Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-14

| WHICH, COuF0u6St III CHICd5O aus . AOt
a three-day session.
A Sunday morning fire at 305-3l3
| Wabash avenue, Chicago, caused a
loss of $3OO,00O. Guests in nearby
| hotels were much exercised.
| President Mitchell of the United
mine workers left Wilkesbarre for
New York and will seek financial aid
| for miners from other unions.
Karl Won Boeckmann of New York
killed his wife and fatally wounded
| O. f. Farewell, friend of the family.
He then committed suicide.
By the burning of the general Chi
cago offices, shipping department AMI
wholesale department of Swift e Co. s
plant, loss of 100000 resulted.
Robert Holbrook, an aeronaut, while
400 feet high, committed suicide by
falling in the presence of several
thousand people at Mt. Vernon, Ill.
Lumas H. Holmes of Springfield.
Mo, forfeited a bequest of $12 900
rather than change his name to
Frisbie, as his aunt's will provided.
In Minnesota 312 rural delivery
routes have been established in the
past year; in Wisconsin 418, in South
Dakota sc, and in North Dakota 10.
B. w. Pyle, of Chicago, fearing the
Nicaragua canal would never be built,
so as to make his land in Central
America valuable, committed suicide.
Speaker Henderson has left for
New York, where he will meet his
daughter on her arrival from Europe.
Later he will go to his home in Iowa.
The greater New York democracy
has appointed finance committee of
twenty-eighG members to raise funds
with which to fight Tammany in the
| fall
l.. L. Richmond and his wife, a
wealthy New York couple, were ar
rested charged with stealing $25 900
worth of jewels at an Alexandria Bay
hotel
The Chinese government appealed
| to the United States to use it's offices
toward the evacuation of Tientsin by
the allied powers, according to agree
ment.
Frank Case of Peoria, who could
swim, rocked a boat in which was
Frank Cannon, who could not. When
the boat upset Cannon dragged Case
to death.
An unaccountable double tragedy
occurred at Grand Forks, N. D.
Charles j. Mccormick, a well-known
railway conductor, and his wife were
the victims.
Mrs. Burnett w Pyle found hel
husband, who disappeared twenty-five
years ago, dead from a wound sell
inflicted at the Garfield Park SAM
tariu, C--4cago.
Theodore Oelfeuer, who murdered
his wife and wounded his baby and
stepdaughter Sunday, committed
suicide by hanging in Chicago
police station.
The assessed valuation of Cook
county Chicago real estate and DER
sonal property is $13,374,163 greater
than for 1901. Cash value increased
| $66,87O,815.
The Episcopal board of inquiry, by
vote of 5 to A. refused to put Bishop
Talbot on trial on the charges Of Rev.
DR.. Irwin that he conspired to unfrock
the clergyman
Congressman Littlefeld, who Presi-
dent Roosevelt asked to aid him in
framing new trust laws, is considered
recalcitrant and trouble maker for
the party leaders.
Peter Dempsey, escaped murderer.
is believed responsible for the at
tempted chloroforming of seven per-
sons at Butte, Mont, to abduct the
girl he loved
In Chicago five men boarded an
electric street car, robbed the con
ductor and motorman, threw them OIL,
then ran the car a few blocks and
deserted it.
Entertainments of cattlemen are
causing trouble with Indians in the
Choctaw nation and over 400 cattle
have been mysteriously killed during
the past week
Miss Jennie Harrison was gored TO
death by a bull at Odemah, Green
county, Oklahoma, the animal knock
ing her down and running it's horns
through her body.
In Chicago the plea of President
Gompers for the reinstatement of
Typographical Union, No. 16, was Oh
no avail, the union being defeated by
a vote of 116 to 101.
Corrupt methods charged against
Model gold mining company of
Arizona lead to the appointment of
receiver for the concern. Over ST..
100000 is involved.
Richard A. Garfield, king of Amer1-
can gamblers" denied that he will
start an American Monte Carlo at
Saratoga. He declared such venture
would not be tolerated.
Attorney General Knox is to con-
slider the offer of the Commercial
Pacific Cable company to hasten its
Work in exchange for the use OF gov
eminent survey charts.
Embittered by the perfdy OF the
man who had caused her ruin, an M