Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-01

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General Horatio C. King, at the
banquet of U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R.,
in Brooklyn, called DR.. Lyman Abbott
an anarchist
/ Sheriff John S. Dudley of Sullivan
county, Ind. ousted from office for fail
ure to protect James billiard, negro,
from lynchers.
!. Twelve men are believed to have
drowned while fighting fire at the
docks at Ashland, Wis. Two died in
the flames.
In Chicago John H. Dalton is
charged with defrauding about $4,000
newspapers out of at least $560,000 by
a fake advertising scheme.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Albert r. Morawetz of Arizona to be
consul at Nogales, Mexico, vice James
F. Darrell of Kentucky.
Wayne Brumfeld was instantly
killed near Guyan Falls, Va, during a
pistol duel with Henry Tiller, the re-
suit of a twenty-year feud.
In Pittsburg Smith Fee, Waterman
at the City Deposit bank, committed
suicide. Extreme nervousness and
failing health was the cause.
The masked robbers, thought to be
five in number, who held up the Rock
Island train at Davenport, Ia, are
said to have secured $4,000 in plum
der
At New York steps are being taken
for the establishment of a Chinese
hospital, which it is believed will be
the first regular institution in this
country.
An epidemic of mysterious disap-
pearances at the head of the lakes
makes the police believe in the ex-
istence of a murderous hand of rob-
bers.
At Rockford proceedings were in
stituted against forty-fve grocers and
fruit dealers, charging them with the
sale Of impure vinegar, spices and
syrups.
By the giving way of the floor in
the new warehouse of the Plumb &
Nelson Wholesale Grocery company
at Manitowoc, a loss of $4,000 was
occasioned.
George Stone, an Englfshman &C
cused of killing Robert Nelson in Chi
cago in 1893 was arrested in London
after being traced from st. Louis and
Galveston.
Ralph March, alleged leader of the
characterization students at the North
western university, has submitted to
vaccination, together with some fifty
Of his followers.
The investigation into the death Of
Mrs. Gertrude Young Of Minneapolis,
who died from long fasting, revealed
the fact that a number of persons had
adopted the fad.
A writ Of attachment has been is
sued for Mayor R. R. Wright of Den
yer, who signed a tramway ordinance
in violation of an injunction. He has
gone to Texas.
Mrs. Jessie Stevens Award Allis,
daughter of a Neenah (Wis.) mil
lionaire, was granted a divorce in
Milwaukee. Her husband is off with
a French actress.
A jury in Milwaukee awarded dam
ages of $4,000 to Lawrence A. Hanlon,
driver of fire engine, who was in
jured in a collision with a Vliet street
car two years ago.
Fourteen thousand dollars worth of
dry goods was stolen from the base
ment of the store of Steinhardt &
Strasbourger, one-half block from a
New York police station.
Robbers forced their way into the
postof1ce at Enon Valley, Pa, and car
ried off 1882 in cash and $3.50 in post
age stamps They stole horse and
buggy and drove away.
William S. Vanderbilt Allen, great
grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt,
formerly an artist and we'll known in
society," was examined as to his sanity
after six months in an asylum.
Cash and registered mail valued at
$4,000 were stolen by thieves who
drove off in the collectors wagon,
while he had gone into the Masonic
temple, Chicago, to get pouches.
Fire in Barry steamboat docks, E.
F. Riley building, Van Buren, ana
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Barrett warehouse, Cass and Kinzie
streets, Chicago, did 100000 damage.
Football results: Yale, %; Harvard,
0. Illinois, II; Northwestern, 0. Mich
igan, 60; Oberlin, 0. Virginia, 6;
Carlisle, 5. Hyde Park, 81; Engle-
wood, 0. Dartmouth, ~; Brown, 0.
The Commercial Cable company and
the government reached an agreement,
and the use of government charts will
be granted. The cable will be laid to
Hawaii, Guam, Manila and Yokohama.
One hundred and thirty Wisconsin
creameries of the bankrupt Elgin
Creamery company were sold at Madi-
son on the receivers petition to Cobe,
McKinnon company of Chicago for
$4,000.
One of the men who participated in
the robbery of the Rock Island train
at Lincoln, Neb., several weeks ago,
when $4,000 was taken from the ex-
press car, is under arrest in Okla