Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-09-15


Nebraska and Kansas national guard
also will participate.
The body of Harry Sayers, posi-
master at Hambleton, W. Va, was
found in Beadi Fork river. James
| Davis, friend, on hearing the news,
dropped dead.
At Richmond, Ind, Rev, J. c. Muir
ray, member Of the faculty of the
German theological school, was
cleared of charge of immortality be-
| fore a church tribunal.
Mayor Tom Johnson's caravan left
| Cleveland for a democratic campaign
I tour of Ohio. Tents and lemonade
stands are carried in wagons after
the old fashioned circus plan.
Dun G Co.'s weekly review found
merchandise distribution heavy. The
fuel shortage is affecting the iron
| output; August railroad earnings
gained 36 per cent. over 1901.
At Grass Pond, in the Adirondacks,
Major Charles A. Smiley of Phila-
| delphia, was shot dead by Judge c.
P. Storrs of Orange, N j., his best
friend, who mistook him for a deer
Major William S. Bracket, who
had heavy cattle interests in Mon
tana, brOoding over matters connect
ed with a recent divorce from his
wife, shot and killed himself at
Peoria.
Marion Wright won a $1,000 wager
by driving a ball through the streets
from the Newport reading room to
the golf club in sc strokes, with 3 10
spare. Just 209 feet to a stroke were
averaged.
Unless government engineers can
check the tendency of the Missouri to
cut new channel, st. Joseph will be
left miles from the river with a $780,
900 steel bridge and no water to run
under it.
Veterans who served as con-
federates before becoming union
soldiers are entitled to pensions only
from the date claimed are filed after
July 1, 1902, according to the COM
missioner.
Honey bee stings were found to
cure rheumatism and other ills
through the formic acid which the
poison contains. William Snively, of
Shady Grove, Pa, is declared cured
after being stung.
The president sent a wreath of
flowers to be placed on the casket of
William Craig, his guard killed by
trolly car. The president is receiv-
ing a large number of messages OF
congratulation.
Lieutenant Winchells report on the
efficiency of fuel oil as a substitute
for coal on ocean steamships is quite
satisfactory and indicates the feast
bility of the change, from an
economic standpoint.
Plans are being formulated by the
Pennsylvania Railroad company for
the Inauguration of train service be-
tween Broad street station, Phila-
delphia, and Thirty-fourth street. New
York, in rs minutes.
A carload of Mormon converts left
Valdosta, Ca, for Leftmitch, Canada.
far to the north of the Rocky mou1.
tain states. The Mormons were con,
'C1 ICo W Cu0 IdlLu III Taylor county,
Florida, by Mormon missionaries.
Resenting an alleged insult to
woman, tenant of the Chicago build
ing of which he was the janitor.
Amaziah Hayner, 70 years DID, shot
and almost instantly killed Henry
Martin. He claims self-defense.
The Overlook mills at Phila,!9
phia, operated by Rosenheim Broth 5rs
& Co., manufacturers of tapestries.
and owned by the Haverford BUILDING
and Loan association, were DESTROYED
by fire. The loss is $4,000, insured
The international Mining congress
mas refused to indorse the Kerns bill |
for a change in the mining
laws OF the country so as to establish |
separate claims and do away with |
extra lateral rights, by vote of 95 |
to 8. |
Announcement is made by Irwin |
Shepard, secretary of the Nationa.
educational association, that the de-
partment of superintendent, number |
ing 1000 of the leading educators ol
the United States, will meet in CHI
Feb. 24-27.
d. w. Culkins of Yonkers, N. Y
made love to Mabel Secor of Dobbs
Ferry, concealing the fact that he
was a married man, and all went we'll !
until his wife found a package of the
young lady's letters to her husband
IN his trunk. Now she wants $25, 900
from Miss Secor.
The National Association of Sta |
Engineers, in session at Bos-
ton, adopted an amendment debarring
negroes from membership. Tie |
southern delegates took the ground |
that it is impossible for the negro to
enjoy the same social privileges - |
the white man.
The miners strike entered the !
eighteenth week with no prospect of !
settlement. The weeks anthracite
shipments from mines aggregated !
100000 tons, against 100000 |
normally. Coal shipments from New