Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-06
settled in favor of the Oregon Short

settled in favor of the Oregon Short
Line.
At Nashville, Tenn, Senator w. B.
Eldridge was placed on trial before
the senate bar on the charge of having
accepted a bride of $3.50 from A. S.
Mcdowell in the race for assistant
clerk of the senate before the demo
| cratic caucus.
The body of DR.. F. A. Larkin, 6527
Stewart avenue, Chicago, who died IN
hospital at Philadelphia, has been
, taken to the home of his father, G. r.
Larkin, in Elgin. DR.. Larkin had
been a sufferer from kidney trouble
| for some time.
Secret service men raided fruit
store and house of Tony Thomas at
Williamsburg, Pa, and caught four
Italians. Counterfeit money was
found on two of them. The bad coins
all bore the date of 1896 and were
dollars, half dollars, quarters and
dimes.
Norris Humphrey, for Is years a
leading business man Of Lincoln, Neb..
committed suicide by shooting. The
death a year ago Of his brother and
partner brought about a receivership
for the property and the litigation
which followed, it is said, unbalanced
his mind.
Rev. Lyman H. Sherwood, founder
and head of the Lyons Musical
academy, is dead at his home in
Lyons, N. Y, aged 70 years. He was
ordained to the Episcopal ministry IN
1850. Professor William Fl. Sher-
wood, pianist and composer Of Chica-
go, is his son.
Pie, oranges and other delicacies
sent to JOS. A. Haennelt, a prisoner in
the Denver jail, contained enough
caynide of potassium to kill all the
prisoners in the jail Haennelt is the
principal witness against a man and
woman charged with having com
mitted diamond robbery.
George Foster Peabody of New York
has offered $4,000 for the erection of
a Young Mems Christian Association
building in Columbus, Ca, provided
the citizens would maintain it. He
also offered $4,000 for a Young Mems
Christian Association building for
negroes under the same conditions.
James Paxton Voorhees,, As years
of age, who says he is the son of tbs
late United States Senator D. w.
New York on the charge that he was
an accomplice in a robbery. Voorhees,.
when arraigned, declared he was not
guilty, and the case was simply one
of mistaken identity. He was dis
charged
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Brown If
Evanston received word from the war
department that their son, Frederick
o. Brown, had died in the Philippines
of pneumonia Brown went to the
Philippines in September, 1899, as a
private in the forty-seventh regiment
Of volunteer infantry. For bravery he
was promoted to corporal and had
planned to return home next month
with his regiment. He was "a Yeas
old.
Thomas Malley, one Of the most
noted Fenians who reached America
after the movement of 1867. died at
Waterbury, Conn. He boosted that
he was the only Irishman who ever
dared to fling the folds Of Erin's
green flag to the breeze" in England
on a st. Patrick's day. Escaping TO
America, he vowed he would never re-
visit the British possessions while
the queen lived. He was preparing
to cross the Atlantic when death
came.
w. F. L. Had1ey, president Of the
bank of Edwardsville, ILL.,, and for
merly the representative in congress
from the eighteenth district of
Illinois, died of consumption at River
side, Cal. He was born near Collins
vile in 1916. He was graduated from
McKendree college in 1867 and in
1871 from the University of Michigan
Francis D. Beard, the millionaire
horse owner, died at his home at
Lakewood, N J. He underwent an
operation for appendicitis.
Chicago's mayor announced the fol
lowing appointments: superintendent
of police, Francis O'Neill; controller,
Lawrence E. Mccain; commissioner
of public works. F. w. Block; cor
poration counsel, Charles M. Walker;
health commissioner, A. R. Reynolds;
city electrician, Edward B. Ellicott;
prosecuting attorney, Howard S.
Taylor; city collector, Frank x.
Brandecker; building commissioner
Peter Kiolbassa; oil inspector, Robert
E. Burke; city sealer, James A,
Quinn; private secretary, Edward N,
Lahiff.
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