Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-12-21

as well as of law.
Salvador Speciale. who betrayed a
New York counterfeiters' gang. was
found murdered in Brooklyn.
Five h0ldup men dynamited a safe
az Camden. n. j.. secured $40. had a
pistol fight with the police. and es-
capped.
Charles 4. Yerkes is TO enlarge his
fifth avenue mansion in New York
He has purchased adjoining property
FOR 100000.
The assassin of Miss Elizabeth
Gillespie at Rising sun Cnd.) de-
clared by local officials to be under
surveillance.
William Mestayer. said TO be a
c0unterfeiter and burglar. was arrest
ed i'm Tinanys. New York. looking a.
uncut diamonds.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills said
God never intended one man to con-
troll oil and possess S1O0,OOO,0O while
others had none.
Keeper A. J. Gray has been forced
10 resign from Auburn IN. W prison,
owing to the charge made that he
Struggled opium TO the prisoners.
AdOiphus Drucker, a wealthy Eng
lishman, who died il Bellevue hospi-
tai, New York, left an insurance
policy of 100000 10 E. T. Hooley.
Nicholas Christensen, a Chicago
salOOnkeeper, shot and killed his
brother and then committed suicide
as the result of a business quarrel.
Charles Morris was shot by his
wife at their home at III Twenty
third street. Chicago, and may die.
She asserts she shot in self-defense.
Francis Lynch of Boston, private
secretary to Governor Hunt of Porto
Rico, has resigned. He will be sue
ceeded by Arthur II. Frazier of New
York.
Otto Larsen, member of the Jersey
City bachelors club, declined to pay a
So fine when caught talking to a
pretty girl and was expelled from the
club
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock.
IN his annual report, SHOWS 22.S24.299
acres Of public land sold during the
year. The pension list decreased
2.SOI names.
Mrs. Sarah Langley. aged Sc. a
widow. at McKeespOrt, Pa, was mis-
taken by her son Edward for burglar
and was shot by him. She is in a
serious condition.
Rev. c. S. Bullock. OF the Neighbor.
hood church, Stratford. Conn. was
held in $3.50 bail on a charge pre-
ferTed by a girl who was formerly a
member of his choir.
Unied States Senator William A.
Clark, now in New York city. was
much improved after the operation on
his ear, which was declared TO have
been d complete success.
The Chicago holiday trade com
pares favOrably with thst # 1902. ac-
cording 10 Dun's review. Prices are
equal To 1902. Furniture factories re-
port 70 letup of orders.
Zion City will be conducted here
after on a cash basis, according TO
John A. Dowie False charges that
Mrs. DOwie carried 100000 abroad
Is Llamed for his troubles.
The grand jury at Peoria. III. has
ignored charges against the Big Four
Jrainmen whom the coroner's jury
held for the fremont wreck. Both
men have been released.
A suit for divorce from Zoltan
C3ems was begun in New York by
Nine. Nordica. Her husband is in
with nervous prostration. Too much
attention 10 Melba is rumored.
When DR.. ElwCod r. Brown and
Miss Henrietta Hoffman. of South
River. n. j., took wrong train, which
landed them in Perth Amboy, they de-
cided 10 get married at once.
Rev. William Boiler Walker. rector
Of Christ Episcopal church, Joliet.
III, leader in opposition TO accepting
halt-iare permits issued by railroads.
has accepted a call TO Macon. Ga.
Miss Lecna Ireland, OF Ithaca, n. y.
IS recovering from a years sickness
from typhoid. Her temperature has
been LOG degrees since Jan. 20 last.
with pulse varying from 20 to $50.
Bishop Nichols stated at San Fran
cisco that two-thirds of the members
OF the diocese of California had voted
not TO change the name of the church
from Episcopal to American Catholic.
Three persons were killed and ten
injured near Abba (Ia.) by the de-
railing OF a Burlington passenger
train on a bridge, and three are dead
and five hurt in a st. Paul wreck in
Iowa.
DIR. I. b. Washburn of Rensselaer,.
Ind, died at a Valparaiso hospital as
the result of an operation two years
ago in which DR.. Fenger of Chicago.
now dead. left a pair of steel forceps
near the liver.
Governor Brady of Alaska in his
annual report urges provision for
Alaskan representation by a delegate
in congress and says that Alaska's
main need is for pioneers and home
builders.
Announcement is made by Mrs.