Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-06

$3.50.
Robert H. Hatfield, one of the last
of the notorious Kentucky clan, was
shot and killed at Troy mining camp
in the Pinal mountains, Arizona. The
slayer was Deputy Sheriff John G.
Devine, who bore warrant for Hat
gields arrest on a charge of wife
beating.
At London in the suit of the Taft
Vale railway against the Amalagamat-
ed Society Of Railway Servants, an
important trade union case, the plain
tiffs filed statement claiming &24,-
246 damages suffered through an
alleged conspiracy and unlawful com
binatiOn.
Secretary Long, it is understood will
be the next man to leave the cabinet,
and Charles H. Allen of Massachu
sets is his probable successor. Mr..
Allen was assistant secretary of the
navy during the Spanish war, being
the immediate successor of President
Roosevelt.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minis
ter, has submitted to the president
and the secretary of state a plan for
delaying the enactment of the Chinese
exclusion law until d thorough in
vestigation of the effect of that
statute has been made by a federal
commission.
Gen. William Shafter has been
flim-fammed A crafty stranger from
the orient tricked him into indorsing
two checks for an aggregate of 1895.
Now the San Francisco branch of the
Hong Kong and Shanghai bank is
looking to the general for redress, but
he refuses to pay.
The First National bank of Chicago
is preparing plans to erect the largest
office building in the United States.
This is the bank of which Lyman J.
Gage was formerly president, and to
which he is expected to return. The
building will cost $4,O0O,OOO and be
sixteen stories high.
Dispatches from SalOnica report
that w. w. Peet, treasurer of the mis-
sionary society in Constantinople, has
established communication with the
brigands who hold Miss Ellen NJ
Stone captive and hopes that the re-
release Of Miss Stone will be accom-
plished within fortnight.
The Burlington railroad is prepar-
ing to extend it's Montana line 300
miles to connect with the Great
Northern at Great Falls, Mont This
is a scheme Of ]. J. Hill to checkmate
his rivals in case they secure control
of the Northern Pacific and cut off
Hills present connection at Billings.
In Chicago cattle receipts for the
years the record is the largest since
1898 and the third largest in the his
tory of the trade. Hogs are among
the big records, though around 600,-
600 short of the banner record Of 1898;
sheep approximate 100000, and beat
the former big record more than 3OO,-
O0O.
The shortcut to matrimony for
women in Kansas City seems to b..
through the Midland hotel. Miss
cashier, announces her engagement to
Senator John M. Morton of Richmond,
Mo. Miss Kelleher is the eighteenth
cashier to be engaged in the employ
of the hotel.
Smallpox in Wisconsin has in
creased since the advent of the cold
weather and the consequent closing
up of homes. The report of DR.. u. o.
B. Wingate, secretary of the state
board Of health, for the fourth week
of December shows a total of 230 new
cases and a grand total for the month
of $50 cases.
The violence of the snow-storms
which have prevailed during the past
few weeks are unprecedented
A number of railway trains
are stalled in the snow in the
southeastern districts and most of
the telegraph wires are down Traffic
in Christiania and it's vicinity has
been greatly interfered with.
All Of the railroads in the inter-
changeable mileage bureau of the
Western Passenger Association have
agreed to raise the minimum distance
which holders of the interchangeable
credentials must travel before they can
secure a rebate of 1 cent a mile from
1000 to 5000 miles. This increase
will take effect on Jan. 1.
Mayor Jerome Dewitt of Bingham
ton, N. Y, is doing such a thriving
business in marrying couples clipping
from Pennsylvania that he has estab-
lished two of his office employees, a
man and a young woman, as perma-
nent best man and bridesmaid respec-
lively so as to give future couples all
the comforts of a home wedding.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, Robert NOEL
fresh, recently of Chicago, a clerk en-
plOyed by Swift e Co., died in a cell
at the city jail. Death was due to
arsenic poison, taken during the
morning. He was deeply in love with
a young woman he met two weeks
ago, and it is believed that he took
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