Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

20. w. Peabody of the well known
banking firm of Kidder. Peabody & Co.,
died at Boston.
Frank Huntley died at Wahoo, Neb.,
of stomach trouble. caused by overexer-
ton on his bicycle.
20. P. Morgan, a guard at the peni-
Tertiary at Fort Madison, Ia, committed
suicide by blowing out his brains
The death is announced of James
Pierce Maxwell, ninth Baron Farnham
of England. He was born in 1913.
In pitched battle between railroad
detectives and tramps near Cincinnati,
Michael Ryan, a tramp, was killed.
Mrs DR.. J. B. Ellis, well-known
and popular physician of Elkhart. Ind,
died at Hot Springs. Ark, where she
had gone for her health.
Miss Maude Hatfield. Is years old.
was accidentally shot in the arm by
Frank Lewis at Kingsley, Mich. The
limb was amputated.
An unknown man dived forty feet
from McCombs' dam bridge in New
York and rescued Henry Muller, who
was drowning in the Harlem river.
Charles James fatally shot Jacob
Garrison at Richmond, Ky. The trou-
BILE was due to James objecting to Gar
rison'S attention to the formers daugh-
ter.
The Sac and Fox Indian agency,
sixty miles southeast of Guthrie, Ok, was
held up and looted by the same gang of
bandits that looted the town of Carney,
last week.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has decorated the duke of Orleans, who
is to be married to the Archduchess
Maria Do1othea, with the Order of the
Golden Fleece.
Emma Field, victim of Robelia
Starke, who shot her because she re-
fused to accompany him home from a
political meeting, died at her home at
Jeffersonville, Ind.
While cleaning carpets with gasoline
Malone avenue was frightfully burned,
her death resulting within a few hours
after the accident.
Charles johnson, negro, under
conviction of rape. has been sentenced
to be hanged at Ardmore |. T. This
promises to be the first lawful hanging
in the Indian territory.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York by the American line
steamer Berlin from Southampton was
Lars Anderson, secretary of the United
States embassy at Rome
"A traction engine exploded on The
farm of Thomas Lutz at Little Washing
ton, o., instantly killing George Ander-
son, and probably fatally scaldng
Thomas Lutz, aged 20 years
Mrs. Kate Basson of Clinton, Mo-.
killed herself and her 4-year-old son at
a lodging house in Oak street Wednesday
night by closing the door and windows
of the room and turning on the gas.
Great deposits Of seventeen-year To-
Gusts are being found around Anderson,
Ind, within two feet of the surface of
the earth. Men working in a trench for
a gas pipe line dug up locusts two inches
long.
Maj. Henry Ward, a weli-known
Colorado newspaperman, employed of
late as editorial writer on the Leadvllle
Herald, died at Denver of pneumonia.
He was born at Evansville, N. Y. in
1871.
The women's dormitorv in connec-
ton with Carthage Qll.) college burned
to the ground this morning Many of
the young women students lost their
wardrobes. There is no insurance On
the building.
Rev. e. H. D. Capon, president of
Tufts college, Cambridge, Mass, has
filed voluntary petition for insolvency.
The college is in no way affected. Too
liberal endorsement of paper of friends
was the cause.
Joseph q. S. Clemens, aged almost so
years, and the oldest pilot in the United
States, was killed in Mobile bay. Ala,
while plotting the steamship Miami over
the bar He had done pilot work on the
Mobile bar for sixty years.
Lawyer Charles +. Mussey has
sworn out a warrant for the arrest of
Miss Alice Platt, the Musseys former
servant, formally charging her with the
murder of his wife's mother Mrs. d. {.
Terrence, and his two children.
AS the result of experiments last
winter the mill at Castalia. S. D.. will
again this winter use the Russian thistle
for fuel in place of coal. The proprietor
of the mill offers farmers $150 per ton
for all the thistles they can bring ill.,
1t is stated by Washington officials
that the United States will have the CO.
operation and support of both Russia
and Japan in the approaching issue over
establishing adequate protection for the
fur seals Of the North Pacific ocean.
William Stevens, one of the oldest
members of the Kansas City bar, is
dead, aged 85 years. He was born at
Canton, O., and went to Kansas before
the war. He gained prominence by de-
Tending the free-state men in that state.
Will Becker, II years DID, employed
in r. c.. Hanson's drug house in Sioux
City, Ia, fell fifty feet down an ele-
vator shaft in the building. He landed
on hard tile floor and miraculously es-
capped with nothing worse than Il sprained
ankle.
DIR. George Harley is dead in Lon
dom He was born in 1929 and gradu,
ated from the University Of Edinburgh
as doctor of medicine in 1850. He was
author of many medical books and was
also an earnest advocate of spelling re-
form.
Harper Brothers, the New York pub
fishers, have been Incorporated as stock
company under the title of Harper &
brothers. The capital stock is $4,000
600. The directors are Horatio Z. Har-
ner. James Harper and Henry Sleeper
Harper.
The northbound Houston & Texas
Central passenger train was wrecked
sixty miles from Houston. Tex. En-
gineer C. e. Clark was badly hurt Wal
ter Matthews, fireman, was pinioned I'M
der the engine and killed. No passen-
gers were hurt.
The citizens of Mt. Pleasant, Ia, are
indignant over the insult offered the city
council by the hanging of Aid. Davis in
effigy to a telegraph pole in the public
square The entire night police force
will be dismissed for neglect of duty in