Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-16


age of $150,O00
Town Marshal J. B. Smith OF
Chelsea. Ia, was killed in a hight
with three men caught in the act OF
robbing a bank.
The aged and sick at the burning
of a Milwaukee sanitarium were saved
from injury by Mrs. Ellen Myers, the
assistant matron.
Congress is to act on Andrew Car
Inegie's proposition to give Sl0,oO0,-
600 to the city of Washington for
na lional university
Revised estimates place the loss
sustained by fire that destroyed the
National Starch Works plant in Des
Moines, at 100000.
John M. Currier of Valparaiso, Ind,
and Mrs. Laura NJ. Morse of Chicago,
who were divorced 40 years ago, were
married in Valparaiso.
A New York coroner's jury in the
case of little Emeline Dale returned
a verdict that her death was caused
by accidental poisoning.
A convicted murderer who was
executed in Arkansas was partially
revived in his coffin, but died before
he could be hanged again
President Roosevelt sent several
hundred nominations to the senate,
including that Of Cornelius Van Colt,
as postmaster of New York.
The Masonic grand lodge of Texas
has invited Mexican lodges to seats.
This action gives Mexican Masons
standing in the United States.
The storage department of Faster
& Glassell's cotton warehouse and
1850 bales of cotton at Shreve-
port, La, burned. Loss, $4,000.
! Willis L. Moore, head of the
weather department, made his annual
report in which he predicted in
creased use of wireless telegraphy.
In a fire at Bayou des Allemandes,
La, Misses May Ernest and Flossie
Delabretonne, members of prominent
New Orleans families, were burned
to death
Judge Newburger in New York
denied the motion to dismiss the in
dictment against Roland B. Molineux
for the murder of Mrs. Katherine J.
Adams.
Editor A. M. Lawrence and Re-
porter H. S. Garfield, sentenced for
contempt by Judge Hanecy in Chi
cago, were released on habeas
corpus.
The reappointment of United States
| Marshal Ames, Collector Nixon, and
Assistant Treasurer Williams at Chi
cago has been decided upon by the
president.
At Pittsburg Mrs. Sarah Klee and
child, Mary Klee, persisted in a fire
and seven other members Of the
family, including her husband, were
badly injured
/ A gang of robbers partially
wrecked the postoffice at Port Union,
Ohio The. explosion of the safe
seriously injured one of their number.
Nothing was taken.
Miss Jane Tappan was indicted by
the grand jury at Barnstable, Mass,
for the alleged murder of Mrs. Mary
e. Gibbs, Alden P. Davis and Mrs.
! Genevieve A Gordon
! In New York Perry Belmont gave
cakewalk and beefsteak dinner for
! Mrs. George KeppeI, the leader of
King Edwards court set, and her
brother, Lord Albemarle
Robbers broke into the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad station at Whining
ton, Ohio, and after binding the
telegraph operator broke open the
cash drawer and stole $780,
An auxiliary branch of the Irish
| league was formed at New York
with John F. Finerty, Chicago, as
president Branches are to be formed
all over the United States.
Friends Of Barry Howard, leader Of
a Kentucky mountain feud, attempt
ed to rescue him while on his way to
prison to Frankfort to be tried for
completely in the Goebel murder.
Edward j. Matthews, former
banker and broker and president of
American District Telegraph COM
pany, was killed by a fall from a
horse at his home in Valley Forge.
Stanford University is about to
come into full possession Of the mil
lions left to it by Senator Stanford.
The amount is $18,000,000 in bonds
and $12,000,000 in other property.
Colonel John Doniphan, who served
with his uncle, General A.NW. Doni-
phan, in successful campaigns in the
Mexican war, is dying at his home in
st. Joseph, Mo. He is 80 years old.
/ Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, pro-
fessor of international law, has been
appointed temporary dean of the Yale
law school, on account of the serious
illness of Professor Francis Wayland.
DR.. Cameron Mann, long prominent
ly identified with the Episcopal church,
was consecrated bishop of the mis-
sionary district of North Dakota
amid elaborate ceremonies at Kansas
City, Mo.
T. B. Waters, a travelling sales