Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-11-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

formally opened.
Fire damaged Lay & Lyman's store
building in Kewanee, Ill
The army was ordered reduced to
59,989, the minimum authorized by
law.
The king of Siam will visit the
United States next year as the nations
guest.
Very Rev. P. r. Mayer, an Ameri-
can, has been elected general of the
Order of Carmelites.
It will cost Chicagoans more to be
buried. Sixty embalmers and funeral
directors formed union.
John A. Dowie was sued for total
of $1,O74 by three Chicago firms. His
lace industry was attached.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, an electric
car and a locomotive cOllided, in
juring seven, none mOrtally.
The general land Office receipts from
the sale of homesteads during the last
fiscal year aggregated $6,500,000.
The Fairmont CW. Va powder
works were damaged 100000 by an ex-
plosion of 500 kegs of powder.
President Roosevelt will be invited
to tour the great lakes next summer
and inspect their varied industries.
Mrs. Annie Kingsley, whose heart
was sewed together after her husband
had stabbed her, died in New York.
Col. Edward Butler, the st. Louis
millionaire politician, was indicted by
the grand jury on charge of bribery.
Judge Baxter at Omaha, Neb., SEN
fenced Anton Christensen to life i'm
prisonment for the murder of his
wife. /
The announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Alice Roosevelt and
John Greenway of Hot Springs, Ark,
is denied.
A st. Louis man has left $4,000 To
Miss Eva Martin, a Chicago nurse,
who nuIse ed him through a serious
illness.
Mrs Maude Kiehl, aged 10, of Cort-
land county, New York, is in jail sus-
pected of poisoning her husband and
his brother.
Thomas Dunn, who killed Peter
Jackson in st. Louis in October, 1900,
was sentenced by the supreme court
to be hanged.
Edward Hart, aged Fl, son Of Calvin
Hart of Nadeau, Mich, was killed by
a flying piece of iron from the wheel
of fodder cutter.
An Indianapolis grand jury returned
indictments against twenty-five per
sons implicated in grave robbing
scandal. Five are doctors.
All but three of the 1875 striking en-
ployes of the Syracuse cement works
at Syracuse, Ind, returned to work
under a compromise agreement.
Minister Wun Ting-fang and hts
dainty little wife surprised their many
Washington friends by driving OUT
dressed in American costumes.
Attorney General Knox in a report
to the president said the title Of the
French company to the Panama canal
is clear and can be purchased.
Julia Marlowe is seriously i'll IN
New York and tour in Queen Fiam-
meta is postponed. A nervous col
lapse resulted from overwork.
Senator Cullom declared Denmark
will self the West Indies islands to
United States in spite of the upper
houses refusal to ratify treaty.
At Evansville, Ind, a verdict of
not guilty was returned in the case
of Policeman Sherwell, who was in
dicted for murder of three women.
Thomas Love, 25 years old, was
killed by passenger train at Ke-
vance, Ill, while standing on track
waiting for a freight train to pass.
At Brunswick, Ca, five blocks in
the center of the city are inundated,
and on the principal bushes street
there is ten to fifteen feet of water.
Woodrow Wilson was installed as
president of Princeton university. DR..
Patton, Grover Cleveland, and DR..
Wilson delivered the chief addresses.
The trustees of the University of
Chicago decided by vote of thirteen
to five to segregate the sexes in the
freshmen and sophomore departments.
A battle for the financial supremacy
of Wall street is said to be on between
J. P. Morgan and the Rockefellers.
The latter group controls $1,550,000,-
900.
At Indianapolis John Church Of the
firm of Church Brothers, milling COM
pany, which went into insolvency
several years ago, killed himself from
worry.
Carroll D. Wright, United States
commissioner of labor, will, by consent
of the miners and operators, have a
vote in the presidents coal arbitration
board.
Maj. Gen. S: NJ. B. Young will sue
coed Gen. Miles in command of the
army with the rank of lieutenant
general, on Miles retirement next
August.
Formal complaint has been filed
with the interstate commerce com
mission against the proposed COM
binatfOn of the principal railroads of
the south.
Roland B. MOlineux, on trial at New