Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-11-22

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the Nicaragua canal.
Dan Blow, an inmate Of the Minnea-
polls workhouse, confessed that he
murdered his young companion, John
Prosser, at Herman.
Colonel Henry Street, veteran of
the seventh regiment, New York, and
former adjuntant general Of Louisiana
led at New Orleans.
The value of the estate Of the late
Charles A. Dana, editor Of the New
York Sun, is estimated between ST.
O00, 600 and $1,5OO,000.
A small acetylene gas generator ex-
ploded in M. w. Klock's barber shop
at Sheffield, ILL.,, completely Wreck1ng
everything in the place.
Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, mission
airy bishop of Wyoming and Idaho, was
elected bishop Of the Episcopal diocese
of central Pennsylvania.
Preliminary reports to the statisti-
clan of the department of agriculture
indicate an average yield of 1919
pounds of cotton per acre.
Three of the Indians who killed the
Spicer family at Winona, n. d., were
lynched at Williamsport. One of
them, Coudot confessed.
The Canadian express company's
office at Trenton, Ont, was entered by
burglars and cash and checks to the
amount of $4,000 were stolen.
Fire in the warehouse of Frederick
3ergner & Co., manufacturers Of pic
ure frames, Baltimore, caused damage
OF 5000, covered by Insurance.
Arrangements have been made for
conferences looking to the negotia-
ton OF a reciprocity treaty between
the United States and Canada.
w. T. Wicker, a farmer, living near
Shelbyville, Ind, was fatally scalded
by falling into barrel Of boiling
water, while butchering hogs.
James w. Kirk of Denver, celebrated
for his lavish dress, shot and perhaps
fatally wounded a man in New York,
whose wife was mixed up in the affair
A steel tubing trust has been formed
Miss Rutherford of Minneapolis
again joined her husband, who re.
Gently escaped from the Memphis Jail
Treasurer Searles of the American
structing an ice-breaking steamer to
New York that Mr. Havemeyer's com
plete recovery is only a question of
time.
At Galesburg, ILL.,, Joseph Shaffen
pleaded guilty to a charge Of having
attempted to burn the town of Will
Mansfield, and was sent to the peni-
Tertiary.
The award by the Pennsylvania
capitol commission for a design for
the new capitol was sustained by the
supreme court of that state, sitting
in Pittsburg.
Two professional cracksmen were
interrupted while robbing the Jackson
(Minn.) postoffice. SlloLs were eX.
changed and the robbers-one wounded
were captured.
Miss Matilda Anderson, a young
woman who has been kept alive ~
days at the hospital at ST. Paul, by
artificial respiration, died of conges-
ion of the lungs.
George F. Gage, senior partner of
the wrecked brokerage firm Of Gage
and Fallon, of Boston, was arraigned
on the charge of embezzling $5,400
from Thomas J. Schollens.
The full bench of the supreme court
at Boston overruled the exceptions in
the case of John O'Neil. who is under
sentence of death for the murder of
Hattie E. McCloud, at Shelburne Falls.
Assemblyman Trainor of New York
says he will introduce bill in the
legislature for the creation of a new
state out of sixteen counties CT the
present state.
Mrs. Amanda J. Biard, the christian
science healer, was fined $50 at Kansas
City for failing to report to the board
OF health case of diphtheria she was
treating.
Joseph Williams, fireman of the
Northern Pacific transcontinental
train, committed suicide by jumping
the fire box of his engine near
N. D.
Kelley, who says he has
with Satan which will