Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-04-28
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.


tied up by a strike of 5000 employees.
Edward Hawley was killed by his
brother James in their saloon in De-
troit.
The Presbyterian creed revision
committee has completed it's work nd
adjourned.
The Virginia constitutional conv9n-
zion has so far cost the state over
$225,0OO.
The house probably will accept the
senate substitute for the Chinese ev
cIusion bill
c.. N. Mcdonald, an insurance agent
o. York Pa, was killed by a Northern
Central train.
Miss SybiI Clifton, actress, has been
left 100000 by an uncle who died in
Beaumont, Texas.
Elmer Collins, accused of wife
murder, was released ON bail at
Georgetown, Del.
A modified canal protocol was pre-
sented to Secretary Hay by the
Colombian minister
J. P. Morgan has completed the je-
steamship companies.
Josiah Lynn, one time partner OF
Jay Gould, is now an inmate of the
Karsville, N. J., poorhOuse.
d. M. Parry of indianapolis was
elected president of the National
Manufacturers association.
Noted women at the meeting of n
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the subject of wife-beating.
The Colombian canal protocol asks
$1,000 900 rental for fourteen years to
be paid to Colombia in advance.
In Washington, Lawrence Norman,
oolored, was sent to prison for life on
conviction of a charge of murder
Major George A. Armes, retired, has
been ordered to pay his former wife
$3.50 alleged to be alimony in arrears.
New York saloons resumed Sunday
drink sales and the revolt of the
police for reform methods appears
ended.
The statue of the late Frances 2
Willard cannot be paid for by the
Illinois appropriation, which has
lapsed.
Two negro incendiaries who burned
the Jail at Princess Anne, were SEN
fenced to Is years each in the peni-
tertiary.
The S450,O00 remaining in the
treasury of the Worlds Columbian
Exposition company will be dis
tributed..
The Illinois Central is believed like
Iy to share in the Louisville and Nash
vile deal when arranged by J. P.
Morgan.
An appropriation for a temporary
office building for the president and
his clerical force will be asked oy
Senator Hale.
Burton, Willis and Frederick Van
Ncrmed were convicted at Hudson.
n. Y, Of numbering their uncle, Peter
A Hallenbeck.
Ex-Governor John Lee Carroll of
Maryland was reelected president
general Of the National Society Sons
OF the Revolution.
Miss Emma c. Sickels of Chicago
mas received a medal from "a French
society for checking the threatened
indian war of 1890.
The Yellow Poplar Lumber Manu-
facturers' association was organized in
Lexington, KY, and will advance
prices So a thousand feet,
During the three months ended Sen
tember 80, 1901, 725 persons were
killed and 1922 injured in train &C
cidents in the United States.
The rumOr published in Chicago
that Secretary Root will leave the
cabinet is emphatically denied by his
friends and official associates.
The Standard Oil company, fearing
the influence of bull operations, buys
back st. Paul stock to tighten it's
grip on the control of the road.
Lloyd L. Burke, under sentence OF
death in Queen Anne county, Md, for
felOniOus assault, has had his sentence
committed to life imprisonment.
Six persons are believed to have
persisted from the steamer City Of
Pittsburg which burned and sank
twenty-four miles from Cairo, III.
Mrs. Ida Joy, wife of molder at
Detroit, was presented with diamond
ring by the strikers because she
threw stones during the recent riot.
The Boston blue laws were enforced
by the police to the extent of stopping
candy and soda sales and allowing the
liquor and sandwich hotels to run.
Emma Kubicke, 6-year-old blind,
deaf and dumb pupil at the Illinois
school for blind, learned to spell
words after twenty-five weeks teach
ing.
The st. Louis authorities have dn.
cided to cooperate with Governor
Taft in making the Philippine *
hibit leading feature of the exposi-
lion.
Dun & Co.'s weekly trade review
found retail and jobbing trade better
ed by the good weather. The railway
earnings for Arpil increased SO over
1901.