Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-10-06

vention, representing all the sufferers
from the Pennsylvania strike, was
proposed by the Detroit city council.
Interference by the federal govern
ment is to be urged.
John Moore, a prisoner on Black
wells island, was taken from there TO
an undertaker's shop in New York so
that he might see his dead wife in her
coffin His crime was stealing a bot
tie of milk for her.
Charlemagne Tower, Russian am
bassador, has been transferred to Ber-
lin; R. S. Mccormick, from Austria to
Russia; Bellamy Storer, from Spain to
Austria, and Charles Page Bryan, from
Brazil to Switzerland.
Seven negro ghouls, arrested at
indianapolis, confessed to robbing 100
graves in cemeteries there, within
three months. DR.. Joseph G. AleXan-
der and DR.. Wilson, medical college
officials, are also accused.
Election returns in Indian territory
indicate that the supplemental Indian
treaty has been ratified by the Chick
asaw nation by substantial majority.
The purpose of the treaty is to ter
inmate the tribal government.
James Shelter of Canton, O., was
shot and probably fatally wounded by
Melvin R. Smith Shelter was a
street car conductor and Smith a pas
senger. They had a controversy
about closing a window.
James O'Brien, county fiddler of
Kenosha, Oldest son of the late John
O'Brien, an early settler of Brighton
township, is about to go to Ireland
to prove his heirship to the O'Brien
estate, valued at over $5,00O,000.
James w. Ertle, so years old, on
trial at Portland, Ind, on charge of
cutting his aged wife's throat with a
razor, was acquitted after the jury
had been out fourteen hours The
evidence was that his wife committed
suicide.
Laura Biggar, the actress accused
of conspiracy to divert the 100000
of Henry M. Bennett estate to herself;
DR.. G. G. Hendrick, her attorney, and
Samuel Stanton, who claimed to have
married Miss Biggar and Bennett, have
been arrested.
A negro, Tom Clark, was burned at
the stake in Corinth, Miss, Sunday
afternoon, for the murder of Mrs.
Carey Whitfield. Hundreds of eXcur-
sionists arrived by train and witnessed
the sight, which had been bulletined
in advance.
At St. Louis Delegate Charles F.
Kelly, former Delegates julius Leh-
mann, Louis Decker, Adolph MADEIRA,
Emile Hartman and John Sheridan,
indicted on charges of bribery, have
been officially declared to be fugitives
from justice.
Puget sound loggers raised prices
of fir and cedar logs until they cost
more than the finished lumber sold
for a few years ago. Revised prices
for logs are SO for flooring, $3.50 for
merchantable, $3.50 for grade 2, and
SO to $13 for cedar.
The nude body of young woman
was found murdered in the Morris
canal between Newark and Jersey
City, and was identified by Joseph
Pulitzer of 100 West Forty-siXth
street as that of his wife, Annie, who
had been missing.
Work on Chicago buildings costing
$9,000,000 is tied up by a dispute be-
tween carpenters and iron workers
over which should build a $500 crane
at the Rock Island station. All city
building trades unions struck till the
question is settled.
Every material details of the great
steamship combination has been com.
pleted The merger of interests is so
complete, through the signing of i'm
portant papers the last few days, that
none of the parties to the combina-
ton can now withdraw
Appearing reluctantly as witnesses
against the managers of a fraudulent
matrimonial bureau, in Chicago
police court, dozen blushing type
writer's bashfully admitted that they
had written gushing letters to more
than 100000 lovelorn men.
President Roosevelt was again
operated OH, lOIlOWIuS lu0 discovery
that the bone was affected by the
recent abscess. The scraping process
was resorted to. Although his tenn
perature is higher the physicians say
his condition is not serious.
President Edmund J. James of
Northwestern university has sent out
letters to the alumni asking them to
contribute 100000 towards the con-
struction of new gymnasium. He
has been promised 100000 provided
the same amount can be raised.
Within three hours of obtaining d
divorce from her husband, of
Montreal, on the charge of cruelty,
Mrs. Mary Young, member of prom
inent English family, was married to
DR.. Angus Patton a full-blooded
Indian and a graduate of Carlisle.
r. B. Mitchell of Stony Creek, Va,
and Miss Mabel Lee started to be
married against the girls parents
wishes. Later the action of buzzards