Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12

changed. He is resting comfortably.
DR.. H. V. Hilprecht of the University
of Pennsylvania has returned from
Nippur. where he found the first Baby
lonian temple library ever discovered
Henry B. Proctor of Grand Rapids,
Mich, county treasurer and republI-
can candidate for state senator, com
mitted suicide because he was at
tackled for retaining interest on public
| funds.
Charles F. Jones, valet of the late
millionaire William Rice who died in
New York, made statement charging
! Lawyer Patrick with giving Rice medl-
cine.
Because he kicked over a little
sandhouse Ernest Didier, 9 years old,
was killed in Chicago with toy shovel
J in the hands of 6-year-old George
Waterman.
At Marysville Ohio, Rosslyn Fl. Fer
rell. who was found guilty OF the MUIR
der of Express Messenger Lane, at
tempted to commit suicide by smother
! ing himself.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
company has decided to rebuild their
piers at Hoboken and have abandoned
their intention of removing to New
York. There will be three piers built
| in place of the four destroyed.
Final reports place the United
States cotton crop for 1900 at 100000.
Much damage has been done to open
hU hn9VV &.
/ Property was also damaged to some
! extent at different places by wind and
| lightning.
Senator G. K. Davis of Minnesota is
| in grave danger as result OF recent
accident to his foot. The injury was
caused by the dye in a silk stocking.
May cause amputatiOn of the foot or
perhaps the entire leg if the patient
RECEIVERS.
In the Kentucky court of appeals
the Judgment of the lower court in the
! contests over the minor state ofhcers
was affirmed, thus establishing the
! title of the democratic incumbents OF
these offices. Three republican judges
dissented.
At New Whatcom, Wash, the Fair
haven salmon canneries closed down
for the season. They put up three
/ fourths of the Puget sound pack. The
grand total cases packed this season
here is 5000, or nearly 100, 900 short
of last year.
Frank Giraud, better known by his
! stage name of Frank Girard. is dead
in Brooklyn. He was so years DID, and
| his life was an interesting one, leading
from the blacksmith shop to the stage
management of Tony Pastors theater
| in Manhattan.
While celebrating Halloween by
| throwing flour at New York morton
men, Rufus Macintosh, 8 years old,
was run over and killed Ey car in
First avenue. A motorman jumped
from his car to chase the boy and ran
him in front of another car.
| At Fort Worth, Texas, suit for $780,
000,O 900 has been filed against 25 Tex
ans by Joel Blair of Bell county, who
alleges that they conspired to gain pos
session of his right in valuable Waco
property and caused him to be placed
in an asylum for two years.
The will of Frank Williams, late of
Johnstown, Pa, makes a bequest of
100000 to the Lehigh university at
South Bethlehem The income is TO
be loaned to students unable to pay
their way through college. The
money when returned is to be replaced
in the fund.
The Medford, Mass, Woman's Club
was voted to withdraw from the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's clubs be-
cause the executive board of the latter
organization, at the federation con-
vention at Milwaukee last June, re-
fused to seat Josephine ST. P. Ruf1n,
colored, who represented club Of
negro women.
Charles William Anderson, sailor,
fisherman and hunter, starved to death
on the bleak and barren Unimack
Island, at the entrance of Boring sea,
while waiting for friends who deserted
him. He died June 10, 1899, and the
skeleton in his bunk, with his dairy
beside it, were found by two hunters,
who were driven on the island during
a storm.
At Philadelphia Judge Mcpherson,
in the United States district court
upon the request of creditors of Will
liam Browne & Sons and the Phoenix
Mill company, has appointed as re-
ceivers for the firms of Thomas Walsten-
holme and Frank H. Keene. The two
concerns, which are practically the
same, are manufacturers of worsted
yarns and their combined liabilities
are placed at $2,140,000.
Designed with the intention of max
ing her the fastest craft in the world
the torpedo boat Arrow was launched
in New York She is guaranteed to
make forty-two miles an hour, and it is
hoped that her maximum speed will APP
proach fifty miles. She has not been
built for the government, but was de-
signed and constructed under contract
with Charles R. Flint. 1t is said that