Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-06-16

waukeean, who disappeared nineteen
years ago.
! The state fremen's convention com
menced it's three days session in New
| Ulm, Mimi The city is handsomely
| decorated and an elaborate program
will be carried out.
| The amnesty bill, which will free
Estes G. Rathbone and C. F. Nicely,
convicted of Cuban postal frauds,
signed by President Palma will free
| other Americans also.
| Horace Hadley, 19-year-old son Of
Mrs. Lou Hadley of Monrovia, Ind,
committed suicide with. poison. He
had chatted and joked with friends a
few minutes before.
Harry A. Rosengarten, a merchant
policeman at Indianapolis, was found
dead with bullet hole about his
right temple. Suicide and murder
theories are advanced.
Oscar Webb, during FANNY
quarrel at Philadelphia, shot and
killed his wife and her mother, and
then turned the revolver on himself
and inflicted fatal wound.
Directors and officers of new
Central Trust company elected
Charles G.. Dawes to be president, W.
Irving Osborne Vice president, and
William R. Dawes cashier.
In the hammer throwing contest at
an interscholastic meet in Cleveland
the hammer broke, and H. E. l.. Zwick
of Dayton, Ohio, field judge, was
struck by piece and killed
The arrest of Tyler Crothers, at
Noblesville, Ind, develops the fact
that Lucius Stout, wealthy farmer
of Hamilton county, was buncoed out
of $4,000 few days ago.
The new station of the Marconf
Wireless Telegraph company on Long
| Island is completed. The American
steamship line will install this system
on the ST. Paul and St. Louis.
Army officers who gained distinction
in Cuba, the Philippines, and China
were promoted by President Roose-
welt. John G. Bates and George w.
Davis were made major general.
John LOomis, deserter from the
navy, is in jail at Boone, Iowa, await
ing the arrival of a United STATES
officer This is his second offeuse,
he having deserted year ago.
Movement for Chicago Arbitration,
board to avoid local strikes was begun
| by ,..e managers of eight concerns,
representing millions of capital.
! Committee named to draft plan.
/ Senator J. H. Stout has advanced
| $4,000 for the purchase of site for
the proposed auditorium at Menom-
onie. This has greatly revived the
interest in the auditorium proper.
! The annual convention of the Wo-
mems Foreign Missionary Society of
! the Sioux Falls district of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church will be held in
Sioux Falls on June 10, II and II.
/ At Quebec, the Gaynor-G Greene case
was again in court. Mr.. McMaster
of the prosecution began his argu-
ment in support of his motion to
quash the writ of habeas corpus.
! At Dubuque, Iowa, seventy-fve en-
ployes of the pearl button factory
walked out because the company dis
charged three employees who were or
J ganizing the men into union.
Chicago department store proprie-
| tors have sent Chief of Police O'Neil
letter highly complimenting him on
! the manner in which he handled the
! recent strike among the drivers.
| The first installment of cattle to re
! stock boer farms has been shipped
from Pensacola, Fla. They are all
! under years old and of high grade
It is intended to export 10000 head.
I Carroll D. Wright, Government
Labor Commissioner, and President
Mitchell Of United Miners, conferred
: in New York on strike situation;
! former under orders from president.
At meeting of the Chicago Teach
| ers' federation, a protest was adopted
against the reinstatement of any per
i son on the pension list who had once
! discontinued to subscribe to the fund.
The board of supervisors of La
Crosse county, Wisconsin, voted u
build a new courthouse which Will
cost when completed $4,000. An
issuance of bonds for that amount was
provided.
Byron Shurtleff, an umbrella men
der, of Eau Claire, shot and killed
/ his wife and then shot himself
Shurtleff is still alive. Domestic
/ troubles are said to be the cause OF
the tragedy.
The numerous elevator accidents il
the buildings owned by Warner
Springer in Chicago will be investi
gated by Building Commissioners Kiol
bassa. Other buildings were also tt
get attention.
The jury in the case Of the state o.
Washington VS.. John Dix, charged
with wrecking two banks in tha
county while under his control, re
turned a verdict of guilty of larceny
by embezzlemnt.
! Over $4,000, the proceeds of {
swindle on a Buenos Ayres firm by
Otto Jaehkel an employee was re