Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-22
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Three gold bars, said to be worth
s20,00e each. were stolen from the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse on
her trip from New York to Cher
bourg but were found in a creyice, the
thief having been unable to get them
ashore.
At summerville, Ca, T. L. AIRING
ton shot and killed Miss Mamie
Cleghorn and then killed himself.
Arlington had been engaged to the
young woman but because of parental
objections the engagement had been
broken.
Seventy-fve students Of the Ar
mour Institute, wearing nightgowrs,
boarded a South Side elevated train in
Chicago. The students were celebrat-
ing the gift of $1,000,0O0 to he
institute by Mrs P d. Armour and J.
Ogden Armour.
The sale of two girls, members of a
gypsy band, at Momence, H., brought
on a riot that for time threatened
serious results So angry were the
citizens over the traffic that a mob
was formed, which drove the gypsy
band from town.
There has been a. series of four fires
in Muncie, Ind, the worst damage at
the Palmer Iron and Steel works,
where the pattern-room department
was destroyed, causing a loss Of ST..
500, and Ball Brothers big glass works
were slightly scorched.
Secretary Long received a call from
Marconi, the Italian inventor, whose
name is Unidentified with wireless
telegraphy. The call was of a social
character and not with any purpose Of
presenting a business proposition in
connection with the system.
| While brooding over fancied injuries
John Revenger, a farmer living near
Steele, N. d. shot his neighbor, Nels
Olson, inficting a serious wound.
Later Revenger's body, with the face
shot away, was found on the prairie.
He had committed suicide.
D. Judson Hammond, who was
state representative in the Michigan
legislature from Oakland county il
1899 and who has been undergoing
trial on the charge of having solicited
bribe of $500 in connection with the
Sayre antitrust bill, was found guilty.
Soap manufacturers and their rep
resentatives to the number of over
seventy held a secret all-day meeting
in Chicago. 1t is rumored that a new
Soap Makers association is to be
formed to take the place of one which
went out Of existence several years
ago.
Four counterfeiters were sentenced
at Spokane, Wash. James Moriarity
was given ten years and Mike Will
liams and McCleary eight years each
at hard labor in the United States
penitentiary. Mrs Ethel Wallace,
the last member of the gang, was SEN
fenced to Ole year.
The verdict of the coroner's jury at
came to his death atA4the hands Of
Barnard Evans. There have been no
further developments. Evans is in jail
and remains silent. His brother, the
former governor, and uncle, General
NJ. T. Gary, are at Columbia.
Judge Dickinson in granting a writ
Of habeas corpus, gave knockout
blow to the contract Of Alexander Mac
Donald with the city of Omaha, giving
him a monopoly Of the hauling Of gar
bage. The decision makes it possible
for any one complying with the regula-
lions of the city to haul garbage.
At Frankfort, Ind, Monon pas
senger train was prevented from
crashing through burning bridge
fifty feet high by Milo Hughes, an 8
year old boy. He remained on the
track until he attracted the attention
of the engineer, who brought, the train
to a stop dozen feet from the bridge.
Owing to the fact that over one
thousand carloads of last years
raisins are on hand, with a possible
market for only one-third of that
amount before the new crop comes in,
the directors of the Raisin Growers
association have resolved to cut the
price temporarily to cents pound
for seeding purposes.
AL WHCoSDurS, n.y., TWO men were
killed and two wounded in a fight
beteen Sheriff John w. Wright and
his deputies on one side and the
desperadoes who robbed and murdered
aged Mrs. Jermima Hall and her son
on the other. The fight occurred in
the mountain top, between Boone's
fork and Milestone creek, Ky.
At Oil City, Pa, five masked men
drove to the residence of J z. Harris,
wealthy business man, where they
forced an entrance and bound and
gagged the inmates Of the house, con
sisting of Harris, his wife and an In
dian servant. The robbers forced
open a safe and secured $500 in cash,
two watches and some jewelry.
The fifth business session of the
conference of the reorganized Church
of Latter Day Saints was held at
independence, Mo. Elder Hill of the
Hedrickite church, is in consultation