Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-04

| ter Of MI. ana MIS-. u NJ. ferFy, was
married to Elon Huntingdsn Hooker,
] of Albany, n Y, at Detroit.
Bishop Wigger, who died in Newark
N. j., recently, gave so literally to
| charity that he did not leave enough
to pay his funeral expenses.
The Injunction against George ].
Gould and the Castellanes was con-
tinued and was the income of the
countess was limited to 100000 a
year.
! The house committee on invalid pen
sions reported favorably the Miers
bill for the creation of court of ap-
peals for the final adjudication of pen
sion cases.
At Rapid City, S. D., Mrs. Kate
| Cooper, wife of State Senator H. T.
/ Cooper and sister of w H. Grimshaw,
United States marshal of Minneapolis.
is dead
A call has been issued by Oliver w.
Stewart. chairman of the national COM
mittee, for national prohibition con-
ference, to be held at Buffalo in
August.
Lieut.. Richmond Pearson Hobson,
who is ready to leave the Presbyterian
hospital, in New York, has replied to
| a message of sympathy from Admiral
/ Cerevera.
/ The Mutual Life Insurance company
has refused to pay $240000 policy on
the life of James c. Pearson, of Bos-
ton, who died the day after the first
premium was paid.
Ho Vow, Chinese consulgeneral st
San Francisco, is going into the bust
ness of raising trotting horses for
profit and pleasure. Cinnamon will be
} trained to do all the work.
Morton Finley, colored, was killed
and five workmen were severely in
iured in boiler explosion at the Ohio
Falls Iron company, New Albany, Ind ,
The property loss is $4,000.
The four-story factory at Philadel-
phia, of Darby & Son, manufacturers
of wire work, and the tinware manu-
factory of G. e. Porter, adjoining, were
: damaged by re- Loss $4,000
DIR. NJ r. Rodermund, who exposed
himself to smallpox at Appleton, Wis,
escaped from quarantine and is sup
posed to be in Chicago. Ruthbun, who
assisted him, was put in the pesthouse.
J. M. Carpenter and John A. Stone,
said to be backed by Pennsylvania
syndicate have purchased 10000 acres
of timber, iron and copper lands in
Monroe county Tennessee, paying
$500, 600
Miss Isabel Wright, daughter OF
William O. Wright and well known in
society circles in Washington and New
York, was married at Freeport, Ill, TO
Alvin Saunders Lockard, of Indiana
t polls.
5 The senate committee on Indian
affairs made its report on the Indian
; bill The committee recommends the
: increase of the total appropriation to
the extent of $S75,000, making total
r of $9,870,526
: Col. Andrew McGonnigle, U. S. A
(retired), died at Asheville. He was
:, court martialed in 1875 for threaten
: ing to cane Capt. Charles P Egan
who was afterwards made commits
sary general.
Rev. DR.. Philetus B. Spear, treasurer
of Colgate university from 1864 tc
1889, died aged 80 years. Two sons
F. B. and ]. w. Spear, reside at Mar
quette, Mich, and a daughter, Mrs
II. H. Keith. at Sioux Falls. S. D.
The body of the man found in {
room at the Canadian Pacific Hotel
at Chatham, Ont, was that of Owen A
Collins, Of ST. Louis, a brother Of
: Judge A1vah P. Collins, of st. Adams
VT.
, The New York supreme court di
rected jury to return verdict sus
tanning the will of the late William
. . Ivison, the publisher, who bequeatheG
nearly all his estate to his nephew
David Ivison.
Captain Edward G. Raymond, who
had an extensive acquaintance in this
and other states. and was we'll known
in Grand Army circles, expired sud
: denly of heart disease at his home in
Galesburg, Ill
Mrs. Carrie Nation invaded Cover
+ nor Stanley's Office at Topeka, accused
him of being a lawbreaker and a per
Jurer, and then asked him to aid her ir
closing saloons. He referred her tt
the prosecuting attorneys.
) The will of P D. Armour, disposes
of a $15,00O,00O estate, which is di
: vided between his widow and his son
/ J. Ogden Armour, except that the two
) sons of P. D. Armour Jr., are to be
paid 100000 each in two install
: ments.
$ The Michigan senate ordered the
investigation of the Management of the
state agricultural college. Bills were
] introduced giving the heirs of moi
! violence the right to sue for damages
r and barring slot machines from the
state.
4 The Armour Institute. Chicago, is tc
, be the nucleus of a great technical
. school, and will be affiliated with
either the University of Chicago OF