Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-10-19

brick have sued the trustees of her
estate FOR an accounting. There is
said 10 be a deficit Of $4,000.
At Scranton. Pa, Commandant de
Wet. cousin of the Boer General de
Wet, is in with consumption contract
ed while imprisoned at Bermuda.
Elmer Heath, who killed Miss Katie
Atkins at Salisbury, Nd, was sent to
prison instead of the gallOws on the
lintercession of his victims parents.
At Irvington, n. Y, the will of
outright to Cornell university, besides
the reversiOn of a much larger sum.
William Caps, a life saver at Sea
Tack station. near Norfolk, Va,
rescued three sailors by swimming
out to them while a gale was blowing.
Earl Neil and J. NJ. Peterson, former
attendants at the Kansas state insane
asylum. are on trial for killing b. L.
Maxwell, a patient, by i'll treatment.
At Henderson, Texas, Bob Willis, a
negro. fired into a mob of white men
who intended TO fog him, killing one
and wounding another. He is under
arrest
At Salt Lake. Utah, Elder George a.
Smith has been chosen to the coun-
ell OF apostles of the Mormon church
in place of Brigham Young. de-
/ ceased.
The Worcester and SouthbTidge
Street Railway company of Worcester,
Mass, has been victimized to the ex-
tent of 100000 by forged indorse-
ments.
An attempt by DOwie to install a
nonunion Dowieite foreman in the
stereotyping plant at Zion City caused
strike of the skilled union en-
ployes.
Hamilton Fish, associate United
States treasurer, in charge of the
subj. easury at New York, is i'll and
&c doctors say he is thu satcned with
aprons. s.tis.
Mayor James NJ. Head of Nashville,
Tenn. was elected president, and
Mayor Crolius of Joliet, ILL.,, vice pres
ident Of the League of American Mu-
inequalities.
Ivory Rogers, a boy who confessed
to the murder OF Mary Prokash, a 13-
year-old girl. near Saltwater, Ok,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
prison for life.
Race suicide is not likely to result
il ballot is given to women, &C
cording TO the Rev. Olympia Brown in
an address at Joliet Qll.) equal suf-
frage convention.
The accidental shooting of a Bra
lillian midshipman by his companion
on board the man of war Benjamin
Constant at New York caused a clash
between authorities.
The American ship Benjamin Sewall
and cargo have been lost at the Pesca-
dores. Only twelve of the persons
on board the vessel, including the cap
tain, were saved.
Governor Van SAINT is reported to be
planning to enter competition for the
St. Louis worlds fair trade by estab-
fishing a new fast line of boats from
St Paul TO St Louis.
T. II. Hartman has leased for four
n.cuths at $4,000 :ie S:Okes man.
sion con Madison avep1c, New York,
ard VIII be a neigh:pr n his former
eac'ry. J. 7. Morga2.
J. f. Trondez, accused of embez-
cling $4,000 from the Netherlands
government, was arrested on the
Japanese ship Nipeon Maru on its ar
rival in San Francisco.
The Interurban Street Railway
all the lines in Manhattan and the
Bronx. issued its first annual report
showing a net deficit of $272. 1861.
At Danville. Va, Will Jones. hanged
for numbering Jake Lee last NOvem
Der, left a confession 10 three other
murders, but claiming innocence of
the crime for which he was hanged.
Paterson. n. J., is in grave danger
from the Passaic river, which is al
most over its banks and threatens to
burst through at any moment. Dam
age of 100000 has already been
done.
DR. Kellogg Baker, an insurance
agent, 20 years old, shot himself in
the right temple in a room at the
Everett house, New York He en-
gagged the room evidently for this pur-
pose.
At Redwood, Ohio, the tri-county
fair was ended by a riot in which
farmers who had been swindled by
fake gambling devices attacked the
gamblers and chased them out of
town.
At Oil City. Pa, a landslide carried
away thirty feet of track of the Penn
sylvania railway. A train ran into
the gap and crashed down the en-
bankment killing the engineer and
fireman.
At Johnstown, Pa, by the breaking
of a rope in the Sunshine mine, a
string of loaded cars was released on
a steep grade and ran away. killing
two men and seriously injuring five
more.
Governor Peabody announced the
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