Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

An investigation of it's chemical prop
critics is to be made.
The New York Yacht club notified
T. w. Lawson that his yacht Independ-
ence could not take part in the Amer
lea cup trial races unless chartered
by members of the club. Lawson &C.
copied the condition, but it is said that
no member of the club will take the
craft.
A party of six persons, three men
and three glls, while sailing on the
Delaware river, off North Essington,
were thrown into the water by the
swapping of their skiff druing a squall
and the three girls, Rosie Rooms, Mary
Rooms and Mamie Traynor, were
drowned.
The fire which broke out in the
Luke Fidler colliery at Shamokin, Pa,
is beyond control. The officials hal
ell the mules hoisted from the shaft
and Coal Run creek was turned into
the slope. It will be several months
before the shaft can resume. One
thousand men and boys are idle.
Mother Amandeus, the mother gen
eral of the Sisters of Charity of the
diocese of Cleveland, O., died at the
convent in Lakewood, a suburb of
Cleveland, aged 60 years. She had
been in the convent for forty years.
In secular life she was Katherine
O'Neill and has sisters living in Chi
cago
A message received from Mag
dalena, N NJ, announces the suicide
of John E. Ryan. An injury received
recently by being thrown from a
horse gave him so much pain that he
sought relief in death. Mr.. Ryan was
a member of Roosevelt's rough riders
and was wounded in the battle of San
Juan.
At Middlesboro, KY, Louis Myers,
alias Williams. a notorious moon
sinner and desperate, has been cap
tured. He is charged with the murder
of two women in Virginia, three men
in North Carolina, including a United
States marshal, one in South Carolina
and the sheriff of Unicoi county,
Tennessee.
The appellate court at Springfield,
ILL.,, in the case of John Oberman.
appellant, VS.. Charles NJ Reece.
rendered an opinion that pawnbrokers
were not responsible to owners of
poperty left with them as pledges for
loss of property by fire or theft, and
reversed decision of the Sangamon
county court.
DR.. w S. Caldwell died at Freeport,
ILL.,, of apoplexy He was So years
old and the leading physician and
surgeon of that part of the state, hav-
ing practiced in Freeport and vicinity
for forty-five years. He was president
of the Minnehaha bank of Sioux Falls,
S. D., and one of the directors of the
State bank at Freeport.
Captain Fred j. Kountz, son of Gen
eral J. S. Kountz, former commander
in-chief of the G.. A. r., died sudden
ly in Toledo of pneumonia He was
a captain of volunteers in the Spanish
war and served on the staff of General
Frederick d. Grant At the time of
his death he was awaiting an appoint
ment to the regular army.
The Observation-Disclosures COM
bination secured such an interest in
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad as to warrant representation
on the board of directors, and Charles
Steele, of J P. Morgan & Co., was
elected. The entry of this interest
into Atchison, it was said, was to Sc
cure the Pennsylvania and eastern
railway interests from possible injury
from the Gould combination.
Colonel William H. Forward. as
sistant surgeon general of the United
States army, chief surgeon of the de-
partment of California. has been
ordered to report to Major General
Sternburg, surgeon general of the
army at Washington. He will assume
the duties of the chief medical office
of the army while the latter is making
a tour of inspection of the Philippines.
Exclusive ports of entry on