Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-10-13
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Inc pr0Sld0ntS physicians 1OrDdu6
him to attend and review the G. A. R.
parade, as he has not been able to
place his foot on the floor since the
! last operation.
| John W. Sims of Knoxville, Iowa,
who killed his father last August to
protect him from killing his mother,
was discharged, the grand jury having
found no bill against him.
Prof. Walter A. Wyckoff, the
Princeton author of The Workers,
| reached Pueblo, Colo, i'll from a fifty
mile walk through storm as a hobo,
i in search of sociological material.
Two freight trains on the Gulf
! Colorado and Santa Fe railroad col
lided head-on at Ardmore, |. T. Two
members of the crew were Killed
and five injured, two perhaps fatally.
A. P. Nelson, cashier of the First
bank of Grantsburg, Wis, received a
/ telephone message stating that his 2
year-Old daughter Constance was
killed in the Board Of Trade elevator
at Duluth.
! The Morgan steamship trust
! raised second cabin fares on the
Oceanic, Lucania and Campania to
| $47.50 both ways and $45 on other
ships. Cunard and German lines
I joined the advance.
Banker R. M. Snyder of ST. Louis
was convicted of bribing city council
men for traction bill votes and five
years sentence was imposed. The
evidence showed that he had offered
| 100000 for a single vote.
At Chester, ILL.,, John Reagdon and
G.. Rose, two convicts who claimed
! they could not survive the cruelties
practiced by prison officials, each cut
three fingers from his right hand to
avoid heavy work in the foundry.
At East Las Vegas, N. M, Mrs.
Josie Carson Squires, better known as
! Josie Carson, daughter of Kit Carson,
| the noted scout and Indian fighter, is
dead at tue territorial insane asylum.
! She was admitted from Ration in 1898.
! The action Of the custom cutters
and trimmers in refusing to cut cloth
ing from, shops employing clothing
makers not belonging to the United
Garment Workers will throw 1000
workers out of employment in Chi
cago.
| The G.. A. r. annual encampment
begun at Washington with the dedica-
! ton of Camp Roosevelt. Secretary
Hay, in his address Of welcome, de-
clared America does not need stand
| ing army because it's defenders spring
from the soil.
Gen. William Booth, salvation army
| founder was welcomed at New York
/ by twelve steamers chartered by his
| followers at a cost OF $1,000 A union
with the volunteers is declared I'LL
/ likely, but he will consolidate the ex-
listing organization.
The livery barn and undertaking
establishment Of J. L. Sells at FL
wood, Ind, was burned. Mrs. Sells
was overcome by smoke while trying
to rescue a horse and is in a serious
condition. The loss is $4,000; in
/. surance, $4,000
Tollgate raiders dynamited the toll
house at Brooklyn Bridge, Ky. Mrs.
Richard Rue, wife of the toll collect
or, was dangerously injured The
! bridge spans Kentucky river and is
| the outlet for people of Mercer and
| Jessamine counties.
! Abraham s. Roseberry, chief cleo
| trical engineer Of the Cincinnati Gas
and Electrical company, was killed
by electricity at the Cincinnati cleo
trio plant He was constructing an
arc light testing machine when he re-
ceived a current of 5000 voltage.
After having been in bed continual
1y since 1878, Mrs. Dora Gerstenkorn
died at Kankakee, Ill She sustained
a shock Twenty-Five years ago when
her brother was brought home after
a railroad accident with broken leg,
from which she never recovered.
Lady Henry Somerset, president Of
the Worlds w. G. T. U. reached New
York and declared that England is be-
coming a nation of drunkards. Lon
don arrests for intoxicatiOn are now
three women to one man, against four
men to one woman fifteen years ago.
Heavy trains in southern Iowa,
which made railroad beds soft,
caused two freight wrecks, one on
the Rock Island near Unionville, the
other on the Milwaukee near Sey-
mour. A long string of cars is in
the ditch at Unionville and traffic is
completely blocked.
A coroners jury in New York in
the case of Mrs. Harry G. Rose, who
was shot and killed Sept. IT, returned
a verdict that Mrs. Rose died from
wounds received from a revolver at
the hands of her husband. The
coroner sent Rose to the tombs to
await the action of the grand jury.
Three hundred members of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company Of Boston reached Cleve-
| land to spend their annual outing in
that city. In the afternoon the Wis
itors, escorted by the Grays and
troop A, gave a parade, and at night
the Bostonians were given a recep-