Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-01-07
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Domestic.

kidnapped was found
The new western baseball league
was formed in Chicago.
The inquiry into the hazing OF Cadet
Rooz came to a close.
Russian settlers near Anamoose' N.
D.. are said TO be starving.
indications are for exceptlohal
trade prosperity in l9Ol.
A score of divekeepers were indicted
nv the grand jury in Chicago.
South Dakota again OFFERS lnouce-
rents to would-be Divorces.
Female prisoners in a Brooklyn JAIL
fercelv assaulted the matron and war
den.
Governor Pingree pardoned muir
derer and a burglar and pardoned nine
other convicts.
cat was killed by electricity and
then brought back to life by reversing
the current. y
a new emperor, boy, is said to
have been selected by the doWager en-
press of China
FORMER Secretary of War Alger
scored Gen. Miles anent the embalmed
beef charges.
Attendants and nurses at Bellevue
hospital are charged with strangIng
patient to death.
Nebraska legislators are assembling
at Lincoln preparatory to the opening
of the senatorial fight.
Miss Jennie Fitzpatrick OF Peoria.
killed by headache powders, was to be
married the next day.
Capt Howgate, who stole $lOO,00o
from the government in 1880, complet-
ed his term of Imprisonment.
The story of the Iowa drowning
disaster proves to have been joke
perpetrated by some trainmen
Former President Cleveland favors
longer terms for presidents and
change in the method of election
Vice Chairman Johnson of the demo
cratic national committee declared the
committee would not be reorgan1zed.
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the Indiana
senator, consents to become candl-
date for the presidency Of the ID. A. r.
The wife of a Kansas mayor who
eloped with her coachman was located
in Winnipeg and consented to return
home.
One of the worst storms in many
years prevailed along the British coast
and many shipping disasters are re-
ported.
Mrs. Carrie Nation of the Kansas W
C. T. u. smashed the furnishings and
pictures in a Wichita saloon and was
locked up.
Alfred Harmsworth, owner OF the
London Mail, will edit a New York pa
per one day to demonstrate his ideas
of journalism.
A quarrel over cards at Abbeville
S. c., resulted in the killing of three
men, including a sheriff and United
States marshal.
Judge D. w. Garfield, for fifty years
one of the most prominent men in
northern Ohio, died of apoplexy, aged
seventy-tWo years.
The Dubuque Morning Herald has
suspended publication. The evening
edition will continue The Herald is
the Oldest paper in the northwest.
Prisoners in jail at White Plains, N.
Y, set fire to the jail hoping to es-
cape The jailor left them to perish
in flames, and they quickly extinguish-
ed it.
Charles J. Brenna, bookkeeper.
cashier and confidential clerk at the
Wainwright branch of the ST. Louis
Brewing company, is charged with en-
bezzling $4,000
Samuel Mcdonald, who week ago
shot and killed F. Fl. Morris, auditor
for the war department, died from the
self-inf1icted wounds he received at the
time of the murder.
Judge J. Wesley Booth of the Clay
ton (Mo) circuit court, rendered de-
cision upholding the legality of bucket
shop transactions from the standpoint
of common law.
w. J. Bryan arrived at Galveston.
Tex, and left soon after with Col. w.
L. Moody for the private game pre-
Chambers county.
Reapportionment will be the great
issue in congress after holiday recess.
Congressman Hopkins scheme, provid-
ing for 357 representatives, is general
1y considered most equitable.
Lord Pauncefote, the British ambas-
sador, had q conference with the sec.
ond assistant postmaster general upon
the establishment of parcels post
convention with Great Britain.
At Denver, S. w. Hubbick, stock
dealer of Omaha, shot at his wife,
slightly wounding her, and then
turned his weapon upon himself with
fatal effect The couple were married
on Christmas day.
In pitched battle between Sam
Gum and Jim Love on one side and
Dutch Jackson and Philip Franklin
on the other near Tatum, |. T., Love
and Gum were killed Jackson sur
rendered and is in jail.
William H. Smythe of Indianapolis.
secretary of the grand lodge of Ma
vubn inc RI have honp shot NV