Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-10

of Rev. Charles T. Riegel in Phlia-
delphia were given heavy sentences.
The prosecution closed in the case
of DR.. Samuel J. Kennedy, charged
with the murder of Emmeline
Reynolds in New York April Is. 1898.
An explosion occurred at the Coryell
mine at Newcastle, Col, by which two
men were killed and eight others in
iured. The killed were Leo and Frank
Grant
Thomas Kimball representative
from Marshall county in the Iowa
state legislature, and wealthy, is dead
at Lamoille, Iowa, aged 55 from con-
sumption.
Continued favorable reports are
coming from every section of the
Washington and Idaho wheat belts.
Spring rains have come at just the
proper time.
Brigadier General Thomas Wilson,
u. S. A., retired, is dead in New York.
He was in his seventeen year. He
was born in the district of Columbia
June 10, 1882.
Governor Insolvency. of South
Carolina has rejected the designations
of Senator Tillman and McLaurin.
The latter then withdrew his; the
former will not.
Capt. Henry Howgate, whose arrest,
escape and final rearrest and i'm
prisonment created so much talk a
few years since, died at his homo
in Washington.
Henry E. Perrine, well-known bust
ness. man of Buffalo, n. Y, is dead.
His second wife, who survives him,
was Mrs. Folsom, mother Of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland
At Worcester, Mass, Stx Johns
Catholic church was broken into, the
safe containing the sacred -.yessels
blown open and vessels worth over
81 900 were taken.
The tablets in the Hall of Fame at
New York University were dedicated.
Maryland Daughters of the Confeder
acy sent a wreath for the tablet in
honor of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
H. p. Baldwin, late general passen-
ger agent of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, died after long illness.
Only two weeks ago he was retired at
his own request with half pay for life.
George d Rise, proprietor of the
Lebanon House, Me- York, committed
suicide by drinking a poisonous fluid
while on a train from New York He
left a note saying he had lost every
thing.
President Cowen Of the Baltimore
and Ohio resigned, and L. f. Loree,
fourth vice-president of the Pennsyl-
yania, has been elected TO succeed
him. The Pennsylvania thus takes
full control of the system.
The supreme court of Connecticut
has decided that business partner
ship of husband and wife is void. This
relieved Mrs. Parsons Of Waterbury
from liability for debts of an insol-
vent bank she and Mr.. Parsons ran.
The statistician of the department
of agriculture estimates the total area
planted in cotton at 1852, 900 acres, an
increase of 2,111, 900 acres. or 8.3 per
cent. over the acreage planted last
year, and of 2,498,00 acres, or 10 per
cent. over the acreage actually picked.
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania
signed the Snyder-Harris oleomargar-
inc restriction bill regulating the man
ufacture and sale of butterine, forbid
ding the coIoring Of oleomargarine and
making it compulsory for each dealer
to secure a permit from the agricultur-
al department before handling oleo-
margarine.
Many railroad officials attended the
funeral of the late Daniel Billiard
Robinson, formerly president of the
st. Louis and San Francisco railroad,
which was held in Chicago Mr..
Robinson is survived by a widow and
two sons, James B. and Harry M. Rob-
inson of ST. Louis, and daughter,
Mrs. Gale Thompson.
The Youngstown-Shar street rail
way company (Pa.) has awarded the
contract for all the steel rails to be
used in the construction of the line
between Sharon and Newcastle, a dis
lance of twenty-one miles. It is the
intention to expend about $2,500,000
in western Pennsylvania and Ohio on
their new trolley railway systems.
Rev. Thomas H. Pearne, aged 81,
and for sixty-one years a minister in
the Methodist church is dead at his
home in Cincinnati. He held many
prominent positions in the church
and was United States consul in the
British West Indies during part Of his
missionary service. He was the author
of several standard books on Metho-
dism
The funeral of William A. Will
yms, one of the most widely known
negroes in New York, occurred from
the Church of ST. Benedict the Moor
in New York. Mr.. Willyms had been
for number of years sacristan of the
church. He was educated at Rome and
had as fellow pupils Archbishop Cor
rigan, DR.. McGlynn, DR.. Birdsall and
other well-known church dignitaries.
Mrs. Mary Virginia Nash Stuart
died at the residence of her son-in-