Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-10

tweEJy-seven OF the rioters who
Imassacred the Jews have been
sentenced 10 prison, the maximum sen
teace being one year.
Near Spokane Mrs. Catherine NJ.
NOrthrUp was shot and killed by
James Sanford en- a fruit ranch. San
ford had leased the ranch from Mrs.
NOrthrup. A quarrel arose and she
tried to evict him.
| President and rbss. Roosevelt were
insulted by an Oyster bay yillager
named Butler. while driving to church
from Sycamore hill. Their way was
ObsUructed by his bicycle and an cath
was given them.
Captain Frank Wallace of the little
cOasting schooner Red, White and
Blue at Bay City, Mich, shot and
killed George Tasker, one OF the en-
plCyes of the boat. whom he mistOok
for burglar.
Insurance Commissioner Host of
Wisconsin has decided that all mutual
life insurance companies doing bust
mess in that state must divide their
surplus among policy-holders at least
once in five years.
Dode Darlington, who killed the
wife OF his brother at Danville, Ill,
has Jeen sentenced from Terre Haute
Ter killing two men and Indiana au-
liberties were surprised to learn he
was out on parole.
Another will of Gen. Cassuis NJ.
Clay. executed in 1901, will be offered
in Richmond by Dora Clay Brock. his
former wife. Whitehall estate is
made a national park and funds are
left for its maintenance.
Charles Saufey, aged is, and a
member OF a prominent family, died at
Stanford, Ky, from the effects of a
dose OF corrosive sublimate. Saufey
was recently appointed an alternate
naval cadet by the presideut.
Three young men about p years old
and giving their names as William
Shaw, Bert Evans and Myron Jones
and their home al Allegan, Mich,
were arrested at Albion, Mich, on sus-
Ipicion OF stealing chickens.
The army glove contract inyestiga-
ton disclosed that the firm of Littauer
Bros, OF which Congressman Littauer
Is member, violated the law prohibit
ing a member OF congress from re-
lceiying government contracts.
Texas Is engaged in a fight over
prohibition. Some $50 counties are
entirely dry" and fifty partially. out
CT 2i3. Cities are all wet" though
the largest towns are in districts
where liquor selling is forbidden.
While continuing a debate begun in
a country store near Reading. Pa.
William Stamm, aged IS, and Alfred
Richards, aged %, were killed by a
train on the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad near Rickenbach station.
Mrs. John Henry Ketcham. wife of
the congressman from the twenty-frst
b New York district. was dangerously
J injured by a thief when she dis
covered in her apartments at her
sens residence in New York city.
, The escaped Placerville (CalJ con-
victs were Cvertaken by a posse i'm
brush near that city. Three officers
are reported killed and two convicts
were wounded. The officers were dis
armed and all the convicts escaped.
Herbert Coventry of London. Eng
land, is searching for the ALGONQUIN
Indian treasure house, believed locat-
ed on South mountain. VT. A man
tattoced On a hur.ln skin. given him
by a srateful Spaniard, is used as a
guide.
Mrs. John Knebel, aged "a, and her
'l52-year-old baby sirl were burned to
death in the town OF Granville. a few
miles north of Milwaukee. The fire
was caused by the woman pouring
Kerosene into the kitchen stove. The
house was burned.
] IN ccmplianceS with a telegraphed
request from Senator Beveridge. his
tather-in-law, J. II. Langston. will NOT
De dismissed from his position as
clerk in the Indianapolis postofice. be-
cause CT incOmpetency, until the
senator is heard from.
Albert c. skibbe, his wife, and child
were killed at a Chicago crossing of
the Burlington road while driving in
/ N~%4A~A = bAEEas DhAUDG 0aU
Just paid an unjertaker's bill for
burying his son, killed in a railway
collision a month age.
Thomas S. Lippy, the Klondike
millionaire, was confronted by two
masked burglars in his home on re-
turning from church at Seattle, Wash.
He was beaten over the head with a
revolver, bound, gagged and tied to a
post Of his stairway.
Theodore Roosevelt Spychalski, the
remaining boy of the bankruptcies born
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Stanislaus Spychalski
OF Toledo, o., died of cholera in
fantum. The other 10y. Samuel Jones.
died Tuesday. The two girls are also
i'll, but will probably recover.
Nearly 100 cherry pits have been
found IN the appendix of a patient who
was being operated upon in a Brook
|, lyn hospital The collection Of stones
lnal not paucad annanlfo;Ase bou-o,-.,.