Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-05

year ago are believed to have been
located near Fort Collins, Col.
At FRANKFORT, KY, an official man
date has been handed down by the
court of appeals ordering a new trial
for former Secretary of State Caleb
Powers, convicted of completely in
the shooting of Governor Goebel.
Charles Brooks, - years old, met
death in a singular manner at Rock
ford. While hiding from COM
panion behind a heavy stone horse
block an electric car jumped the
track and tipped the block upon him.
A bold attempt at kidnapping was
made at Mantoursville, Pa. James,
the 13-year-old son of William Elmer,
hotel-keeper, was the victim, but his
cries attracted his father, who pur
sued the kidnappers with rifle and
recaptured the boy.
The body of James Freeman, we'll
known young man of Aurora, was
found on Hurd's island. He had COM
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid In a letter to his mother he
intimated that a quarrel with his
sweetheart led to the deed.
Watson w. Moore, formerly a lead
ing member of the New York bar. is
dead at Denver, Col, of paralysis Of
the brain, aged SO years. Mr.. Moore
achieved international fame while
acting as consul at Constantinople
during the Russo-Turkish troubles.
It is reported that Senator Fair
banks will recommend Chief Justice
L. J. Monks of the Indiana supreme
court as the successor of Judge
Woods, deceased, of the United States
circuit court for the district composed
of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Alvin Gerton, brother of William
Gerton of the Owl Hardware COM
pany, was drowned in the Eel river at
Brazil, Ind, while bathing He was
% years old and leaves a young wife
The steamer ST. Paul has arrived
from Alaska with $2,5OO,00 of gold
Joseph R. Hixson, general eastern
agent of the Chicago. Milwaukee and
ST. Paul railroad. died at his home in
Elizabeth, N j.. aged 60. M.
Hixson had not been able to go to his
New York office for a week, a re-
currence of a heart atf1iction keeping
him at home.
BY fire which destroyed the
Photographic supply store of the
Badgley Graham company at Louis
vile, Max Belovitch, cigar-maker,
and Policeman James Purdon lost
their lives and number of fremen
were injured The property loss was
about $4,000
A corners jury investigated the
death of Mrs b. De Graft, of La
Crosse, who fell from window Of
the Morrison hotel, but was unable
to decide whether the victim com
mitted suicide or was killed acct
dentally. A verdict to that effect
was ordered.
Rev. Edward T. Fleming pastor of
Calvary Presbyterian church, Chica-
go, on trial before the Chicago
presbytery, was convicted of lying,
BY vote of II to 8, however, the
judiciary refused to sustain the
charges of immoral conduct brought
by Mrs. F. Stoner Dvorak.
Fifty prominent republicans of Kan
sas City have organized the 1904
Theodore Roosevelt club" The pur-
poses are Roosevelt for president in
1904; to have the national republican
convention in Kansas City, and TO
have Missouri present a solid Roose-
i'll
In a row at Forest City park, Cleve-
land, Otto B. Seefried, manager of the
park, it is claimed, shot into the
crowd that was raising disturbance
and injured Thomas Murtagh, pro
badly fatally, q bullet going through
his abdomen. Edward Yarnham was
shot in the knee, but is not seriously
injured
E. w. HaWley, for forty or more
years an active and prominent Sum
day school worker in Brooklyn, died.
His death was due to excessive heat.
He was II years old and spent his
early life in the west. He was 4
veteran of the civil war For twelve
years he was a leading Sunday school
worker in Chicago.
Enoch Payne, one of the Oldest
residents of Springfield, ILL.,, prom
inent in war times as a printer and
bookbinder and the proprietor of an
establishment for the manufacture Of
cartridges, died of old age. He had
known every governor of Illinois,
having gone to Springfield when the
capitol was moved from Kaskaskia.
The San Pedro road is not to stop
at the San Pedro harbor. By the
time the last spike shall have been
driven a fleet of ocean steamers OF
the Hawaiian Island Navigation com
pany will be in operation as an adj
junct to the road. These steamers
will pl between San Pedro harbor,
Honolulu, Yokohama, China and the
Philippines.
Elijah Dowie backed down recently.
Anutitoxin triumphed over prayer IN
Zion home He permitted DR..
Walls, of the health department, ID
use antitoxin to relieve two daughters