Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-01


furnish motive power.
The president and Illinois senators
agreed on the federal appointments in
Chicago. Collector of Port Nixon,
District Attorney Bethea and Marshal
Ames are to be retained.
Three men were arrested at Detroit
and taken to Toledo, charged with
robbing the West Toledo postofice.
One was identified as Topeka Joe,
wanted at Wellsville, Va.
The 2-year-old child of Thomas
Shannon of Anderson. Ind, was killed
by eating a box of complexion pills
which it found in the house. There
was arsenic in the pills.
The Grinnell, Ia, Herald makes the
statement that Mrs. Heron has Sc
cured at Algona, Ia, divorce from
her husband, Prof. George d. Heron,
on the ground of desertion.
Nicholas Heeney, the 19yeal-c!d
boy who murdered Frank Johnson, a
Pennsylvania railroad towerman
month ago, at Cleveland, was sen
fenced to life Imprisonment.
Fire at Goshen, Ind, destroyed the
warehouse and contents of the Nash,
Knox and Hubbell company, manu-
facturers of fine tables. The loss is
SAC, 900, with $4,000 insurance
A. w. Dingwal1 and ]. B. Letting
we'll, theatrical manager and press
agent, were shot and wounded by r.
II. Moulton while dining in New
York cafe with an actress and her
aunt
Samuel TIagerty, wealthy farmer
near Payne, O., respondent over the
death of his wife, filled a stump with
dynamite, sat on it, and lighted the
fuse. The coroner found the rem
nants
Michael G. Leary, charter mem
Der of the Chicago board Of trade, and
during the civil war one of the heayi-
est operators in grain in the country.
died. He was born in Essex, Can,
and went to Chicago in 1856.
Valentine Botz of Buffalo has had
sight restored to him as the result Of
a surgical operation performed in Bal
timore, after having been totally blind
for % years, He was operated on by'
Prof. A. Douglas McConachie.
Formal notice has been receiveda at
Washington of the institution of legal
proceedings in Venezuela to settle
the asphalt controversy. The New
York and Bermudez company is in
Of 40 ac71Io lob
W. j. Gilbert, attorney Of the de-
funct First National bank, Niles,
Mich. shot and killed himself. Funds
for which he was trustee are supposed
to be involved in the failure Of the
bank wrecked by G. A. Johnson.
Work was commenced at Martins
Ferry, O., on the foundations for big
sheet steel works for the Laughlin
Iron and Nail company. The mill
will be Independent Of the United
States Steel corporation and viii EN-
ploy 1000 hands.
Alonza j. Whiteman, formerly of
Duluth and once a member of the
Minnesota senate, who is charged with
larceny in passing a bad check on the
Girard Life Insurance company OF
Philadelphia on Nov, Is last, pleaded
not guilty in New York
The steamer Poughkeepsie of the
Central Hudson steamboat company
ran on the rocks at Stony Point, a
few miles south of Haverstraw, and is
reported in a sinking condition. She
has large cargo Of freight. All the
persons on board were taken ashore.
No one was hurt.
Peter Furry, aged IS years, died at
his home near Evansville. I'll. He was
the Oldest resident OF Coles county.
He had lived on a farm in the goose
nest prairie" for seventy years. He
was a neighbor Of Thomas Lincoln,
father of the president. Furry came
from Ohio early in the 30's.
Two Pullman sleepers on the west.
bound track of the Lehigh Valley
road were. derailed at the cantilever
bridge at Niagara Falls, N. Y. The
passengers, who were badly shaken
up but not seriously injured, proceed
ed on their way to Chicago. The sig
nal station was completely wrecked.
The immense plant of the Dugdale
Can company, Indianapolis, with an
annual output Of 25,000,000 cans, was
transferred to the American Can COM
pany of New York, which has a CAPT
tai Of $80,O00,000. This completes the
consolidation Of all the large tin can
manufacturing concerns of the coun.
try.
The American Bridge company an
nounced that it had closed one of the
largest foreign contracts ever made,
aggregating over 10000 tons. The
contract was issued by the Ecuador
ian association, the material to be
used for bridge construction on the
Guayaquil and Quito railroad, in
Ecuador
David W. Hitchcock, last president
of the National Tube company before
the absorption of that company by the
steel company, died at his home,