Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-17

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John O'Neil, Jr., who, like Durrant
was convicted of murder ON circum-
stantial evidence, was hanged at Green
field, Mass. He, too, protested his in
nocence to the last.
Two warehouses OF the Farmers
Union Milling company, at Stockton,
CAL, were burned, destroying 10000
tons of wheat and causing a loss Of
more than 100000.
Major Robert Hatton, fourteenth in
fantry, and Miss Minnie Anderson,
third daughter of Colonel T. M. Ander-
son, commander at Vancouver Bar
racks, Wash, were married.
Governor Black, in his annual mes
sage to the legislature at Albany, says
drunkenness has decreased to a
marked degree under the operations of
the Raines liquor law.
Ten law suits, involving 81, 100000,
were decided at Albany against ex
Mayor David C. Robinson, Of Elmira,
and in favor of the Mutual Life Insur
ance company.
The federation of labor urges. con-
gress to enact an eight-hour work
day on all public works, and to- place
restrictions on convict labor and the
use of the injunction.
Nikola Sesla claims that he has per-
fected vacuum tubes of such high il
Eliminating power that he can produce
light as bright as that Of the monday
sun.
In Chicago David Ellsworth Bates
was a second time convicted Of bigamy
and his punishment fixed at imprison-
ment in the penitentiary and a fine of
$1,000.
Henry Darlington, a negro Of Cam
bridge, Mass, cut his Wife's throat
and then drew the razor across his own
throat. The wounds will probably
prove fatal.
Jerome B. Pound, publisher of the
Chattanooga News and the Knoxville
Tribune, and Miss Caroline Willing
ham, one of Chattanooga's leading
young society ladies, were married.
The New Haven, Conn, grand jury
has returned true bill of murder in
the second degree against DR.. Elijah
A. Bond, who is accused of causing the
death of Miss Grace Dearborn of
Massachusetts by criminal practice.
Rev. John S. Zahm has been appoint
ed provincial of the Order of the Holy
Cross of the United States to succeed
the late Father Corby of Notre Dame
University.
President William r. Harper of the
University of Chicago is now president
also of Rush Medical college. He was
chosen after the terms of utilization of
the college with the university had
been accepted.
Caroline Ravenhill, who is alleged
to have been married to Actor Edward
J. Radcliffe in 1888, has been sum-
moned to New York from England tC
testify against him on a perjury
charge.
Dora c., wife of Henry G. Peabody,
the celebrated photographer, died IN
the Melrose, Mass, hospital Of pneu-
monia. She was the daughter of j. b.
Phelps, who died about a month ago in
Evanston Ill.
Representative of a Canadian and
American company who visited Labra-
dor for the purpose of erecting saw
mills reported at Halifax that that
country contains deposits of gold of
great richness.
William Henry Theodore Durrant
was hanged at San Quentin prison,
CAL, for the murder of Blanche La
mont. He died courageously, and to
the last maintained that he was limo
cent of the crime.
Clark Braden, Jr., a clerk for the
American Express Company at New
York, has disappeared with $4,000 in
currency and SIS 200 in bonds. It was
at first reported that the company had
been robbed of S1,000,000.
The Seminoles in the Indian Terri
tory are reported to be wildly excited
over the burning at a stake of two Of
their number by a mob for the murder
of white woman. A general upris-
ing is feared.
By order of the court at st. Paul the
jury brought in a verdict of not guilty
in the trial of William Dawson, Jr.,
cashier Of the failed Bank Of Mime
sofa, charged with grand larceny to
the extent of $4,000.
The government has taken no steps
yet for foreclosure proceedings against
the Central Pacific railroad, which de-
faulted in it's payments on January l..
J2pan's population at the beginning
of 1897 was 42,7O8,6O4, an increase of
437, ga in one year.
It is believed the long-distance tele-
phone record was broken at Gallatin,
Tenn, when John H. Conner, repre-
sentative of the Bell company, talked
with the operator in Norfolk, Va, over
1500 miles of wire.
Mrs. Marion A. Peters, aged 81 years,
shot and killed herself in New York