Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-27

pack of wolves.
Albert Gilmore of La Porte, Ind,
was recently sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for horse-stealing, and it has
been discovered that he assumed guilt
to shield a friend.
John l.. Sullivan, while playing
Simon Legree in an Uncle Toms
Cabin company at Chelsea, Mass,
whipped Uncle Tom so severely that
the latter tainted
BY a premature explosion of dyna-
mite John Simmons, Arthur Roberts
and Bruce Westfall were killed in the
Ada Mine, at Carterville, Mo- Sew
eral others were hurt.
Nearly all milk sold in New York
city for the consumption of children
is shown to be impure and unfit for
food. Thousands of lives are said to
have been sacrificed.
The Society for the Prevention of
Crime threatens to prosecute Mayor
Low and the New York police com
missioner if the police do not enforce
the Raines excise law.
DR.. G.. d. Barney of Brooklyn com
pleted an experiment which he de-
clares disproves Professor Koch's
theory that human beings cannot get
tuberculosis from cattle.
Charles T. Yerkes has invented a
fireproof railroad car, with which he
will equip his underground line in
London He thinks it's use will lessen
the danger of accidents.
The Menomonee Falls beet sugar
factory has closed for the season.
Thirty thousand tons of beets were
reduced, out of which 100000 pounds
of granulated sugar were made.
BY strict party vote the Frye
Hanna ship subsidy bill was reported
to the senate by the senate committee
on commerce, democrats all voting
against it and republicans for it.
Henry Brutus, a woodsman en-
ployed in the Red Cliff Lumber COM
pany's camps, near Bayfield,, was
struck by a falling tree and received
injuries which will cause his death.
The opening of the ST. Louis ex-
position may be postponed until 1904
in order tc permit foreign nations to
make a better exhibit than could be
done in 1908, the date originally set.
In his inaugural address at Des
Moines, Governor A. B. Cummings said
the trust question should be nation
allied, and all capital stock of COM
panies should be in cash or equiva-
lent.
Pere Marquette railways steamer
No. 3, was wrecked while attempting
to enter the harbor of Ludington
Mich The passengers and crew of
A persons were rescued by life
savers.
At Kalamazoo fire destroyed the
five story brick building occupied by
the Michigan Buggy company The
building covered half square and 800
men were employed. The loss is
100000. 4
In the suit for $4,000 damages for alN
legged libel, brought by Frank n. Morse
of ST. Paul against the Marshalltown,
Iowa, Times Republican, Judge Saswell
instructed the jury to return verdict
for the defendant.
The ultimate plan of j. P. Morgan
and his associates said to be COM
bination of American, Cunard, White
Star, Red Star, Anchor, Holland-Amer-
lean, Atlantic Transport, Allen and
Leyland steamship lines.
sentence in the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan, for criminal as
sault upon girl under Is, at Ardmore,
I. T received Geographic pardon
from President Roosevelt.
At Chicago hearing was begun again
before Judge Tuley in the suit Of Sam
uel Stephenson against CDR" John AL
exander Dowie, self-proclaimed elijah
H." to recover $185,000 alleged to have
been fraudulently obtained.
A proposition has been made for
the building of the interoceanic canal
by the Old Darien or Moringoe Sand
Blast route, and it is said Senator
Hanna is one of the warmest advo-
Gates of the proposed route.
Through the gift of $4,000 by Dean
Hoffman, the American Museum of
Natural History will receive the lar
gest collection of butterflies and moths
in this country. 1t is that of the late
DR.. Herman Streicker, Reading, Pa.
The American Protective Tariff
league has elected Charles A. Moore
president, Legrand B. Cannon first
vice president, Joseph E. Thorp Sec
ond vice president, and Wilbur F.
Wakeman, secretary and treasurer.
Northwestern bankers ARE actively
interesting themselves in the move
ment for repeal of that section Of
the war revenue act under which the
commissioner of internal revenue i'm
poses tax on undivided profits of
banks.
That cancer can be successfully
treated by means Of the X ray has
been demonstrated by DR.. G. E. Skin
mar of NnJu IauoY1 who