Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-24
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taken there.
Randall Adams, a federal prisoner
in the state prison at Michigan City,
Ind, who was convicted in 1892 for
the murder of a federal officer in the
Indian Territory and sentenced to a
life term, has been released by order
of President Mckinley
Colonel Jesse M. Lee, who has re
turned to Fort Leavenworth from the
scene of the recent reported Indian
troubles in Wyoming, declares the re
ported killing of sheepherders by In
foundation. There is no danger of an
Indian rising.
E. H. Hartman held two conferences
in Chicago. as result Of which two
great deals are practically assured
A working agreement between all the
big lines west of Chicago and st. Paul
and the addition of the Chicago, Mil
waukee e ST. Paul road to the Harri-
man group.
Sun-Yat-Sen, the Chinese reformer.
upon whose head price was set by
the Chinese government. and who was
entrapped into the Chinese legation in
London, and kept prisoner there until
the British government interfered, has
sailed for China, with the object of
heading a revolution there
General William Montgomery Gard
ner, a veteran of the Mexican and civil
wars, died in Memphis, aged 70. He
graduated from the military academy
at West Point in the class of 1916. His
leg was shattered by ball at the first
battle of Manassas, where he was col
onel of the 9Th Georgia regiment.
Mrs. ]. j. Redpath, one of Montreals
society leaders, and her son Clifford,
are dead. Mrs. Redpath had been i'll,
suffering greatly from insomnia. The
surmise is that while temporarily
mentally deranged Mrs. Redpath at
tempted to end her life. and in at
tempting to prevent her the son was
shot
British capitalists have come to
America with the view of buying all
the good steel companies outside Of
Morgan's steel trust. Their plan is to
get control of the several plants and
subsequently to do with each what
ever will profit them most and at the
same time best conserve their general
interests.
Society gossips are discussing the
report brought in a letter from
friend Of Henry M Flagler, in Jack
sonville, Fla. that Mrs. Minnie Walk
the beautiful widow, who
has SO long been before the public eye,
contemplates third alliance. and that
the man of her choice is none other
than Flagler.
General Eugene May. a prominent
wholesale druggist. died at New Or
leans as a result of injuries sustained
in fan from a horse He served in
the civil war with the Washington
artillery of New Orleans. and at the
time Of his death was inspector gen
eral of the state national guard. He
was Sc years of age.
Lysander P. Converse, an uncle Of
Senator Marcus A. Hanna, who in the
40's built and operated a line of yes
sells on Lake Erie, was a California
miner in 1858 and who later had much
to do with establishing the mail serv-
ice on the ODD Kansas City & Denver,
died at his home in Kansas City, Kan.
He was in his eighty-sixth year.
The loss of ten numbers in his
grade, reduction of his pay to fur
Tough pay for two years, and to be pub
licly reprimanded is the sentence i'm
posed upon Captain Robert E. Impey,
Mare island navy yard. He was
charged with scandalous conduct in
having represented to a dentist that
his bill must be reduced because it re
CURED the approval Of the treasury.
Richard l.. Lukens, a retired inven-
tor and business man. died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. S. M Chaplin, in
Chicago. He was born in Philadelphia
seventy-five years ago. He located at
indianapolis and in that city he estab-
lished what was the first business de-
voted exclusively to agricultural i'm
plements in the United States. and
from 1866 to 1875 was the largest re-
tail dealer. He was the inventor of a
machine and other devices.
While at Indianapolis he was friend
and client of Benjamin Harrison.
James F. Wambold. who, many years
ago was one of the best-known min
strel men and circus clowns in the
country, is dead in the Overlook, n.
j., insane asylum of which he had
been an inmate for twenty-six years.
He was born in Newark in 1884 and
had his first minstrel experience on
Spaulding's Floating Palace Later he
became connected with the Backus
minstrels of Chicago and earned wide
fame as a comedian. He played the
banjo expertly and was a humorist
and expert whistler.