Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-09-14

! ings was lowered at Providence, r. L.,
by Major Delmar. who goes the mile in
l2:02la.
J. c. Keller was reelected president
OF the National Association of Letter
/ Carriers. The next convention will
/ be held in Portland. ore.
Miss CIoyetta Brownlow, daughter of
/ Congressman Brownlow of Tennessee,
eloped with Mark E. Pitchett, a Jones
I boro (Tenn.) liveryman.
| Chicago is to have a new railroad on
, Oct. l, the Chicago, Cincinnati and
+ Louisville, with passenger terminal at
the Grand Central station.
Rev. John T. B0ylan, pastor of st.
Lncy's Catholic church at Jersey City,
viii raffie the old church rectory, in
the hope OF raising $4,000.
At Ligonier, Ind, Mrs. William Bill
man, Mrs. Attic Peters and Miss
Blanche Gill were struck by a train on
the Lake Shore road and killed.
The future queen Of Bavaria, Crown
Princess Louise, is dangerously i'll in
New York while visiting the city
incOgnitO on a trip around the world.
A ST. Paul Mimi foundry company
will build for the government a bird
cage at the St Louis fair as large as
the treasury building and ninety feet
wide
At Los Angeles Mike Jersey, John
Cranz and Dan Sabin, three laborers,
were crushed 10 death by caving in
at the excavation for the site of a new
hotel.
William Lafara, a Colorado cattle
man. rode into Grand Junction and in
formed the sheriff that in a fight he
had shot and killed f. T. Massey, a
neighbor
In Ribera, n. Mex, Juan Solano, a
prominent citizen, was murdered. The
body was found near the town, with
the horse which he had been riding
standing watch.
c. Mack had a thumb chewed so
badly by a mad horse at La Crosse,
that it will have TO be amputated. The
horse had rabies and Mack is in dan
ger of his life.
Curtis Jet. convicted Of assassinat-
taken TO Cynthiana to stand trial for
the assassination OF Town Marshal
James Cockrill.
County Judge Arthur E. Sutherland
OF Rochester. y. Y. was accidentally
shot while duck hunting on Stony
Lake. Canada, sustaining a serious
wound in the forearm.
At Wilkesbarre. Pa, Mrs. Michael
Wolfe was killed and eleven others
were injured by a trolley car striking
a rock on the track and plunging down
n thirty-foot embankment.
President Garrett of the Indian
Rights association is accused by Secre-
tary Hitchcock of discourtesy in pub
fishing charges Of land frauds before
informing the government.
At Canaan. n. H., Joseph Graham
and Miss Josie Nelson were shot by
William Imprete. who then shot him
self. His victims were not seriously
hurt but Tmprete may die.
The body Of a man believed to have
been robbed and murdered was found
in a freight car at Baton, n. NJ. A let
ter 70 ]. o. Palmer" from Harvey,
III. was found in his pocket.
Six people were killed and twenty
I've more or less seriously injured by
an explosion OF a boiler in the engine
room of the Hanson-van Wrinkle COM
pany. Damage, $4,000.
A Pittsburg Salvation Army band
was organized To invade the Kentucky
feud regions. Staff Capt White will
command the efforts TO convert all the
feud members will be made.
AT Knoxville. Tenn, while Clarence
Peake was being tried for the murder
of Silas Hulin, Hulin walked into the
courtroom. Who the man was that
Peake killed is now the mystery.
Griffith J. Griffith, a millionaire
California land owner, was arrested at
Los Angeles on charge by his wife that
he shot her at Santa Monica, after
limiting that she tried to poison him.
Mrs. Weir Martin of New York and
her aunt, Mrs. Hessing of Chicago,
were robbed of cash and jewelry
amounting TO more than $4,000 at an
Alexandria Bay, y. Y, summer hotel.
Lord Strathcona's testimony that
northwest Canada is chiefly adapted
for muskrats is being disproved by
crowds of settlers. Large sections
are fitted only for grazing. but oats and
fax are heavy yields.
The marriage of Miss Jennie Ross of
Florence, Wis. and John Z. Brewer of
New Washington, Ind, was brought
about by a wildcat, which the former
beat of with his umbrella, exciting the
latter's admiration.
President Baer and ali officials of
the anthracite coal roads defy the
census law and refuse to give detailed
information of the workings of their
companies. They may be prosecuted
under the new law.
Miss Ida NJ. Allen, of Red Bank, n.
J.. fired three shots at Walter Layton,
her afianced. when she saw him driv-
ing with another woman. She slight