Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-04-28

predicted a drop in price in two
| months.
Mrs Harriet Lane Johnson, mis-
tress of the white house during Presi-
| dent Buchanan's administration, pre-
scented the latter's portrait to the
| government.
The Iowa congressional campaign
may bring out opposition candidate
| IT, Hull in the seventh district
| Haugen, Blythe, and Rule are avowed
| candidates in fourth district.
A hot wave extended over the west,
and the Kansas wheat crop is
! threatened unless rain comes in two
days. Mercury reached 95 degrees at
Omaha and 80 at st. Joseph.
At Tacoma, Susie Taylor, 10 years
cid, while going from school, was as
saulted by masked man. Citizens
arc hunting for the girls assailant
and threats of lynching are heard.
Apparently to insure his confirma-
ton as chief of army ordnance the
war department has relieved Gen
william Crozier as a member of The
board OF ordnance and Notifications
me anti-merger suit of the state O,
Minnesota against the Northern
securities company was removed nv
the Minnesota district court to the
United States circuit court for hear
ing.
Mrs. Hay, VINE OIL the secretary of
010Ce settled a diplomatic etiquette
problem by telling the wives Of
CABINET members, congressman and
Jusuces to call first on ambassadors,
wives. 0"oI7
PRESIDENT Roosevelt, in an address
dC New York, declared charao+or
counted more than intellect in COLLAGE
men and that honesty COURAGE ond
common sense were the most vo1,,aIlla
IN civil life '''A0
George Lemay, a French Canadian
- l,I''' lcIan Tor sixteen years organist NJ
Cle Ronan Catholic church of So
Jean de Baptiste, New York ci+v ic
oeao' He was born in st. PAM for+v,
tive years ago 0- AolC ~
Chlcago retail meat dealers Owe
banning an offensive and defensive
aHlance" against the beef trus+ NJ
pIiceS nave reached point where re-
c"lleFS, profits are lost and the nnhI+c
IS C asing to buy.
An authoritative statement VOC
ISSUED IN New York that ]. Piernonf
Morgan absolutely controls" tha
Louisville and Nashville. and thar
August Belmont and John w Gates
have settled their differences
Mrs. Lottie G.. Dimon. widow OF
Henry g. Dimon, who was killed In
the Park-avenue tunnel accident on
the New York Central railroad several
month ago, was awarded 100000
damages agaist the railroad company
by>a jury in White Plains, N. Y
Rev. Charles J. Wood, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church at Phila-
delphia, whose name has been men
toned as a possible successor to Rev.
DR.. Maltbie D. Babcock as pastor Of
the Brick Presbyterian church in
New York, will not leave Philadelphia.
Mayor Low addressed a letter to
Police Commissioner Partridge, in
Gtructing him not to enforce strictly
the law relating to the sale of meat
ICH Sunday during the Jewish Pass
ever. The letter followed a request
made by a number of influential He
brews
Representative of Pittsburg, New
York and Philadelphia capitalists We're
at Marietta, O., inspecting a 5O0-acre
tract of land on which they have IN
option, for the purpose or erecting a
I T1Ho MN nj
plant is to cost over $2,00O,0OO and is
for the purpose Of supplying indepen-
dent concerns.
The Rice block on the main street
IF Natick, Mass, was partly burned
following the explosion of a hand
lamp. The tenants were the w. D.
PaTlin hardware company and George
C Fairbanks & Son, newsdealers ana
| printers. The losses make total CT
about q55,000 with insurance probably
amply covering this figure.
When Louis Alfred Batensi leaves
Sing Sing Saturday he will have
served a six years sentence for the
misrepresentation of $4,000 worth of
jewelry in New York. At the door or
|
federal warrant charging him with the
embezzlement of approximately ST..
! 100000 in France. Followed by extra
dition, this will probably mean a long
term of servitude.
| The interstate commerce commits
sion at Washington has issued bull
iletin showing for the three monJns
ended September 80, 1901, total Of
725 killed and 1922 injured in train
accidents of all kinds in the United
State. The total number of train col
llsions was 1,247 and derailments
1902, causing damage aggregating
$1,842,224 to cars, engines and road
ways, exclusive of damage to mer-
chandise.
! The Episcopal house of bishops has
decided to admit the Episcopal church