Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-03-10

Former Secretary Of the Treasury
Lyman ]. Gage has accepted the pres
idency of the United States Trust
Company of New York.
A Denver priest declared Leo XIII.
would shine in history when people
were disputing whether Washington
was an Indian or negro.
A shortage of $4,000 was discover
ed in the accounts of Cashier F. W.
Cottle of the State Bank of Elkhart
ILL.,, and the bank was closed.
Australian troops in south Africa
are said to have taken the law into
their own hands and punished beers
who fired on English wounded.
The river at Pittsburg reached a
stage of 1926 feet, throwing $4,000 men
out of employment and causing heavy
losses in that city and Allegheny.
The United States supreme court
in the case of Alfred V. Booth a
Chicago broker, upheld the Illinois
law prohibiting dealing in puts and
calls.
Canadian agents are reported in
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ciprocity with the dominion if the
United States fails to grant conces-
sions.
Floods in the Mohawk valley stop
ped the operation Of the New York
Central trains Miles of track were
covered by ice and water, with many
washouts.
A man at Burlington, VT, is practi-
ca1ly serving a life sentence in jail
for contempt because he refuses to
tell the name Of the woman who gave
him liquor.
Souvenir hunters who visited the
emperors yacht Hohenzollern stole
plates and saucers and ruined valu-
able tapestries by cutting pieces
from them.
In Chicago Dr. Orville S. Burnett was
declared responsible for the suicide of
Mrs. Charlotte S. Nichols and his
punishment was fixed at fifteen years
Imprisonment.
J. P. Morgan of New York has given
So 900 900 to the University of the
South at Sewanee. This is one of the
foremost educational institutions in
the southern country.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors agreed on a bill carrying APP
preparations of S60,700,000 of which
S24 OO0, 900 is cash and $36,700,000 in
continuing contracts.
A new Indictment was returned in
the United States court at Savannah
against Capt. B. D. Greene and the
| Gaynors relative to the alleged
Savannah harbor frauds.
Professor Charles w. Pearson, who
resigned the chair of English litera-
ture in Northwestern university be-
| cause of his views on the Bible, has
signed a contract with a lecturing
| bureau.
The Chicago grand jury has in
dicted Captain George w. Streeter,
William Force, Henry Hoeldtke and
Billy" McManners for the murder OF
John S. Kirk, who was killed in bat
tie on the Streeter tract.
superintendent C. j. Crandell of the
United States Indian school at Santa
Fe. n. M. has received word from
two precincts in northern Taor county
that 40 children had died there the
past few days of diphtheria.
Marconi, who arrived in New York,
kept up wireless communication with
his station at Cornwall until he was
2,099 miles away, when the last signal
was heard Actual messages were re-
ceived at a distance 1851 miles.
| Chilto Hargo, or Crazy Snake, and
nine of his followers were sentenced
to the United States penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth for two years and
wer fined $4,000 each, on charge Of
conspiring against the government
The supreme court at Boston over
ruled the exceptions taken by coun-
sci for John C. Best, the farm hand
convicted of the murder of George E..
Bailey at Break Heart Hill farm,
North Saugus, in the spring of 1901.
T BENJAMIN F. Ellsworth of Wood
stock killed an aged man whom he ac-
cused of running his home, and com
mitted suicide after taking the life Of
his wife. The son of the murderer
was arrested as accessory to the
crime.
President Roosevelt refused to ap-
| point Dan Hogan internal revenue col
! lector for southern Illinois because
of his record as state grain registrar
The Lorimer-Yates faction, however,
will be permitted to name. the ap-
pointee.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Henry A.
Taylor, of New York, was found guilty
of conspiracy to bride by the jury in
the superior court. This is the Sec
ond conviction as a result of the re
cent investigation of the city water
| scandal.
Patrick O'Connell is dead and Jere
miah Murphy is in critical condition
and five other men had narrow es,
capes from death at the works of the
! Standard oil company in Constable
Hook, N j. The men were overcome
I1v ooc from boiling oil