Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-29

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The Wisconsin Sugar Company of
Menomonee, Wis, has filed articles of
association, with capital of $35O,0O0
1t will manufacture sugar from beets
and other by-products. The incorpora-
tors are Richard G. Wagner, J. B.
Whitaker and A. Gettelman.
Adjutant General William C. Liller
of the Spanish-American veterans has
announced that the headquarters of
the association will be established in
Philadelphia, Pa, on Nov. 1, with
Colonel James B. Corryell, senior vice
commander in chief, in charge.
The state of Idaho has segregated
100000 acres of land on the Snake
river near Shoshone Falls. to be re-
claimed under the Carey act by canals
to be taken out Of the river at the head
of the canyon leading to the falls. The
undertaking will cost $1.500.000
Gootlieb Schrieber, father of large
family at Tonawanda, N. Y, has sold
his 1O-year-old daughter, Berthe, to
August Krebs, a neighbor, for period
of II years. The purchaser agrees to
feed and cloth the child and send her
to school for six months each year.
William Lorfeld, proprietor of the
Wisconsin house at Plymouth, Wis,
died in that city of injuries received
from jumping off moving train He
fell asleep on the train and when
awakened by the brakeman rushed to
the door and jumped off the platform
into the darkness.
The Machine-Made Fruit Jar Manu-
facturers union, which FOR a year has
had a central selling agency in Muncie,
Ind, has decided to quit pooling inter
ests and will disorganize at the ex-
piration of the present season. The
union controlled over 80 per cent. Of
the output in the country.
The Menomonee Falls factory at Me-
Wis, which has been sold
twice since it went into bankruptcy
four years ago, is to be rebuilt this
winter and operated next season. 1t is
expected that &C, 900 tons IF beets will
be used and these will be raised in the
imme6.a te vicinity of the plant.
The Ripon hartford and Green Lake
Traction and Light Company has filed
articles of organization in Wisconsin.
It will operate a street railway in and
between the points named and also
light plant The capital stock is $780,
600 and the incorporators are ]. s.
Rountree, Q. Schallun and II. P. Cody.
Godfrey G. Morris, the we'll
known stage mechanic, who died at
Buffalo, left his fortune, thought to
amount to 100000, to his only living
Thomas G. Dennehy of Chi
cago. Mr. Dennehy is secretary of
the Charles Dennehy company, whole
sale liquor dealers at ZIG Randolph
street.
A party of Harvard university men,
by Professor Delabarre
of Brown university, who have just re
turned from Labrador, report the dis
covery Of a great mountain more than
a mile in height. 1t was christened
Mount Eliot for President Eliot of Har-
ward. Another mountain was named
Mount Faunce for President Faunce OF
Brown.
At Cory, Pa, Harry Belts and
Daisy Blydenburg, prominent young
people, were found dead locked in
each others arms seated on bench
in CORY park. They were lovers, and
it is supposed to have been a case of
suicide. The girl was shot through
the breast and the young man through
the head. He still held the revolver
in his hand with two chambers empty.
The biggest oil well yet drilled in
the new oil pool on the borders OF
Hartford City, Ind, is completed. 1t
is producing $50 barrels a day natural
and when shot is expected to double
it's capacity. Four wells Low are COM
pleted in the new pool and are making
more than 100 barrels each. More
wells are going down, operators are
greatly excited and town lot boom is
on.
An indictment charging conspiracy
was returned by the grand jury
against the members of the Louis
vile, KY, Funeral Directors associa-
ton The Indictment is the first
one under the antitrust law 1t
alleges that sixteen undertakers, who
are named, have combined for the
purpose of regulating and fixing
prices.
At Quincy. Ill, Joseph e. Tails,
man of Tennessee, who
wrote under the name of Ray Ray
mond, was killed by falling from a
third-story window Of the Occidental
hotel. The presumption is he fell
asleep on the window sill, as the body
was found in the hotel alley in the
morning arrayed in night clothes and
with the skull crushed in. He was
about 40 years old and unmarried.
According to dispatch from New
ark, N. j., Albert J. Crigui of that city