Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20

Richard Grogan Jr., his brother-in-law.
+ General Dewet, according to adj
vices from Pretoria, has resumed
operations and is reported to have
| crossed into the Transvaal with 5000
men.
Five hundred Pinkertons have been
engaged by Anthony N. Brady in
anticipation Of trouble with his
striking street-railway employees at
Albany.
Mrs. Ann Marie Rathbun of New
! York was found guilty of murder in
the second degree for poisoning her
/ husband and was sentenced to prison
for life.
Indians on White Earth reservation
may make trouble if the logging COM
panies do not rescale cut timber The
Indians claim they have been de-
frauded.
In a conference with General Fun
ston, General Lucban of the province
Of Neuva Ecija promised to surrender
in a few days with his entire com
mand.
At Boston the supreme court rem
dered a decision upholding the con
stitutionality of the law which pre-
scribes execution by electricity in
capital cases.
Lawrence and Miller, charged with
three postoffice robberies in Kansas,
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
! four and three years Imprisonment
respectively.
The Missouri attorney general and
the city counselor for the city of ST.
Louis are in Washington to file a
supplementary petition in the drain
age canal suit.
II Unless a new counterfeit turns UP
soon the year ending June, 1901, viii
/ hold the record for the small amount
of bad money made and circulated in
the United States.
Garabel Agamian, an Armenian in
West Hoboken, N. j., says his wife
and her brother have fallen heir to an
estate of $224,OOO,OO0 in Constants
nople and Calcutta.
The cruiser Buffalo arrived from
! Manila, bringing sol seamen and 81
i marines, the most of whom will re-
enlist. The trip from the Philippines
was made in 3S days.
i john D. Rockefeller drove with
Margaret Leary, the telegraph opera
tor at Irvingtln N. Y, over his estate.
The girl has one many little favors
for the millionaire.
i E. F. Tibbott, who served General
Harrison for SO many years as private
/ secretary, has been made the con.
fidential secretary of John Wanna
s maker of Philadelphia.
i James A Herne, actor and play
wright, is critically ILL., 1t is stated
that his chances for recovery are very
slight. He is suffering from pleuro-
pneumonia in New York.
Eduard S. Hull, Jr, New York
lawyer, and Samuel S. Predmore, of
Hoboken. were arrested in Hacken-
sack charged with arson in the burn
ing Of the plant of the Carlsbad Chem
ical company.
A party of 100, including civil en-
! gineers, machinists, mining experts,
assayists and guides, has left Chicago
for Colombia, South America, where
they go in quest of gold along the
i River Nechi.
Germany and Spain each sent more
boots and shoes to the Philippine ISL
ands last year than the United States,
according to a statement issued by the
division of insular affairs of the war
department.
49, 81 L,n oil of
the City, of New York has suppressed
the entire edition of the current num-
Der Of the College Review because of
articles rejecting upon Croker and
upon Christianity.
Henry Hollis, alias Henry Juda,
who killed William Williams AMI
seriously wounded Henry Brown a.
Carbonate, Iowa, April 6 last, was
arrested at Millersville, near Pana,
ILL., He confessed.
Secretary Hay is to take up the Me
aragua canal problem when the pres
ident's trip ends. He has a summary
of the views Of a majority of senators,
who agree that the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty must be abrogated.
William D. Williams, a stenog-
rapher in the insular division of the
war department, was dismissed for Of
fering to sell the secret correspond
ence in the Neeley case to John D.
Lindsay, Neeleys counsel
Because of differences between
union mounters and the officials of
the Favorite Stove and Range Com
pany at Piqua, O., the entire force
struck The firm announces it will
fill the places with other men.
Merritt Chism, 40 years old, Nc
Lean Qll.) county farmer, worth $780,
| 600, killed his second wife by stab
bling her. Chism attempted suicide in
a well, but the water was not deep
enough and he gave himself up.
G. K. Eddy, president of the C. K.
Eddy & Sons Lumber company of
Saginaw, Mich, died at his temporary
home in Los Angeles, Cal, aged 80
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