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

Park station, Chicago, was Miss
Joanna Walsh, a student of Chicago
University. Eye-witnesses declare it
case of deliberate suicide.
Commissioner Powderly has directed
that five Syrians, who tried to enter
the United States by railroad at
Rouse's Point, on the Canadian border
be returned to Montreal, and not al
lowed to enter this country.
Frank A. Mexican, ex-mayor OF
Nashua, N. H.. has died at Ascuncion
Paraguay. Mexican fed from Nashua
in 1898 because of a shortage of about
100000 in the finances of bank. He
had been in South America since that
time.
Frederick A. Millenhauer. SO years
old, head of a conservatory of music
in Jersey City, n. j., and a brother Of
H. F. Mollenhaeur, the Brooklyn sugar
refiner, was knocked down by an cleo
trio car in New York and crushed TO
death.
George H. Ketchum's Cresceus beat
John ]. Scannell's The Abbott in the
special match race for $4,000 al
Brighton Beach and lowered the
worlds race record to 2.03A. In the
second heat The Abbott was dis
tanced
Lachlam MacNeall, born in Scot
land, one of the early and prominent
settlers in central Illinois, and a well
known member of the Cass and Nor
gan county Old Settlers association
died yesterday at Virginia, ILL.,, aged
80 years.
At Shamokin, Pa, Jacob Gerhardt
murdered his wife by shooting her
through the heart and unsuccessfu1ly
tried to kill himself. Mrs. Gerhardt
had said she was compelled to take
in washing to aid in clothing her four
young sons.
William E. Douglas, the embezzling
teller of the Guarantee Trust and Safe
Deposit company, of Philadelphia, ar
rested in Massachusetts,. His short
age is $4,000. He acknowledged the
crime and said he was forced by high
living to steal.
A forty-seventh street trolley car
broke through gates at Pennsylvania
railroad crossing in Chicago and ran
into g, passing train. Four persons on
the street car were killed, and one
fatally injured, and nine others were
cut and bruised.
A delegation of full-blooded Creeks,
Tn 1,
Acting Secretary of the Interior Ryan
and protested against the division OF
their lands and other work now being
done by the Dawes five civilized
tribes commission
Thomas S. Nicely, aged go, a resi-
dent of Muncie, Ind, since 1889, died
He set out to beg funds to take the
first steps that resulted in the final
construction Of the old Bee Line
road, Muncie to Indianapolis. now a
part of the Big Four.
Mrs. Elizabeth Steele, wife Of Pro
fessor George A. Steele, principal of
the Cecil county high school at Elk
ton, Md, died in the Presbyterian hos
pital Philadelphia. She was SO years
of age and daughter of the late Sam
uel Miller, Of Elkton
Alexander w. Graham. first vice
president Of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, died at Bayview, Mich.
from hemorrhages, superinduced by
heat prostration. He. was SO years
old and was one of the most promi-
nent young railroad men in the
country
Michael Davitt and O'Donovan Ros-
sa addressed large Irish meetings i'll
Chicago. The former denounced Eng
land for a course that is steadily expa-
triating Irishmen, and he, praised the
beers, whom he declared unconquer-
able. Rosa advocated resort to force
in securing Irish liberty.
At st. Louis Mrs. May Cupples has
confessed that she bought the morphi
that brought about the death of Ed
ward Alexander of North Vernon, Ind,
but that he took it from her and swal-
lowed it with suicidal intent. 1t was
because that he bore her love that
she could not reciprocate.
Frederick Baldwin Belts. who in the
first half of the last century was head
of one of the largest saddlery firms
in the United States, is dead at Nor
riston, N. J. During the war he lost
a large amount of money in the, south
and in 1879 congress awarded him
$4,000 on a claim of 100000.
Lieut.. Gen. Miles has issued a gen
eral order intended to. improve the con
ditions of the army. It admonishes Of
fcers and men regarding their duties.
and points out the essentials of a good
soldier, specifically mentioning patriot
ism, discipline, physical development,
self-respect, self-reliance and resource
fulness.
Colonel B. w. Sharp, one of the old
est lawyers in Illinois. died at his
home in Red Bud, Illinois. aged So
He was born in Wheeling, w. Va,
graduated from the University of Vir-
ginia and Oberlin college, He enlist
ed as a major general at the outbreak
of the Mexican war and served under
Scott and Taylor.