Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-03-16

The geural officers of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, to whom
was left the selection of the cOnven-
tion city. have settled upon Gin
cinnad. The dates are Nov. Is to is.
( At Cambridge. Mass. George L. O.
Perry. the negro indicted for the
murders of Agnes McPhee. at Somer-
vile. and Clara Morton, at Waverly,
died in Jail from nervous exhaustion.
Dresser * Co. commission men at
10 Green street, New York, failed for
Sl250.O00. and S. d. Davis of Samuel
d. Davis & Co. brokers. filed petition
in bankruptcy with S9SS.934 liabilities.
4 Rev. Martin Luecke, pastor of
Trinity German Lutheran church.
Springfield. H.. has accepted the
presidency of COncordia Lutheran
Theological seminary at Fort Wayne.
Ind.
At Findlay. Ohio, Mayor J. B. Smith
Of Deshler. Ohio. was arraigned for
drunkenness. He instructed the
marshal 10 arrest the first man he
found intoxicated. with the above re-
suit
The mayor of Vineland IN. j. is
flooded with letters from Montana and
other western states asking his aid in
securing wives for lonesome ranch
owners from among the girls of that
city.
, A waterbury Comm special police
man was shot and Tiled and two
members of a trolley car crew beaten
by Eve masked men. The conductor
IS missing. Recent strike troubles
are blamed.
The Northern Pacific railway
suffered 100000 loss through the
buring of its warehouse and several
loa led cars at Helena, Mont. The
fire originated from an explosion of a
gasoline stove.
Word has been received that Will
lam Miller. a Boston missionary, who
went 10 Russian Poland to work
among the poorer classes. has been
arrested by the police and eXiled to
Siberia.
Fifteen persons are believed to be
killed by an exploding oil tank at
Olean. y. y. following the collision
Of Erie freight trains. The people
were watching the ruined cars when
the FIRE started.
81 Philadelphia. Charles T. Molony.
general superintendent of the Penn
syirania Warehousing and Safe De-
post company. cashed what is al
lezed TO be a forged check for $1,000.
ant then disappeared.
floods in the Mississippi and Ohio
valleys are growing serious. Hun
DIRE Is Of families have been driven
frcn home. Stock has been
abandoned by farmers. near Harris
bu-y and Cairo. III.
lev. r. c. Bryant OF Rockford &c
cls -ei that the negro and other
racial types viii blend into one
through intermarriage. Many white
giIls would prefer coed negro hus-
ia-1 to bad white man.
kr,hUr p. German is again demo-
cratic leader in congress and the
prediction Is made that he will be the
pa tvs national leader as p presiden-
tici candidate. He is a sound money
man but supported Bryan.
*. W. Pontius of Minnesota has
been appointed a student Interpreter
at Pellin. Mr.. Pontius, under the law,
Is pledged to remain there in that
capacity for a period of ten years at
a salary of $1,000 year.
At Greencastle, Ind, Thomas c.
Hammond and Jerome Allen. who
were until last month president and
cashier of the First National bank,
having held the respective Offices
forty years each have assigned.
A vigorous protest has been filed
with Secretary Hitchcock by Agent
Brosius of the Indian Rights associa-
ton against the appointment of John
Carrigan to be agent at the Standing
Rock Indian agency. North Dakota.
The first United States supreme
court decision on the Elldns anti-re-
bate law handed down in the Missouri
Pacific-Wichita discrimination case,
holds that the act is applicable, al
though passed since the suit was be-
gun.
w. w. Britt, formerly prominent
at Morris. Mimi. died Tuesday at
North Yakima. from an overdose of
morphine. At first it was supposed
he had committed suicide. but later
developments make this theory I'M
tenable
A FIVE thousand dollar scholarship
was given To Harvard college by Mrs.
John Marleve. Philadelphia, in
memory of her son. Thirty thousand
dollars for needy infirmary students
was given by Miss Agatha and Miss
Marianne SchurZ.
At Chicago Mrs. Grace Smell
walker-Cofin. the much-married
daughter OF Amos Smell. whom the
missing Willie" Tascott is said TO
have killed. has been married fifth
time and is now known as Mrs. Per
llins A. Iayman.
In Boston Charles Marshall
Lawrence. who claims 20 have just
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