RETIRE
WHETHER TAFT WINS OR NOT
Attorney General Decides to Quit Be.
cause Many Outside Interests
Demand His Attention.

washington, Sept. 25.-Attorney Gen.
eral Wickersham expects the re-elec-
ton of President Taft, but Mr.. Wick
ersham has decided to leave the cabi-
net March 4 next, whether his chief is
elected or not
This, it became known here, is the
statement that Mr. Wickersham has
made to friends in Washington and
New York, and which has been reitera-
ted by Mrs. Wickersham in the CAPT
tai
1t is understood here that there
has been some correspondence be-
tween President Taft and Mr.. Wick
eTsham on the subject, but that for
various reasons Mr.. Wickersham has
refrafned from making any public
statement as to his intentions Of
hctals who know what is going on in
the inside say they would not be
surprised if Mr.. Wickersham would
make the announcement that he will
leave the cabinet almost any day.
Mr.. Wickersham, it is said, will re-
sign because a number of outside in
terests require his attention and he
does not feel that in justice to himself
he should keep the position any
longer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
BROKER COMMITS SUICIDE
Circumstances Surrounding Death of
Edward j. Dryer Are Puzzle
to the Police.

Janesville.-E. j. Dryer, a mem
Der of the Chicago board of trade
ten years ago, was found dead in the
rear of a freight house. "A bullet
wound and other circumstances indi-
Gated that he had taken his own life.
This theory is strengthened by
story told here by James Schaller,
jockey, who said he had taken din
ner with Dwyer in Chicago cafe.
''Dwyer spent his money freely al
though l never knew him to plunge
on horse race. He must have spent
the most of $50 on the dinner and
wine he bought when / was his guest.
He remarked to me that his money
was all gone, that he was through
and that he was going to Wisconsin
to make an end of it.
When Dryers body was found
there was only twelve cents in his
pockets. A few years ago he could
draw his check for thousands of dol
lars. The corpse was found in sit
ting posture with back and head
against the screen door and was first
noticed by Mrs. Artlip, mistress of
the house, as she opened the back
door.
Thinking that it was merely a
drunken man on the steps she teIe-
phoned one of the boarders to see
that he was removed On his arrival
in response to her call he at once no
ticed that the supposed drunken man
was corpse. Blood was despatched
over his neck cloth and clothes, from
wound in his face, and between his
outstretched legs was a pool of con-
gealed blood.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
COLONEL ANSWERS
ARCHBOLD OCT. 4
viii Appear Before Campaign
Fund InquiSitors.
TO TELL ABOUT OIL GIFT
Chairman CIapp Gives Out List of
Witnesses Who Will Testify Con-
corning Contributions to
Political Parties.
TO TELL ABOUT OIL GIFT

Washington, Sept. 27.-Chairman
Clapp of the senate committee investi-
eating campaign contributions an
nounces that the hearings will begin
on Monday next and that Octobet 4
has been set as the date when Col.
Theodore Roosevelt will appear before
the committee
Subpoenas have been sent to New
York for service upon General Coun-
sci Elliott and the secretary of the
Standard Oil company in connection
with the investigation Of John d.
Archbold's statements that he con-
tributed 100000 to the Roosevelt
fund of 1904 in behalf of the Standard
Oil company. The two officials are
required to produce any papers they
may have bearing upon the transac-
ton, the committee having called
them in an effort to discover
the receipt which Mr. Archbold said
had been given him by Cornelius N.
Bliss, then treasurer of the Repub-
ylican national committee.
Senator Clapp made public the
names of the majority of the wit
nesses who are to be heard by the
committee. The list includes j. z.
Morgan, R. c. Frick, William R.
Hearst, Thomas F. Ryan, former Sen
ator Chauncey NJ. Depew, William
Loeb, Jr., George B. Cortelyou, Alton
B. Parker, George R. Sheldon, Cor
nelius ~ Bliss, Jr., and G. G. Teget-
hoff.
Those who will be asked to explain
the source of campaign funds this
year and the method of their ex-
penditure include Senator Dixon,
Ormsby McHarg and Treasurer E. H.
Hooker of the NATL nal Progressive
party for Colonel Roosevelt; H. L.
Nichols for Governor Harmon, Rep
resentative Mckinley for President
Taft, former Senator F. T. Du Bots
for Champ Clark, Senator Bankhead
for Representative Underwood, and
William F. McCombs for Governor
Wilson.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
j. s. RUSH MARINES
TO SAN DOMINGO
Force of $50 Take Passage on
Transport Prairie.
WILL GUARD THE CUSTOMS
President Takes Step Toward inter-
ventlon to End Revolution in
Island Republic While on
Board of Train.

