Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-10-26


by Charles NJ. Schwab for the poor
children of New York, has been
ordered discontinued.
George Duncan Of New York, a
nephew of George B. Edwards, presi-
dent of the Deposit bank of Louis
vile. KY, was accidentally killed
while out hunting.
Silver. lead, and bullion worth
500. 900 were recovered by wreckers
from the bottom of Staten Island
Sound. where it fell from the deck of
a steamer Sept. 81.
An official order revoking the
quarantine against cattle, sheep and
swine in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire has been issued by the
secretary of agriculture.
]. L. Diefendorf a clerk in the post
Office at Lincoln, Neb., was arrested
on the charge of stealing registered
letters. and confessed. Decoy letters
were used TO trap him.
Mrs. Kate Lonergan, who. with her
{ 2-year-old son, was lost on the prairie
, in a snowstorm near Denver, has been
found dead in an irrigating ditch into
which she had fallen.
/ Herman Rossow, who wounded his
wife and then tried TO commit sui
eide in a Lutheran church, pleaded
guilty at La Crosse. and was given
fifteen years Imprisonment.
The Viborg Is. d. bank was robbed
OF 81 900 by safe breakers. r. ID.
Hunter. Nome miner. was robbed of
/ 81 900 in gold dust; the Linn Grove
Iowa postofiice safe of $4,000.
The United States Steel company
is accused of driving American agri-
cultural implement makers from Can
adian markets by selling machinery
steel TO rivals there at lower prices.
Former President Grover Cleveland
returned to Princeton, n. j., from Chi
cago. He said that his trip had been
most enjoyable one and that he was
suffering no in effects from the jour
ney.
C.. o. Moore. agent of the Jackson
vile and st. Louis at Keyesport, H.,
was fatally injured at Centralia, Ill,
by being knocked off the top of a ca
boose by his head striking a water
crane
The Ohio state board of health has
adopted a resolution to take steps to
prevent the sale of TOY pistols and
other explosive appendages." Fourth
of July accidents are cited as the
cause.
DR.. w. Seward Webb, who has just
returned from Europe TO Burlington,
VT, expressed annoyance over reports
that he had been very i'll in England.
, Il have not felt better in ten years"
said Mr. Webb.
Albert z. Bell who has confessed
numerous mail robberies, has re-
covered sufficiently to be taken from
the hospital at Denver, where he has
! been confined. and will be taken to
Philadelphia for. trial.
Isaac Taggart of Providence, one
OF the sailors on Senator n. w. Aid
rich's steam yacht Chichota. was
drowned near Warwick, r. l., by fall
, ing overheard from a small boat in
which he was rowing.
Frederick A. Johnson. defaulting
individual bookkeeping of the Marine
national bank az Buffalo. was sent to
"a reformatory. He withdrew his
plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty
/ TO grand larceny in the first degree.
The officers of the Episcopal church
+ of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn have
decided TO extend a call to Rev. Sher-
ard Billings of the Groton school at
/ Groton to fiji the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Rev. S. d. Neon
nell
Secretary Wilson at a cabinet meet
ing said he would go south soon after
the November elections to investigate
the ravages OF the bold weevil in the
cotton fields. He will devote his time
personally to an investigation of the
subject
with kid" Carter at the New Cri-
teriOn club in Boston, was given the
decision. although the spectators
hOoted the referee and demanded a
draw. Carter was knocked down
twice in the first round, but later he
put up a stiff fight
w. II. Baldwin. Jr.. president of the
Long Island railroad and a prominent
member OF the citizens union, made
application for permission to vote in
/ the LIST Assembly district of Brooklyn.
! The board of registration at 1877 Col
umbia Nights demurred and Mr.. Bald
D.. win was not permitted to register. He
recently sold his house in Brooklyn
and has been living in a suburb.
The usual quarterly dividend of 50
share from net earnings was de-
clared at the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Pullman com
pany. The total surplus for the fiscal
year ending July 81, 1903, was $14,-
275.749. The increase over last year
in the number of passengers carried
was II per cent The former board
of directors was elected.
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