Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-26

dental examiners to resign.
Charles P. Stokes. Riley Brown, and
James McCuly died from burns re-
ceived in the explosion of the Kansas
and Texas mines at Excello.
The Pennsylvania democratic con
vention ignored every national and
state issue except Quayism and will
make the fight ON that alone.
DR.. B. H. Kettrel of Winona, Miss,
died at Fourth lake. near Syracuse,
n. Y. He had charge of the hospital
during the Santiago campaign.
A Northern Pacific telegrapher has
invented system by which telegraph
and telephone messages may be sent
simultaneously over the same wire.
The Great Southern Hotel and
Theater building at Columbus, O.,
was sold at Sheriff's sale for $250,000
to Messrs. Ralph and Fred Lazarus.
Mrs. John A. Corwin. wife of the po-
died at Tomahawk lake, Wisconsin,
where she was spending the summer,
Wireless telegraph messages sent
from Nantucket were exchanged with
the steamer Lucania when she had 200
miles to go before reaching New York.
The German Lutheran Synod at
Mankato, Mimi. elected Carl Gaus-
vitz of st. Paul president and the Rev.
J. Naumann. Gibbon. MINI, secretary.
The government has taken posses
sion of the property at Charleston,
S. c., upon which the new naval sta
ton at that place is to be constructed.
Several men in Chicago are under
going experiments to test DR.. Koch's
theory regarding the communicating
of tuberculosis from cattle to human
beings.
1t is said that when Gen. William
J. Palmer retired from the directorate
of the Denver and Rio Grande Western
railroad he gave $1.000.000 in stock to
employees.
Judge Harmon Yerkes and Andrew
J. Palm were nominated by the Penn
sylvania democrats, respectively for
supreme court justice and state
treasurer.
Henry r. Hinkley of Dubois, ILL.,. has
been awarded the free scholarship to
the agricultural department of the
Illinois state university from Washing
ton county.
No physician or nurse attended Mrs.
Mabel Haines, accused of the murder
of her step-daughter, when baby was
born to her in her prison cell at Mount
Holly, N J.
At Easton. Penn. Joseph Gumelak,
e Hungarian, while trying to escape
from a constable in Phillipsburg,
plunged into the Delaware river and
was drowned.
Edwin Manning, the wealthiest man
in the state of Iowa. died at his home
in Keosouqua, Iowa, at the advanced
age of Sc years. His estate is valued
at 100000.
The attorney general has decided
that the government can collect from
the bond of a postal clerk or carrier
for money which he steals from q
registered letter.
Representative Vincent Boreing of
Kentucky was saved from an embar
RAISING position by the marriage of a
widow postmaster and a rival candi-
date for her Office
Pension report shows startling m
crease in expenditures and claimants.
The pensioners now number 997,735,
and new applications promise to i'll
crease this materially.
DR.. Edward w. Claypole of Pasade-
ma died at Long Beach, Cal. DR.. Clay
pole was a we'll known geologist and
formerly a member of the faculty Of
Buchtel college. Akron, O.
John Winters, charged with having
robbed the vault Of the Selby company
of bullion exceeding $280,000 in value
pleaded guilty at his preliminary ex-
animation at Crockett, Cal.
The German steamer A1ene ran
down and sank the pilot boat James
Gordon Bennett near Scotland light
ship. Three pilots and the cook of
the Bennentt were drowned.
Edgar A. Allen, now superintendent
of the Quapaw Indian school, in Indian
territory, has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the Carlisle IN
dustrial school, at Carlisle, Pa.
Many Chicago ice dealers were
arrested for selling impure ice as a
result of the investigation of the pure
food commission. Directors and
stockholders are to be prosecuted.
At the meeting of the National Civic
Improvement League, Charles Zeublin
of the University Of Chicago was elect
ed president. Mrs. Condo Hamlin of
st. Paul was elected vice-president.
Judge H. F. Simrall, ex-chief justice
of the Mississippi supreme court, and
prominent in state affairs during re-
construction days. died at his home
near Vicksburg. He was "a years Of
age.
Mrs. James Callahan of Des Moines,
Ia, wife of the we'll known capitalist
and philanthropist, died as the result
of a runaway accident. in which she
and her husband were severely in
jured.