Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-27


F. Tibbott
At Everett, Wash. John Fay repri-
manded his 15-year-old son for some
trivial offense, and the latter secured
a gun and shot himself in the head.
The father, seing his son dying,
picked up the weapon and blew out
his own brains.
United States District Attorney
Rogers has commenced an action
against the Marcus Daily estate, the
Anaconda company and Bitter Root
Development company to recover
$4,000 alleged to be due to govern
ment for timber unlawfully cut.
p H. Morrissey, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
was elected grandmother of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen without
opposition. It was decided to pay
the expenses of the convention-abo
$50, 000-out of the general fund in
stead of on the assessment plan.
The battleship Ohio was launched in
the presence of President Mckinley,
Governor Nash and other high Of
ficials. Miss Barber took Mrs. Nc
Kinley's place in cutting the rope
holding the vessel. A great crowd
attended the ceremony at San Fran
cisco.
An advance of 10 per cent. in the
cost of higher-priced chamber suite
furniture was decided on at the annual
meeting of the National Association OF
Chamber Suite and Case Work Manu-
facturers, who represent a large per-
.centage of the output in this line of
goods.
Mr.. Blair Bratton, wife of a Phila-
delphia and Erie railroad man had a
vision in which she saw her husband
mangled under an engine. At the same
time Bratton fell under a shifting
engine. Both legs were crushed
and his back broken. He died a few
hours later.
James Beeman, superintendent OF
the Plano Manufacturing company,
Chicago, and his son, James Beeman,
Jr., will be placed on trial charged
with murder. The victim of the
alleged crime, William Singleton, q
negro, was killed in the Plano com
pany's factory.
Nefie & Levy have Informed the
navy department that Miss May
Chauncey Stevens of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has been selected to christen
the torpedo boat Chauncey. She. is =
granddaughter of Commodore
Isaac Chauncey, after whom the yes
sci was named
The National Piano Manufacturers
association, in session in New York
elected these officers: President, E. S.
Conway, Chicago; vice presidents,
William Dalliba Dutton and Charles
H. Parsons of New York; secretary,
w. B. Price, Chicago; treasurer,
Frederick P. Stierf, Baltimore.
The archbishop of Canterbury would
like to see the clergy of the church
Of England married, Preaching at
Hampstead parish church in aid f.the
Queen Victorian fund, he observed the
experience of an unmarried ministry
had lasted in this country long enough
to make the people dislike it.
Daniel M. Kellogg, whose home is
in Wisconsin, clerk in the pension
bureau, has been soaring his as
sociates some time with wild gesticu
lations, signs he was making % those
''in the spirit world" and the
bureau have asked the appointment Of
a commission in lunacy in his case.
Monsignor O'Connell, formerly rec
tor of the American college in Rome,
and recently appointed bishop Of
Portland, Me-, was solemnly conse-
Grated in the Church of st. John
Lateran by Cardinal Satolli, project
of the propaganda and formerly apos-
tolic delegate to the United States.
At Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Charles
Foster was sentenced to serve ten
years in the penitentiary and to pay
the costs of the trial for the murder
of a farmer named Johnson. The case
attracted attention as the result of
an order issued by Judge Young pro
hibiting the publication of testimony.
Chicago machinists decided to defer
action on striking in hopes the ques-
tion Of higher wages and nine-hour
day will be settled by arbitration
Many cities in all parts Of the country
are affected, $500 going out at San
Francisco, 5000 at Cincinnati, 5000 at
Scranton. Over 10000 machinists
are out.
The suicide at Naples Of the Rev
Maltbie Davenport Babcock, pastor of
the Brick Presbyterian church in New
York, who killed himself by cutting an
artery in his wrist and swallowing
corrosive sublimate, was due to his
despairing of ever recovering from the
chronic liver complaint from which
he suffered.
The torpedo boat Biddle for the
United States navy, was successfully
launched from the Bath iron works.
The Biddle is a sister torpedo boat to
the Bagley and the Barney type which
each showed speed of more than a
knot in excess Of the twenty eight
knots required by contract. The
Biddle cost $161, 900.
- Jo