Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-09

killed in the golf club house at Mount
Vernon, N. Y. The cook is held by
the police.
Rev Silas White, Baptist minis
ter, aged 80, was killed by a passen-
ger train on the Burlington road at
Red Oak. ILL.,
The next meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement Of
Science will be held in Pittsburg
June 25, 1902.
Henry Miller, a farmer, was killed
by an Illinois Central express train
while driving across the track near
Colvin Park, I'll.
The American Bar Association
blackballed Senator Paterson OF
Colorado, whose name was proposed
for membership.
Census returns from New York
show 39,334 more females than males
in the state and almost an even
division in the city.
O. F. Cook of the agricultural de-
partmcnt says there is great future in
fruit canning and orange and coffee
growing for Porto Rico.
W. J. Bryan in his newspaper le-
nounces those who oppose the Chica-
GO platform and declares they are
"emasculating democracy"
At Red Lodge, Mont, John An
drews, former postmaster, was killed
by John Romers, who mistook him
for a bear while the two were hunt
ing.
Five parishioners are on trial
charged with conspiracy against the
life OF Bishop Anton Koslowski, of the
Indepedent Catholic church, in Chi
cago.
Glenn Johnston, Huntington, Ind,
has sued the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers for $4,000, alleging he
lost an eye in being initiated into the
order.
The Presbyterian committee ap-
pointed to report upon revision of
the Westminster confession adjourned
at Saratoga to meet in Washington
Dec. 4.
on the ground that her husband Twill
fully and maliciously' refused to pet,
caress, kiss or otherwise show his
affections.
Miguel Otero, son of the governor
of New Mexico, who was bitten by a
rabid dog and treated at the Chicago
Pasteur institute, is pronounced out
of danger.
Arthur Ingram, 14-year-old son Of
Circuit Clerk Ingram of Charleston,
ILL.,, was killed by an explosion of gas
which he was generating for a
stereopticon.
Mrs. Hattie NJ Breeze, Paterson,
N j., named in Mrs Fl. M. Posts petit
ton for a divorce, wants to be made
party defendant in order to clear her
reputation.
Paul Martin, aged Is, was set upon
by hoodlums and pounded and kicked
into insensibility at Michigan City,
Ind. Physicians have but little hope
of his recovery.
At Kansas City, Mo-, the Daily
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Printing company, of which J. Sterl-
ing Morton is the head, and will be
edited by him.
The international Association Of
Fire Chiefs reelected it's officers,
headed by President Humphreys of
Pittsburg. The next convention will
be held in New York.
Gen. Fabius J. Mead, a veteran of
the civil war and friend of Grant,
Logan and Mcclellan, died in Chicago
of consumption. He was born in
Raleigh, N. c.. in 1889.
A. w. Warden of Waukesha, Wis,
chairman of the democratic state COM
mittee of Wisconsin, comes out
against the Kansas City platform in
an editorial in his paper
Miss Bessie Patton of Detroit will
leave this week for the Philippines,
where she will be married to Col.
Cornelius Gardner. the present gov
ernor of Tabayas province.
The council of the American AS
sociation for the Advancement of
Science elected officers, the president
being Asa P Han, professor of
astronomy at Howard university.
Lieutenant General Mills opened the
first session of the reunion of veterans
Of the Porto Rican campaign. Of
ficers were elected, General John r.
Brooke being national commander.
J. j. Kunkel, a German merchant,
who was the principal in murder
trial at Lawrence, Kas., 1898, is dead
Kunkel was tried and acquitted Of the
charge Of poisoning his second wife.
While little Lena and Anna Zun-
hammer, sisters, were fishing from a
raft in the Ohio river at Evansville,
Ind, one fell off and in the others
effort to save her both were drowned
At Bay City, Mich, George d.
Jackson was nominated for congress
by the democrats of the tenth district.
This nomination is to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of Congressman
Crump.
Two hunters of Kankakee, Ill.,, were
told by Indians that they found the
hndinc of two man on6 a