Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-07-27

rather than the restriction Of federal
linjuncJions.
At Clifton Springs, n. Y, Albert
Finch, a retired banker of New York,
committed suicide by hanging. He
was being treated for melanchollia in a
sanatorium.
Near St. Joseph, Mo-, because
militiamen made some remarks about
girl who had accompanied him to the
encampment, Marvin Winton whipped
eight of them.
At Cincinnati, by a side collision of
trains, Mrs. Carry Crawford and
Henry Ellswick were fatally injured
and ten others seriously hurt at the
union station.
In Chicago Samuel S. Priddle won
his libel suit against Dowie, getting a
verdict for $4,000. The healer had
called Priddle prophet of the gutter
and of damnation."
Edwin H. Low, chairman of the re-
ceptiUn committee Of the Atlantic
Yacht club, was drowned when his
knockabout, Pickininny, capsized in a
race off Sea Gate.
District Attorney j. Ward Gurley
was shot to death at New Orleans,
La, by Louis W. Lyons, who then
fatally wounded himself He was
angry over an arrest
AT Trenton, II. j., horse stepped
on stick of dynamite, which explod-
ed and blew eff one of the horses
hoofs, but the occupants of the car
riage were not hurt.
Mountain Inn hotel at Pine Hill, n.
", was destroyed by fire. The guests
were compelled to fee for their lives
in night clothes, leaving clothing and
jewelry in the building.
w. p. Walton of Lexington, Ky, has
| been appointed by the governor as a
member Of the national advisory board
of the Red Cross society of America as
Kentucky's representative.
julius Lehman, former member Of
the ST. Louis house of delegates, gets
seven years in the penitentiary for
bribery in connection with the pas
sage Of the city lighting bill
At Lexington, Ky, Richard Hudson
!
fatally injured, by Mrs. Madge War
rem, who was amusing herself with a
revolver. She didn't know il was
loaded
a mob of negroes broke open the
jail at Brooklyn, near East st. Louis,
in an attempt to lynch William Carter,
a negro, for an assault upon a negro
woman. Carter was taken to East st.
Louis.
Lieut.. Gen. Nielsen A. Miles, during a
brief stay in Chicago, said he was sur
prised az 2 nation reaching out for so
much foreign trade and letting other
naticEs take markets in adjoining re-
publics.
At Baltimore presentment has
beea found by the grand jury against
Frank ManCley. the young woodworker
who says he shot his wife while
dreaming he was attacked by a
burglar.
Charles n. Schwab, the United
States Steel company's president, who
has been mysteriously missing lately.
emerged from Manitcu park, Colo,
where he has been the guest of d. r.
Francis Of st. Louis.
At San Francisco Captain William
W. Hart, y. S. A., has paid a fine CT
1891 for failing to declare 15S
articles in as baggage subject to
custom duty. He will appeal 10 the
treasury department.
The chief signal officer at washing,
ton has received a dispatch from
Alaska saying that the forest fires con-
tinue in the Tanana country and that
the construction of telegraph lines is
in satisfactory condition.
At jamestown, n. Y, George S.
Hills, convicted of smuggling Chinese
into this country, has been fined $3.50
and sent TO Jail for six months.
George Judscn was fined 1000 and
sentenced to Jail for eight months.
AT Evansville, Ind, the grand jury
has returned lightweight indictments
for persons implicated in the recent
riot in which a mob sought to lynch
Lee Brown, a negro ravisher. Both
whites and blacks are among the
nunbeT.
The state department issued an
official statement of the status of the
Kisheneff petition, showing that Mr..
Riddle, the American charge at St.
Petersburg, had presented the case to
foreign Office, which had refused to
consider acceptance.
Near Philadelphia z. r. Cohen,
Frank Thompson and John Brown
were drowned and another man broke
his neck by diving into shallow water.
Twenty-one persons got beyond their
depth at Atlantic City and were res
cued by life guards.
over a million immigrants will
enter the United States during the
fiscal year if the present rate con-
tinues; S57,046 came during the year
just ended, an increase over 1902 OF
80 per cent. Officials are alarmed at
their character.
Basin, Wyo., is in the hands of
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