Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-22
was destroyed by Ere. The stock and
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fixtures are insured for $180000.
Burglars at Pittsburg killed q man
who caught them robbing his house
and a policeman who sought to arrest
them. The whole gang was arrested.
w. A. Rublee, appointed United
States consul general at Hongkong to
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
Rounseville Wildman sailed Wednes-
day.
Judge Yost corroborated ex-Gov-
ernor Bradlevs testimony about
Taylor's conversation with Ripley in
dicating a knowledge of a plot against
Goebel
At Crepple Greek, Col, the family
of James Smith, including the father
mother and four children, were killed
in their home by the sliding of a huge
dump.
The principal secretary of the In
diana senate was arrested on the
charge Of changing the wording of a
bill after it had been signed by the
governor.
Two freight trains on the Burlington
collided three miles west of Omaha,
Neb., demolishing two engines and a
dozen cars, and killing 200 head of
live stock
AT Little Rock State Treasurer
Thomas E. Little died from heart
disease. He was a brother of Con
gressman Little, of the second Arkan-
sas district.
The chair factory of Hechinger
Brothers & Co., 808 Low street
Baltimore, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is $4,000, covered by in
surance.
Mrs. Helen Potts Hall has begun
action in Bridgeport, Conn, and il
New York to secure share Of the es-
tate of George F. Gilman as an adopt
ed daughter.
Newton Chisnell, an actor con
neced with Hoyt's attractions for
many years, died at his home in
Akron. His last appearance was in
A Texas Steer.
j. Pierpont Morgan & Co., have
formed the Associated Merchants
Company, which is designed to acquire
drygoods stores in New York and
other cities
John P. Smith, former mayor OF
Fort Worth, Tex, died in ST. Louis the
victim of knockout drops" by IN
known persons in a saloon near the
union station.
DR.. w. f. McClelland died at Den
yer, aged go He was noted as a
surgeon and was the first physician to
make study of the climatic infu-
ences Of the mountain region on pull
monary diseases.
J. Pierpont Morgan's visit to Europe
is said to be for the purpose of sound
ing European capitalists on the es-
adjustment of new Mexican
financial policy.
At indianapolis, Ind, fire broke out
in the Women's department in the
main building of the central hospital
for the insane. All the patients were
removed in safety
Governor Hunt has ISSUED a proc
lamation abolishing martial law in
Shoshone county, Idaho. Martial law
was proclaimed May 4, 1899, following
the riots of April 20.
Emmett Chittenden, a well known
farmer Of Spring Valley, Ala, shot
and instantly killed a negro named
West, for criminally assaulting
Chittenden's daughter.
The courthouse and part of the coun-
ty records at Danville, Mo, have been
destroyed by fire, The building was
burned during the civil war by the
outlaw BILL Anderson.
At Cripple Creek, Col, the family
of James Smith, including the father,
business in that city do not pay their
just proportion of taxes and has
taken steps to have their assessments
increased.
The New York assembly has killed
the Everett antiscalpers' bill, which
provides that no person shall issue or
sell passage tickets except the author
lied agents of railroads and steamship
companies.
At Granite, Ok, J. T. New killed his
brother-in-law. The latter fed to d
neighbours house to avoid the quarrel,
but New followed him and shot him
i three times Bad blood had existed
between them.
At New York DR.. William Jay
Youmans died at his home in Mount
Vernon, N. Y, from typhoid fever,
after an illness Of ten days. DR.. YOU
mans established the Popular Science
Monthly in 1872.
A head-end collision between a
freight train and worls train on the
Louisville railroad near West Pine
vile, KY, resulted in the death Of
Will Sharp, engineer, and Will Fret
well, yardmaster
General Thomas H. Taylor, who
I fought in the Mexican and civil wars
and who had held the Office of chief
of police longer than any other man,
died in Louisville Of typhoid pneu
monia, aged rs.
A motion filed in the United States
supreme court is calculated to raise
the question of the relation of the
| Hawaiian islands to the United States.