Philadelphia, Sept. ga force of
$50 marines will sail from Philadel-
phia tomorrow on the transport Prai-
RE for Santo Domingo to protect the
American customs receivership there
This decision was reached by Presi-
dent Taft at conference with Beck
man Winthrop, assistant secretary of
the navy, on the presidents train en-
route from Washington to New York.
The marines will be sent to Santo
Domingo as a precautionary measure
to guard against attacks on the custom
houses which the United States gov
eminent, under the Teceiyership, Is
bound to protect. The rebels have
been active since the assassination of
the president of Haiti early in August,
but so far have refrained from modest
ing the custom houses.
The marines will be drawn from the
Atlantic coast stations and will be
commanded by Col Franklin P. Moses.
The distribution of the force will be
supervised by Brig. Gen. Frank McIn-
tyre of the insular bureau of the war
the Latin-American bureau of the de-
partment of state, who will accom-
pany the detachment on the Prairie.
The custom houses of Haiti were
placed practically Under the jurisdic-
ton of the United States by Colonel
Roosevelt when president and when
England, France, Germany and other
ion % D
threatened to send warships to San
Domingo and seize the customs
house. President Roosevelt forestalled
foreign action by sending an Amer1-
can squadron primarily to keep the
peace. San Domingo entered into a
compact with the United States by
which the latter was to guarantee her
debts to foreign nations. The debts
amounted to about twenty million dol
lars. The United States took over
several of the custom houses and col
leCted, and still collects. the revenues.
San Domingo pays over monthly
about $1,2OO,O00 to the Guaranty Trust
company Of New York for distribution
among the creditors.
4ue I0FO1uIIOuiSIs III odH AOAAAAASN
have seized five custom houses, TERRA
Nueve, De Jarbon, Commendade, Bari
ca and Pedro Males.
The action of the United States has
been communicated to the Haitien and
Dominican governments for the rea-
son that the custom houses are near
disputed frontier.
For the present the United States
will regard as the true frontier pro-
visional line which was delineated by
the United States war department
staff in 1907. In other words, the Uni
ted States will seize and reopen the
closed custom houses, no matter
whether they lie in territory claimed
by San Domingo or Haiti
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
FORTUNE IN CORNERSTONE.
Church Forgets to Exclude It In Sale
and Buyer Won't Give 1t Up.

Church Foreets to Exclude 1t In Sale
and Buyer Won't Give 1t Up.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept 81
When the directors of the old Hen
nepin Avenue M e. church Of Mime
apolis recently sold the old building
to Harry E. Pence of this city they
forgot to make provisions that the
cornerstone be excluded from tbs
deed. Now they have discovered that
the copper box within the stone con-
tains small fortune and valuable
papers. Efforts have been made by
the directors to have Mr.. Pence give
them the box but he has refused.
Witnesses to the laying Of the corner
stone in 1888 declare that there was
a vast assemblage present and that
every onesput some money into the
copper box before il was sealed, many
giving bank notes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
ampbeIl to Direct Association.

