Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-17

Missouri's law classifying cities,
making st. Louis the only one of the
first class, was held constitutional by
the supreme court.
Inspector General Breckenridge in
his report says the apparent difference
per man per annum in war and peace
times is nearly $500.
Tramps are blamed for destruction
by fire Of the Cleveland and Canton
Pressed Brick company's plant at
Canton. Loss, $4,000.
| Rev. D. E. Stuart, the Baptist min
lister of Wyoming, Pa, was again dis
charged on the accusation Of causing
the death of his wife.
/ Jubilee sermons were preached III
Episcopal churches in observance OF
the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bishop
McLaren's conservation.
Mrs. A Byron Darby, wife of State
Senator Elect Darby of Indiana, died
at Waterloo, Ind, from burns re
ceived in an explosion.
/ C. P. Bentley, secretary of a large
mining company in Colorado, was ar
rested at Clinton, Ia. charged with
selling fraudulent stock.
The navy department opened bids
for II new warships-fve battleships
and six cruisers-represen an ex-
penditure of $50,000,00O.
The attorneys of Rosslyn Terrell.
the Ohio train robber sentenced to be
electrocuted March /, will make one
offoY+ mn tn cauo bic 7ifo
E. K. Jones, a New York attorney,
was offered the attorney generalship
of the United States. He was en-
ployed in the Neeley case.
Marion Stewart, who shot Dennis
Sullivan at Muncie, Ind, mistaking
him for a robber, has not been ar
rested Sullivan will recover.
Charles McCaul. a noted contractor
and builder of many large public
buildings, died at his home in Phila-
delphia from pneumonia.
The British steamer Caroline S. ar
rived at Tampa, Fla, and reports that
a large number of monkeys in the car
go got loose and had a lively time.
Henry Heyden, superintendent Of
the New York Central railroad, jump
ed or fell from the fourth story of his
residence and was instantly killed.
Harvard, with negro as its best
speaker, won debate from Yale on
the question Of retaining the Philip
pines. Harvard had the affirmative.
Desperadoes invaded the town of
Mountain View. Ok. T.. and had
battle with the marshal. who with
two others, will die of bullet wounds.
In the absence of a law enforcing
the death penalty the governor of
Kansas is puzzled what to do with
forty persons sentenced to be hanged.
/ Game Commissioner Loveday seized
/ 1000 quail packed in barrels, in course
of shipment from Franklin county, H.
to ST. Louis Prosecutions are to fol.
low.
Americans will contribute toward a
statue to King Alfred the great of
England, to be unveiled at Winchester
on the 1,000th anniversary of his
I death.
| John W. Coppinger, once United
States consul at Toronto, Canada, and
a prominent democratic politician OF
southern Illinois, died at Alton, ILL.,,
aged 49,
Eugene Bezenah, Cincinnati, knock
ed out Kid La Faber, Buffalo, at Alex
andria, Ind, in the sixth round OF
what had been scheduled as a 20
round bout.
/ Chester P. Bentley, defaulting sec
rotary of Cripple Greek mining com
attributes his downfall to gambling
and liquor.
Postmaster General Smith in an
nua1 report urges reform in the postal
laws The revenues pass the $780,
100000 mark The annual deposit is
about $6,OO0,O0O
Alice O'Donnell, 26 years of age, a
Mrs. James Jones of Brooklyn, killed
their 15-year-oM child, cutting his
/, throat with a razor.
Lloyd's weekly paper, London, says
that it learns that the duke and Ouch
ess of York will visit the United
States on their return journey from
Australia via Canada.
! Jessie Morrison testified that Mrs.
Olin Castle of Eldorado, Kan. told her
she hated her, assailed her with a
razor, that she wrested it from her and
killed her in self-defense.
The regularity of trains on the
Santa Fe indicates that the backbone
of the telegraphers' strike is broken.
The company says it lacks only $50
of a full force of operators
Police Captain Thomas P. Flahive
of the Kansas City force, was sus-
pended for thrifty days for insubor-
dination and making false statements
concerning his superior officer.
| The federal court at st. Louis ruled
against the demurrer of Oberlin M .
Carter, former captain in the United
States army, and remanded him to
the Leavenworth military prison.
| Former COmmisSarv General of Sub