Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-11-17

the money in the vaults. The bank
carried burglar insurance.
Mandarin, an elephant Of the Bar
mum & Bailey circus, was executed by
strangUlation in his cage on the deck
Of the steamship Minneapolis. He
had become unmanageable.
President roosevelt was the princi-
pal speaker at the celebration in
Philadelphia of the one hundred and
fftieth anniversary of WashingtOn's
initiation into the Masonic order.
The Morgan & Wright rubber tire
factory may quit Chicago because
labor unions forced the wages above
the scale paid elsewhere. Seven
hundred employees are on a strike.
Supt. E. F. Eagan of the Great
Northern railroad was lost while
hunting at Bolton, Mont. One hun
dred are searching for him. Injury
by bears or mountain lions is feared.
Rev. William G. Rabe, the pastor,
and Miss Augusta Busch, missionary
pastor, were found dead in the study
Of the German Baptist church in
Omaha, Net. Escaping gas killed
them.
Ex-Gov. Black, ia the Roland B.
MOlineux trial argument in New
York, accused Harry Cornish with
numbering Mrs. Adams because she
objected to his attentions to her
daughter.
The new Brooklyn bridge over the
East river was badly damaged by a
fire which started 800 feet in the air.
injured the main cables, and de-
stroyed the footways. The damage
is half a million.
The government report on the 1902
corn crop shows 26.8 bushels yield an
acre, with 1877 bushels in Illinois.
Total yield, 2,542,516,O0O bushels,
breaking all records. The 1901 yield
was 1922, 900 bushels.
Richard Cole, a negro, was arrested
in Washington on the charge of at
lacking Mrs. Ada G. Dennis, dress
maker, who died two weeks ago from
her injuries. The testimony of an
other negro implicated him.
At Indianapolis Judge Alvord has
instructed the grand jury to in
vestigate the dealings of the retail
dealers coal combine, and if ''the
testimony warrants, return induct-
ments without fear or favor"
Hosea Badders, a Sullivan, Ind,
saloOn-keeper, was shot through the
mead by James Morrison, a boarding
house keeper, and will probably die.
A family scandal is said to be back
OF the trouble. Morrison escaped.
Nathaniel Clark, farmer OF
Schuyler county, Illinois, was killed
at a Wabas44 crossing east of CLAYTON.
He tried to drive across the track
ahead of a train and was struck by
the pilot and knocked seventy feet.
The Chicago teachers federation is
threatened with disruption because of
decision to affiliate with the Fedora
ton OF Labor. Miss Ella A. Rowe
signed as president and half of the
2, 1oo---AAe1rrh0ro- are expected to bolt
with her.
Engineers are being sent TO
Tacoma and Seattle to begin work on
PROJECT which has for it's chief aim
the harnessing Of the waters of the
Puyallup glacier on Mount Tacom.
state of Washington, for commercial
purposes.
MRS P. j. Henderson, wife of a
FARMER at Carlock, Tenn, was found
murderd on the mountain side near
her nome. She had been shot. the
bullet pentrating the heart. A sum
OF money which she was known to
naVe was missing.
Two WOrklngmen who were walk
ing down the Jamestown and Frank
lin tracks at Ashtabula, O., were
Killed by an engine. One was Frank
Llnsler of Astabula, and the other
was Charles Sinkler of Footville
11umbull township.
FRANK Perkins, II years old. Is
dead, Asa Noe, 20 years old. is minus
a hand, Oliver Hothergill has a bullet
IN MS thigh and Frank Oejka may die
as the result of a careless examfna-
lion OF shotguns by the four youths
at Ottumwa, Iowa.
John Stewart, a former United
States soldier, who was convicted of
stabbing to death mil Kuhn of Mil
Waukee, also a United States soldier
near ne barracks at Fort Morgan
Ala, has been sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary.
The Oaks, the historic Kimball
homestead on Prairie avenue
kenosha, Wis, was destroyed by fire
Inc loss is $1,000; insurance, $500
The Oaks was built in 1897, being the
arst house in that section and the
first house of note in Kenosha.
Miss Lula Dees shot and instantly
KILLED Sumner Johnson, a negro. at
Poplar Bluffs, Mo-, when he was at
tempting to force an entrance into
her home. Johnson's brother is serv-
Ing term in the penitentiary for at
tempting to assault a white woman.
The marriage of young United
States army officers is opposed by
AdJt. Gen. Corbin in his annual report.
Pay is declared insufficient and