Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-08-04
DOMESTIC.


Harry Tracy, the noted outlaw, has
reappeared near Kansaskat, Wash.
Six men were hanged for murder IN
different localities throughout Arkan>
sas.
Low water is reported in the upper
levels of the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal
Illinois miners sent another check
for $4,000 to aid the anthracite
strikers.
Hard coal prices are not likely to
advance Immediately, according to a
mine agent
Williams college is Remembered
V. Tousley.
The national republican congress
siOnal committee opened headquarters
in New York.
New Jersey officials have begun
crusade to close the gambling houses
at Long Branch.
Chief of Police Wilmoth, of WoreIs-
dorf, w Va, was shot and killed by
an unknown negro.
In washington city Horace Wells
and John Gray we're fined $40 each for
stealing two bricks
Eugenie Bodecia, gypsy queen. mar
ried Franza Ramarsus. a member OF
her tribe at haywood, III.
Walter Kitner of Mattoon, ILL.,, died
Of blood poisoning after cutting his
finger on blade of grass.
Rev. Jackson Skyles was arrested
at Port Gibson. Miss, on charge of
having four or five wives.
Seabright IN. J) fishermen caught
A compound orthagoriscus, or ocean
sunf7sh and brought it ashore.
William J. Bryan, in an interview at
New Haven, Conn, predicted that The
newt congress would be democratic
The Virginia house of delegates re-
jected the senate resolution for com
mission to revise the new constitution.
Peter Lund of CHICAGO iunmped 104
feet from the Clinton Oa.) bridge
Ovnr Mississippi river and was unhurt.
Alexander Graham Bell the tel-,
rhOne man. is soon to launch an air
shin, which he expects will be a sue
cess
Charles NJ. Schwab president of
United States steel CORPORATION, was
taken suddenly i'll at Atlantic City,
N. J.
The army office has issued orders
recurring all military prisoners to be
supplied with proper and decent cloth
ing.
Consul Hollis cables that the Jaw
allowing no rassnueers with less than
300 to land at Lorenzo Marques has
passed.
At Hackensack. N. J.. Edward
Comte and his wife. Anna. were each
sentenced to three yeas in prison for
burglary.
Jerome Amin for twenty-one years
a trusted employe of a Beloit firm.
confessed to thefts extending over
twenty years.
Courtmartial findings against Mai.
r, s. Glenn. Lieut.. J. P. Gaujot and
Lieut.. Norman Cook we're approved by
the president.
Monuments to General W. T. Sher-
man and DR. 3. F. Stephenson will be
dedicated during the G.. A. R. encamp-
ment in October.
The costs in prObating the will of
the late Potter Palmer were S8.O54,
indicating the value of the estate to
be over $S,OOO,OOO
Albert T. Brown. Joliet ex-convict,
kidnapped his two small sons from
their mother in st. Louis and deserted
them at Kankakee.
Frank Carlson and George Baldwin,
each ~ years Old fought with fists
over two girls at Portland, Ore.
Carlson was killed.
The democratic convention for the
second district of West Virginia
nominated Hon. J. T. McCraw of
Grafton for congress.
Richard Mead. an express messan-
ger, returned to his home in Brooklyn
to find his two children strangled and
the mother drunk.
Indiana farmers started a move
ment to enlist the grain growers OF
the United States in a trust. to hold
wheat for high prices.
By the explosion of a gasoline stove
the house Of w. n. Feather. at Pinto,
Md, was burned and two of his
children lost their lives.
At ST Louis H A. Faulkner, an
Othor hoodling alderman, was found
guilty Of nerjurv and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary.
Fillmore county, Minnesota, accord