Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-25

A treasury messenger was roDDed
of a registered letter containing $l,O0O
at Philadelphia.
The Jewish press Of the United
States is to be organized to overcome
racial prejudice.
Americas gold reserve amounts to
S482 ,913, 023, the largest in the history
of the country.
Women of Denton, N. D., are saving
wood, baking, and doing BARRIERS work
to pay a church debt.
"Arapahoe" Brown, a rich cattle
man, was murdered and robbed at
Powder River, Wyo.
Sixty people, nearly all negroes were
burned to death in a fire in an Ala
bama turpentine camp.
The city marshal of Summltville,
Ind, was shot and seriously wounded
in fight with rowdies.
The lumber plant of j. B. Ransom &
Co., Nashville, Tenn, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Col William Cary Sanger was
sworn in as assistant secretary of war,
vice George D. Meiklejohn.
j. Hill secured control of the
Erie railroad in the election of f. d.
Underwood as president
John Henderson, a negro, was burn
ed at the stake in Corsicana, Texas,
for killing white woman.
The California legislature appro-
priated S250000 to purchase and pre-
serve the redwood forests.
Richard Croker's third son, Herbert,
broke a kneecap by falling on the deck
while crossing to Liverpool.
The Office Of the Boston Advertiser
was destroyed by fire. Two printers
and one proofreader persisted.
May Charlotte Stevens, who was kid
mapped six years ago, was returned
to her mother at El Paso, Tex.
A wealthy southern woman offered
to provide homes and work for fifty
poor couples from New York.
William Bateman Leeds, the Tin
Plate King" paid $160,OO0 for a Me-
York house as a gift to his wife.
Mrs. Carrie Cabus of New York fell
in an epileptic fit and was killed by
her pet dog, which seemed to go
crazy.
The coroners jury sitting at Har
rington, Del, did not implicate Daniel
Bendig in the murder of George w.
Hearn.
Guy L. Caldwell of Minnesota won
in the extemporaneous debate between
the Minnesota and Nebraska univer-
sites.
About 10000 claims, mostly from
soldiers, growing out of the Spanish
war, have been fled against the gov
eminent.
Fire destroyed the icehouse of the
Anheuser-Busc Brewing company and
other property in ST. Louis. Loss,
$1O0 900.
The annual report of the Chicago po-
lice department shows 10000 arrests
and $44,181 worth of stolen property
recovered.
An explosion of ammonia on the
steamer New York killed two men, in
jured fifteen, and delayed the ship
twelve hours.
B. F. Snow, a crop expert, recently
returned from trip to argentine,
said the agricultural possibilities there
are boundless.
Two sleeping cars on the Plant
system burned in Florida and the
passengers lost most of their clothes
and valuables.
Rev. J. Forrest Marston of Owens
vile, Ind, was sentenced at Springfield,
ILL.,, to eighteen years in the peniten-
tiary for forgery.
1t is reported that John G. Johnson
of Philadelphia has been offered the
position of attorney general of the
United States.
Mckinley committed the death sen,
tence of j. H. Schmidt, a soldier con
victed of murder in the Philippines, TO
life imprisonment.
President Mitchell a. United Mine
Workers says that anthracite opera.
tors must recognize the union or there
will be another strike.
Mrs. Eddie L.. Richardson was ar
raigned in st. Joseph, Mo-, charged
with the murder of her husband and
released on $4,000 bail
~ow grab at Albany aims to allow
telephone and telegraph companies to
erect their poles along the states
canals free of charge.
Eugene . Reynal a1sl Miss AIDE
laide Fitzgerald were married while
i'll with scarlet fever at a house party
near White Plains, ". Y.
W. E. Bidwell, formerly cashier Of
the Philadelphia branch the New York
Life Insurance company was ar
rested for embezzling $4,000
S. H. Miner, postmaster of Spring
field, ILL.,, was removed at the instiga-
ton of Senator Cullom, and his place
given to Mayor L. E. Wheeler.
At Scranton, Miss, the trial of the
nine men charged with the lynching
of John Knox, Canadian, for shoot
ing and killing his stepson, began.
Gabriel Stein, of New Brunswick,
N. j., cut his wife's throat and his