Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-03-02
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The Hotel Deveaux, at Toledo,
was burned with 100000 loss.
Gov. Cummins of Iowa is mentioned
as a possible candidate for vice pres
ident in 1904.
Mrs Abram Van Howe, 80 years
old, of Sodus, n Y, is cutting her
third set of teeth
At Newark, n J., Jennie E. Nc
aCIelland is dead, the ninth victim of
the trolley disaster.
At Columbus, Ohio, for abandoning
his family Frank Morgan was SEN
fenced to three years.
At Santa Fe., n M, beth houses
have passed the bills creating Roose-
welt and Quay counties.
It is estimated that the population
of greater New York is 1882, 9O3, an
increase since 1900 Of 295,701.
flood started by muskrat burrows
destroyed two dams at Derby, Conn.
one bridge, and several houses.
At Evansville Ind, hundreds Of
people have been driven from their
homes by the high water along the
Wabash.
Senator DeDew was arrested at a
Washington dinner by the sergeant
alarms and taken to the capitol to
make a quorum.
At LoganspOrt. Ind Martin Myers,
a farmer, committed suicide by allow
ing a tree to fall on him while he
knelt in prayer.
John A. Nordgren in Chicago was
found guilty of numbering his wife
with poison in Chicago and given
thirty years sentence.
Relatives Of Mrs Ellen Gore, the
American singer killed in Paris last
November, declare her jewels, worth
$4,000, are missing.
The house naval committee killed
the senate bill giving Admiral Schley
the rank and pay of a vice admiral
on the retired list.
George Stone, brought back to Chi
scago from England for a murder com
1mittad ten years ago, was given
ihiIty-fve years.
Outlook for the Panama and Gu
ban treaties is disc0ura2ilg from re-
publican standpoint. and it is feared
an extra session IS necessary.
Charles Lindeman was attacked by
six gray, wolves while driving near
Savanna Ia. He escaped by criDpling
one, which the others deyoured
-50hn seIby. an insurance agent was
given fourteen years prison sentence
at Nincennes, Ind. for swindIing farm
ers cut Of $500000 on forged notes.
Friends of Mss Roosevelt laugh at
the rumor of ner enga cement to MI.
McIlhenny, her fathers Rough Rider
friend, and say that it is a mere joke.
At Vincennes. Ind, John Selby,
whose fOrgeries aggregate $4,000,
was sentenced to prison. He is an
aIUmnus Of the University of Indiana.
Arthur Parr lost his life in an at
tempt to save his coat during a fire in
Chicago which caused 100000 loss in
the factory Of Sturges, Cornish <
Burns.
Nine persons were killed and forty
two injured by the burning of the
Clifton hotel at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The occupants were forced to jump
from windows.
The three masted schooner William
H. Shubert, from Philadelphia for
Cuba, with coal, stranded in a gale
off Bodies Island, n. G. The crew
was saved.
Fifty New Orleans police were held
at bay for hours by Lafayette Sims,
a negro who had refused to vacate his
room in a lodging house. The police
dnally killed him.
Steamship Etruria reached New
York with copies of the first newspa-
per with wireless dispatches. The
items were received when 70 miles off
CroOkhaven, Ireland.
Sherman M. Bell, a member of
Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the
Spanish-American war, has been APP
pointed adjutant general of the Col
Orado national guard.
Standard Oil interests are said to
have almost completed the work of
securing control of 81 the lighting
and transportation business in and
around greater New York.
The anti-lynching law providing
death or life imprisonment for par
Elephants or members of lynch1ng
mobs was recommended by the Kan
:sas house of representatives.
At New York George H. Pell. who,