Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-17


began suit at Grand Rapids against the
state Ct Michigan to recover $4,000
taxes.
An internal machine was sent to
DR.. G. S. Coon of Louisville, but it
failed to work and 10 one was in
jured.
I At Louisville, fire destroyed the
Bourbon stOckyards and two adjoining
buildings. burning $50 head of sheep.
Loss S25O,0O0.
At fernando, Miss, Sheriff Henry
L. Williamson was probably fatally
injured in a pistol jUel with County
Surveyor W. II. Moody.
At Arkansas City, Kan, Newton
Farris. while drunk, attacked his wife
with a chair, whereupon she shot him
through the heart.
Two persons were killed near Pitts
burg, Kas., and 60 injured by a
cyclone, which destroyed property
worth thousands of dollars.
( ltrs. Mabel Mckinley Baer, a daugh-
ter of Abner Mckinley and Persistent
McKinley's favorite niece, has decided
to retire from the stage.
At Sharon, Pa, Joseph Bees was
killed and a score of Others injured
by a trolley collision on the Young
stown and Sharon trolley line.
Nine. Calve telgraphed the manager
OF a French theater from London that
she could not keep her engagement as
she was very i'll of heart disease.
. Miss Carrie Knapp of Leclaire, Iowa,
met death at church. A hanging lamp
fell in her lap, set fire to her clothes
and burned her body TO a crisp.
Z DR.. Samuel G. Smith of ST. Paul,
who is now abroad, has declined the
call extended 10 him some months ago
by Westminster chapel, London.
Returns from the Mississippi
primaries indicate the nomiation of
II. d. Money for United States senator
and James X. Vardaman for governor.
The state prison commission or
Georgia began an investigation OF the
whipping of Mamie DecTis, a female
prisoner at Milledgeville prison farm.
Rev. c. b. Breckes, pastor of the
Avondale Presbyterian church, Chica-
90. has received . call from the First
Presbyterian church at Valparaiso,
IND.
Governor Heard Of Louisiana has de-
clined 10 interfere in the case of A. Z.
BatsOn for the murder Of seven mem
bers of the Earl family. Batson will
be hanged.
Eastern Illinois railroad tTainmen
on the Terre Haute division are
warned against flirting with women
near the tracks at West MCntezuma
and Hillsdale.
Antonio Luciano. the last survivor
CT his family at New Orleans. was shot
10 death by Antonio Spare. whom the
siafa had chosen for the deed. Spare
was caught.
Rev. c. 3. Becker. pastor of the
Avondale Presbyterian church OF
Chicago. has been extended a call by
the First Presbyterian church OF
Valparaiso. Ind.
Prof Langley's model airship was
wrecked In Potomac river mud after
flying 500 yards. Its course was
semi-ci.cle. The till motor and rud.
deIs failed 10 work.
between 200 and 500 descendants OF
the pilgrim. John Alden, immOrtalizei
by L0ngfellow, gathered in Duxbury,
Mass. at the second annual reunion
cl the Alden family.
Mrs. WcCdscn has started FOR Ar
Iugton. Va, with the remains CT
Brigadie- General a. L. WcOdson, who
died al Paoia. Kan. Burial will be in
the National cemetery.
y land grant o. 100000 acres was
secured from the Mexican govern
ment by former United States. Senator
Pettigrew of South Dakota. Timber
and grazing are included.
Seven well-known New York physi-
clans. headed by DR.. Albert w. Ferris,
have formed a company for the pub
LEGATION of a daily medical journal,
which will appear Oct. LIST.
Professor John F. Nuner, at present
with the University of Chicago, has
been appointed to succeed Professor
Byron ]. Bogue as superintendent Of
Niishawaka public schools.
The Red Star steamship Finland,
arrived at New York, brought the
body of George F. Lincoln, United
States consul general at Antwerp, who
died in Brussels in July.
Twenty-three persons were killes
and many more injured by the wreck.
ing Of two sections of Wallace Bros
circus train at Durand, Mich, owing
TO the failure of an air brake.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, German
ambassador, who has been the presi-
dents guest at Sycamore hill, left
Oyster bay for his summer home near
the Weirs, New Hampshire.
Gen. John c. Black of Chicago will
be the next national commander of the
G. A. r.. according to j. 7. Stewart,
the present commander-in-chief; Gen.
Miles is a possible candidate.
Two persons were killed at New
York by a fire truck, which swung its
tail into a crowd while turning sharply