Milwaukee.-John P. Hume, for
merly of Marshfield, has rendered his
resignation as manager of the Wis
consin Advancement association. He
will be succeeded by A. D. Campbell,
former state immigration commits
sioner, who has been with the as
sociation about year
Mr.. Hume has been manager of
the association since July Is, 1911,
at which time a reorganization was
effected and headquarters for the
publicity work were moved to Mill
waukee from Chicago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
NO PRESENT RELIEF
Meat Prices May-Rsss OF High sInt'sss 4
January Bee, and hye
~ sfesented, yet the
mis- great educa- &


Milwaukee, ESper.-s for
present high prices OF. meats caR
seen by local meat dealers, at 1eass
not until after the crops are being
fed to stock, which date dealers put
at Jan L. Until then, say the meat
men, prices may soar indefinitely, for
the scarcity of prime cornfed stock is
acknowledged to be acute in MilWau-
kee and in other cities.
There is some difference of opinion
among the dealers as to the exact
cause of the raise in prices, and there
is considerable variance in the
prices quoted by dealers in different
parts of the city. Michael Cudahy
of the Cudahy Packing company said
that as rule the prices were the
same as month ago, but that in one
or two cases meats had gone up, and
in others had been reduced slightly.
Beef is the same as month ago."
said Mr. Cudahy, with the better
grades slightly higher. There has
been a little raise in the price of
pork, about l u cents a pound Lamb
is 2 cents cheaper than it was then,
while veal is cents higher. Bacon
is about the same, with the better
grades running from l II to 2 cents
a pound higher.
''The housewife does not realize
the fact, however, that although the
prices this year are high, in many
cases, they are cheaper than a year
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
COMMERCE CONGRESS is ON
Secretary NageI Opens Convention Of
Business Men at Washington.

Secretary NageI opens Convention of
Business Men at Washington.
Boston, Sept. 25.-Charles Nagel,
secretary of commerce and labor, to-
day formally opened the fifth Inter
national Congress of Chambers of
Commerce and Industrial Associations.
His keynote speech was delivered to
an audience of over 700 delegates,
two-thirds of whom came from foreign
countries. Among the countries rep
resented were the Argentine Republic.
Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, the
British Empire, Chile, China, Colon
bia, Ecuador, France, Germany,
Greece, Guatemala, Holland, Hondu-
ras, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway,
Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Switzer-
land, Sweden and Turkey.
Mr.. Nageps address was delivered
in English copies in other languages
being distributed among the delegates.
He reviewed the past work OF the
international congress with reference
to the unifcation Of international
trade forms and laws and predicted
that through this body the shipment
OF goods between the countries of the
world would ultimately become as
smooth and unhampered by petty re-
strictions as is the interstate com
merce of the United States.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Italian Shoots countrxman.

Kenosha.-Ross Lapone, an Italian
81 years old, was shot and seriously
injured at a trackworkers' shack
near Somers by Nicolli Bellino, who
is now held at the county jail charged
with attempted murder Two shots
took effect, one piercing the right
lung of Lapone and the other strik-
ing him in the knee. The shooting
is said to have been the result of
an old feud between the two men
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
IMBEcILEs IN OHIO GAIN.
Allen w. Thurman Declares for Law
of Sterilization at Once.

Allen w. Thurman Declares for Law
of Sterilization at Once.
Columbus, O., Sept. 26.-Alarmed
by the increase in the past year of
the number of imbeciles in Ohio,
President Allen w. Thurman of the
state board of administration, de-
clares that If a law of sterilization
is not passed within a decade the
state will be bankrupted in it's care
for the weak minded.
The danger of the present marriage
laws was brought forcibly to Thur
mans attention when a family of six
idiots, ranging in age from seven to
sixteen years, was transferred to the
state institution from the Brown
County Children's home.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
SEND BURGLAR TO ASYLUM.

Educated Thief Who Robbed chIca-
goans Is Declared insane.
Chicago, Sept. 26.-Jacob Foy Guth.
rie, educated burglar and forger,
whose daring and cunning in robbing
homes of wealthy south side residents
amazed the Chicago police, was ad-
judged insane by Jury in Judge
Cooper's court. He was ordered COM
mitted to the Chester Asylum for the
Criminal Insane.
Two alienists testified that Guthrie
was insane
He presented pathetic sight in the
courtroom. He appeared wild-eyed
and excited, and at times snarled and
snapped like a dog.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Young Girl Is Attacked.

