Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-19
DOMESTIC,

| The wheat crop of Minnesota is in
splendid condition.
Louis Franz committed suicide in
Chicago by eating three boxes of
matches.
John D. Rockefellers share of the
latest Standard Oil dividend was
$4,O0O,O0O.
Three fremen were crushed to
death in a fire at the Iowa iron works
at Dubuque.
At Pontiac, H., $4,000 fire
burned the state reformatory except
one wing.
The Anthracite coal strike began
All mines in the Pennsylvania district
are tied up.
The plant of the G. K Williams
| Paint company at Easton Pa, was
ruined by fire
! 1t is believed that leading railroads
are financially supporting the Atlantic
shipping combine.
Fire in the German-American pack
ing-house at the Chicago stockyards
di* $4,000 damage.
| The mystery of the dead babe in a
! valise found in Milwaukee, may be
! solved by sensational arrests
The supreme court, in the Knights
OF Labor controversy, upheld tne
| official status of John w. Hays.
Receiver for Oxford CO., college
was asked for at Cincinnati by Mrs.
Lille M Walker, Philadelphia.
Victor Nutall, an Atlanta boy is
charged with killing Colin McDouga;l.
aged 6, by forcing him to inhale sewer
| gas.
An 18-hour train is to be put on be-
| tween New York and Chicago, which
will make the fastest long run in the
world
The California limited on the Santa
| Fe road was wrecked near Revere,
Mo-, and Jane Adams, a passenger,
was slightly hurt.
Edward C. Boffey, Is years old,
and Guy Locke, 20, who murdered
Peter Fafinsk on April % were given
life sentences in Chicago
Mrs. Thomas Harris, $40 Washburn
avenue, Chicago, 17-year-old bride,
was shot and badly injured by her hus-
| William Malcolm, Pasasic, n J..
| city treasurer, confessed a shortage
of $4,000 as secretary of the Mutual
! Loan and Building association
| Chicago brewers say their business
| has not profited by the general pros
perity, and contemplate an increase
in the price of beer.
Clarence Peterson, 81 years old,
wanted in Racine, Wis, for theft, was
killed by train in Chicago while at
! tempting to escape from detectives.
The government winter wheat re-
port showed a condition May l of
| 76.4,> the lowest except three years,
since 1885 Winter rye condition is
| 834.
Harry H. Starkey, son of Clinton
w. Starkey, president of the Oriental
Bank Of New York. killed himself at
| the Brooklyn Union League club
! house
American commerce with Japan in
| 1901 is shown by the foreign commerce
bureau to exceed that of any othe~
nation. Exports to Africa were S per
cent. of the total.
Paul Leicester Ford and Malcolm
| Ford, the brother who murdered him.
{ had a double funeral service at the
formers home and were buried in the
family plot
| Owing to the disinclination of Chief
| Clerk Norris to accept the position of
| chief coiner the coming department of
the United States mint at Philadel-
phia is tied up.
The will of Mrs. Susan G.. Tevis,
San Francisco, distributed $15,0O0,-
900 among four children and two
grandchildren. Only $4,000 is left
| for administration.
Booth Harrington, the author, was
sued for $4,000 damages by S. J. Will
son, Indianapolis, because doughnut
bakery owned by the former is an
alleged nuisance.
Browns university school, near
Charlottesville, Va, was destroyed by
fire, and two students, Agnew McNeal
of Washington and Clement Knox Jr.,
of Richmond, lost their lives
In Chicago, Mrs. Mae Kelsey shot ard
seriously wounded her husband. Jesse
d. Kelsey, a conductor on the Lincoln
avenue cable line, while he was on
his car. Kelsey had applied for
divorce.
A new way to cook cereals IN
saturated atmosphere was discovered
| by DR.. A. P. Anderson. The starchy
products can be kept Indefinitely and
variety of favors produced by his
process.
At La Porte, Ind, Judge Tuthil has
sentenced William Henke to thirty
days, fine of 500 and disfranchise
ment for three years because of drink
ing habits. This is the first time in
the history of the state that a citizen
has been disfranchised for this cause
Explosions Of naphtha in Pittsburg
railroad yards killed from 40 to $50
persons and iOinrad cooroc