Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-01
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The Grand Central railway station
at New York is to be rebuilt at cost
of 100000.
Joseph l. pcyton, patent attorney,
committed suicide at Washington by
blowing out his brains
-Ex-Capt Gullot has been sentenced
to five years in prison for selling military
secrets to foreign powers.
The Campbell-Eaton Crockery COM
pany of Kansas City, Mo-. has failed
Liza abilities, $50, 900: assets, $3T GOO
Sarah Deckard has confessed to the
murder of her husband, Joe Deckard, III
cold blood with an AK at Bristol, Tenn.
The mail from India, which is re
ceiyed at New York, will be thoroughly
fnmigated by orders of Health officer
Doty, to guard against any possibility Of
danger from the bubonic plague.
The news was given out at the post
office at Denver that a package contain
ing $1,000 was missing from sack of
registered mail which arrived in Denver
yesterday from San Francisco.
The fragments of a human body have
been found on the railway near st. Lau-
rent. and identified as the remains of II.
Lund a merchant of New York, and he
is supposed to have committed suicide.
AT the suggestion of the governor
general of Canada the Dominion govern
ment has opened a national Indian relief
fund with the deputy minister of finance
as treasurer. Lord Aberdeen heads the
list with $1,000
-Dugald Patterson of Emmett, Mich,
was killed at Nelson, B. c., by a falling
log. At the Trial Creek smelter George
Braden, also an American, fell into a pot
of molten Stag and was frightfully
burned. He died.
-Angered because her newborn babe
was not boy instead of a girl Mrs.
l, Low 81 "a
fused to look upon the little one and
rallied at the doctor when he attempted
to give it the necessary care.
Capt Henry King, chief editorial
writer of the paper, has been appointed
to succeed the late Joseph 3. McCul
lagh as editor of the St. Louis Globe
Democrat. No change will be made i'll
the policy or style of the paper.
Mrs. James Smith buried her Irish
setter dog Franklin in the Lexington
Ky) cemetery at the foot of her hus
bands grave. She is the widow of Sam
uel NJ. Smith. a retired New York brok
er, who raised the dog from a pup.
Jeanette, the oldest elephant in the
country died at Wallace's circus quar-
ters at Peru, Ind, She. was the only fe-
male African elephant in captivity She
was brought over more than seventy-five
years ago, and has been with many cir
cuses.
The police at Prague have discovered
the existence of secret association,
partly Czech and party Anarchist. The
members, who are mostly apprentices,
are armed with daggers and reyolyers.
Seven of the conspirators have been az
rested.
edwin Landon. hook-keeper for the
Marion QndD Deposit bank, which failed
some time ago, has been arrested on
the charge of embezzlement. AT the
time of the failure it was discovered that
Landon was short in his accounts about
$4,000.
The remarkable case of DR.. Norton
the evangelist, of Montreal, Can, who
went to sleep in Anderson, Ind, and
awoke to find his eyesight gone, is at
tracing a great deal of attention among
medical men. Specialists say he has
suffered a hemorrhage of the eye.
Mrs. R. e. Billiard. the mother of
Will e. Billiard, the late secretary of the
Iowa state Senate, who was recently CON
victed of forgery, was found dead in bed
at her home at Belmont. Rumors of all
kinds are afoat regarding the cause of
her death. The doctors pronounced it
apoplexy.
Little Pete" the most noted China
man in San Francisco, was murdered by
his countrymen in Chinatown. He was
sitting in a chair in a Chinese barber
shop when three Chinese entered and
shot him. The murderers were arrested.
1t is supposed they are highbinders hired
to do the job.