Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-12-22

elected Harry PuIllam OF PittSburg as
combined president, secretary and
treasurer. The prospect for peace
with the American league is good.
The senate committee may drop the
educational test in the immigration
bill. Commissioner General Of Immi-
grafton Frank Sargent said that that
feature could be sacrificed without de-
stroying the efficiency of the bill.
John T. Kramer, Mrs. Catherine
Moore, and Harry Moore, Elgin, H.,
husband. mother and brother OF Mrs.
j. F. Kramer, were arrested as ac-
cessories in the robbery of the store,
with which Mrs. Kramer is charged.
G. Y. Howard and Eugene Dawson,
students at the University of Colorado,
fought duel with pistols. The bull
lets were of dough but Howard did
not know this and thought he had
killed Dawson. who fell at the first
shot.
According to a statement made by
w H. Cropsey of Elizabeth City, N.
c.. father of Miss Nell Cropsey, for
whose murder James Wilcox is to be
tried at Hartford, n. c., new evidence
damaging to Wilcox will be intro
duced.
Major John Hancock, chief of the
stationery division of the pension
bureau, father-in-laW Of the director of
the census and a relative of General
Winfield Scott Hancock, was stricken
with paralysis at his desk. He is in
a serious condition.
D. M. Parry, president of the
National Manufacturers association,
is out with a new circular in his
fight against the eight-hOur bill now
pending in the senate committee. The
DILL has already been passed by the
house
The trial of Robert 0. Hunt OF
Oconto, former assemblyman and
prominent business man, on a charge
of mutilating the official records in
the registrar of deeds office was
brought to an end by Judge Good
land, who dismissed the accused.
1t is understood that Lloyd Girls
com, Jr., now minister to Persia, who
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nople and in that capacity did much to
effect q settlement of the American
claims, will be the successor to the
late Minister Buck at Toxic.
Trustees Of Princeton University
held their second quarterly meeting.
Announcement was made that a gift
of $4,000 had been presented by Nor
ris K. Jesup and $1,000 received from
the estate of Prof Willard Humphrey
for junior German prizes.
j. w Carroll, one Of the prominent
organizers of the united mine workers
in the New River fed of West Vir-
gina, is in Jail at Fay 5tteyille, w. Va
charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary
Ellis, white woman, so years of age,
at Thurmond.
Peale Wright, a young farmer at
SCOTS, Mich, was killed beneath
Grand Rapids and Indiana train at
Indiana Fields, six miles north OF
Kalamazoo. He was driving home
! from Kalamazoo with his sweetheart,
Nellie Snyder, who lost a leg in the
accident. She also may die.
James A. Norton, congressman from
the thirteenth Ohio district, has
served notice of contest of election on
A. H. Jackson Of Fremont, his sue
cessful opponent in the recent cleo
ton, on the grounds of irregularity in
the casting Of votes, corruption, etc.
Jackson carried the district by 327,
which is normally 5000 democratic.
Judge HalIett of the United States
district court at Denver has issued
injunctions against Treasurer Elder OF
the city and county of Denver restrain
ing him from selling the property OF
the railroads and express companies
doing business there for the taxes OF
1901, which are being withheld on the
ground that the assessment was
illegal
Judge P. S. Grosscup of Chicago,
in a Lincoln, Neb., address declared
that an attempt to eXterminate trusts
increase the evil. The Sherman law
was passed to kill them, but SO out OF
112 have teen created since it's pas
sage. The substitution Of milder laws
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savings in industrial stocks would
then cure the evil.
The International Distilling and
Cattle Feeding company, owned by
the whisky trust, has closed a deal
for the purchase of 200 acres Of land
adjoining South st. Joseph, Mo- A
distillery with capacity for 10000
bushels Of corn a day will be erected
and 10000 head of cattle will be fat
tened for the market. 1t is said ST.
100000 will be spent on the site.
Pearl Hart, the female stage rot
Der, was paroled by Governor Brodie
Of Arizona on the recommendation
Of the board of control and the prison
superintendent. She held up a stage
in company with Joe Boot between
Florence and Globe. Alter a chase
of several days by a posse the
fugitives were apprehended and most
of the booty iecOvered. The woman
IN T,yicoy7 fOr Eve