Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-06-02

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| their number who threatened to re-
; turn to work
| Thomas Dixon, the Chicago boxer
whose knockout killed Tommy
Noonan" at Boston, is charged with
manslaughter.
Mary Ellen Lease secured divorce
and the custody Of her three children.
There was no defense by her husband,
druggist here.
At Susquehanna, Pa, Professor Ben
| ton E. James, for many years princi-
| pal of the Montrose high school, com
| mitted suicide
A cloudburst at DEBORAH, Ia, eau 3ed
the drowning of three persons. The
| town was flooded and scores of houses
were washed away.
A man believed to be Frederick
Humbert, leader of the swindlers in
| France, who secured $10,000,000, was
arrested in New York
| S. E. Gross will follow up his
Cyrano authorship verdict by suing
~Rostand in England and France and
writing a French play.
A trust with $35,000000 capital to
control Photographic business of the
country is to be formed by the East
man Kodak company.
The furniture manufacturers or
ganized price-raising combination in
Chicago and Indiana coal1mine own
ers intend to follow suit
At Pittsburg, Joseph Pearson a
| horse jockey, was shot and killed by
his wife, Louise He threatened to
strike her with a Ratchet.
| Angered because sufficient haste
was not made with his evening meal,
Frederick w. Eberhardt shot his wife
Mary in Chicago, killing her.
Pat Sheedy of New York announced
he is tired of being called gambler
and will sail for Buenos Ayres to en-
bark in the jewelry business.
William B. Leeds, president of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail-
road company. was operated on for
appendicitis and is doing well.
Carol Norton in a Washington lee
ture said Christian Science had cured
100000 cases of disease in thirty
five years and built 700 churches.
The agricultural departments re-
vised estimate of the 1901 grain yield
placed wheat at 748, 46O,218 bushels
and corn at 1922 ,519,891 bushels.
Dun & Co.'s weekly trade review re-
ported railway earnings May to IA
as 81 per cent. greater than 1901.
The coal strike is hurting business.
A sugar trust scheme to kill the
beet sugar industry was uncovered in
the Mallory lines cut in sugar rates,
New York to Kansas City via Calves
ton
Anton Gurecki, who was forced out
of business as meat dealer when
prices took an upward bound few
weeks ago, has hanged himself in Chi
Ecago.
A jury in the New York supreme
| court has awarded a verdict of $4,000
to Mrs. Hinsdale, widow of banker
killed in the Park avenue tunnel
wreck.
The Electrical Supply Dealers as
ISOLATION is charged with being a
trust in restraint of trade, and the
| federal authorities are asked to in
yestigate it.
President Mitchell's order to strik-
ing miners to avoid the soft coal
mines in Virginia and West Virginia,
closed by strike was read in Wilkes
barre churches.
French commission to Rochambeau
statue unwilling left for Niagara
Falls Cardinal Gibbons, in a sermon,
said the American nation owed ex-
| istence to France
John F. Mcintyre of New York who
received news of an inheritance of
G16,000 in Germany, regrets that
doubt has thus been cast on the purity
of his Irish blood
Samuel F. Bulls, alias Samuel F.
| Bradley, will be arraigned on an in
dictment charging him with the rob-
berry on Oct. 8, 1901, of the postoffice
at Frankfort, S. D.
! In Philadelphia suit has been
| brought by Francis De Vadney against
Mrs. Cecile Sterne to recover heavy
| financial damages for breach of prom
Use Of marriage.
| Dr. Emmett Enos, who recently
| resigned as chief of staff of the Kan
kakee insane asylum, is hopelessly in
sane. He diagnosed his own case
months ago as insanity.
Willie Francis of Marion, Ind, a
negro who shot man through the
! hand and wounded his own mother
was saved from lynching by the lat
ter's prayer to the mob
Mrs. P. Penelope Penaux Dodd, a
New York society leader, and Will
liam J. Cunningham, st. Louis
wooden manufacturer, were secre: 1y
married in Colorado.
The two new bishops elected by the
| general conference of the Methodist
! Episcopal church, south, are E. E.
Hose of Nashville Tenn, and A. Coke
Smith of Petersburg, Va.
The Nebraska campaign has begun.
/ Governor SAVAGE lost cbanca of 20