Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-12


under sentence of death for murder.
Two men taking a safe to the fiji
teenth story of the Owen Building in
New York dropped, with the safe
from the tenth floor and were killed.
DR.. E. W. Aldrich Of Chicago at
tackled two detectives at Los Angeles
who tried to serve a writ, wounded
one. and then shot and killed himself.
A. D. Stranahan, street car con-
ductor, ran 1,101 points, playing
straight-rail billiards. He made this
remarkable run at the Lincoln Club.
Congressman Cannon and Lieuten-
ant Governor NOrthcOtt probably will
be temporary and permanent chair
men Of the republican state conven-
ton
At Kansas City, Mo-, E. L. Sway
sic, member of a commission firm
which failed for 100000 in 1900, has
returned after an absence Of two
years.
A warrant alleging violation of the
dore l.. Page, who conducts a restau-
rant on the senate side of the United
States capitol.
Congressman J. J. Butler of Mis-
souri, is made defendant in $50, 900
| damage suit by a hotel waiter, who
alleges an assault with vile and
abusive language.
Eight girls were killed in a panic
caused by a false alarm of fire at
Hamburger, Holman & Co.'s cigar
factory, Tenth street and Washington
avenue, Philadelphia.
Favorable reports were made by
the senate committee on foreign reIa-
tons on all the reciprocity treaties ex-
cept those with Jamaica and the Ar
gentine Republic.
L. J Thomas carpenter-in-chief Of
the Southern railway, was killed 5v
the falling Of the scaffolding on a
bridge in Londoun county, Va, on
which ne was working
The public debt at the close of
business April 80, 1902, less cash in
the treasury, amounted to $993,115,-
976, decrease as compared with
April 1 of $4,616,356.
At Jackson, Mich, while temporari-
ly deranged, Israel V. Cookingham,
photographer jumped from the tower
of a firehOuse, seventy-two feet high,
and was instantly killed.
The secretary of the interior has
suspended M. L. Bridgman, Indian
agent at Fort Belknap, Mont, as a re
suit of the special investigation of
charges of irregularities.
Dun & Co.'S weekly trade review
, found labor controversies the only
factor in the industrial situation.
Railroad earnings for April exceed the
1901 record 7,2 per cent.
Strike of 1000 anthracite coal
miners is likely to- be ordered from
Scranton, Pa, as a result of a failure
Of New York conference called by
National Civic federation.
Thomas A. Edison said air naviga-
ton must be done by flying machines
If the patent Office protected inventors
the problem would have been accom-
plished thirty years ago.
Consul-General Bittinger at Mon
treal, in a report to the state depart
ment, states that the material develop
ment Of Canada is greaer than at any
previous period in it's history.
The John Knox Presbyterian church
at Jersey City, built by Singer, the
sewing machine millionaire, on condi-
ton that no musical instrument be
played in it, was closed through lack
Of support.
Four tornadOes in Iowa injured six
teen persons and destroyed $4,000
worth Of property The towns of
WQodburn, Bayard, Lohrville, Hite-
man and Adaza were in the path of
the storms.
Friends Of Miss Josephine Holman,
formerly Of Indianapolis, who was en-
gagged to marry Marconi, have re-
ceived the announcement of her com
ing marriage to Eugene Boross of
Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Thomas Foster, for many years
we'll known in Minnesota, has re-
signed from his position in the treas
Minnesota territory as secretary to
Alexander Ramsay
Admiral w. S. Schley will be
rendered the presidency Of the ex-
position to be held in Norfolk in 1907
in cOmmemoration of the three nun-
dredth anniversary of the landing of
the pilgrims at Jamestown.
The American board has taken the
initial step for beginning missionary
work in the Philippine islands by the
appointment of Robert F. Black, of
Union Theological seminary, as it's
first missionary to Mindanao
President Roosevelt, in an address
at the Annapolis naval academy grad
uation, said the fate of the United
States in the war depended on the
navy, no matter what a cOuntry's
wealth or citizenship may be.
The estate Of the late Charles L.
Tiffany, at Irvington, N. Y, has been
bought by real estate dealer for a