Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-12

battle or Man1Ed, was u1dII1eu W MISS
Bessie Wheeler.
At New York Louis F. Prayer, a re-
tired merchant, died in his 101st year.
He celebrated his Tooth birthday with
a dinner last October, and voted the
following month.
Simeon B. Chaplin has paid debts of
his father, Chicago board of trade
operator, who failed, leaving unsettled
claims of $4,000 on his death, seven
teen years ago.
Daniel Trump, hotel keeper of
Wilton, Wis, was arrested, charged
with the murder Of James Lewellyn.
He was arraigned and committed to
Jail without bail.
"Jack' McCrystal was arrested at
Sioux City, Ia, charged with the muir
der of John Robson, a bridge contrac-
tor, Dec. 80. The motive is believed to-
have been robbery.
President Jordan of Stanford univer-
sity said in his sermon that nations
degenerate in war through the loss of
their best blood, and pointed to
France as an example.
| Ashton Smith, II years of age, son
of Rev. Henry Ashton Smith, rector Of
St. Pauls Episcopal church at Fort
Erie, Ont, was drowned in the Niagara
river while attempting to cross.
At Springfield, ILL.,, Colonel Harry f.
Clark died of Bright's disease, aged
| Sc. He was a well-known railroad
man, and was formerly general man
ager of the Keokuk & Western rail-
way.
At Houston, Texas, the republican
congressional conventions nominated
c. G. White, of Tyler, to represent the
third, and G. W. Johnson
of Graham the thirteenth Texas dis
tricts in congress.
In it's preliminary report to congress
the Industrial commission recon-
mended that trusts be required to
make public full details of their bust
ness necessary for safe and intelli-
gent investment"
The Canadian Paper-makers asso-
citation has adovted a scale of prices
for car lots, five-ton lots and twenty
ream lots of different grades of paper
The INCREASE in present prices is from
10 to Is per cent
Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington
Carter, former chief justice of New
Foundland, died in his eighty-second
year. He was the first colonial
Statesman upon whom Queen Victoria
conferred knighthood
/ At Brewersville, Ind, Al Fuller and
Isaac Powers, a school teacher, met or
), the street and began shooting. The
trouble arose over the correction Oil
Fuller's child by the teacher. Boil
men will probably die
A man who falsely represented him
self as Captain Clark of the battle
ship Texas, and as such induced Miss
Bertha Ward of Cincinnati to marry
him, is under arrest at New Orleans
The bride is Frustrated.
The increase in the tobacco output
according to the Western Tobacco
Journal for January, was 6,642.95!
pounds, or 81 per cent over December
1899 and 2,949,796 pounds, or Ia PEI
cent over January 1898.
At Memphis the jury in the case o
Harry L. Armstrong, cashier of the de
funct Continental National bank, who
was charged with making illegal en-
tries in his report to the government
: has returned a verdict of not guilty.
| To M
prominent citizen of Milwaukee, il
made defendant in a suit in which b.
is charged with having defrauded MRS
Emeline M Ludington out of large
share of the estate left by her hus
band
Baron Gevers, the new minister
from the Netherlands, arrived. The
post of that country has been vacan1
for some time, the business of the
legation being transacted through the
consulate generals office, at New
York
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt will star
on a trip to Cuba. She intends t.
make a personal inspection of The
homes, the home life, the opportunitie;
and the condition of the people and tt
spend a month in the prosecution o
her studies.
At Springfield, s., D., Rev. Charles
Secombe, one of the pioneer mission
aries of the Northwest, is dead. He
established the first Congregational
Ichurch at Stanley Falls, Mimi He
was aged SO and leaves two daughters
and two sons.
/ The senate committee which made
an exhaustive investigation into food
adulteration made it's report. II recon-
mendts either the application of the in
ternal revenue law or the establishment
of board to fix standards in order to
correct present abuses.
The will of Mrs Henrietta Smell,
widow of the murdered Chicago mil
lionaire, disposed of an estate valued
at $525, 900, which is divided equally
between A. j. Smell, son, Mrs Henri