Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-13


Senator Morgan says he has re-
ceived favorable advices from Nicar-
aqua regarding the cession Of ter
ritory for the proposed isthmian canal
At Excelsior, Mimi, Miss Mabel
Stevens. a teacher in the Deephavey
public schools, had her right ankle
broken by being thrown from an ice
boat
Attorney General McClurg is CON
templating the institution of pro
ceedings to break the merger of the
Southern and Mobile and Ohio rail
roads
The Minnesota supreme court has
decided that the state board of con-
troll has jurisdiction over normal
schools the same as all state institu-
tons
At Bethany, Conn, Edmund Peck, a
retired Methodist clergyman, aged 80,
and his daughter, Mary Peck, aged 35
years, were burned to death in their
home.
A telephone message from Fort
Candy, Wash, says that Lieut.. Beven
of the United States army was shot
and killed. No particulars were
given.
The American Steel and Wire com
pany is to pension employees who
have rendered long and efficient SER
vice. About 5000 employees will be
affected.
N. A. Sheldon, 25 years old and a
bridegroom of a week. is wanted at
West Superior on the charge of
forgery. He is believed to be in TIE
twin cities.
Adolph Stallman died at Elk Mound
of pneumonia. He had been resi-
dent of Eau Claire for thirty-fve
years. He served three years in the
civil war.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons
committed to life Imprisonment the
death sentence Of William Fairfax
Fayette, convicted of murder in the
first degree.
During 1902 40 vessels will be
added to the fighting strength of. the
United States navy, including one
battleship, three cruisers and four
monitors.
At Memphis Charles B, Lewis an
that he has discovered an
embalming fluid superior in every
way to the system practiced by the
Egyptians.
The sheriff of Natrona county
Wyo., was killed in battle with four
outlaws who had escaped from jail at
Casper. A posse is On the trail of the
murderers.
A young woman at PABLO, Ind, com
PEELED a dentist under threat of horse
whipping to apologize for writing her
an insulting letter. He promised to
leave town.
! A crew of linemen of the Western
Union company arrived in Anaconda,
having walked all the way from St
Paul and strung a wire from that city
to Anaconda.
A bitter fight over aleomargarine is
to be waged in the house committee Oh
agriculture. An attempt will be made
to substitute the Tawney bill for the
Gront measure.
A through passenger train on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad from
Chicago was wrecked and burned near
Glencoe, Pa, 2 persons being killed
and 13 injured
Scientists are greatly interested in
the discovery announced by Pref
Jacques Loeb of the University OF
Chicago, that electricity, and not heat
is the basis of life.
Representatives of the Rochester
Theological seminary say that that in
stitution enters upon the new year
richer by a little over 100000 thanks
to J. D. Rockefeller.
Captain Richmond D. Hobson will
resign from the navy and enter
politics. 1t is said he will oppose
John H Bankhead as congressman
from an Alabama district.
At Williamsport, Pa, while the
family of State Senator J. Henry
Cochran were at dinner burglars en-
tered the house and stole diamonds
and jewelry valued at $4,000.
Turner Barnes, Bob Clark, Frank
Robinson, the convicts who escaped
from the Leavenworth military prison,
killing Guard Waldrupe, are on trial
for murder in the first degree.
The steamer Walla Walla was sunk
with a French bark off Mendocino,
Cal. Twenty-seven of the passengers
and crew Of the steamer are missing.
Aid was withheld by the bark.
At Mortified, Mimi, S. Christian
son, a farmer, was waylaid and
severely beaten by two unknown men.
He was knocked senseless. 1t is
thought robbery was the motive.
The. condition of Consul Emma
Booth-Tucker, head of the Salvation
Army in America, who is suffering
from an abscess in her left ear, has
become serious. Cancer is feared.
At Aberdeen, S. D., Judge Campbell
sentenced Stone, the forger, to nine