Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20

council is to be followed by a grand
jury investigation of alleged council
boodling. Inquiry is to be made into
his arrest in Chicago, charged with
embezzling $4,000 of K. c.. Barton of
Omaha
Colonel William P. Hall, assistant
/ adjutant general, has been relieved
as adjutant general Of the department
! of the lakes and ordered to Manila as
! adiutant general of the division of
i the Philippines, relieving Brigadier
General Thomas H. Barry, ordered
home.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
| H. A. Taylor awarded the contract
for furnishing ice to the government
buildings in New York city and
Brooklyn to the American Ice com
pany of New York. Ice is to be de-
livered at 141a cents per hundred
pounds.
DR.. Charles Rice, one of the leading
apothecaries of the country and for
twenty years chemist of the New
York charities department, died Of
asthma. He was chairman of the
| committee appointed by the National
Druggists association to revise the
| pharmacopeia.
The Hamburg Steamship
Line has acquired the Atlas Steam
ship Line, which for the past 80
years has piled between Jamaica,
Haiti and Central America. This ad-
dition to it's service makes the Ham
| Durg-American Steamship line the
largest in the world.
Former Judge John James Hayden
of Indiana died in Washington, aged
/ 80 years. Judge Hayden was active
in early Indiana republican politics,
but had been in the government serv-
| ice at Washington for some years. He
was said to be the oldest living grad
uate of Harvard university.
Charles M. Schwab, president of
United States Steel corporation, told
| the industrial commission that tha
! big combine was a benefit to wage
earners and consumers. By cheaper
ing the cost of production all interests
gained. Labor unions were denounc-
ed as harmful to the members.
Sheriff Behrens of Redding, Cal,
and Constable Walker had hand-to-
hand fight with Dorland and Illigs-
worth, two prisoners who escaped
from the Shasta county Jail. Dorland
was killed and Constable Walker was
shot through the top of the left hip,
probably fatally. Illingsworth escaped,
At banquet of the Cornish Asso-
citation, General Pole-Carew said: AT
the beginning Of the war, had the
beers fully realized their own strength
and our unpreparedness, we would
have been driven into Durham and
Cape Town, and we would have pre-
scented the spectacle of reconquerIng
South Africa from the seacoast.
/ In their eagerness to procure fire
wood from the dilapidated two-story-
| endorsement frame structure in the
rear of 62 Larrabee street. Chicago
ports from beneath the rotten struc-
ture In the crash that followed one
boy was instantly killed and seven
others were buried with him beneath
the debris
Professor David Shepard Holman,
known throughout the scientific world
as the inventor Of the Holman life
| slides, which are extensively used
by microscopes, died at Bangor, Me.
He was member of the Academy of
Natural Science of Philadelphia and
had been a member Of the faculty of
Girard college and of Franklin insti-
| tute He was born in 1926.
Archbishop Lewis of Ontario died
on board the Atlantic transport line
steamer Menominee. He embarked
from New York seriously i'll, as the
result of pneumonia, and intended TO
stay in London short time AMI pro-
coed to Egypt. He was accompanied
by his wife and trained nurse. He
had been archbishop of Ontario and
metropolitan of Canada since 1898.
Previous to that he had been bishop Of
Ontario, to which see he was appoint
ed in 1862 He was ordained IN 1894
and was rector of Brockville from
1854 to 1852
Charles Goodyear Seymour, long one
of the best known newspaper men in
Chicago, died of consumption in
Ell Paso. He was best known as
correspondent and reporter. For
several years he was managing editor
of The Chronicle. but was forced to
go to the southwest last winter on &C
count Of failing health He was born
in New York in 1862. He began his
newspaper career as printer on the
old Chicago Times under Wilbur F.
Storey. Later he became a reporter
and special correspondent. He was
the first man to write humorous &C
counts Of baseball games, and his
| dispatches from the west when he
was with General Miles in the Indian
war of 1891 made him famous. He
leaves a widow and five children.
| In China.