Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-09-29


battlefield to the memory OF Gen.
Henry w. Slocum was dedicated.
The second trial of James w. Ertle,
so years old, on the charge OF wife
murder, was begun at Portland, Ind.
Bert Owen of Mcmillan, Wis, shot
and killed himseII in the woods. His
| body was discovered by his aged
| father.
Bishop Fallows, Of the Reformed
Episcopal church, who has been in
vestigating the coal strike, declares
| for arbitration.
| In his report on the recent joint
maneuvers Rear-Admiral Higginson
says search-Hghts proved defective in
some respects.
Isaac Shorts Of WOnewoc, Wis, was
badly injured by falling from NOV
ing train on the Chicago and Omaha
railway near Elroy.
The electrical supply combine, which
has been in existence for three years,
is reported dissolved after a stormy
meeting in New York.
Harry Lehr, arDiter of the Newport
|
Babylon, l.. l., the most beautiful
woman in the world.
Mrs. Stonewal Jackson will attend
the convention of the Virginia
Daughters of the Confederacy, which
meets in Norfolk October 8.
| At Hartford, Conn, the baby which
Mrs. Frank Brown carried in her
arms was killed by an electric cur
rent, but her life was saved.
Samuel Jones was stabbed and
killed in a fight with Cecil Nabler on
Troublesome creek, Kentucky. The
men fought with pocket knives.
! Nathan Straus of New York says
that j. Pierpont Morgan in 1898 pro-
vided 10000 tons of coal for the poor
and gave $4,000 for their relief.
Treasury figures show that the
bank deposits of the people of the
United States aggregate $8,500,O0O,-
900, an average of $3.50 per capita.
Rev. P. j. Herness Of Keol1uz, Iowa,
ended his trial by Methodist ministers
by resigning from the church and ac-
cusing his wife of wrecking his life
| At Springfield, ILL.,, H. O. Williams
abducted his 2-year-old boy from it's
mother, and, being pursued, snot
and killer both the child and himself
Two deaths and about 40 cases of
injury resulted from Baltimore and
| Ohio Southwestern train running
through an open switch at Leesburg,
Ohio.
The number of students already en-
rolled at Washington and Lee uni
versity and the Virginia Military in
stitute exceeds the entire enrolment
last season.
Mayor Seth Low of New York, in a
speech at Gettysburg, Pa, declared
that labor unions should incorporate
to give them the same responsibility
as corporations.
At Colorado Springs M. T. Hale,
ex-city treasurer, pleaded guilty to
embezzlement of $4,000 city funds,
and the amount has been made good
by his brother.
Peter Olson of Omaha, who MUIR
dered Mary Peterson on Sept. 8 for re-
fusing to marry him, was killed by a
| posse near Bancroft, Neb, while re-
sisting arrest.
! Five trainmen were killed in a
head-on collision between passenger
| trains of the Buffalo, Rochester and
| Pittsburg and Pittsburg and Western
railroads at Wilmer, Pa.
The New Jersey court of errors and
appeals decided in favor of the United
States Steel corporation in Mrs.
Miriam Berger's suit to prevent the
bond conversion project
Mrs. Charles Gate of Grass Creek,
Ind, while gathering vegetables in
her garden, pricked her thumb with "a
sand burr, which has caused her
| death from blood-poisoning.
The china ordered for White house
state dinners by Mrs. Roosevelt will
replace set costing $4,000. The de-
sign is a colonial pattern with the
great seal of the United States
At Philadelphia Frank Tinnie fell
into the Delaware river, but was
saved from drowning by his cork leg
sticking out of the water long enough
for a boathook to be jabbed into it.
Louis Won Ruecau, a prominent Ger
man mining expert, was imprisoned
thirty hours in a Grouse mountain
tunnel, near Cripple Creek, Col,
owing to a cave-in, but was not hurt
R. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
reported domestic trade active and
industries unchecked by the high
money rates. September railroad
earnings gained 40 per cent. over
1901.
Richard Roberts, aged so years, for
many years "a freight conductor on
! the milwaukee road, committed sui
| eide at his home in Columbus, Wis,
because he was given a lay-off by the
company.
What is presumed to be prepara-
tions for the merging of packing
house interests begun at the South
| Omaha packing-hOuseS in the way of