Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-14

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by sailboat capsizing. The captain
and four others were rescued.
Wind and rain storm did great
| damage in western New York A
woman was drowned at Arcade ana
property much damaged. Portage anc
| Hornellsville were both flooded
Five persons who left Chicago on
Friday or outings at the lake resorts
were drowned-Rudolph Steffeck, wife,
and sister at st. Joseph, the others at
Lake Geneva and Lake Wauconda.
The hunt for the Rock Island train
robbers at Dupont developed that the
culprits may be Butch" Cassidy and
Harry Longbaugh, outlaws for whom
| $4,000 reward was offered recently.
After four years, the great 16-incn
gun which has been in course of con-
struction at the Waterville arsenal,
near Troy, N. Y, is complete II
throws 2,O00-pound shell 21 miles
At st. Louis E. E. Shannon COM
mitted suicide after confessing to his
wife that he murdered two men ten
years ago, for which crime he al
AOW0 d lI1Cuu W US COnfICl0u dntl
hanged.
Ira N. Terrell convicted murderer
| from Oklahoma, argued his own case
| in the Kansas supreme court, taking
| the ground that Kansas has no juris-
diction and that he is wrongly i'm
prisoned
D. A. J. Jennings is under arrest In
| Chicago, charged with extortion by a
midwife who says the doctor was ac-
| companied by man representing MIN
self as an officer. The doctor denies
| the charge.
President w. r. Harper of Chicago
in an address to the National educa-
| ton association at Minneapolis, saiu
a professor who uses sensationalism
to influence public or pupils abuses his
| privilege.
The nine children of Leonard
| Lewisohn, the copper millionaire, who
| died in London last March, will give
| 100000 each to charities in accor-
dance with request made in their
| fathers will.
President Roosevelt, in a speech at
| Pittsburg, said new laws were needed
to deal with the trust problem.
w. Bourke Cochran, in speech at
Tammany hall, denounced the i'm.
perialistic policy.
The statement that the Roman
| Catholic church is losing grorpd in
the United States caused meeting to
plan a church census The member
ship is said to have dropped 1861, 800
in twelve years.
| At Louisville, KY, James Dub, who
| is fired into the air clinging to a
bomb, which explodes, and then de-
scends with parachute, fell when
within 100 feet of the ground and
broke his back
Harry Tracy, the fugitive Oregon
convict, deluded his pursuers, COM
PEELED a farmer to cook eight DAYS
| food and provide him with clothes.
Then he forced a farm hand to row
him down the sound.
Mrs HI. Yates of Ontario, Canada
was burned to death at Mountain
View, Oklahoma, while attempting TO
light the kitchen fire with kerosene.
Her father-in-law was burned severely
in trying to save her
The Federal Sugar Refining com
pany, which was incorporated under
the laws of New Jersey recently, with
a capital of $500OO,O0O, proposes to
establish chain of refneries through
out the United States.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
company carried two actresses
through to San Francisco in an other
wise empty Pullman car because
they refused to transfer to another
car on through tickets.
At Peoria the prohibition convention.
adjourned for hours earlier than liz
tended, to prevent speech by Carrie
Nation. Nearly $4,000 in cash was
thrown on the platform by the en-
thusiasts when a call was made fol
funds.
President Roosevelt has been i'll
dorsed for denomination by four state
conventions and is sure of their LAG
votes, out of 952 The New York
delegation is certain to add Is more.
Friends are confident of his re-
nomination.
To save Michael Mccartney from
unjust punishment for Webster
Adams murder, Herman Eidhendor1,
OF 398 Washburne avenue, and
Michael dara, 1865 West Thirteenth
street, Chicago, surrendered to the
police and confessed.
Mrs. Aline O'Malley and w. J..
Hearin, a Cornell student, both Of
New York city, were arrested in
Philadelphia when about to take a
train for the west. They were
charged with larceny. Her husband IS
i'll in Philadelphia hospital.
Over 5000 Chicago freight handlers
struck because the railroad officials
! refused to recognize their union In
| discussing a demand for increased
wages. The freight business OF
! twenty-four railroads is partly tied w.
New men are being set at work