Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

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rived at Charleston, S. c., was on fire
for two hours on the way from New
York.
Winfield (Kan.) saloonists wrecked
a church in retaliation and destroyed
$500 window presented by Helen M.
Gould.
Warren Burbank, eleven years old.
of New Brighton, was shot and killed
by his brother while playing with
revolver
Saloon fixtures were wrecked and
liquor poured in the street by women
at Perry, Kas. The crusade is
spreading.
At Springfield, H., James H. Pick
rell, secretary of the American Short
Horn Breeders Association, is dead
aged sc years.
Robert D. Russell, ex-judge of the
district court and brother OF Sol
Smith Russell, the actor, died in
Minneapolis.
Purchases of land on Staten island
are believed to be connected with a
plan of the steel trust to build great
shipyards there.
1t was reported in Wall street that
J. T. Morgan had paid to Mr.. Carnegie
$25, 100000 in cash, concentrating the
big steel deal.
Dale Kingery, son of wealthy
| farmer near Frankfort, Ind, was kid
mapped by al unknown man and a
yelled woman.
Pegran Cochran, Shell Cochran and
L. A. Hester, white, were sentenced at
Fairurn, Ca, to life Imprisonment for
killing a negro.
The lower branch of the Indian
apolis general assembly today adopted
a report recommending life imprison-
ment for kidnapping.
Mrs. Lulu Kennedy, who killed her
husband at Kansas City, was indicted
for murder, and her father and two
brothers were arrested.
An electric car jumped the track
while on the way from Dayton, KY. to
Cincinnati and fell into a creek, in
juring 20 persons.
The Delaware legislature has ex-
tended the whipping post law to in
clude wife-beaters among those to be
punished by whipping.
For the first time since he has been
in Jersey City, jail Mrs. Barker visited
her husband, who shot Rev. John
Keller in Arlington, N. J.
Senator Hale introduced bill pro
viding for appointment of two vice
admirals. 1t is intended to apply
to Schley and Sampson.
Four persons we're killed and
several injured by the wreck Of d
Southern Pacific train that ran into a
washout at Mills City. New.
The four-story brick factory build
ing at Nos. 106 and 108 Seventh
avenue, New York, was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of $4,000.
Rev. DR.. D. B. Gray, pastor of the
First Baptist church at Birmingham,
Ala, has accepted the presidency of
the Georgetown (Ky.) college.
Frank Brezinski of Winona. was
frozen to death on the farm of his
son, Joseph Brezinski. in Pine Greek,
Wis. He was 70 years of age.
Fire destroyed the Gray office build
ing, the Hay building, the Ransom
dry goods house and Eckert's livery,
at Coshocton, Ohio; loss, $4,000.
Charles Voss, living at 527 Barclay
street, Milwaukee, killed his wife with
butcher knife, and then committed
!; suicide. Voss was a laborer.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was sent to
Jail at Topeka in default of $4,000
peace bond Three of her lieutenants
were also placed under peace bonds
Samuel Cabbell. adopted son of M.
J S. Cabbell. engineer at the postoffice
building at Quincy, ILL.,, was arrestea
for robbing the mails. He confessed
A state dispensary bill was introduce
ed in the Kansas house. It provides
for the establishment of dispensaries
in numerous precincts throughout the
state.
The committee on revision of the
Presbyterian creed will present two
reports to the general assembly. The
majority do not favor any radical
change.
Five $1,000 bills have been stolen
mysteriously from Kansas City bank.
and banks in all parts of the country
have been notified to be on the look
out for them
Fire in the Evans apartment build
ing, a four-story brick structure at
Forty-second street and Evans avenue.
Chicago, for time menaced the lives
of many tenants.
The Michigan supreme court handed
down an opinion affirming the judg-
ment of the Wayne county circuit
bench that franchises received from
the city are taxable.
The strike Of the cigar-makers in
Tampa, Fla, has been settled, the
strikers, numbering between 300 and
400, returning to work Mutual con-
Cessions were made
President Mckinley in a message to
! congress urged that the thanks Of
[ congress be extended to Sampson and
the officers and men under him for
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