Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-07-06


cause OF the shooting.
An expenditure of $4,000 voted by
the last Illinois legislature for the
Illinois and Michigan canal was en-
Joined temporarily by Judge Thomp-
son Of Springfield.
{. 4. Gardiner in an address at a
university C0uvocation of the state OF
New York at Albany, urged that
education OF negroes be assumed by
the federal government.
All mile records for trotters driven
TO wagon were broken at Cleveland by
Lou Dillon, driven by c. X. G. Billings
of Chicago. her owner. The distance
was covered in 2:04%.
The blacklisting of consumers who
refuse to accept coal delivered by
n0nunion drivers is proposed by the
Omaha dealers exchange. Union
teamsters will not be hired.
5Iaude Adams. the actress, tipping
the scales at sixteen more pounds
than she weighed when she sailed
away on voyage of recuperation in
March, returned TO New York.
I Jesse NcLain. a nOnuniOn boiler
maker OF Fort Wayne. Ind, was lured
F from work and shot by union sympa-
, thizers at Chicago because he worked
in a factory where a strike was de
clared.
At Sites, Idaho, Grin Price, a stage
driver. shot and killed his 2-year-old
( baby and wounded his wife and Ed
I Leach. sawmill hand. at the depot
last night Jealousy is said to be the
/ cause.
AT Bedford. Ind. the great strike
I in the stone quarries, which has been
on since May /. and which crippled
the building industry in many cities,
ended when hundreds OF men returned
3 q work
The Joliet mayor and police chief
( are threatened with arrest by the Rev.
w B. Walter of the Christ Episcopal
church because they headed a parade
or brewery workers and disturbed his
sunday service.
Viola Simon McCue. 10 years old.
the bride OF Lieut.. William X. McCue.
First Z. s. infantry. is alone at a
Chicago hotel and her husband is
missing. He is said to have another
wife at Cincinnati.
An address TO the country was
issued by the Afro-American Press as
sociation at Louisville. Ky. urging the
enforcement Of Jaw against the ma
iicious' movement TO destroy the
negro's rights.
In New York Tomaso PettO has been
indicted on a charge of murder in the
first degree. in causing the death of
BeueiettO Madonna, the Buffalo Ital-
ian. whose body was found stuffed in
2 barrel on April Il.
Separated from her parents for four
years. Dorothy Rice, 10 years old, from
Hereford, England. arrived alone in
New York on big liner from Liver
pool. She az once took up her journey
T. Seattle. Wash.
Governor Odell granted a respite
anti Sept. / TO the three Van Wormer
brothers. who were sentenced 70 be
e.ecuocUted next week for the murder
ot their uncle. Peter A. Hallenbeck. al
G:eenrOrt, y. Y.
= very c-editable dramatization of
Oliver Wendell Holmes Elsie Venner
has been given its initial presentation
q Kansas City. No. Lester Louergan.
sss3 d-amatized the novel. took the
.s1i.aE part.
George ROw.ey. former manager OF
tla Eigia Loan company CT ST.
Tomas. Ont. whose disappearance
caused q sUsrersio OF the concern.
has .ztu.Led and given himself M 70
the authorities.
Rabbi Joseph Silverman of New
York. in an address TO the central con
ference OF rabbis at Detroit. advised
the dropping OF further agitation over
Russian Esssacres in view OF Presi-
de-t R0ozeyelt's action.
Mayor Crolius Of Joliet is accused by
City Attorney Lugger with openly de-
flying the law in granting a saloon
license on a vote of Z to 8. with four
aldermen absent The possibility OF
Impeachment is discussed.
Another grand jury TO investigate
legislative bOodling will convene in
July in Jefferson City, Mo. The pre-
liminaries already have been arranged
and the work of the St. Louis grand
jury viii be supplemented.
American Libraries received gifts of
S6.2i7 volumes and s1O.206. 407 last
year, according to reports TO the
American Library association at Nj
agara Falls. Andrew Carnegie's gifts.
for buildings, totaled s6.e79,OOO.
Guy c. Van Alstyne, formerly of
Chicago. and Henry ". Crowther. Salt
Lake City. were stranded in the Utah
desert while going by automobile to
the Blue Acre mines. The former
walked twenty-five miles for help.
Emperor Williams inspection of the
United States battleship Kearsarge at
Kie, is considered by naval officials
breach Of etiquette. Inviting Ameri-
can warships 70 Kiel is believed to
have been planned to permit scrutiny.