Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

staff by appointing Captain Reber,
his son-in-law, military secretary, and
Lieutenant Colonel Maus an aid
President Mckinley has committed
the sentence of Harry Smith Of
indianapolis, convicted of counterfeit
ing, from three years to one year.
The New York Central road
ordered 81 locomotives from the
American Locomotive company The
Lackawanna line asked bids on go.
Alexander Baker. an insurance
agent from Brooklyn Wis, turned on
the gas III his room at 3637 State
street, Chicago, and was a sphyxiated
Chief Justice Charles B. Andrews OF
the supreme court has sent his
resignation to Governor Mclean III
health is the reason for the resigna-
ton.
The Standard Oil interests elected
ten of the fifteen directors of the lin
seed oil trust President MAJOR of the
latter company is to start rival con-
Germ.
A mob failed in an attempt to lynch
a negro murderer at Carrollton, Ga.
The sheriff defended his charge, kill
ing one of the lynchers and wounding
two others.
New York politicians will get the
major part of the 100000 police eight
hour fund, it is said, in return for
their influence" in having the system
adopted.
Professor Harper of the University
of Chicago announces that the uni
versity mas begun to prepare
preparatory schools in different parts
of Europe.
Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio de-
clared that at no time in the history
of the country were conditions so
justifable for electing a president for
a third term.
Nearly IN entire business block at
Fennyille, Mich, was destroyed by
fire. The loss, divided among a.
dozen merchants, is $4,000, with IN
surance of $4,000.
The rough riders have decided to
hold their annual reunion in Colorado
Springs during the quartocentennial
celebration, Aug. 1,2 and 8. 1t IS
expected that Roosevelt will attend
At New Castle, Del, Daniel Mil
Ter, colored, serving a life term for
murder, was sent on an errand and
failed to return. He was a ''trusty'
and had served eight years.
In New York grave dissensions
have arisen in the ranks of the com
mittee of fifteen, and unless funds are
immediately obtained, the work of re
for inaugurated by the committee
must come to an end.
The jury in the Defenbach insurance
and swindle case at Chicago, declared
DR.. A. M Unger and f. w. Brown
guilty of conspiracy to defraud. Smiley
pleaded guilty
Nels Nelson, a farm hand near Syca-
more, ILL.,. killed Mrs. John Lydig, for
whom he recently worked, because
she refused to marry him. Then he
killed himself.
Contractor McDonald's profits on
the tunnel will be cut about 81, 000,0 900
by the refusal Of the rapid-transit
board to permit the use of park sta
tions for power-houses.
In his baccalaureate sermon to
Princeton seniors President Patton
touched upon international questions,
political, commercial, religious, social,
and intellectual problems
Frank Rutledge, who was convicted
of burglary at Toronto, committed sui
eide in jail there rather than stand
trial for the murder of a constable in
an unsuccessful attempt to escape,
At Kansas City, Mo-, Mrs Lulu
Prince-Kennedy, the 20-year-old bride
of a month, who last January is al
legged to have shot and killed her hus-
band, Philip H. Kennedy, was placed
on trial
Eliza H. Palmer, wife of Eugene
B. Palmer, a former Chicago newspa-
per man, died at Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mrs. Palmer was daughter of Judge
Lysander Houk and wrote over the
pen name Of Snow Houk.
The will of John w. Doane, a prom
inent tea and coffee merchant and
banker, who died in New York March
%, was filed for probate in Chicago.
Despite reports of great wealth the
petition scheduled only $1190000.
The coroner reopened the inquiry
into the death of Mrs. Mary Hershber-
ger, Mrs. Hattie Maggie, and Calvin
Maggie near Watseka, ILL.,, on account
of a suspicion directed against the
husband of one of the women.
Sixteen-year-old Harry Kemp of
Arlington, N. j., arrived home from
years wandering about the world, n
which he visited South America,
Australia, China, Japan, and the
Philippines, He was at the looting of
Pekin.
The governor has issued a procla-
nation calling for an extra session Of
the Washington legislature for the
purpose of amending the law passed
at the recent session providing that all
death sentences shall be executed in
the state pentitentiary.
Louis Hartman of New York and
hic wifn wnro found dead in a room at