Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-03-17
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William Klump of Lowell, Micn
is under arrest charged with the muir
der of his wife with strychnine under
the guise Of headache powders.
The house committee has directed a
favorable report on the senate bill
authorizing the extension of national
bank charters for twenty years.
Payne Whitney, who recently mar
ried Helen Hay, received from his
uncle, Colonel Oliver H. Payne, ST.
000,00 for home to be built in New
York.
The demand of the striking boiler
makers in Cleveland for uniform
scale of $2.75 for a nine-hour day
have been granted in a number Of
shops
B. D. Greene and J. F. Gaynor fail
ed to appear for trial at Savannah
Ga, for completely in the Carter frauds
and $4,000 of bail was declared for
feited.
Frank w. Cottle, cashier of the
State Bank of Elkhart, Ind, whose
alleged shortage Of $4,000 caused the
closing of the bank, has blown out his
brains
General Bates will be assigned to
temporary command of department
OF the lakes after Otis retires.
Funston is to get the department. Of
Dakota.
Union freight handlers and team
drivers numbering 1870 struck at
Boston as a result of the employment
of non-union teamsters by the New
Haven road.
DR.. George G. Lorimer of the ,Madi-
son Avenue Baptist church, New
York, predicted a religious crisis in
the United States due to immigration
of Sabbath breakers.
Mrs. Philip D. Armour, Jr, widow
of the young Chicago millionaire who
died two years ago, was married in
New York to P A. Valentine, of the
firm of Armour e Co.
Paul Koch, unmarried, was stabbed
to death by Foreman Tight, at the
clearinghouse of the East Pacific
mine, near Winston, Mont Tight is
under arrest at Townsend.
Joseph A. Parker chairman Of the
national populist committee, an
nounces that the allied parties cor
ference will be held at Louisville,
Ky, April 2, as originally planned.
Commander John w. Hawley told
the naval committee of the house
that the enlisted men of the navy did
not have enough to eat and many
assertions were on account of this.
The republican leaders in the senate
have yielded to the pressure behind
the bill providing for the repeal of the
war revenue tax and will favor a re
port on the measure without delay.
A trolley car at Madison and Forty
fourth streets, New York, broke off
the safety valve of portable
hosting engine and fifty passengers
in the car were severely burned by
steam.
Cannon's Grand Central drygoods
house, at Sedalia, Mo-, was destroyed
BY fire, and the adjoining drygoods
establishment of c. A. Guenther was
greatly damaged by water Loss
800, 900.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will not at
tend King Edwards coronation, her
father concluding that the visit
would cause complications with Ger
many and too much notoriety for his
daughter
A passenger train of the Calves
ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio
read was wrecked near Maxon, Tex,
and 10 persons were killed and so
injured. Nine coaches and bag
gage car were burned.
At Leavenworth, Kan, Captain
James G. Reed has been released from
the federal penitentiary on writ OF
habeas corpus. Reeds release was
the result of the ruling Of the United
States circuit court Of appeals.
Secretary Long rendered mis-
resignation to the president, who ac-
cepted it and selected as his sue
cussor Congressman William il.
Moody of Massachusetts. This
change is to be made on May /.
Nuggets of gold weighing from a
quarter of an ounce to one ounce
were found in the crops of chickens in
South Water street Chicago. The
fowls were shipped from Fifeld Wis
Forty-one pieces in all were found.
Fears that the famous Garland
collection of oriental pOrcelaias,
valued at $1,0OO,0O0, would be taken
to Europe have been set aside by the
announcement that the curios have
been purchased by J. Pierpont Nor
gan.
The house committee has ordered a
favorable report on the bill to acquire
the giant tree tract of California The
secretary of the interior is authorized
to purchase it for not over 100000, or
to resort to condemnation proceed
ings.
At Trenton, N. j., ex-Mayor Frank
A. Mcgowan of Philadelphia, was ar
rested as a fugitive from justice. Ma
gowan was indicted on the charge of
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