Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-09
officials of the company and twenty by

brought suit for divorce, naming
James j. Corbett and three others as
correspondents.
The right of consumptive immi-
grants to enter the United States is
denied by the court, which ruled they
may be excluded.
Winners of gold, silver and bronze
medals at the Pan-American exposi-
ton must pay the cost of manufacture
ing Of the medals.
The weekly trade reviews declared
that labor troubles is the only thing
injurious to business, which continues
good in most lines.
Mrs. Russell Sage entertained the
Carlisle Indian football team, and
presented to each 81 with which to
buy q new necktie.
Henry Clews, Jr., and Mrs. Louise
H. Gerhard, who recently got a
divorce from Frederick Gerhard, were
married in New York.
Senator Hanna gave $4,000 as ais
subscription to the Cleveland com
mittee Of the National Mckinley
Memorial association.
Controller Ridgely in his annual re-
port urged the need of an asset bank
ing currency in this coutry, but sug-
gested no definite plan.
Judge Emory Speer at Macon, Ca,
decided that the law allowing sani-
tariums to keep patients against their
will was 1lncOn SfitutiOnal
Suit was begun at ST. Paul by the
attorney general of Minnesota attack
ing the consolidation of the Hill-Har-
riman lines of the northwest.
A negro who gave poisoned candy
to insane DR.. Barnes at Jacksonville,
ILL.,, was convicted and sentenced to
twenty years Imprisonment.
Terry McGovern's manager chal-
lenged Young Corbett to fight another
battle Of twenty rounds for 100000
and posted forfeit of $4,000.
John and William Calimer of
Waynesboro, Pa, 8 and II years old,
took their first train ride to Jail on a
charge of setting fire to lumber.
A dying stowaway was discovered
in the hold of an ocean liner, nailed
in box, where he had been for fifteen
days during a trip from Hamburg.
Edwin A. Abbey, the famous Ameri-
can artist, arrived in New York, bring
ing with him the last painting Of the
series of The Quest of the Holy Grail
f.. E. Keilbach of Savannah, Ca,
was missing when the steamer Chat
tahoochie, from Savannah, arrived in
New York, and it is supposed that he
jumped overheard.
Mayor-elect Low announced the Sc
lection of Col. John N. Partridge Of
Brooklyn, now state superintendent
of public works, as police commits
sioner Of New York city.
Believing his extravaganza had
ruined him, Walter G. Marcus of sos
Washington boulevard, Chicago, COM
mitted suicide in Milwaukee, after
explaining things to his family.
Governor Aycock has offered $500
reward for the arrest of the unknown
person or persons who have either
abducted or murdered Miss Nellie
Cropsey of Elizabeth City, N. G.
Comptroller-elect Grout of New
York has appointed N. Taylor
Phillips, chief lieutenant of John C..
Sheehan, his first deputy. Phillips is
an old enemy of Richard Croker.
James B. King, a sawmill owner,
was arrested at Leeds, Ala, on an in
dictment found by the grand jury,
charging him with taking part in the
lynching of Charles Bennett negro
John Hill, an engineer, and A. D.
Robinson were killed by the explosion
of a boiler at the Ida zinc mining
plant, three miles northwest Of Joplin.
Mo. Robinson was visiting the plant.
The 5-year-old child Of w. L. Waite,
at Grandon. Wis, died from the
effects of dose of carbolic acid adj
ministered by mistake for medicine.
The child was sick with scarlet fever.
Frank Gould and Miss Helen Kelly
were quietly married at the home of
the bride in New York by an Episco-
pal clergyman. The bride is only II
and Catholic Gould is worth $12,-
100000.
DR.. Francis E. Clark, president OF
the Worlds Christian Endeavor, vii
sail Jan. 4 fol- Europe, where he will
give his personal efforts to- establish
ing the society more firmly on the
continent
Henry H. Terwilliger, a private
banker of Montague, Mich, mysteri-
ously disappeared, notifying his fam
lily they might never see him again.
His financial affairs are apparently in
good condition.
The intercollegiate athletic confer
ence practically prohibited summer
baseball for college athletes. The
season of football practice is limited
to two weeks before the opening of
college in the fall.
The marriage Of saleswomen in
Chicago department stores is causing
a scarcity Of clerks. There is a
shortage also in cash girls. Mer-
chants are cOmDoll0d to go to the