Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-10-20

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The crown prince of Siam arrived
in Washington.
West Virginia will erect $4,000
building on the st. Louis exposition
grounds.
Russell Sage, who has been
threatened with pneumonia, is out of
danger.
At Altoona, Canada, Henry l. Toews
fatally shot five persons and COM
mitted suicide.
1t is reported a combination of all
the wholesale grocers in the country
is being formed.
In New York the coroner's jury held
w. H. Young guilty of the violent
murder of Mrs. Anna Pulitzer.
Mrs. F. L. Taylor and daughter, al
legged kidnappers, of Cincinnati, were
pardoned by Governor Nash.
Paul Woodward confessed con-
spiracy to rob the two boys recently
murdered near Camden, N. j.
James Pendleton, mayor of Gentry,
Mo-, was sentenced to five years III
the penitentiary for bigamy.
The fertilizer factory of Charles
Macker & Co., in Lancaster county,
Va, was burned. Loss $4,000.
Chicago coal docks containing 25,-
600 tons Of bituminOus coal are burn
ing through spontaneous combustion.
At Rome, N. Y, Hiram Cronk, the
last survivor of the war of 1872, is in
&c h11yo i,.J i
very feeble.
John O'Rourke, a visiting veteran,
hid S35 in the vines at the national
capitol, and when he searched for it
it was gone.
Consul-General Bragg at Havana
has been transferred to Hongkong,
China, and w. A. Rublee from Hong
kong to Havana.
The Virginia Pass nger and Power
company has purchased the Richmond
and Petersburg electric railway
for about 100000.
Owing to the pressure of naval
officers Secretary Moody has ordered.
special entrance examination for
Annapolis November IL.
Robbers held up the Pacific
coast express on the Burlington road
near Lincoln, Neb., and secured $780,
900, mostly in gold coin.
At Homestead, Pa, Charles Cawley,
aged II years, murdered his mother
and sister and severely wounded
four oCner members Of the family with
an ak.
A. B. Chinn of the firm of Chinn C
Todd of Lexington, KY, was shot to
death by two masked burglars, and
his son, Asa Chinn, was mortally
wounded.
The G. A. R. encampment ended,
after choosing San Francisco as the
1903 meeting place. Congress will be
asked to modify the civil service in
the veterans interest.
The convention Of the Association Of
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment
Stations elected James K. Patterson.
OF the Kentucky agricultural and
mechanical college, president.
IL. Oe4richs has been notified that
G. l.. Fair left a child who is entitled
to share of the estate of 81 900 900
The claim is repudiated and the mat
ter will be aired in the courts.
DR.. William H. Furness, the Borneo
explorer, was Tilted by Miss Ada
Mildred French, Philadelphia
heiress, who eloped with Horace
Groeff, a travelling salesman.
Henry [, Toews, teacher near
Altoona, Manitoba, shot three school
trustees who criticised him, three OF
his pupils and, himself The four
victims and Toews probably will die.
President Roosevelt is able to walk
down stairs on crutches to his car
r1age, for the first time since the
operation was performed. He was
taken for a drive while bystanders
applauded.
The government monthly crop re-
port showed the condition of corn as
1916, against 84.3 for 1901; cats yield,
}4.5 bushels an acre, against PSI for
1901 condition of potatoes, 1925,
against S9.1 for Sept l.
At Chicago Miss Hattie Kohlmann,
accused of exercising a hypnotic
power over MISS Mary Arnold, which |
resulted in her stealing $500 from her
was arrested on a charge
Of receiving stolen property.
The Union Veterans union conven-
ton split and the members from six
states seeded. Gen. Dyrenforth,
commander-in-chief, was suspended.
The seceders oppose him and want
the SIX months service requirement
restored
In New York Thomas J. Sharkey.
who is charged with being responsible
for the death of Nicholas Fish, has
been released on % 500 bail by Re-
corder Golf after three weeks i'm
Originally the amount
Of bail was fixed at $4,000.
Having made and lost four fortunes
and finding himself broken in health |
and almost penniless at the age of 70, |
Charles w. Lewis, well-known New
York promoter and member of lead
ing Fifth avenue club, has ended his |
ifn with Y01nrnhi,,n