Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-10-07

Again there is talk of Tams Bixby
of Minnesota for secretary of the i'll
terror should Hitchcock retire.
Miss Frances West of Des MONIES
was selected by the governor OF Iowa
to christen the cruiser Des Moines.
Despite protests, the coffin contain
ing the body of Abraham Lincoln was
forced open before being reinterred.
Frederick Hartman, a farmer near
Hobart, Ind, attacked his wife with an
iron bar and then committed suicide.
Mrs. Zachriah Lair of Andrews,
Ind, was dangerously injured ON Su1-
day while holding an unmanageable
horse
The steamer Senator arrived at Port
Townsend, Wash, from Nome with
500 passengers and $500,000 IN
treasure.
Proceedings were begun at Oshkosh
to foreclose a mortgage of $24O,009
given by the Oshkosh water works
company
Judge Thomas j. Morris of Balti-
more was elected a vice-president OF
the national Unitarian conference 1t
Saratoga.
President t. J. Shaffer says he is
willing that his charges against
Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell be
investigated.
The Long Island railroad has filed
an application for permission to con-
str11ct a tunnel under the East river
to New York city.
Mrs Josephine Gruver of Terre
Haute, Ind, sued Irwin Anderson, a
merchant, for $4,000 damages for
breach of promise.
Frank Lancaster, an electrician at
the Indianapolis county power station,
was blinded by the falling of chemical
tanks just installed.
Miss Olive Hutchinson of Menomi-
nee, Wis, drank teaspoonful OF
aconite by mistake and for time her
life was despaired of.
At Salt Lake, Utah, Jack Haverly,
the former famous minstrel leader,
died at hospital. Heart trouble wa:
the immediate cause.
Webster's centennial day at Dafs-
mouth was celebrated by speeches
from Senator Hoar, ex-Gov. Black and
Congressman Mccall.
The postmasters of the Unite"
States elected T. B. Dickerson Detroit
president. The next convention will
be held at Milwaukee.
The grand jury indicted James B.
Thomas, cashier of the Leroy c. Part-
ridge bank of Ovid, N. Y, which failed
with liabilities of $750,000.
Helen Boyer of Pittsburg was ar
rested at Boston on the charge Of
robbing the Federal Telephone com
pany of Pittsburg of 5000
John George Nicolay, private secre-
tary to President Lincoln and widely
known as his biographer, died IN
Washington, aged 70 years.
William Hoeppner, confidential clerk
for A. w. Faber & Co. of New York is
accused of a $4,000 defalcation and
has been arrested in Buenos Ayres.
Officials of the board of foreign mis-
sions announced they would not pay
the ransom demands by Bulgarian
bandits for the release of Miss Stone.
Fifty Episcopal ministers, some ac-
companied by their wives, went from
New York to San Francisco on a
special train furnished by J. Pierpont
Morgan.
Charles Hudspeth of Mason City
| ILL.,, shot and killed Charles Curry d
Lexington, Mo. Jealousy over Curry 5
attention to Mrs. Hudspeth caused the
| shooting
Rev. William c. Gray, the venerable
editor of the Interior, publication of
the Presbyterian church, died at his
home in Oak Park He was in his
| 10th year.
Theodore Machen, Chicago tailor
who has been home for a visit with
his parents at Melnik, Wis, found two
pearls worth $500 in a stream near
their house.
John Graham, one of the three
burglars who robbed the postoff1ce
safe at Amanda, Mich, and was
wounded in the running fight that en-
sued, is dead
A through Wabash train for st.
Louis to Omaha was wrecked near
Council Bluffs Nineteen passengers
were badly injured, three Of whom
will probably die.
T. N. Estes & Co., well-known
grocery and cotton firm of Memphis
Tenn, assigned. The liabilities are
placed at $116,750, with assets es-
timated at S25O,OOO
The body of Samuel Conner, a
wealthy farmer, was found in creek
near Charlottesville, Ind. He had
been missing several days, and was
| undoubtedly murdered.
James King was convicted OF murder
in the second degree by a jury at
Duluth for killing Williamson Carlson
at Hibbing on Aug. %. He will b:
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Fred Handy was found guilty OF
numbering Con and Florence Sullivan
brother and sister, of Butte, Mont.
and r. J. Mooney of Seattle. Handy
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