Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-10-20
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF

At st. Louis the strike of mail
handlers and baggagemen caused con-
siderable delay in handling mails.
The cause of German emigration is
the knottiest problem with which the
German colonial congress at Berlin
is dealing
At Traverse City, Mich, John T.
Hargraves was sentenced to Is years
in the penitentiary for killing his in
valid wife
In the English church congress
several prominent clergymen were
outspoken in their criticism Of the
bibles infallibility.
At Danville, H., the body of E. E.
Boudenot, who mysteriously disap,
peared a week ago Friday, was found
floating in the river.
Over 10000 persons are employed
in Austria alone, exclusive of Hun
gary, in the iron industry which is
now practically stagnant
At Wabash, Ind, Miss Grace Overly,
aged %, threw herself under the
wheels of locomotive and was cut in
two. The cause is unknown.
At Lexington, KY, A. B. Chinn, one
of the most prominent business men
and confederate soldiers in Kentucky,
was shot and killed by masked burg
,ars at his home.
At Bloomington, ILL.,, Charles F..
Webb, for Is years passenger and di-
vision freight agent for the Big Four
there, and prominent in Grand Army
circles, died aged 81.
The American Federation of Labor
issued an address appealing for finan-
cial and moral aid for the striking an
thracite miners ard denouncing the
attitude of the mine owners.
Estimates forwarded by Postmaster
General Payne, to the treasury for
the expenditures of the entire postal
service during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1904, aggregate $153, 010,5 $40
At Carbonate, ILL.,, the grand jury
has indicted Walter w. Cowger on the
charge of being an accomplice of
Mrs. Ella Riley in the murder OF her
husband, William H. Riley, August Z.
The newly formed Deutsch-Ameri-
cander Klub of the Prussian Academy
of Sciences and other organizations
will unite in banquet to Ambassador
White Nov II, which will be attended
by about 5000 people.
The house OF Albert Dry. a Reading
Coal Co. deputy, near Minersville, Pa,
was dynamited and his daughter in
iured. A neighbor named DitzeI and
two others are held under suspicion.
New York bank statement: Loans
increased at $2,344,2O0, deposits in
creased $164,6OO reserve decreased
S25O,7OO, surplus decreased $325,825,
United States deposit decreased $291,-
$50.
Saturday 25 cars of anthracite coal,
mined last week at the colliery of the
Lykens Valley Coal company, Pa, was
shipped from Lykens. The mines at
Lykens and Williamstown are being
operated without interference.
In a conflict between gendarmes and
strikers at the coal fields of Pere
Noire, France, two strikers were
killed, two wounded and five gen
darmes were wounded before the
strikers wer repulsed. The strike is
extending.
Pennsylvania strike leaders are now
looking to the American federation of
labor to help them. They feel that the
federation should come out and take
an active interest in the struggle.
There's a report that this will be done
in the form of an appeal for assist
ance to all labor organizations in the
country.
Three members Of the board of edu-
cation of South Omaha, A. V. Miller,
president, j. L. Kubat and Theodore
Shredder, were arrested charged with
receiving brides. The specific charges
are receiving money from school
teachers in consideration of the latter
securing increases in salary and bri-
berry in connection with furnishing
typewriters for the board.