Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-03
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Consul General Mason at Berlin has
Informed the state department that
the. official German crop report give )
a discouraging outlook for German
agriculturists.
Edwin Alexander Sweet, a humor1st
of national reputation under the pen
names Of 10 Bill Snort and Rev. Mr..
Whangdoodle, died at his home in new
York of heart disease.
Governor Allen and representative
Ketchum of Vermont were arrested
charged with completely in the wreck
ing of bank at Vergennes, VT, of
which they were officers.
Frank Siegel, of Kansas City, late
president of the Siegel-Sanders Live
Stock company, was arrested charged
with embezzling $4,000. He was re-
leased on a $4,000 bond.
By voting down an amendment to
dismiss the whole subject the north
ern Presbyterian general assembly
proved that desire exists for some
revision of the confession Of faith.
Ernest Dutton, colored, who pois-
oned baked beans which boarders ate,
was sentenced at Wilmington, Del,
to receive so lashes, pay fine of
$4,000 and stand an hour in the pill
Tory.
The United States supreme court ID
sustaining the demurrer of the Chica-
go drainage trustees to Missouri
amended bill, declared the reduction
of water flow was of no concern to
Missouri.
Alexander Mcdonald, the richest
Klondike miner, has been made a
Knight of st. George by Pope Leo XIII.
for his generosity in establishing
Dawson hospital and for giving $4,000
toward ST. Mary's church
At st. Louis. Mich. Mrs. Elmer
Quimby, wife Of a farmer, gave her
two Children boy, aged 7, and a
girl, aged 9 years morphine, and they
both died She then took 18 grains of
the drug herself, but will recover.
The five negroes, Arnold Augustus,
Richard Sanders, Andrew Davis,
William Hudson and Sam Baldwin,
convicted of the murder of Messrs.
Herring and Mears, were sentenced to
be hanged June IA at Sylyania, Ca
At ST. Louis Leroy Charles Blazer,
who posed as wealthy Louisiana
lumber merchant, left for Jackson,
Mich, where he will resume two-and-
arhalf years sentence, which he has
only partially served. He was out on
parole.
Stanford universitys faculty has
lost another member by the resigna-
ton of Professor Ross, under pr assure.
Professor II. D. Lathrop rendered his
resignation, and stated that he had ac-
eepteG 6 chair in the University Of
Wisconsin.
An Indian outbreak is imminent OIL
the Shoshone reservation. Six hum
dred Arapahoes have defied the
authority Of the agent, Captain Nicker-
son. who refused them permission to
hold their annual sun dance and
denied the passes.
The governor of South Carolina is
urged to retire Tillman and McLaurin
to Oblivion by appointing new men
to United States senators and refus-
ing to call special election. These
two senators resigned to go before the
people for endorsement
Circuit Judge Call granted an order
turning over to the relief association
$19,S80 which has been in the hands of
the Jacksonville, Fla, auxiliary SAM
tary association. This sum is a sur
plus of contributions to yellow fever
sufferers during the epidemic of 1888.
President Green, of the National
Educational Association, has secured
Cloudesley Brereton Of Melton Con
stable, Eng, to deliver an address at
the Detroit convention in place of
Fabian Ware, who has been ordered to
report for government service in south
Africa
The National Belgian Hare Registry
club met and elected the following
officers: President, w. B. Howard.
Omaha; vice-president, w. F. Stafford,
Sioux City; secretary and treasurer
B. H. Eversall, Roseda3e, Kan. The
next meeting will be held at Omaha,
Sept. 3. 1901.
At Evansville, Ind, John L. Jones
shot and killed Thomas Keane in the
presence Of Keanes wife. Mrs.
Keane is a bookkeeper in Jones de-
partment store. Keane went to the
store and began to abuse her, chen
Jones interfered. Keane pulled 4
pistol and Jones also drew his and
shot Keane in the heart.
Ernest J. Wolter, charged with
having sent letter to Senator Kearne
OF Utah, threatening to kidnap his
son if $4,000 was not sent, has been
released at Omaha. Attorneys for
7Wolter contendedA that there is NJ
such crime as kidnapping under the
United States law, and that the letter
received by Kearns did not show that
there was scheme to defraud
The latest reports concerning the
hospital for consumption, whic was
instituted under the direction Of
Surgeon General Sternberg, at Fort
Bayard, N. NJ, a year ago. show thai