Steubenville, O., Sept. 27-Miss
Lettie Ward, fifteen years old, who
lives at the home of Samuel Farmer
of Wheeling Junction, w. Va, was
seized by unidentified men near her
home and held while poison was ad-
ministered. She is expected to die.
Farmer recently had received anony-
nous letters threatening his life If
he did not leave the country. No rea-
son for the attack has been disclosed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Would Make Fair Permanent.

Green Bay.-A. S. Nicholson, SUI
perintendent of the Menominee In
dian reservation at Shawano, left for
Washington, D. c., to confer with
President Taft in an effort to get an
appropriation from congress for the
purpose of making the annual Indian
fair and industrial exhibit perma-
nent affair
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
cHlNAmAN WINS IN PRIMARY.

Is Nominated for representative In
Boston by Republicans.
Boston, Mass, Sept. 27.-Chin Shue,
a Chinaman, has been nominated for
representative in the Seventh ward
of this city by the Republicans He
is believed to be the first Celestial
ever to be nominated for political
office in the United States.
He has announced that, If elected,
he will work for the admission Of
Chinese women into the United States
He believes that great injustice is
being done the Chinese In this coun-
try by the rigid exclusion of the Chi.
nese women.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
BABE BORN WITH x-RAY SKIN.

Back So Transparent Organs Can Be
Seen Performing Functions.
Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 26.-A baby
girl with a transparent back was born
to Mrs. Henry L. Hobots of Fayette
City, twenty miles south of here. The
child is exciting the interest of physi-
clans in this community. Through
the thin skin covering the back the
internal organs can be seen. When
the child is laid upon its stomach
the movement Of the lungs and the
puIsations of the heart can be OBJ
served.
The child is apparently in good
health and is normal in all respects
except it's back
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
GIRL AvERTs TRAIN WRECK.

Uses Apron as Danger Signal After
Discovering Landslide.
Bluefelds, W. Va, Sept. 26.-Whlle
walking on the Norfolk & Western
railroad tracks, Miss Beulah Chand-
Ter. eighteen years old, discovered
landslide had wiped out quarter OF
a mile of track. Hearing a passenger
train approaching at high speed she
waved her apron and ran up the track,
stopping the train within few feet
of the landslide. A collection was
taken for the girl, and the railroad
will also reward her.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
LOEB HOLDS % TRUNKS.
Rich Society Woman Ordered to Pay
$4,000 Duty.

New York, Sept. 27.-Twenty-three
trunks containing clothing and duti-
able imports from Europe, brought in
without proper declaration by Mrs.
Ambrose c. Kingsland Of New York
and Lenox, were declared forfeited
by Collector of the Port Loeb. Mrs.
Kingsland is a prominent and wealthy
woman more than sixty years of age.
She failed to make declaration of the
value of the goods she brought in
from Europe. No criminal proceed
ings will be instituted She must pay
$4,000 duties. If she does not pay
this sum civil suit will be insti-
tuted.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
WIFE UNKIssED 25 YEARS.
Husband Gets Decree; Says She Was
Like Marble Statue.

ST. Louis, Sept. 27.-William R.
Brock, Webster Grove, former pro-
prietor of the Brock Corset company,
testified in Judge Wurdenan's court
at Clayton he hadn't kissed his wife
in twenty-five years. Brock obtained
a divorce on the grounds Of deser-
ton. Explaining his reason for not
kissing her, Brock described his mar
ried life as living with marble
statue" She repealed all emotion, he
declared, and spent her time reading
fiction.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
IOWA MAN HELD FOR FRAUD.
Prominent Church Member of Water
loo Arrested In Kansas City.

