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

under sentence of six months impris-
onment on Blackwell's island for beat
ing his wife, denied a story published
in the London Daily Mail in which it
was stated that the actor had another
wife in England.
George Wells, a ST. Louis man, re-
turned to his home to find thai his
family had identified '.fioater" found
in the river as his body, and that he
was being mourned as dead. Now he
is worrying for fear that he is legally
dead and has lost his rights as a citi-
zen.
Robert Evans and George Duncan
school boys, each II years OF age, be-
came involved in quarrel at Russell
Vile, KY, when Evans stabbed Dun
can in the heart with a pocket-knlfe.
Duncan expired instantly. Evans was
arrested.
John Reed, alias Greenhalge, the al
legged swindler, whose friends deposited
81 500 for his appearance at Brockton,
Mass, to answer to a charge OF sWlnd-
ling Martin Wood, a Bridgewater
farmer, out of $4,000, did not appear
when his case was called.
Edward Clifford, former West
Shore railroad detective, was sentenced
in Jersey City ito be hanged February
16 next for the murder of William
Watson, a division superintendent OF
the West Shore Road, ON March 5, 1895,
at Weehawken.
Ex-Congressman LATE Pence of Den
yer. chairman of the committee APP
pointed by the mining congress to
take steps to secure the establishment
of a department of mines and mining,
will leave for Washington to take the
necessary steps to secure the passage
of the law.
The National Shoe and Leather bank,
which lost it's entire surplus of S25O,OOO
and 100000 in addition by the defalca-
ton of it's bookkeeper, Samuel c. See
", in 1894, announced at New York
that ON April next the payment OF
| quarterly dividends of per cent. will
be resumed.
The Ashley Hardware and Iron COM
pany, the oldest wholesale hardware
establishment at Ogdensburg, N. Y,
was closed by the sheriff on three exc
cutions amounting to $4,000. Other
claims are being filed and will reach
about $4,000 The stock is estimated
to inventory at 100000.
A bold attempt was made to rob the
home of Peter Manages, at ROsedale,
Col, by two masked men, who brutally
assaulted both Magnes and his wife.
The purpose was to blow open the safe,
in which it was thought Magnes kept
large sums of money, but it was frus-
trated.
The hold-up on the Kansas City,
Pittsburg and Gulf railway appears to
have been a wind-haul. Wells-Fargo
Express Messenger Hayden, who was
bound and covered by one robbe1
while the other rifled the local safe,
sent his company a message to the
effect that the robbers took nothing of
value.
Eight million feet of lumber were
UuIu0u OH UU0 uOChS Ol Uu0 OdSIudW
Lumber and Salt company, at Grow
island, three miles below Saginaw,
Mich, causing loss of about 100000.
Lieutenant Dwight Edward Aultman
of the second artillery, now stationed
at Fort Adams, near Newport, r. L.
was married to Miss Alma Hickok,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert E.
Hickok, Of st. Louis.
A fortune of $17,OO0,OOO awaits the
heirs of Jacob Baker, who was a
colonel under George Washington, and
after the revolutionary war settled in
Philadelphia. There are 400 heirs, a
large number of whom now reside at
Gilman, Iowa. The property consists
| of $6,00O,O00 cash in Philadelphia
banks, 100000 worth of city real es-
tate, about 1000 acres of Pennsylvania
coal lands and real estate in North
| Carolina and Virginia.