Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-15

$500 at the birth Of child if a So
memE ership fee and 81 dues every
three months are paid
Charles J. Denny, millionaire st.
Louis brewer and street railway
director, was given a two years peni-
Tertiary sentence for perjury in telling
the grand jury that he did not know
of the $4,000 Doodle fund
An income of SIS, 1859 1853 for foreign
missionary work is reported in the
annual summary of Protestant foreign
missions of Rev. F.. E. Strong,
editorial secretary Of the American
board, made public in Boston.
I Thirteen strong, the delegation OF
mounted police went to West Point to
see tne New York cadets ride The
trip was a success and it may mark
the beginning Of a radical reform in
the mounted police force Of the city.
Charles T. Yerkes reached New
| York from London for a several
months stay. He announced that four
underground railroads will be finished
in four years and the Baker street and
! Waterloo roads in fourteen months, 2
An Injunction against Cleveland Ia.
Dor unions to prevent the boycotting
OF the John Mulholland restaurant was
made permanent by Judge Ford. The
effort to drive away customers was
| declared equivalent to a blacklist con.
spiracy.
Deputy Sheriff Charles O'Neill shot
and fatally wounded Charles Slater, a
chicago criminal court baiIiff, during
a political dispute in saloon and
escaped. He also killed Michael Nc
Namara in 1892 while police
sergeant.
Father Thomas F. McGrady of st.
Anthonys church, Bellevue, Ky. who
retlred as pastor, refusing to retract
MS address in favor of socialism when
requested by Bishop Macs. announces
that ne will write a work on Why I
Left the Priesthood.
Governor Odell Of New York has
granted reQuisition papers in the case
OF Joseph Larkin of Illinois. arrested
III New York on the charge of violat-
ing parole from Joliet prison. where
he was imprisoned for a larceny com
mitted in Chicago.
Defeated and without a country.
FRANCIS William Reitz, once secretary
OF the Transvaal republic. arrived in
| chicago. He says: chamberlain is q
liar, and | will never live in a country
ruled by people who will elevate 10
position such a man.
The S4prnforv of oo,; o,-14,
sent instructions to DR.. Salmon of the
i bureau OF animal industry, who is per
Sonally experimenting the work OF
Hghtlng the foot and mouth disease
epidemic in New England, to DESTROY
all animals infected.
| The coal strike commission resumed
the taking of testimony in the miners.
controversy at Scranton. Judge crav
expressed the hope tnat efforts to
effect private settlement would con
t1nue, and Wayne MacVeagh said
negotiations had not been dropped.
CHARLES Stewart, insane, has forti.
lied himself in the second story of his
mouse at Mexico, Mo-, and, armed with
shotgun is holding Sheriff James
and a posse of citizens at lay. He has
driven his family from the house and
when anyone approaches he fires.
Oklahoma and Indian territories will
probably fail to secure statehood he
cause of a fight by Senators QUAY
. and Elkins for Arizona and New
Mexico also. Republican sentiment
I is unanimous for Oklahoma and
against the admitting of the later two.
Dr.. William w. Keen, a Phfla.
! delphia surgeon, addressed a letter to
Senator GalHnger, the anti-vivisec-
! zionist leader, declaring that he saved
] an Annapolis midshipman's life, bv
removing a clot from the brain, after
football accident, through knowI-
edge gained by vivisection.
Franklin MacVeagh's residence at
lO3 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, was
damaged $4,000 by fire. Two male
servants jumped from a second story
window, sutaining serious injuries
and several others nearly suffocated
were rescued by firemen. An over
heated furnace was the cause.
At Chicago William Bristol was
adjudged guilty Of fraudulent use of
the mails. Bristol was manager and
secretary Of the Surety Guarantee and
Trust company, and is said to have
detrauded John r. Prime, former
adjutant general of Iowa, to the ex-
tent Of $1,000, and M. J. Adams of
Davenport, Iowa, of $1,Vvv.
| George Dickinson, alias Westcott. of
Philadelphia, the burglar who was ar
rested ten days ago and who was dis
covered to be a robber by night and a
business man by day, was convicted
and sentenced to fifteen years in the
penitentiary. The police accused
Dickinson of sixty robberies. Nearly
$4,000 was recovered by the police.
Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers,
former commander-in-chief of the
AslatIc suadron, has relinquished his
! command and departed from the