Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15

bank, New York, have decided to pay
depositors in full, to take up the big
! Marquand loan and possibly to re-
organize the institution.
Colonel Thomas Groves, aged 60
years, manager of the Grand and
Peoples theaters in Evansville, Ind.
and one of the best known theatrical
men in the country, died
Jacob S. Rogers, the locomotive
builder of Paterson, left his fortune OF
| $8,OOO,O00 or more to the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art, New York, giving his
relatives only $4,000 apiece.
E.. A. McConkey, a farmer near
Albany, NJ, supposed to be insane
killed his neighbor, John Bryant, and
the latter's son with club and then
shot himself He is still alive.
S. R. Dawson, inventor of the
Damascus steel process, has been
paroled from the Iowa penitentiary SO
that his secret may not perish. He
murdered his son-in-laW in 1895.
BY the will of William Grant of
Louisville, the Louisville Presbyterian
| Theological seminary is bequeathed
100000, with the provision that his
widow be paid an annuity of $5,ov0.
| A joint conference is called to meet
in Pittsburg Of iron and steel workers
and employers, which will in all
| probability result in an adjustment of
all differences and the strike being
| ended.
Stephen K Carter died at his home
in Clinton, ILL.,, of throat trouble, aged
! 60 years He was a veteran of the
civil war and was wounded at the
battle Of Shiloh. He was an able
lawyer.
Louis M. Saddler, manager of the
! Western Telegraph Office in Kankakec
H., for thirteen years, died Of
Addison's disease. He was formerly
offices.
Delegates representing 5000 work
ingmen in all branches of the leather
trade in this country and Canada, at a
meeting in Philadelphia, formed the
Amalgamated Leather Workers AS
sociation.
Sylvester Green of Mcdowell county,
West Virginia, fatally stabbed his wife
and beat out the brains of his child be-
cause the wife refused him money
with which to gamble. He escaped to
Kentucky.
The new cup challenger Constitution
proved herself to be very fast racer,
and the old champion, Columbia,
makes a commendable showing, while
the independence is left hopeless1y In
the rear
Indian education is showing such
practical results that well-informed Of
ficials claim that if the present policy
is continued ten years longer the
Indian bureau will have become utter
ly useless.
Gov Yates of Illinois, who is just
home from a trip through the middle
west, says Vice President Roosevelt
is undoubtedly the choice of the peo-
pie for the republican nomination to
succeed Mckinley.
R. T. Davis, formerly division freight
agent of the Galesburg division of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
way, and later travelling freight agent
of the Santa Fe, died in the inf1rmary
at WATERFOWL. III.
County Treasurer Norlin of Kear-
ney county, Nebraska. who week ago
asserted he had been assaulted and
robbed of county funds and his office
set on fire, was reported short $4,000
by state examiner. aHt
John B. Slaughter of Fort Worth,
Tex, has bought the ranch and cattle
Of the Nave-McCord Cattle Company
of st. Joseph, Mo-, for $265,000. The
ranch comprises 1C5 900 acres of land
in the Texas panhandle.
Lewis Edwin Adams, who died in
New York city from heat prostration.
was buried yesterday at West Bend.
Wis. He had been Unidentified with
newspaper work in Chicago and New
York for twenty-seven years.
Frank Tazelow an aeronaut from
Grand Rapids, Mich, was killed while
making a cannon parachute drop at
Muskegon. When the balloon reached
height of 1000 feet the ropes burst
and Tazelow dropped into the lake.
F. A. Bracket, a retired farmer OF
Atlantic, Iowa, killed his wife and
then fatally shot himself at the home
of their daughter, Mrs Otis E. Powell.
Mental abrration from extreme heat is
supposed to have been the cause.
Officers Of the Amalgamated Iron
and Steel Workers association and
representatives of the employers are
holding conference at Pittsburg to
settle the strike. President Shaffer
declared the trouble would be ended.
Because his father, Thomas B.
Windsor, refused him the use OF
team, Edward Windsor Milford, DEL
shot the aged man, fatally wounding
him. The young man disappeared and
is believed to have committed suicide.
Ex-Congressman Lentz is denounced
for his announced intention Of sum-
moning the president and Senator