Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-29

! on Russian sugar.
! President Mckinley is not contem-
| plating purchasing q summer home IN
West Washington in which to spend
the summer as reported.
A new manganese iron ore field has
been discovered II miles south OF Lit
! tie Grande, Utah, a station on the no
Grande Western railway
Joseph Hinton, who IN FEBRUARY
shot and killed Miss Maggie Shurtz, at
Logan, was found guilty and will be
given a life sentence.
Federal inspectors have discovered
plates from which bogus certificates
are printed admitting Chinese i'm
migrants to the United States.
w. H. Thomas & Son., wholesale
liquor dealers, have filed bankruptcy
petition in Louisville, KY. They owe
$500, 900, and no assets are listed.
DIR. John P. Ashley, lately resigned
as president Of Albion, Mich, has been
elected to the chair Of philosophy in
the Nashville, Tenn, university.
Thirteen thousand men will be en-
listed Immediately by the war depart
ment to bring the artillery corps up to
it's authorized strength of $4,000 men.
/ James ]. Hill in an interview IN st.
Paul explained his plans for con
Isolidating the Burlington, Great
i Northern and Northern Pacific roads.
Ellsworth Innes of New York and
| Otis Sawyer, of Montclair students
at Rotchkiss school, Millerton, N. y.
were drowned while trying a new
canoe.
The funeral services in memory OF
Richard Rothwell, editor OF the En-
gineering and Mining Journal, were
held at his late residence in New
York.
Grand Master f. P. Sargent Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fireman
has appointed DR.. w. B. Waltz OF
Jackson, Mich, grand medical ex
| aminer.
Dakota divorces are good until
| killed by the courts. Justice Gray
decision in the United States supreme
court makes a review of each case
necessary.
Mrs. Martha Ames of Minneapolis.
Mimi, died aged 80 years. Albert A
Ames, mayor of Minneapolis, and
Fred W., superintendent Of police
are her sons.
| It was announced officially that w
H. Doll has been appointed genera
agent Of the passenger department Of
the Seaboard Air Line railway to sue
coed VIM. Mcconnell.
j The Detroit dispatch describing the
i building of large steel works at the
American Sault, under the auspices Of
the Lake Superior Power company, is
without foundation.
Parts of Michigan are being flooded
with bogus SIS gold pieces. The coins
which are excellent counterfeits are
turning up so often that business mer
8 fear to accept any gold.
w. H. Timmins of Cashacton, O..
was found dead in his room at Lima
where he had taken dose Of
laudanum. Domestic trouble is
ascribed as the cause.
Solicitor-Gen Richards filed {
brief in the supreme court in which he
detailed how Capt. Carter had stoleT
$4,000 from the government and III
vested $690,0OO in stocks.
! John J. Gillen, Is years old, EN-
pIoyed as clerk by Attorney Miles ]
/ Devine, Chicago, shot and killed his
wife. then 1sufcided. They had beer
separated for several weeks.
Justice Scott, New York, denied a
motion for reargument in the case
of Councilman Steward M. Brice, who
lis under sentence of 10-days' imprison-
Iment for contempt of court.
Four innocent white men were shot
one perhaps fatally, negro was shot
and another badly cut as the result
of drunken fight started by a CROWD
of negroes in Rosedale, Kan.
Louis Morris, brother of Nelson Nor
ris the wealthy packer, was subjected
to a severe operation for cancer of the
stomach, and lies in Wesley hospital
Chicago, in a critical condition.
| Secretary Wilson has decided tc
send out an expert to scour the rice
growing countries Of the world and
thoroughly investigate important mat
ters connected with the industry.
| David T. Mcnamara, secretary OF
the Connecticut democratic central
committee, and prominently identified
for years with labor organizations
died at his home in New Havan, aged
~.
Miss Eff" Potter, daughter Of
James Brown Potter and Cora Urqu
hart Potter, the actress, will be
married to James Stillman, j., son OF
Banker Stillman, of New York, i'll
June.
The quartermaster generals depart
ment has purchased transport at
Manila to carry animals from that
port to various inland stations, re
lieving the larger transports of that
duty.
In San Francisco the Chinese quar-
ter is very much perturbed at an eff
fort by the federal authorities to sup
press the traffic in female Chinese