Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-05

factories by force.
A hundred cotton mill owners met
at Charlotte, N. c., to consider the
proposition to form combine of
southern cotton factories.
The bill admitting Oklahoma, New
Mexico and Arizona as states may
pass the house Friends claim enough
votes have been pledged.
The body of Bishop Neumann was
exhumed by an ecclesiastical court at
Philadelphia as one of the steps in
making the dead bishop saint
The treasury department decided
that hereafter banks guarantee Of
the Endorsement of a government
check or warrant will be sufficient.
National good government con-
ference at Philadelphia May will
have symposium from large cities
on the traction franchise question.
Mrs. Fred Gringel, aged 40, wife OF
a farmer near Butternut, Wis, was
attacked by vicious horse and re-
ceIVed injuries from which she died.
The body of man about 80 years
old and who had been shot through
the head was found in a pasture near
Dubuque. A revolver was beside him.
The torpedo-boat Hopkins was
launched at Wilmington, Del. The
christening ceremony was performed
by Mrs. Alice Gould Halves of Wash
ington.
John D. Rockefeller's gift of. 81 600
O00 to education in the south is said
TO have been due to the influence OF
MS son, and the sum may be in
creased.
The Western Consolidated Granite
company of Chicago will close q. deal
TO secure six granite quarries in Wis
consln. The price is estimated at
$1,000
Inc Northwestern university total
attendance for 1901-'O2 was 2,414. com
pared with 2,246 last year. It is now
elghth in number of students in tho
United States.
Allen Cogsdell, North Carolina
farmer, announces that he will ki1r
himself at dinner June 10 and b.r
Sent out Invitations. His wife will
fire the shot.
LII Chlcago Detective Maronde killed
an unidentified burglar. who was err
prlsed with four others rohbina
charles Sladek's store, Archer avenue
and LOOMS street.
Z. H. Thompson. department n,ono
scr Oh the Hammond Packing com.
r"ny' was heard at Kalamazoo on
narge OF trying to bribe fbe
Mlchlgan food commission.
William Van Velson Wisconsin Con
q al operator at Oshkosh. cot dr,1nl,
me depot was DESTROYED he 49,
ulhed TO death, and the train ser.
' zee was partly crippled.
Dr. Edward H. MagilI. for manv
cars president of Swarthmore 81
ioge' and Mrs Sarah d. Gardner WOW
: arrled III New York in accordanoo
with Quaker customs >'''i'''e
bill for an injunction against Chi
cago packers is in course of prepara-
ton by w. A. Day, counsel for Attor-
hey General Knox. and S. H. Bethea
United States district attorney.
Governor Jefferson Davis of Arkan
as denies the charge his church
makes against him and says he will
expose several hypocrites who accuse
Vim OF drinking and gambling.
Edmund Grinnell of Boston had his
skull fractured while riding g. polo
pony along the Lake Shore drive, Chi
cago An automobile caused his
2ony to swerve, and he struck tree.
The senate agreed to the oleo-
margarine bill, accepting the house
amendments. The bill will go 70
President Roosevelt. An annual tax
# 5000 is provided and $50 on pro
cess butter makers.
Conrad Schmitt, 16 years old, IS
accused of homicide. because he
fractured the skull of a New YORK
loafer who insuIted a girl Schmitt
hDoched him down and the sidewalk
caused the fatal injury.
The naval program presented to
congress calls for $77,659,38S. Two
battleShips and two cruisers are pro-
vided for The report of Chairman
Foss says that few united States
Pho navy ACc1 value.
A man, wife and four children wei%,
found in comatose condition at
village near La Sale, H. They are
said to have been put in that CON
dition four days before by hypnotic
influence of young man.
At Chicago Patrick H. O'Donnell,
for five years public administrator;
James T. Brady, Cyrus S. Simon, and
four others were indicted by the grand
jury on the charge of tampering with
juries in the interest of the traction
companies.
Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin
Of the department of geology at the
Chicago University refused the chair
manship of the civic federation COM
mittee on the ground that the schools
were made the political toy of the
governor.
In Chicago a fraud involving the
issue and circulation of millions OF