Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-19
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dCClOu IOT divorce drought ny MIS-.
Elizabeth S. Lester. The charges
are cruelty, intoxication and desertion.
At Milwaukee Mother Alexia of the
School of Sisters of st. Francis has
been reelected superior. Between
400 and 500 Sisters were present at
the election from all parts of the
country. An election occurs every six
years.
Editor w. C. Ivey of the Sumter,
S. c., Freeman was arrested by the
sheriff from Elberton. Ga, for the
illicit sale of liquor Ivey published
a paper in Georgia, but fed. it is
alleged, when warrants were issued
for him.
At Buffalo, John Dunford, a boss
grain scooper at the export elevator,
was so badly beaten by two men
whom he had refused work that he
died of his injuries Joseph Fent3n
and John Maddingan have been ar
rested
Rear Admiral Cromwell, in his re-
port of the South Atlantic squadron's
observance of fourth of July at Rio
Janeiro says the, natives materially
assisted him in observing the day,
showing q great respect for the Stars
and Stripes.
At Amesbury, Mass, Busiel Smith,
8 years old, of Philadelphia a grand
son of former Governor Busiel, Of
New Hampshire, was drowned in the
Merrimac river. Charles Usher Of
Lynn lost his life in attempting to
save the child
Assistant Postmaster John G. Pole
and his family of Lexington, Va,
while attempting to cross a mountain
stream were swept down by the
waters of a cloudburst and his wife
and three daughters, aged from to 8
years, were drowned.
A mile to west of Charlton, Ohio,
we'll diggers have encountered a sup
posed underground river. At a depth
of thirty-five feet only a thin shell
separates them from what is APPARENT
1y a good-sized body of water with a
swiftly flowing current.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Hodgson,
of the marine hospital service, sta
toned in Mexico, says bedbugs are
worse than mosquitoes in spreading
yellow fever. The seed or bean of
cedron is found to be a valuable
remedy for the disease.
The boom for Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt for president of the United
States has been started in Kansas
Major T. J. Anderson, secretary OF
the Topeka Commercial club, has pre-
pared copies of blanks for the sigma
ture of the adherents of that PROPOSE
ton.
Commissioner Yerkes, of the inter
nal revenue bureau, has held that a
legacy tax must be paid within a
year after the death of the testator,
and in any event before payment and
distribution to the Iegatees. or any
parties entitled to beneficial interest
in the estate.
In pitched battle near Jacksboro
Tex, between "a sheriff's posse and
two men wanted by the authorities
named Miller and Roberts officer
G.. NJ. Leftwitch was killed. After
driving back the officers the two men
escaped from the house in which they
We're concealed.
George e. Ashley, a lawyer of New
York, died at Manhattan Beach He
was born in 1916 in Providence, and
was educated in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island. He was a graduate of
Columbia law school, and was mem
Der Of the New York state and city
bar associations and of the republican
club.
The river steamer Norfolk-on-the-
Roads was burned to the waters edge
at her pier at Mathematician
Va. She was the passenger transfer
boat used by the Norfolk and Atlantic
Terminal company between Sewelps
Point and Old Point. The loss is
about $4,000, partly covered by in
surance.
Near Jackson, Miss, Frederick
Westbrook and Robert Groin, two
young white men who had been pay
ing attention to young woman. met
on the public road while Westbrook
was taking the young woman to
church. A duel followed in which
Westbrook was killed. Groin after
ward committed suicide.
A party of capitalists, headed by
Albert e. Smith of Milwaukee closed
deal with the Union Pacific land de-
partment at Omaha whereby they be-
come possessors of $4,000 acres Of
grazing land in Lincoln county,
Nebraska. The land is located near
the Gothensburg irrigation canal, a
few miles north Of Gothensburg.
The big battleship Wisconsin has
been ordered to San Francisco to be
in readiness to sail for Panama. The
state department was advised that
the situation is serious and protection
for American interests is needed.
The Machias left Boston for Hampton
Roads, where she will take on am
munition and supplies before sailing
for Colon.
The will and codicil of the late
EN1i7o hath q