Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-27

from apoplexy with which he was at
tackled while playing croquet.
Judge John Gibbons of Chicago,
Judge of the circuit court of Cook
county. H., is seriously i'll in Denver.
He was stricken with pneumonia while
on a visit to Cripple Greek.
It is reported that because of the
discouraging advices coming from
army posts, Secretary Root will
recommend a change in the law
abolishing the post canteen.
A Kentucky judge issued an injunc-
ton forbidding a collection of union
funds to aid strikers, the distribution
of food to them. and forbidding the
asking of others to strike.
In a pitched battle between students
Of the University Of Illinois and en-
ployes of a circus three students were
badly beaten and number of show
men were cut by stones and bricks.
Mrs. Mamie Barns, widow of DR..
Joseph Barnes of Monticello, ILL.,, who
died under suspicious circumstances
at the insane asylum at Jacksonville,
III, a short time ago, has been ar
rested.
Three men were fatally wounded
and hundreds of others injured in
conflicts between soldiers and street
crowds growing out of the trolley-car
strike in Albany The strike has been
settled.
Thomas M. Britton, the once famous
Jockey, died in Cincinnati by drinking
carbolic acid. Britton left a note
asking that his body be shipped to his
mother, Mrs Susan B. Franklin,
Lexington.
The killing of an indian by Great
Northern train near Sultan, Wash !,
has caused great indignation in the
tribe. Yesterday when freight was
passing, members of the tribe shot at
the crew.
In Chicago Lorrie Maudauso, a
Portuguese artist, shot Alice Cusack,
a nurse girl, seriously injury1ng her,
and then killed himself. Maudauso
was insane. The girl was a stranger
to him.
At San Francisco the judgment Of
Judge A. H. Noyes in the Cape Nome
mining cases was reversed by the
United States circuit court of appeals.
This deprives Alexander Mckenzie Of
his receivership.
Relations between France and Por-
tugal are strained, France practically
having ceased diplomatic relations
with the kingdom. PortugaPs ruler
may be requested to recall his minis
ter from Paris
At Laredo, Texas, Major J. S. Penn,
proprietor of the Daily Times,
mortally wounded W. r. Pace, wee
president of the Texas Real Estate
association, and then killed himself.
He was insane.
Robert Blbbs, 50 years old, SUI
perintendent of an iron molding works
in Pittsburg, Pa, and a man of con-
siderable wealth, was found dead in
his room in New York, having been
aspyhxiated by gas.
John Alexander Dowie was denounc-
ed by the Federation of Labor as a
base impostor. a menace to homes,
and destroyer of families. Dowie
in vituperative address at his church
scored his opponents.
John D. Rockefeller, it was reported,
has formed combination to include
all the large railroads of the mildde
west save those in the Hill-Morgan
combine. An air line from ocean to
ocean is part of the plan.
President John Henry Barrows of
Oberlin college stated that John D.
Rockefeller has offered the college
100000, provided the college raises
100000 during the present year. OF
this amount Sl50,000 is pledged.
The jury in the murder case against
the Shotwell brothers, charged with
killing Sutton Farris at Corbin. KY,
some months ago, found John Shot
well guilty. Robert was acquitted and
the jury disagreed as to Charles.
At Evansville, Ind, Everett Conway,
aged 27, married, shot and killed Z. w
Garrison and wife, and fatally
wounded Patrolman Benjamin Wallis.
After being driven to desperation by
the police, Conway killed himself.
Elmer Lane broke in the door of the
residence of his wife at Osceola, Iowa,
cut her throat and then attempted to
commit suicide. Mrs. Lane is in a
critical condition. Lane may recover.
Mrs. Lane had applied for a divorce.
A construction train on the Illinois
Central near West Liberty collided
with a herd Of COWS. Two fiat cars,
with a dozen workmen, were hurled
down a 20-foot embankment Eugene
F. House of West Salem was killed.
There has been a slight falling off
in the enlistments for the regular
army since the withdrawal of that
portion of the advertisement saying
that recruits and new regiments were
being enlisted for the Philippines.
Rev. Thomas NJ. Hopkins, pastor of
the York Street Presbyterian church,
Denver, is dead, aged "A years He
was one Of the oldest ministers in the
Presbyterian church and held pastor
ates in a number of places in Ohio
The MYSTERY of J. S. Ayers myS-