Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-11


: of the Commercial National bank OF
/ Upper Sandusky, O., of which his
! father is president, Charles Layton
committed suicide.
/ The relief fund raised by the Amer
/ lean people to aid the families of the
/ victims of the Maine disaster, has now
dwindled down to about $1,000 This.
| balance is in the hands of Captain
| Charles D. Sigsbee.
Governor Crane pardoned James
Thompson of New York city.
chusetts State prison for robbing the
! po3tofice at Webster, Mass, in 1896.
/ Evidence that Thompson never had
been in Webster was presented to the
governor.
/ Sadie Williams. the 7-year-old
daughter of James Williams of West
Bend, Iowa, was killed as the result
Of an accidental discharge of shot
gun Her brother discharged the con
tents of a supposed unloaded cartridge
into her body.
| While the 5-year-old daughter of
Charles Steiner of Atkinson, Ill.,, was
playing about a sHve her clothing
caught fire, inflicting injuries which
caused her death in few hours. Her
mother was seriously burned in trying
to extinguish the flames.
The United States circuit court OF
appeals rendered decision in the ap-
peal of Charles P Coles of San Fran.
cisco, against the United States, hold
ing that duty should be collected on
anthracite coal The case involves
between 100000 nd 100000 in duties.
A general advance in the price of
California wines is announced. Sweet
wines, especially, have gone up, and
are now held from to IL cents per
gallon higher than heretofore. Clareta
and white wines will be quoted here
after at an advance of from to s
cents gallon.
William Senter, president of the st,
Louis cotton exchange, is dead, aged
70 years. Mr.. Senter was one of the
first to suggest the value of building
railroad through the cotton section
of the south. He was president for
many years of the ST. Louis Cotton
Compass company
The mayor and city council of Sioux
Fall, S. d., were advised that Andrew
Carnegie would donate the sum of
$25, 900 for the construction of pub
lie library building there upon condi
ton that the city contribute $4,000 an
nually to maintain the same. The of
fer will be accepted.
The 1900 employees of the Rossie
Velvet Company, at Mystic, Conn.,
are On strike and the mill is idle. Tho
trouble arose over an order that fines
would be imposed for defects in tho
product of the workingmen. The en-
ployes declare that the order is un
just, as defects are unavoidable.
A New York company has secured a
right of way from Green Bay to Man
itowoc, Wis, distance of thirty
eight miles, for an electric railway. Tt
also has an option on the system of
the Fox River Electric Railway and
Power company, which includes both
the Green Bay and Depere lines.
]. Edgar Powelson, president of the
New Brunswick (N j. board of trade.
died of cancer of the liver He waa
SO years of age. He led a reform
campaign in the county government so
successfully in 1893 that for number
of years he was known as Lexow Pow
elson
Captain John r. Anderson died at
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, of heart
disease. He was born in Sweden in
1920, and had lived in Brooklyn for
sixty-nine years. During the civil
war Captain Anderson commanded the
first vessel carrying food into New
Orleans after the raising of the block
ade.
One thusand quarrymen in the val
ley of the Carbon Limestone Company
and the Bessemer Limestone Company
in Ohio struck against a reduction
from 20 to II cents per ton. The
strike has resulted in laying off rail
road crews. Most of the blast fur
naces have a stock of limestone to run
month.
1t is stated that out of a total of 60
remains of soldiers and civilians re-
ceived at San Francisco from China
on the transport California, 40 bodies
have been claimed by relatives and
will be sent to their homes for private
interment at government expense.
The remainder, if not claimed within
reasonable period, will be. inferred
in the San Francisco national GENE
terry.
Foreign.