Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-04-21


| The crime was done to save his
Mothers life.
Eugene Ware, the poet lawyer, who
| to succeed H. Clay Evans as Pen
| ion Commissioner, is said to have
played game Of poker for seat in
congress and won.
Mrs. Martha J. Calhoun and daugh-
er, Mrs. Vaughn, were killed near
| Cleveland by an unknown assassin
| Will Vaughn, stepson of latter, was ar
'ested on suspicion.
The Racine jail was threatened by
1 mob because Howard Fristo, non
1nion molder at the J. I. Case factory,
| shot August Reiman, locked out
| union man. He may die.
Indian territory deputies in fight
killed four men. Two were killed and
| one fatally hurt in a Georgia feud.
| One killed in Kentucky, and two IA
tally hurt at Carbonate, Ill.
Mary Peterson. Is years old, was at
tackled and murdered and her brother
killed to prevent discovery while re-
| turning from church at Des MOines.
A negro suspect was arrested.
Louis Terrebonne of New Orleans
found a girl who strikingly resembled
him. He believes she is his daughter
reported killed in 1898 by a cyclone
and sued her adopted mother.
General Schofeld, a retired United
before the senate committee, said the
office of commanding general was I'M
called for and should be abolished.
| Mrs. Shepard R. BUGGY, wife of the
assistant cashier of the American
National bank at Everett, Wash,
killed her husband, their 4-year-old
son and herself in a fit of insanity.
The state of Washington case
against the Northern Pacific merger
| was argued in the United States SUI
| preme court The state contended
that the court is alone competent to
| hear the case
At Scranton, Pa, Rev. John Ardan,
a Polish Catholic priest, has been ex-
| communicated for printing an article
| in Z Polish paper, over his signature,
saying that Czolgosz did Tight in as
sassinating President Mckinley.
A second murder since strike at the
Allis-Chambers factory, Chicago, COM
nenced came to light in the death of
T. w. Smith, an employee of the com
oany, who died in a hospital from in
juries inflicted by union pickets.
INSTRUMENTATION at the Kentucky
agricultural and mechanical college
came to a climax when, in the dormi-
tory, Commandant Robert A. Mckee
was knocked down. deluged with
water and egged by division of
cadets.
Richard Oliphant of Metamora, Ind
;errorized the town by avowing his
| Intention to kill Dick McAtee, brake
nan of whom he was jealous. Citizens
stopped train and warned McAtee
Oliphant then killed his wife's step
father and took carbolic acid. killing
himself
By the will of Colonel John Mckee
said to have been the wealthiest negro
| in the country, who died a few days
ago il Philadelphia Archbishop Ryan
viii come into possession of an estate
valued at 100000. Mckee was a
Presbyterian. His family may con-
| test his will
H. L. Barber, president of the
| Dominion company, a Chicago pub
fishing concern, whose annual bust
ness is estimated at $5OO,0OO, and A.
| J. ,Munson, formerly secretary, have
been arrested on the charge OF using
the mails for fraudulent purposes.
| They We're released on bonds
Boston detectives have captured
Philip A. Troutfetter, alias A. P.
Taylor, on a, warrant charging him
| With being fugitive from justice in
| Colorado Springs, but the police say
| he man also is wanted in connection
| With the cases of Nicely and Rathbone
in the Cuban postal frauds charge
At San Francisco Joseph Won Loeb
ner, baron of the German empire
and formerly lieutenant Of Uhlans in
! the kaisers' army, has committed sui
eide. He left a letter saying that
sickness, due to years of reckless liv-
ing, led him to end his misery with
| death. He was SO years of age and
retoucher of portraits by occupa-
ton.
The Ohio house has passed the
congressional redistricting bill, after
amending it by taking Fairfield
county, democratic, from the twelfth
district and adding it to the eleventh,
General Grosvenor's district One OF
the arguments used by republicans
in favor of the change was that it
would prevent the return to congress
of John J. Lentz.
At Denver Health Commissioner
Clough says that many dairymen are
adulterating milk with lime and sugar.
''The health department has warned
the dairymen that the practice must be
stopped" said DR.. Clough. "The use
OF lime eats out the stomach Of chill
dren and while a man of robust con-
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