Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-27
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neuralgia of the heart
AS result Of a family quarrel
John D. Epkins, aged so years, com
mitted suicide at Pelxin, Ill.
A report that j. J. Hill intends 70
| take up his permanent residence III
New York proves untrue,
Mrs Lyman j. Gage, wife OF the
secretary of the treasury, died OF heart
| trouble resulting from grip.
| Alexander Winton and G. B. Shanks
started on an automobile ride from
/ San Francisco to New York.
| Ex-senator Pettigrew in an inter
view, declared he had not made large
gains in recent speculation.
Germany explanation OF the firing
on a British tug at Tientsin is regard
ed in London as unsatisfactory.
Indiana coal mine owners were
asked to put valuation on their prop
| erty by promoters of combine.
The publication Of a report that min
ing is progressing in the Philippines is
denounced as purely imaginative.
Some of ex-senator Pett1greW's
friends say that he will be chosen
president of the Northern Pacific
! Five bank robbers were discovered
at work in Hardland Mo-, and escaped
after a pistol battle with citizens.
A man believed to be William Gard
house of Brampton, Ont, jumped into
the Niagara river, going over the Tails.
The west has begun unusually early
| to draw upon the treasury for funds
in anticipation of the crop movement.
At Fairhaven, Mass, Weston How
land, the discoverer of the method Of
refining petroleum, died, aged Sc
| years.
The Alabama constitutional con-
vention has begun the consideration
of the question of negro disfranchise-
ment
Mrs. Mary Heating, wife Of Michael
Heating, died at Kenosha, Wis. She
was born in County Mayo, Ireland, IN
1880.
A renowned physician expresses his
belief that on several occasions Presi-
dent Mckinley recalled his wife from
death.
A Brooklyn doctor caused a stir in
| the American tuberculosis congress by
declaring that there are no infectious
diseases.
Charles G. Dawes of Evanston has
formally entered the race for United
States senator from Illinois to sue
coed Mason.
The American Congress Of Tuber
culosis and Medico-Legal society
recommended laws to help stamp out
the disease.
Rev. Henry Collin Minton, D. D,
of California, was elected moderator
of the Presbyterian general assembly
at Philadelphia.
Late dispatches from San Francisco
record a marked Improvement in the
condition of Mrs. Mckinley She IS
out of danger
The Ohio supreme court has sus-
tanned the anti-1ynching law, which
holds the county accountable to the
extent of $4,000 dagames.
President S. r. Galloway of the New
York Central railroad has resigned to
accept the presidency of the $4,000,
900 locomotive consolidation.
Davis White of Cincinnati was found
dead in a tank of the ManitOWoc Gas
| company, Manitowoc. 1t is supposed
| he fell in while intoxicated.
The body of G. E. Starbuck, a
Harvard student who disappeared ten
| days ago, has been found in the
Charles river, near Boston.
Louis Marvin pleaded guilty to
bigamy at st. Paul and was sentenced.
to three years Imprisonment. Marvin
went to st. Paul from Chicago.
Four boys were drowned and
several persons badly burned as the
result of an explosion of fireworks
on a steamer. at Bemidji, MINI.
At Jackson, Miss, A. p. Brady,
merchant, was arrested charged with
1 the murder of William Dinsmore,
near Coleman, Texas, % years ago.
Lawyer John L. Semple was ar
rested in Philadelphia for completely
in plot by which two prisoners were
making counterfeit money in a cell.
Many West Point cadets are in a
state Of mutiny against Colonel A. L..
Mills and demand his removal for
alleged arbitrary, unjust and severe
actions.
James P Nichols, a retired hard
ware merchant, who was a pioneer Of
Chicago and Waukegan, died at Wau-
kegan. He was in his seventy-ninth
year.
At Youngstown, O., William Johnson
Edwards, Iineal descendant of
Jonathan Edwards. a former president
of Princeton university, died, aged so
years.
Lindsay T. Damon, instructor in
rhetoric in the University of Chicago
since 1896, has been appointed asso-
ciate professor of rhetoric in Brown
university.
Patillo Higgins, who claims to have
given Captain A. F. Lucas the informa-
ton where to bore the first Texas oil
well here, has filed suit for 100000
against Lucas.
John P. Loomis, president Of the