Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-03

over e,UOU girls are employed as
manicurists in New York City. Men
are practically driven from business.
The extradition case OF John F..
Gaynor and Benjamin D. Green was
.reopened by the privy council in
London.
Joshur Butler. wife, and child were
killed by a Lehigh Valley railroad
train at Port Bowkley pa while
driving.
The steamship St. Paul carried from
New York to England the largest cen
signment Of fruit-ever sent across the
Atlantic.
a sham battle OF the Missouri
national guards at st. Joseph, Mo-,
developed into a smuggling match not
on the program.
The murder of Harry Hill was con
fessei in Chicago by his wife. who
declared her temper drove her to
shoot him.
Secretary Moody decided to approve
the light tonnaged battleships Idaho
and Mississippi, despite the objec-
tons of naval officers.
Near Pawpaw, H., Reuben Lilly,
aged so, was killed on his farm. a
derrick which he was using in making
hay falling on him.
Isaac Springston, probably the
Oldest man in Wisconsin. died at his
home in the town of Emerald in his
one hundredth year.
Internal Revenue Collector McCoach
visited a house in the center of Phila-
delphia and found q complete outfit
for distilllng whisky.
The sensational declines in the
stock market caused the failure in
New York of Talbot J. Taylor & Co.
representing James r. Keene.
The police make an unavailing
search for Charles f. Jones, valet Of
the late Millionaire Rice, said to have
been killed by Albert T. Patrick.
Two discoverie, in the Lake Arkell
district in Kl0nlike caused the
largest stampede since the irst rush
when the gold district was opened.
-Four persons were killed ana thirty
IT, ured In = collision of a Great
Western railroad freight and pas
ss-ger train near Dodge Center, la.
-lrs. Aurora Hodge, OF Denison, Ia.
confessed &c the Grand Rapids (AIich.)
pc.ice that she killed a faker at Salt
Lake City July il when he attacked
her.
Herman Blau, a Bavarian scientist.
announced the discovery of a process
CT making a successful illuminant
fl. N methane and hydrogen contained
il oils.
The postofice at Rudd, Iowa, was
b.1ken into and robbed of stamps,
&C h ana money orders to the amount
OF $500. 4ne safe was blown to
pieces.
II St Louis. a mob made up of
heroes made a desperate but I'M
su- cessful EFFORT TO lynch John Davis.
IL -egrO, who had just shot and killed
hi wife.
Gladys Henderson, u years old. was
attacked in her Chicago home by a
h r-clipper, who tied her hands. cut
of her braids, al lett her IN.
.cc-sc!ous.
President Roosevelt made it known
~C-.cg an informal conference at
Q. zter bay that he desired the pas
So e by congress of remedial financial
n. asuges.
TIE safe in the postofice at May
r.. e. n. Y, was blown oren. Seven
tc-l thousand 2-cent stamps. 10000 l.
cc-t stamps and 5000 Scent stamps
W. e stolen.
nc L2ttieship Kearsarge reached
B. Harbor. Me. after a record break
in trip from England. The 5000
m -es were covered in nine days four
AZ Z a quarter hours.
-Iichael Lempke, Martin Faber.
Martin Hintz and William Trap, en-
plcyes Of the Milwaukee Electric Rail-
way anu Light company, were badly
burned by electricity.
The departments of war and navy
have formed a joint board composed Of
officers from each service, which will
consider all matters calling for Co
operation OF both services.
The treaty between the United
States and Denmark for the purchase
OF the Danish West Indies has ex-
pired, and it is not probable that a
new one will be entered into.
Mrs. Anna Bailey and Mrs. Mary
Woods of Lake City, Colo, were shot
from ambush near there. Mrs.
Bailey was MORALLY wounded and
Mrs. Woods seriously hurt.
The lynching of John Peel, a Lacka-
wanna railroad detective, was at
tempted Oy Foster, Pa, residents in
revenge for evidence secured by him
duplicating them in thefts.
Two additional indictments were
found against George w. Beavers and
Charles Hedges, Superintendent of free
delivery, who was summarily dismissed
in connection with postal frauds.
Rock Falls, H., police and postal
authorities are on the track of black
mailers who have been terrorizing the
farmers north of the city, and it is
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