Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-01-21

the highest amount IN the history Oh
the service.
George Duerrstein of Galena, ILL.,,
fatally shot Aurelia Bergman because
she rejected his love, and also wound
ed his sister
Robert Lawrence, a young Denver
dentist, shot himself in the head, dy-
ing instantly. He was respondent
over his wifes illness.
The naval appropriation bill, carry
ing about $76,OOO,000, has been fin
ished, except for the provision regard
ing submarine boats.
Judge Denton of Somerset, KY, has
been selected as the Internal revenue
collector for the eighth district, TO
succeed John w. Yerkes.
Captain N H. Frazer, Union Spring,
Ala, offered $500 reward for the re-
turn of his 19-year-old son, supposed
to have been kidnapped.
Directors of the Sangerfest ,Ath-
letic association of Cincinnati de-
clared the Jeffries-Ruhlin fight would
take place as planned.
Alfred Vanderbilt is reported to
have given $3,7O0,O0O to his fiancee,
Elsie French, as her marriage portion.
They were welded Monday.
Details of the brutal fighting
among cadets were given to the con-
gressional investigating committee
sitting at West Point, New York.
Frank Daniels, the comedian, pub
licly denied published reports that he
was married in Fargo recently. He
has been married several years.
Elizabeth Shifier, 80 years old, was
burned to death in hSr home, near
Keedysville, Md. She had lived the
life of hermit for many years.
William L. Trenholm, who was
comptroller of the treasury during
Cleveland first administration, died at
his home in New York of pneumonia.
Seven persons were killed and fifty
injured in a panic at West Twelfth
Street Turner Hall, Chicago caused by
a false alarm of fire during a Yiddish
play.
Chancellor McCracken of the New
York university declined to allow the
OIuOSAI0 I'll IAC uA4fO1 Sly W PeeA tASA
pate in the inaugural parade in Wash
ington March 4.
A farmer of Madison County, H.,
received a notice for himself and
three others to leave $1,410 at a
specified spot or their homes would
be blown up.
Senator Fairbanks, in letters to
Indiana friends, declared that Add
son c. Harris, minister to Austria, is
to be appointed attorney general to
succeed Griggs.
Rev. J. M. Schneider, for fourteen
years presiding elder of the Evangel-
ical Association of North America
died in Chicago. He had been cler-
gyman since 1856.
John b. Laing, believed to have
been the oldest Free Mason in the
United States, died at Chicago, aged
100 years. He joined the order in
Scotland in 1920.
1t has been learned that Frank NJ.
Brown, who is charged with defraud-
ing the German National bank of New
port, KY, out of $191, 900, has returned
to South America.
Recorder Golf signed the papers in
the case of the appeal of Roland B.
Molineux, under sentence of death for
having caused the death of Mrs. Kate
Adams by poisoning.
George W. Baird and wife, Emma
who lived in Sumner avenue, Brook
lyn, we're found dead in their home
with every evidence to show that they
had committed suicide.
Senator Plunkitt, of New York, who
introduced bill making kidnapping
punishable by twenty-five years i'm
prisonment, said Charlie Ross was
drowned in New York bay.
A snow storm is raging in the noun
tains of Colorado. Two snowslides
completely stopped all movements of
trains on the Silverton branch of the
Rio Grande Southern railroad.
Captain G. w. King, U. S. ", who
was bound over in the sum of $4,000
to answer to the charge of accepting
a bride from Contractor Hobson at
Mobile, has furnished a bond.
OIm6I COuuclluldu I1dlIy L LGudu
of Cambridge, Mass, pleaded guilty
to issuing Illegal naturalization pa
pers. Judge Lowell sentenced him to
one year in the house of correction.
The Southern Express company
elected these officers: President, M. j.
O'Brien; vice president, NJ. F. Plant;
secretary and treasurer, George W.
Tilley; general manager, T. w. Leary
The second trial of Jessie Morri-
son for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle
will be held at the March term of
court in Eldorado, Kans. Miss Morri-
son has given up her trip to the east.
A drastic bill to prevent tax-dodging
by non-residents has been introduced
at Albany. The tax is to be levied on
the property where it is located, no
matter where the owners residence is.
Another claimant for the $20000,OOO
estate left by Inlay Clark, the gold
mine owner who died in Australia two