Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-02


OF an Indian school.
The secret service announces the
discovery of a new counterfeit of the
$40 note Of the Millers River National
bank of Athol, Mass.
Robert Robinson, PeTTyville, KY,
and wife, were poisoned by robbers,
who then ransacked their home. The
wife's death is likely.
AT Carbonate, Kan, Robert Forbes.
a wealthy citizen, paid $4,000 for =
gold brick, which he now finds TO be
worth at least so cents.
At Dallas, Texas, Former Governor
HOgg, in an interview, emphatically
declares himsei. out of any race for
the United States senate.
A run on the German-American bank
at La Crosse was started by farmers
and women depositors, who heard 1t
had invested in railroad stocks.
W. ]. Bryan scored by counsel in
the Philo s. Bennett will hearing at
New Haven, Conn, for drawing up a
will in which he himself was made
F heir.
Two suspected postoffice robbers
were wounded and captured by six
Ishpeming (Nich.) policemen after a
revolver battle on a train near that
city.
At Salem, Ind, Rev. George "
Dickey, pastor of the Presbyterian
church, has disappeared and some d
his congregation think he was muir
dered.
/ United States Senator w. NJ
Stewart of Nevada, aged rs, was mar
ried 10 Mrs. Agnes A. Cone of Atlanta
Ca, whose acquaintance he made by
Z letter.
I Jesse McClue, living near Marion
Ind. shot his sons, aged and z, to
death in revenge on his wife, who
!. refused to see him. He then sur
( rendered.
/ Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, British
: ambassador at Madrid. will succeed
the late Sir Michael Herbert as am
bassador OF Great Britain to the
United States.
I Albert A. Patterson. the Ann ArbOI
! student who disappeared May q, was
married TO Dir. Maude G. Human, oil
Saginaw. one of the two to whom ne
was engaged
:. Henry A. W. Healey, son OF A
! Augustus Healey, Brooklyn, n. Y.
surprised society by marrying another
than Miss Laura Hubbard to whom he
was engaged.
From Bloomington, ILL.,, a shipment oil
500 pounds of seed corn has been made
}. TO the department of agriculture oil
RhOdesia. south Africa, which will try
20 introduce maize.
(, immigration Commissioner Sargent
in his annual report, warns against the
/ colonization of alien communities in
large cities, and urges teaching the
advantages of the country.
: Federal courts have Jurisdiction
over all navigable waters, even ii all
are in one state, according to the
United States supreme court decision
The canals are included. -
= a New York subway cavern, by
which ten wOrkmen were killed, is
blamed TO negligence. Contractor
John B. McDonald's foreman and
: superintendent were arrested.
To prevent confusion and guests
being mistaken for ushers at the
white house, Secretary Loeb has ar
ranged TO have the usners wear Que
uniforms with silver buttons.
: Gen. BallingtOn Booth, in a repou
to the Volunteers Of America field
council at Pittsburg, showed that 400
/ women were cared for during the year
in the society's home of mercy.
At Butler, Pa, William Marks and
Patrick Hardy mistook a nitroglycerin
can for a maple sugar can and tried
TO cut it. Marks was instantly
killed and Hardy fatally injured
Fifty per cent. reduction in the
pension roll, tOtaling S79,50O,O00 is
predicted by an official of that bureau
as likely within six years. The ap.
preparation asked is S1,7O0,OO0 under
1902.
One hundred industrial stocks have
shrunk S1,75S, 959,793 since the recent
boom, according to Wall street
statisticians Standard Oil is S243,750,.
+. 600 lower and the Morgan group, SIS.
200. 900.
j The steamer William f. Sauber was
sunk in Lake Superior by the ex.
/ plosiOn of the boiler after a twenty
hours struggle in a gale. Capt. w.
+. Morris and one seaman were
drowned.
At Joliet, H., Motorman Bouray
/ tainted and fell from the platform of
his car at the top of a hill. The car
ran away and killed a man and
/ demolished a house at the bottom OF
the hill.
Believing it to be the will Of God.
4 viii come to YOU letter of &C
ceptance forwarded, 4" telegraphed Rev.
DR.. Pondexter s. Henson of Brooklyn
+ y T.. TO the Pensioners c . fremont
temple, Boston.
Janauchek, the actress, has received
. an Cfier of a home for life from the
Actors Fund home in New Brighton.
T.. T., and from the Edwin Forrest