Prominent Church Member of Water.
loo Arrested In Kansas City.
Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. BE. A.
Boggs, prominent church member and
society man, who some months ago
testified to having spent $4,000 on
an insignificant monument company
In twelve months, the money borrowed
largely without security from banks,
was arrested in Kansas City by
the sheriff of Grundy county, Iowa,
and will be required to answer to
FIVE indictments returned by the grand
Jury of that county.
The indictments charge embezzle-
ment and obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Foss AND WALKER WINNERS.
Are Nominated for Governor in Bay
State Primaries.

Are Nominated for Governor in Bay
State Primaries.
Boston, Sept 26.-The primaries
held in Massachusetts resulted in the
denomination by the Democrats of
Gov. Eugene N. Foss and the selec-
ton by the Republicans as his OPP
ponent of Joseph Walker of Brook
line, former speaker of the l.stsla-
ture.
The present congressman who were
candidates for denomination are in all
probability successful.
Until the returns are completed it
will be impossible to estimate the
strength of the third party or to get a
line on the, probable result OF the
presidential election in this state In
November.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
NEW ROOSEVELT ELECTORS.
Names for independent Ballot in Kan
sas Filed by White.


Topeka, Kan, Sept. PA petition
naming ten new Roosevelt electors, to
go on the independent ballot, was
led by William Allen White, Kansas
Progressive national committeeman.
The petition bore 1000 signatures.
The eight Roosevelt electors in the
Republican column, Mr.. White said,
would withdraw formally within a
few days. Their places will be filled
by eight Taft men, to be named by
the Republican state committee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
GUILTY PLEA IS REFUSED.
Bandit Gives Drug Habit as Excuse
For Train Robbery.

Bandit Gives Drug Habit as EXCUSE
For Train Robbery.
New Orleans, La, Sept. 27.-Be-
cause of his statement that he was
under the influence of drug when
he held up and robbed the New York
limited train on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad near New Orleans
ON the night of September 4, the
United States court refused to accept
a plea of guilty from Howard o. Ed
wards to charges of robbing the mails
and assaulting mail clerks. The ban
dit, who told the court he had no
accomplices in the robbery, was re-
manded for trial October 4.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Succeeds Father as judge.

Madison Gov. McGovern appoint
ed Assemblyman Roy E. Reed, Ripon,
municipal judge of that city to sue
coed his father, L. E. Reed. The
term expires the first Monday in
June, 1913.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
HUGHES LEADS IN JERSEY.
Is Endorsed by Democrats for U. s
Senate in Primary.

New York. Sept 26.-The returns
received from the New Jersey pri-
maries indicate that Congressman VIII
liam Hughes has won by substantial
majority over Senator James Smith,
Jr., in the fight for the Endorsement
of the Democratic party as its condi
date for the United States senate.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
FIFTEEN MoRos ARE SLAIN.
Filipino Constabulary Engages
Eioht With Murderous Band.

Fight With Murderous Band.
Manila. Sept. IA number of
Moros who had killed a Filipino were
pursued by a detachment of constabu-
larry. A hand-to-hand encounter en-
sued. in which fifteen of the Moros
were killed. Lieutenant Preuss, who
was associated with w. Morgan Shus-
fer in Persia. and four men of the
constabulary were wounded.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
STEERS REACH RECORD PRICE
sixteen Sold at Kansas City for
5000 a Hundred.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 26.-Sixteen
steers weighing 1,500 pounds were
sold at the Kansas City stock yards by
Liberty (Mo.) farmer at $1,000 a
hundred. or s173.S1 head. making
them the priced steers ever
sold west of Chicago. according to 10
cal dealers. The steers had been fui
fed nine months
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02

Racine-The ticket office Of the
Milwaukee road was entered by
burglars, who robbed the safe OF 500
by knocking off the knob of the COM
oination lock.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02

Appleton.-A ffty-foot section OF
a stone retaining wall separating
the Fox River Paper company
flume from the channel here was
washed out by high water, and mill
No. has been shut down as result
1t is not believed any further damage
will result unless the river rises some
inches more Recent rains have sent
the level of Lake Winnebago to ten
inches above the crest of the Menasha
dam.