Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-15

he had just taken out. J. S. Farrier
dropped dead in a bank.
AT Sumter, :. c, an excursion train
loaded with negroes ran into a wash
out and was wrecked. The conductor
and four negroes were killed and
thirty passengers injured.
Breathitt county, The scene Of Ken
lucky feuds. viii be invaded by band
OF twenty-five preachers, who will
spend the summer in trying 10 exter-
inmate the feudal feeling.
Tugging between the shafts of the
wagon from which is horse had been
taken because he was beating 1t,
Alfonso De Lucca, an Italian peddler,
fell dead in a Brooklyn street.
The Hamburg-American line steam
ship Deutschland, after being stuck in
the mud of Sandy Hook for nearly
twenty-four hours, was worked free at
high water and proceeded to sea.
At Carthage, Mo, Samuel Mitchell,
white, who led the mob that lynched
Thomas Gilyard, a negro, at Joplin
recently, was sentenced TO ten years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Senator Dillingham; of Vermont has
been in Washington arranging the de-
tails of a visit to be made to Alaska by
subcommittee of the senate commit
tee on territories. Of which he is chair
man.
At Eagle Pass. Texas, in a street
duel both City Marshal Kinard and w.
l.. Mellow were fatally shot. Before
his death Mellow remarked, I'VE have
killed each other. but we are now
friends"
In New York, Or. Hendricks wife
has sued Laura Bigger. the actress,
for 81 100000 for alienation of the doc
tors affections. She also sues the
doctor for limited divorce, alimony and
counsel fees.
a general war against the National
Biscuit company has been started by
labor unions. A strike of 10000 en-
plOyes is called in eight cities from
Philadelphia to Kansas City. The COM
pany is 10 resist.
The Hargis-Cockrell feud in Breath
tit county. Ky. dates back to the civil
war. and fresh outbreaks of assassina-
ton are feared in spite of the militia
guarding Jackson. which is now the
center OF trouble.
Col. Thomas b. Musgrave, a former
prosperous banker. died at New York.
His failure was laid TO $4,000 spent
annually by his family. Divorce and
other troubles ended in his confine-
ment in a sanitarium.
AT Crown Point, Ind. a 10-year-old
son OF Michael Hart defended his par
ents' property in their absence with a
.doublebarrelied shotgun today and
fatally wounded an italian boy who
was ransacling the house.
In New York, George Washington,
a cOlored waiter, was struck on the
head and his skull fractured by
Michael Connaughton. a saloonkeeper.
because he spoke 10 a little white girl.
The negro will probably die.
Whitelaw Reid in an address at
Vassar college declared educated wo-
men can aid greatly in improving the
condition OF inner society circles by
checking divorces and restraining the
constant craze for publicity.
Ambassador Choate had a long con-
ference with the Alaskan boundary
commission counsel. They discussed
the arrangements and rules for its
meeting in London, which will take
place probably in September.
The New York laundry problem is
partly settled by a charity organiza-
ton. which instructs dependent WON
en- in washing and ironing and fits
them for earning $3.50 daily as
.laundresses in private families.
The conference Of the state boards
of health passed a resolution that so
long as the present effective work is
continued at San Francisco there is no
need for quarantine restrictions of
travel or traffic to or from California.
Two cars of giant powder on the
.sOuthbOund Santa Fe, Prescott &
Phoenix freight train blew up. five
miles from Phoenix. The only persons
injured were Engineer Chambers and
Fireman Ship. Both will recover.
After two weeks acquaintance
David Q. Williams, &c years old, and
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Doans, 81, were
married at Wheatland, Ind. This is
the bridegrooms seventh wedding,
he having three wives dead and four
living.
A section OF the Union station
viaduct that carries the street over
the railway tracks at Minneapolis fell
on an incoming Great Northern train.
No one was hurt except a man on the
rear platform, whose arm was
crushed.
A movement for an anti-waiter
tipping league was started in Chicago
because of the increased exactions on
patrons. Increased wages and union
membership are considered to place
him on the same plane with other
wOrkingmen.
W. A. Moves, head of the depart