Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-08

by hanging.
Mrs. Charles Dubois, an ElWOod,
Ind, bride, is believed murdered, al
though a bottle Of carbolic acid was
found near her body. Her husband
was arrested.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson
ordered a quarantine Of cattle, sheep
and swine in four New England states
because of the discovery of foot and
mouth disease.
At Sioux Falls, Mrs. Roland B.
MoIineux has been virtual prisoner
in her apartments owing to the inter
viewers for sensational papers, who
wish to see her.
At Chicago, Judge Clifford decided
that Miss Josephine Motif was not the
common-law wife Of William Wallace
Pike, whom she has been suing for
! separate maintenance.
1t was announced at the state de-
| partment that the internatiOnl copy
! right agreement with Spain Of 1895
| has been restored to full effect by an
| exchange of diplomatic notes.
Edward F. Croker, chief of the New
York fire department and a nephew of
Richard Croker, was dismissed, follow
ing the conviction for appropriating
public property to his own use.
Miss Laura L. Patee, a teacher, Of
Springfield, ILL.,, died under peculiar
circumstances at a Chicago hotel.
She was with G. J O'Donnell, said to
be married man from Duluth, MINI.
Heavily armed forces of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas and the ST.
Louis & San Francisco are ready for
war at Bruce, Mo, over the attempted
crossing of the latter's track by the
former
r. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review re-
ported jobbing and the wholesale
trade we'll maintained. The fuel short
age is not yet improved. November
railroad earnings are 6.3 per cent. over
1901
A New York ordinance to forbid the
keeping of dogs in fiat buildings was
defeated by public indignation. Six
hundred dog owners attended the al
dermanic committee meeting called to
discuss it.
C1lcII ACo A. - LAClAJ, III 11CA ~ CoAStOA1C
/ of the ST. Louis house of delegates,
under Indictment on a boodltng charge,
was arrested at Philadelphia while en-
route home from Europe TO the funeral
of his son.
Florence Burns arrested as
suspect in the Walter Brooks murder
case, New York, was married to
Charles w. WiIdrick, recently released
from the penitentiary after a sentence
! for forgery.
Sheriff John S. Dudley of Sullivan
county, Ind, who surrendered a negro
to lyrchers, is accused by Robinson
| CID newspaper with being drunk and
removing the negro from the state
without requisitiOn.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy has written
an article for a Christian Science pub
LEGATION warning healers to consider in
taking cases of malignant diseases
that they are watched and are not
| specially protected by the law.
F. G. Wilson, ex-commander of the
Savannah (Ga.) militia, accepted
challenge to a duel with John S.
Schley, a cousin of the rear admiral,
as the result of a fist fight between
them; both are crack shots.
A dinner to celebrate Mark TWain's
sixty seventh birthday was given at
the Metropolitan club, New York with
f1fty-four guests. Thomas B. Reed,
Chauncey Depew, w. D. Howells, and
Wayne MacVeagh were among them.
A New York wind storm revealed to
the shopping district observers that
black hosiery is scarce this winter,
while up and down stripes prevail for
everything over $50 pounds and
round and round stripes for lighter
weights
to the union. which is to be celebrated
in Chillicothe, O., May 21-22, 1903, is
to be made of national Importance and
the president and governors of all
states in the union will be invited to
participate.
The National Association of In
surance Commissioners, through its
committee on fraternal insurance, is
about to draft a general bill governing
fraternal and beneficial societies to he
presented to the legislatures Of the
various states.
Henry E. Youtsey, concerning whose
alleged sensational confession in the
GOebel murder case SO many stories
have been circulated in the last two
months, said at Frankfort, Ky: mo
document from me is in the hands or
the pros cution."
Controller William B. Ridgely in his
annual report urged congress to
amend the national banking law to
permit the issue of uncovered notes
UP to so per cent. This would pro-
vide $35O,000OOO for periods of money
market stringency.
Mrs. Hattie L. Written, Dexter, Me-,
hanged herself with a towel while
being held as the suspected murderer
of her 9-and 11-year-Old daughters,
whose lives were insured in her favor.
L. L.