Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-05-04

hin. Mass. left $4,000 I'm cash and Il
house iu West ROXLury assessed at
$4,000 20 his widow and eight chill
tIeu.
Near Mexico. No.. Joseph T. Boyd.
q retired farmer and ex-Confederate
officer was found dead On the back
porch Of his home from a bullet
wound. II IS believed he committed
suicide
. John London. living near Grand
Rapids. Mich. is believed 10 have
4 been shot 10 death on Bernard Fingle-
tons farm. Fingleton and Nancy J.
Flood. the latter's housekeeper, were
arrested.
{ The navy department has issued
orders that the birthplace of the late
Rear Admiral Sampson at Palmyra.
y Y. be marked with one of the
hve-inch guns OF the Spanish war
ship Oquendo.
! The Tuskegee (Ala.) industrial
school for negroes was given 5000, 200
In United States Steel company 5
per cent. bonds by Andrew Carnegie
Booker T. washington was called
modern Moses
A protest against the Russian de-
mand that sovereignty of Manchuria
be coded by China will be made by
the United States. The cars pledge
is 20 be cited. Other nations are ex-
pected 10 Join.
publican national convention in De
troit as a feature of the semi
centennial OF the birth of the party
under the oaks at jackson. Mich, is
Iavorably received.
a. ". Machen. superintendent of
pOstofice department free delivery,
viii be removed by President Roose-
welt or Postmaster General Payne.
Collision and dividing profits with
contractors are charged.
BY Tue premature explosion OF a
charge in the revielle gun at Fort
Smelling. Mimi. Private Carver of
company II and Corporal Foley, com
pany s. were badly burned and lost
parts of several fingers.
John III. Wisker. engineer Of the |
Harlem railway train in the Park |
avenue. New York. tunnel disaster of |
Jan. s. 1902. which caused the death |
. OF seventeen persons. was found not |
guilty. Wisker was charged with |
criminal neglect.
James y. Tyner. the pOstoffice lie |
partment's attorney general, was dis |
missed by Postmaster General Payne |
and prosecution was started against |
Tyner. his wife, and Mrs. Harrison ]. ,
Barrett for opening a safe and carry. |
ing Of public records.
At New Castle. Wyo.. the corners !
jury has returned a verdict that Nj |
and Mrs. John W. Church came to /
their deaths from gunshot wounds a. /
the hands of W. c. Clifton. Clifton |
.ccnfesses. He was in love with Mrs. ,
Church and she spurned him.
The New York commission ap- |
pointed by the appellate division OF
the supreme court TO report whether /
the tunnel railroad, planned by the /
Pennsylvania railroad, TO cross Man
haitian insland should be constructed, :
fled its report favoring the bore.
The British ship Colorado from \
Hull. reports that on April II the
body of the elephant lingo, thea
aaCat thirty-six days. was sighted in
latitude 1926. longitude 36.45. lingo |
said to have been the largest beast in
captivity. died at sea and was thrown
overheard
Aaron Bark. a farmer who died /.
suddenly NJ his home in Muhlenburg
county. about twelve miles west OF
AIUhlcnhurg. Ky. was discovered to
De q woman. whose name is Mrs.
Fred Green. She came TO Nuhlel-
burg county thirteen years aso with
a small child.
Mrs. Jennie Flood of Grand Rapids.
Mich. was arrested for the alleged
murder of John London. An accident
insurance policy for $1,000 was
recently taken out on LondOn's pei
son, with Mrs. Flood as the ben
eficiary. Bernard Fingleton, on
whose farm the tragedy took place.
also was arrested.
AT indianapolis. Rufus Cantrell. |
liking OF the ghouls," was found
guilty upon two counts. The first /
count was for robbing the grave OF |
Rose Niedlinger and the second was
for conspiracy with DR.. Joseph !
Alexander, demonstration Of anatomy /
at the Central college for physicians |
and surgeons to rob her grave. The l
punishment on the first count is i'm
prisonment OF from three TO ten |
years and on the second imprison-
ment from two to fourteen years.
FOREIGN.
Forty Turkish soldiers and fifteen /,