Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-09-08

United States and the Monroe doc
tTine.
The total exports from the United
States for July showed a decrease COM
pared with last year, while the exports
of manufacturers were considerably
greater.
President Roosevelt continued his
New England trip and took luncheon
with "Old BilT' Sewall, hunter who
years ago acted as guide for the chief
executive.
The body of an unknown woman
which was found beside the tracks
near Caney, I. T., has been identified
as that of Miss Barbara Bates of
Knoxville, Tenn.
A train on the Chicago & North
western railway was blown from the
track at Owatonna, Mimi, by cy-
clone. Four persons were killed and
fifteen injured
A gambling house conducted by
Frank Farrell, who is said to have
$1,000,000 bank roll, was opened a
short distance from the WaldOrf-As-
COfla nOLel, new YORK.
Howell Jones, a farmer of Athens,
Ark, was shot and killed by A. J.
Matthias, neighbor. The two men
were brothers-in-law and had not been
friendly for some time.
Twelve loaded freight cars on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
went through bridge near Kelnper,
Ill, and the bodies of three tramps are
under the wreckage
Alarmed by the demand of the pub
lie for the ending of the strike, mine
owners decided to rush shipments of
coal to New York. They expect the
price to drop to 81 ton.
Michael J. Murray, alias Walls, and
john Davis, alias Sammy Jamison
alias Bob Clark, two of the most
noted confidence men in the country,
were arrested in Indianapolis.
Charles l.. Brockaway of Aberdeen,
S. D., late captain in the South Dakota
regiment which went to the Philip
pines, has been promoted from a 5000
cierkship to $1,000 in the treasury.
Governor Crane of Massachusetts
honored the requisition for Julian Eos
ter, the negro wanted by the South
Carolina authorities for the murder Of
Lewis White, at Newmarket, S. G.
Defendants in the Northern Secur-
tiles company merger suit filed their
answers in st. Paul, denying the chief
charges, and declaring that rates were
lower than before the company was
formed.
A rich strike has been made
which makes Tonopah, New, without a
doubt, the richest mining camp in the
world. The strike was made at $50
fleet, on the Mispah extension ledge, a
mile and a quarter from the original
workings. q
While suffering from temporary in
sanity, Emma Bankhardt, spinster,
40 years of age, attempted to kill her
mother and sister, Dorothy, who may
| Gle, and then committed suicide at
their home four miles south of Coving-
| ton, Ky.
Patrick Egan, of the veterans of the
Clan-na-Gael, has resigned from the
organization in letter in which he de
nounces vigorously the opposition of
| the Clan-na Gael to the present move
-4ent in Ireland under the leadership
OF John Redmond.
The Culver Lumber Company, own
| ing extensive timber forests at Craig
| head, Okla, with lumber yards in Kan
sas City, Mo-, and sash, door and box
| factory at Kansas City, Kan, was
placed in receivers hands. The as
sets are $650OOO and the liabilities
| $4,000.
The National Postmasters' Asso-
citation reelected F. B. Dickerson of
Detroit, president Other officers elect
ed were: First vice-president, Will
liam E. Hull, PEORIA; second vice
presirent, Hiram B. Odell, Newburg,
, N. Y; secretary, William Edgar
Springer, Detroit; treasurer, Thomas
I. Lawler, Rockford.
The circuit court at Danville, ILL.,,
was occupied with the suit of Mrs.
Minnie E. ellis of Chicago, VS..
James e. ellis, for separate mainten-
ance. Mrs. ellis, in her evidence,
said her husband was a necessary evil.
After hearing the evidence, Judge
Dunn found for the defendant, dismiss
ing the case at the cost of the plain
tiff.
General Superintendent w. A, Gar
rett, of the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway Company, and Superintendent
James r. Turk of tho Reading and
Columbia division, were slightly in
jured by the derailing of the private
observation engine Ariel at Morton
vile on the Wilmington and Northern
Railroad. John H. Bradford en-
gineer, and George w. Rockthasel, fire
man, were pinned under the wrecked
locomotive.
At Aspen, Col, Edward Wilson, pro-
prietor of the Abbey Club, and Jacob
Gels and John Holm, faro dealers,
have been arrested for aiding
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