Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-04-07
DOMESTIC.

DONiE0 H.
Vereschagin is to paint picture of
San Juan battle.
Mahlon M. Garland has been ap-
pointed surveyor of customs for the
port of Pittsburg.
Mrs. William Small, Leavenworth,
Kas.. gave $4,000 to establish an old
ladies rest in that city.
The stock speculatiOns of Frank c.
Andrews of Detroit are said to have
amounted to $27,952,815.
Emperor Williams yacht Meteor
narrowly escaped destruction by fire.
The Iowa house killed the railroad
tax bill which had been approved by
the senate.
G.. c.. Nelson, convicted Of having
three wives, was given three years
prison sentence.
Flood losses in Tennessee are placed
at S4,00O,OO0 Twenty-Five lives are
known to have been lost.
Fl. Clay Evans resigned as commits
sloner of pensions. He will be given
a more desirable position.
The Rhode Island legislature passed
q law requiring two years residence
im the state before divorce.
Fire at Guthrie, Ok. T., burned
$35O0OO worth of business property.
mcendiarism is suspected.
Rev. Granville LOwther of Arkansas
City, Kas., was expelled from the
Methodist church for heresy.
Miss Julia Lamont, daughter Of Col.
Daniel S. Lamont, i'll at her home in
New York, is much improved.
Manson u. Johnson, dealer in school
supplies at Anderson, Ind, is believed
10 have made 100000 by forgery.
Hereafter Americans going abroad
may schedule articles taken which will
be exempt from duty on the return.
General S. B. Bradford, United
States commissioner for the Indian
Territory, was stricken with paralysis.
Mrs. Frances Langeworthy Taylor
and daughter, both magazine writer's,
were convicted at Cincinnati of child
stealing.
Secretary Root opposes General
Miles recommendation that an army
post be established at CrOokston,
Mimi.
Secretary Root sent papers to the
president showing how General Miles
sought to supersede General Chaffee
in China.
Five young negroes educated at
Tuskegee, Ala, sailed for the German
colony at Togo, west Africa, to teach
natives.
Mrs. Ellen Balem, trained nurse
OF Amityville, l.. L., donned Overalls
and jumper and painted her three
story house.
Fighting cattle and sheep men of
Uintah County, Wyo., are said to have
killed 1900 sheep and fatally wound
ca two men.
An Omaha court granted a judgment
of $500 against the head of the Fig
Cite church for alternating the affec-
tions of a mans wife.
J. S. Judd of Topeka was killed at
Las Vegas, N. M, by Mrs. G.. B.
Walker of Miles, Ia, while resisting
an attack upon her.
Voting machines may be used at
future elections in New York city. 1t
viii cost the city about 100000 to in
stall the machines.
Leander Lewis Nixon is said to be
booming Judge AItoi B. Parker of
New York for the democratic nominal
tfon for president.
Harry A. Garfield son of the former
president of United States, was ap-
pointed to the United States civil serv-
ice commission.
Floods in the south continue to do
great damage. Terrific storms in
Mississippi stopped railroad traffic and
demolished houses.
Miss Mary Hartman, daughter of
Millionaire E. H. Hartman, came
at Phoenix, Arizona.
Burt A. Magee, accused of murder
ing three members of his family was
convicted at Watseka, H., and SEN
fenced to fourteen years.
twenty-five miners were killed by
an explosion Of dry coal dust in the
Nelson mine of the Dayton Coal Iron
company at Dayton, Tenn.
At Beatrice, Neb., William Ind
Frank Skrable were arrested, charged
with robbing their mother, Mrs.
Josephine Sl1rable of $2,70O.
A bill appropriating 100000 for the
erection of a monument at Buffalo in
memory of President Mckinley was
passed by the New York senate.
Two hundred Kansas hunters, who
took part in wolf drive between Kan
sas City and Leavenworth, killed only
two wolves. Over fifty escaped.
G. F. Woodward, a condemned MUIR
derer who had been granted a re-
prieve by the supreme court, was
lynched in the jail at Casper, Wyo.