Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-02-16
DOMESTIC.

nOlS, kentucky, Missouri and France.
Henry S. Monroe, one Of the Oldest
settlers and veteran Of the Chicago
bar, is dead Of pneumonia.
Deputy Collector B. w. Winters of
New York was arrested for a short
age of nearly $4,000 in his accounts.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor, of Center
vile, confessed to having killed her
husband and burned the body, on Jan.
rs. .
The frankfort 0nd) theater,
grocery, and saloon were destroyed by
a supposed incendiary fire; loss $685.
900.
The Alabama legislature is planning
law to invite trust interpretations in
that state by removing restrictions on
them.
The $500 students of Yale searched
for the wife Of Prof Peck until her
body was found at the foot of a cliff at
Morris Cove
President Roosevelt is entertaining
his old friend, the Maine guide, bill"
Sewall, and party Of his relatives and
neighbors.
Louis Mandel, a New York dealer in
old iron, was murdered in his office
in East Twenty-third street. Robbery
was the motive.
The crew of the American schooner
Anna L. milford, which mutinied on
jan 10, was picked up by the British
steamer Westhall.
conoto on5 orrooJ -, -
compromise measure creating the new
department of commerce, and the bill
is likely to pass.
Negro ghOuls testified in an Indian
apolis trial to- robbing graves for DR..
J. G. Alexander, who offered them $50
each for twenty subjects.
The Osmulgee river in Alabama is
twenty-one feet over low water mark
All trains on the southern through
Macon have been annulled.
A tidal wave and hurricane swept
the Society islands Jan. 1916, causing
the death of 1000 or more natives
Eighty islands were devastated.
Extensive maneUvers for the torpedo
fleet as well as several of the new
submarine craft of the navy will take
pace off Newport, r. l., in the spring.
At Vinita, l. T., two horse thieves,
Doc Wallemberger and Jim Stevens
were killed in a battle with officers,
and another, Ben Stevens, surrendered.
Professor James w. Brooks, a school
principal Of Chicago, was fined $500
for securing the custody of his IL
yeaT-Old daughter by fraudulent means
At New Rochelle, n. Y, Augustus
Thomas is under arrest for an assault
on the editor Of the Pioneer, who re-
ferred to him as miss Guss1e
Thomas"
Revision of football rules to abolish
dangerous mass plays is urged by
seventy head masters of schools in a
petition to the intercollegiate rules
committee.
Southern men in congress who want
Judge Parker for the next democratic
presidential nominee will make a pill
grimage to his home right after ad-
jOUrnment.
Mrs. Kate Ginder, aged 65, Of Web
ster City, Iowa, has committed suicide
by hanging. Dependency brought
on the deed. She used f1ynet fastened
to a corn shelter.
Supt. BrOwnsOn, in an effort to break
up hazing at the naval academy, has
confined the third class to their quar-
tiers, deprived them Of holidays and
kept them at drill.
POultney BigelOW is reported to have
said, in a speech, that he had been
reliably informed that there was not a
United States consul in South America
who was sober after midnight.
Ex-Secretary John D. Long is re-
ported steadily gaining in health. His
physicians announce that serious con-
ditiOns have almost disappeared and
his early recovery is hoped for.
The Terre Haute Qnd.) street rail
way franchise, granting fifty year right
on the payment of $4,000, passed by
the city council. No municipal
ownership provision was included.
This year has opened with an I'M
precedented demand for fir lumber and
cedar shingles. Orders now booked
will keep over 500 mills in western
Washington busy for many months.
At Belleville, Ill, thirty minutes
after Mrs Louis A. Rust had filed her
complaint, a divorce was granted her
from her husband, who had just been
committed to Jail for assault on her.
Reports in London strengthen the
belief that the situation in the Balkans
~
mined to secure ConstantinOple. Tur-
key really is alarmed at the prospect.
DR.. J. NJ. Buckley, editor of the
Christian Advocate, in an address to-
New York Methodist ministers, disput-
ed the statements that 100000 con-