Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-18


has received notice that the interna-
tional council Of the world has of
fered a reward of $500 for the ar
rest and conviction of every person
implicated in the lynching of the
negro, Ward.
At a special meeting of the board OF
trustees of the Durham medical in
stitute. Chicago, Dean James D. Kent,
that 81 100000 had been do
mated the college for its immediate
use by John E. Dubois, a wealthy
lumberman of Dubois, Pa.
The suit of David A. Jennings
against % citizens of Salem, Washing
ton county, for 100000 damages
came up yesterday in the federal court
at indianapolis. The charges are
.white-capping which the plaintiff al
leges forced him to leave the state.
Deputy Sheriff Holman of Calaveras
county, California was shot and killed
at Wallace in a battle with two high
waymen. Two residents of Wallace
we're held up and robbed and Deputy
liz
went to Wallace to arrest the bandits.
The question of the leasing of the
arid lands of the open range to stock
growers has come to the front among
the subjects to be considerded at the
convention of cattle growers now be-
ing held in Denver, although it was
not mentioned in the call for the con-
vention.
William Buckley of San Jose, Cal,
died, aged 70 years. He was born in
Albany, N. Y, and drove stage in the
Mohawk valley and along the old post
road to New York City. He brought
the first stage coach across the con-
tinent from st. Louis to Salt Lake
City in 1847.
The Burlington road has let a con-
tract amounting to $69G,O00 for build
ing cutoff on the main line between
Red Oak and Villisca, Iowa, which
will reduce the distance between
Omaha and Chicago by several miles.
New steel rails and preserved" ties
are to be used.
A head-on collision occurred be-
tween two Norfolk and Western
freight trains, at Addison Station, Va.
Both locomotives and many cars were
badly wrecked, and the tracks were
blocked. Engineer G. H. Shell and
Fireman Clyde Sidner were badly
scalded and may die.
George E Hyde, arrested in Septem-
Der, charged with passing worthless
checks on former classmates at the
university of Vermont, pleaded guilty
at ST. Adams and was sent to the
house Of correction for two years.
Hyde posed as a clerk in the United
States geological survey.
Harry M. Goodman, New York, said
to be connected with one of the
wealthy families of the metropolis,
and Miss Matilda We'll, daughter of
one of the most prominent citizens of
Buffalo, were united in marriage by
Mayor Diehl at Pittsburg. They were
fleeing from parental objection.
At Scranton, Pa, the most SEN
sational hearing of any in the council
manic bribery cases was that when
two ex-Councilmen, Simon ..Thon1xs
and w. v Grifiths, told of money
they had received while they were
members of the council to work in the
interests of several corporations.
The court of appeals decided in the
case of Ralph J. Treat VS.. the comp
troller of New York city that the law
requiring the use of stone dressed in
New York in the performance of pub
lie contracts within the state and pro-
hibiting the use of stone dressed in
other states on such work is unconsti-
tutional.
Albert Zimmerman, Atlanta City, N
j., 40 years old, shot his wife through
the head, and attempted to kill her
father. He then committed suicide.
The tragedy was the result of a
family quarrel. The suicide was son
Of the inventor of tie autoharp. He
was bequeathed $4,000, but lost near
~ all in speculation.
Edward E. Campbell, Fairfield, Ia,
died aged so years He was the
father of John M. and Colin e. Camp
bell and Mrs. S. C.>Farmer of Chicago.
He was born in Pennsylvania and
came to Iowa in 1866 He was United
States marshal under Cleveland, and
for years chairman of the democratic
state central committee.
About 400 books in the valuable
library of the late Judge Nathaniel
Holmes of Harvard university law
school are bequeathed to the public