Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15

IN the western Michigan peach belt.
officer Peter Butterfly, one of the
Haymarket heroes, died in Chicago
| Officer Butterfly had been on the police
force since 1884 and was a patrolman
at the time of the Haymarket riots, in
| the suppression of which he took a
| leading part and was seriously
wounded.
At Upper Sandusky, O., after de-
liberating nineteen hours, the jury in
the case of Marsh Lindsay, the fourth
man to be tried for the murder of Will
liam C. Johnson, brought in verdict
of guilty in the second degree. The
trial of the last of the gang, Willis
Miller, has begun.
President j. M. Porter, who is in
charge of the civil engineering depart
ment of La Fayette college at Easton
Pa, and M. L. West, machinist, who
were riding in an automobile en- route
| from Cleveland to Easton, went down
a steep embankment near Coldwater
and were severely injured.
While twenty terrified men climbed
up the railing of the Randolph street
viaduct, Chicago, and yelled i'm
pOtently at a mad dog, a fragile little
woman grabbed it by the neck and
threw it over the railing to the rail
road below The woman tripped on
her way without revealing her identity.
Secretary Root has completed the
draft of rules and regulations for gov
erning the use of st. Croix river be-
tween Wisconsin and Minnesota by the
| logging companies and the steamboat
men during the season. There is an
impression that the rules will not
work to the satisfaction of the steam
boat men.
Mrs. Sallie Carter, wife of Zina r,
Carter of Chicago, drainage trustee
and at one time republican candidate
for mayor, died at the Garfield Park
sanitarium. Mrs. Carter had been i'll
for year with heart trouble. Mrs,
Carter was 98 years old. She was
born in Iowa and had lived in Chicago
since 1873. She is survived by her
husband.
While George McWilliams and
family were enjoying their fourth OF
July outing near Pittsburg, bolt of
lightning struck a tree under which
they had taken shelter. Two of the
children, aged 6 and 8, were killed out
right, an infant lived but short time,
and Mr.. McWilliams was totally par
alyzed His wife is Frustrated with
grief and her recovery is doubtful
At Columbus, Ohio, Allan o. Myers
has brought suit in the United States
district court for $4,000 damages
against the grand lodge of Elks. He
claims that he was illegally expelled
from the order. that his newspaper
The Elk, was destroyed and his history
of the Elks rendered valueless and the
ritual of the order, of which he was the
author and proprietor, was appropriate
ed.
Mary Elliott Hubbard, aged So
years, a prominent club woman and
wife of Jules Hubbard, we'll known
throughout the country as a lawyer
and singer, died in Omaha. Mr.. and
Mrs Hubbard were residents Of
Chicago for twenty years, where the
former amassed fortune as a lawyer
and oil-well owner. They went to
Omaha in 1883 and resided there since
that time. Mr.. Hubbard represented
until recently the interests of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Colonel Julian Scott died in Much
lenberg hospital, Plainfeld, N. j.,
where he had been for month. He
was one of the best known painters of
military subjects in America. For
thirty years he had been resident Of
Plainfeld and for eighteen years had
lived alone in apartments surrounded
by his relics, pictures and pet cats:
Scott was born in 1916. When Is
years old he enlisted as musician
with company E, third Vermont volun-
teers, for the civil war. Officers were
pleased with his sketches of army life
and sent him to the National Academy
of Design in New York. Later he
spent several years in study in Paris
and Stuttgart.