Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-09

in connection with the possible sub
stitution of electricity for steam in
the New York Central tunnel demon
strated the superiority of the electric
motor over the CentraPs best loco
motives
DR.. c.. II. Zinz, inspector in charge
of the United States bureau of animal
industry at the East Buffalo stock
yards, has discovered what he be-
lieves to be an outbreak of smallpox
among a consignment Of hogs. The
animals came from st. Louis
Theodore Duddleston, confidential
clerk at the National Stockyards
bank, East ST. Louis, confessed to c..
j. Knox, president of the bank, that
his books showed a shortage of $11,-
900. The money, he said, was lost in
speculation, principally in cattle.
A Roman bronze tablet, to the
memory of the late President Nc
Kinley, will be sent to Washington in
few days as a tribute from the
italian residents of the United States.
President Roosevelt will be requested
to give the tablet a place in the
capitol
The remains Of Mrs. Mary Byrd
Dallas, widow of Commodore Alexan-
der Dallas, were inferred in the Con-
gressional cemetery. Mrs. Dallas was
the great granddaughter of Betty
Washington, George Washington's
sister, and the sister-in-law Of Prince
Achille Murat.
Fishermen from Manitou island re-
port that the bodies of several Of the
crew of the wrecked steamer Hudson
are buried in the sands along the
shore of Keweenaw point from Bette
de Girls to Manitou island. The
bodies are badly decomposed and can
not be identified.
Paul Cooksey is attempting to
collect a claim against the estate of
the late Marcus Daily, the Montana
millionaire. He claims Mr. Daily
agreed to subscribe $4,000 to the
erection Of monument to the
memory of the confederate soldiers
who died in the evil war
The governor Of Texas has respited
until Dec. 20 the death sentence of
Henry Randall, who is under sentence
to hang in Houston The respite is
granted in order to permit the COVER
nor to examine carefully the papers
requesting communication of the
sentence to life Imprisonment
American Baseball association COM
pleted its organization, with clubs at
Indianapolis, Milwaukee, st. Paul, Col
umbus, Toledo, Minneapolis, Omaha
and Kansas City Ban Johnson was re-
elected president and next seasons
games were fixed at 140, to begin
April 23
Senator Mark A. Hanna is annoyed
over the reports sent out from Wash
ington that he is not on good terms
at the white house. When his atten-
ton was called to this report again,
he yehemently denied it, tits a lie, =
he exclaimed. when l go down to
Washington, I'm going to cut off COM
munications with the papers which
publish such rot"
At Laurens, S. c., two white men.
one of prominence in the community
in the absence of the gentlemen of the
family, entered the residence Of the
most prominent citizen of the place
and attacked a young lady in her
chamber. The screams of the girl
brought citizens to the streets. Clar-
ence E. Babb, a. neighbor, saw the
men leap from the window of the,
young lady's room. He gave chase,
firing with a shotgun as he went.
The men separated and Babb con-
tinued after one until finally he
brought him down. He was astonish-
ed to find that it was Henry S.
Sullivan, a friend. Sullivan would
give no explanation, nor would he d.
vulge the name of his companion.