Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-31

bottom of an overturned rOwboat
DR.. J. d. Hammond's accounts as
manager of the Methodist book con-
Germ at San Francisco will remain a
mystery. He has burned all the
books. over $4,000 was spent with
out evidence Of where it has gone.
! The Indian Territory land scandal
is growing. United States Marshal
B. H. Colber is accused by an Ard
more editor Of connection with a land
company, using his Office TO aid friends
political schemes, and intimidation.
An autmbile containing w. II.
kirkpatrick of Cleveland, his wife,
mother and a man named Cavanaugh,
became unmanageable nd backed down
a hill. II upset, killing Mr.. Kirk
patrick's wife and seriously injuring
the others,
/ In the circuit court at Jefferson City,
Mo-, Judge Graves continued the
bribery cases of Senators Frank II.
Farris and Charles H. Smith because
of the present serious illness of Sena-
tor Farris 10 Nov. 2 and Nov. 4. re-
spectively.
Miss Louisa Shaler of Lyma, Conn,
101 years old. is the plaintiff in a suit
for $500 damages against the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail:
road company. She alleges that sparks
from a locomotive caused a lire and
consequent loss to property owned by
her.
The annual conference of the In
diana Methodist Protestant church
came TO an end at Muncie, Ind The
conference placed itself on record as
! favoring the union OF the Methodist
! Protestant, the Congregational and
United Brethren churches under the
name of the United church.
Judge kirkpatrick at Newark, n. j.,
granted ar order permitting the firm
! York 10 file liens against the torpedo
beats Nicholson and OBrien, in course
of construction in the Crescent ship
yards at Elizabethport. The liens
are for work done by the firm on the
boats.
The strike of Chicago restaurant en-
lplCyes failed to cause the closing of
an. place of business. Only 431 per-
sons obeyed the call of the unions, and
these are mostly negroes and cooks.
Business agents were in many in
1 retaurants.
Owing to the recent storms in
I Jamaica the United Fruit Company
has decided TO abandon its line of
! fruit steamers into Charleston, s. G.
! The company will continue to maintain
tits Offices there. but will fill orders
/ from its other seabOard divisions, and
just as soon as the banana planta-
J tons have been restored the line will
! be resumed.
The story of the little Italian girl
who informed the police of Melrose,
/ Mass, that she had witnessed a cold
, blooded murder in the woods near her
home on SWANS Pond avenue cannot
b. verified. Tie police searched the
section at oace on hearing the chiId.s
story, without result, and at daylight
a second search was made, but no evil
Gerce to s"tstantiate the murder
story could DC found
! A fatal duel over a girl occurred on
a ferry-boat in Point township, near
! Mount Vernon, Ind, between Ed Rob-
inscn and Samuel Lusk. Robinson
stabbed Lusk over the heart and then
cut his throat, severing the jugular
vein. Lusk died in a short time.
/ Robinson gave himself up to the Ken
lucky officers. The girl over whom
the fight occurred saw the tragedy and
| tainted.
A tablet was unveiled at Philadel-
phia over the grave OF Thomas Lloyd,
shorthand reporter of the first national
house of representatives, by the Ma
tional Shorthand Reporters associa-
ton. The Gedicatory address was by
Edward V. Murphy official reporter of
the United States senate. Mr.. Lloyd
/ was a soldier of the revolution. He
was styled the father of American
shorthand reporting.
The state department has been us
ing its good offices through Minister
Leishman at Constantinople 60 secure
permission from the Turkish govern
ment for the wives and families of
several naturalized Armenians, who
have succeed in business in the
United States to join their husbands
and fathers. Minister Leishman cables
the department that one woman left
yesterday for America to join her hus-
band and that permission has been
granted for the families of a number
of other Armenians to come to this
country.
FOREIGN.
! The Cayman islands were wrecked
by a tornado Aug. IL and the loss of