Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

Master Car Builders association OF
the United States, has suffered para
lytic stroke at Litchfield, H., and it is
thought he cannot recover.
John r. Bunting. recently a brake
man on the Southern Pacific. has be-
come a millionaire by striking oil IN
a piece of California land. and has
ordered a $4,000 private car.
The executive committee Of the
confederate reunion has explained
that President Mckinley has been in
yited to be the guest of Memphis and
not participant in the reunion.
The senate committee on commerce
agreed on % per cent. horizontal
reduction in the cash appropriation of
the river and harbor bill and 1878
per cent on continuing contracts.
The mayor of Minneapolis, angered
at the governors order to stop a
pugilistic contest, declared that he
would stop all athletic events in
which life and limb are endangered.
Among the rumors in Washington
is one to the effect that Secretary
Hay will retire and be succeeded by
Ambassador Choate, and Whitelaw
Reid will be sent to the court of st.
James.
The enameling plant of the Keohler,
Hayssen & Steyn Manufacturing COM
pany at Sheboygan, Mich. covering
six acres, was burned; loss is $4,000,
covered by insurance. The plant will
be rebuilt.
In a bloody fight over a woman at
Hollister, mining village near Athens,
Ohio, Albert Sitter shot and killed
Mike Johnkac and Joe Foolish. Sitter
was badly cut, but will recover. He is
under arrest.
Roy Powell of Lena. H., aged II
years, was arrested at Freeport on
suspicion of being connected with the
killing of Woodbury. Workinger. who
was found dead in his home near
Mcconnell, Ill.
The old cadets at Kenyon military
academy in Ohio have signed and de-
livered to the regents pledge that
they will neither engage in nor as
sist in any form of hazing or annoy
ing a fellow cadet.
Mr. Trumbull, formerly general
counsel for the Texas Pacific Railway
company, was killed by passenger
train at a crossing in Webster Grove,
Mo. He did not see the train coming
and stepped in the way.
George W Brientnall, Lancaster.
Pa, died. At the battle of Shiloh.
when but years old, he displayed
remarkable GOODNESS and bravery and
was afterwards known by the sobri-
quet, 'the drummer Of Shiloh"
After being out twenty-five hours
the jury in the case of William Rhea,
charged with the murder Of Herman
Zahn at Snyder, Neb.. Dec. Z, re
turned q verdict of first degree MUIR
der and fixed the penalty at death.
Charles A. Leland, ex-state repre-
sentative and late associate justice OF
the supreme court of New Mexico I'M
der President Mckinley, died at his
home at Caldwell, O., of consumption
He leaves a wife and one daughter.
James German was killed and many
hundred dollars damage to buildings
done at Kingslan, N. Y, by the explo-
sion of quantity of dynamite. The
| explosion was the result of German
attempt to thaw out several sticks OF
| the explosive.
Dr. Robert w. Morgan, of Lynch
burg, Va, has been appointed den
+o1 c,,rnoo,, ~, Tho or,7o1 117, dor. tho 11ro.
| visions Of the army reorganization act
and will serve as member Of the
| board to examine candidates for den
tai surgeons.
Chief Good Thunder died on the In
| dian reservation near Redwood Falls.
Mimi. of pneumonia, aged IS years.
He was friendly toward the whites
during the Indian uprising at the time
Of the civil war, and was one Of Gen
eral Sibley's scouts.
The e. S. Hartwell Lumber com
pany of Chicago has purchased of the
Bay de Noquet company of Naham.
Mich, it's cut for 1901, amounting to
| 25,000,000 feet. The consideration is
100000, and it is the second largest
deal of the season.
The secretary of the treasury has
imposed a countervailing duty of "a
copeks, or about 80 cents per pood Ga
little over SO pounds, on all refined
sugars imported into the United States
from Russia. Russia retaliated by
virtually excluding our machinery.
Senator Beveridge, the senate com
mittee on forest reservations, reported
favorably the bill authorizing the es-
Enlistment of national forest re-
serve in the Appalachian mountains,
within the states of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama.
The Railroad Securities company, a
syndicate with $2O,000,O0O, has been
formed to control the management
through a community of ownership
of twelve big railway systems of the
west. George Gould, William Rockefel-
Ter, W. K. Vanderbilt, Jacob A. Schiff