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

Portland, Ind.
]. D. Rockefeller will give Oberlin
college 100000.
Judge Austin, well-1nown M1lWau-
kee jurist, is dead.
| Thieves robbed the county treasur-
er's office at Joliet Of $513.
Senator Clark's right to a seat in
the senate will again be disputed
Badger Moore, a prisoner at Sing
Sing, has fallen heir to $125,OOO.
The internal revenue collections for
December, 1900, were $25,2122,543.
United States troops are on their
way to quell the Creek Indian upris-
| ing.
| Commander Booth-Tucker Of saliva
ton army left for England to see his
dying father.
Mollis Morris, Chicago shoplifter,
was secretly pardoned by the COVER
nor of Minnesota.
The first issue of w. j. Bryan's new
paper, the Commoner, made it's appear
ance in Lincoln.
Andrew Carnegie's gifts to libraries
and educational institutions now
amount to $13,540,965.
A bill before the Kansas house is to
stop the giving of flowers and presents
to prisoners on trial.
Miller Opera House and other prop
erty at Peru, Ind. was destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000.
The Indiana senate passed bill
ousting any sheriff who yields a
prisoner to a mob.
| Senatorial deadlock continue in Leg
islatures of Nebraska, Montana, Ore
gon and Delaware.
| Mayor Fleischmann of Cincinnati
granted a license for the Jeffries-
Rubin fight Feb. Is.
At Kansas City, A. N. Spencer, one
of the best known railroad contract
ors in the west, is dead.
William A. Talcott, of Rockford, ILL.,.
who died in Jerusalem in December
was buried in Rockford.
A provision in the new army bill
may result in depriving Miles of the
Office of lieutenant-gen
John Stephens, of New Albany, Ind.
died. He was born in Randolph
County, N. c.. Aug. %, 1901.
The w a. Clark wire works a
Elizabeth, N j., were burned. Loss
| $4,000; partly insured.
Alfred T. Bond, instructor at tht
University of Utah was driven insane
by fasting, prayer and study.
The daughter of Former Governo
Lewelling of Kansas was brutal!
hazed by high school girls.
Saloons fitted up to entice children
and cultivate taste for spirits ar
said to have been found in Chicago.
The senate passed a bill appropriat
ing $4,000 to establish a lobster
hatchery in the state of Maine.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, L. E. Stein
man of the furniture firm of Steinmar
G Co., Chicago, aged 81 years, died.
The wholesale spice store of H. B
Strait & Co., was destroyed by fire al
st. Paul, causing a loss of $4,000.
The men accused of selling votes a
Charlottesville and Evansville, Ind
were disfranchised for varying terms.
Claude Hilder of Denver, beint
jealous, shot Mrs Emma Douglas AM
H. R Haley and then killed himself.
Edward f. Britt, a well-known dyer
of the firm of Kennedy & Britt, oil
Philadelphia, died of pneumonia.
Benjamin Hayes, father of the well
known Arctic explorer, DR.. Isaac
Hayes, died at his home in New York
Hugh Kerr, Paterson, N. j., father
of one of the men indicted for the Jen
ME Bosschieter murder, is dying o
grief
The autopsy showed that G. L
Crane, who died in boxing bout a
Harvard, was the victim of heart dis
ease.
Mrs. Carrie Nation. the Kansas TEN
perance crusader, said at Hope, Kan.
that she would carry the war int
Missouri
Robbers forced the safe in the in
terna1 revenue office at Peoria, Ill, ant
secured $4,000 to $4,000 in revenue
stamps.
New York Photograph company ha!
sued Thomas Edison and his variou;
photograph companies for $225,00(
damages.
Registrar Howe of Brooklyn viii
give his surplus fees, $4,000, for al
equestrian statue of Washington fol
Brooklyn.
Colonel Harlan Baird. of Dakots
City, Neb.. is dead He1 came tc
Nebraska in 1855. He was a civil wal
veteran.
The police at Appleton, Wis, were
notified that DIR. Rodermund, the quar-
antine refugee, is under arrest a
Terre Haute, Ind.
The senate committee on territories
considered the bill providing for the
admission of Arizona as a state, but
took no action.
Maurice Thompson, the author, who
has been ill the past six weeks, al
Charlottesville, Ind, is stated to be
extremely weak.
Indiana supreme court held the