Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-24

rector ol tue Episcopal CuuICu5 CduSeu
a sensation by insisting that the wom-
en- must wear their hats in church.
Sir Frederick Pollock, the London
lawyer. viii read a paper before the
American Bar association at its an
nual meeting in Hot Springs, Va, Aug.
l26.
-Four miners engaged in placing
timbers in a zinc mine at Franklin
Furnace, y. J., were crushed TO death
by a rock weighing at least fifteen
tons.
A limited New York express on the
Pennsylvania road was wrecked by an
open switch at Van Vert, o. One
man was fatally injured and many
hurt.
The business portion of the town OF
Amberg. in Marinette county, Wis,
was wiped out by fire. The loss is
about $4,000, half covered by in.
suTance.
Indian Commissioner Jones has been
informed that a number of the
Shawnees and Kickapoos OF the Big
Jim band are preparing to emigrate
10 Mexico
At Providence, r. l., James II.
Farrell and Fred lie Clair self-con-
fessed assailants Of Isaac B. Seeley,
the New York manufacturer were
captured.
AT Waukegan, Ill, Barney Berry was
instantly killed by Chicago & North
western locomotive, and his body
carried three miles before the accident
was discovered.
Edmund J. Smith, cashier of the
Merchants National bank at Newark.
n. j., who absconded with $4,000 two
weeks ago, has been arrested at Will
JAMESTOWN, Va.
At Palmyra, Mo, Joseph w. Folf,
circuit attorney at St. Louis, was
enthusiastically received in an address
on Good Government before a con-
federate reunion.
At Kansas City, George b. Evans,
manager OF the American Transfer
company, shot and killed his wire.
then walked TO st. Mary's cemetery
and killed himself.
Stephen II. Hall, OF Aurora. H.,
protege Of Senator Hopkins and clerk
in the department of commerce ana
labor, killed himself on account of con-
tinued sickness.
Just after the marriage ceremony
had been said Mrs. Charles Calhoun
Tylee fell into her husbands arms and
died in front OF the altar in a church
at Charlestown, 5. c.
BY the action OF the New England
Methodist Episcopal society Willard
b. Aleln, defaulting treasurer of the
society, was formally removed as
treasurer and librarian.
The grand jury at Memphis returned
siXty-four indictments against hotel
keepers, saloon-keepers and grocers
charged with operating slot machines
for gambling purposes.
The E1rth Atlantic squadron was re-
viewed at Oyster Bay by President
Roosevelt, who witnessed the collision
between two torpedo boats, on one of
which was his scn Kermit.
Because OF a picture OF a baby ia
P pccketDOok. which he had stolen
from Mrs. c. Sebastian, James Baker
d Chicago returned the purse. Mrs.
Sebastian refused 10 prosecute.
The Georgia prison commission re-
ported that Warden AllagCod was justi-
| fed IN whipping Mamie Decris, a
white woman convict. However. the
warder's resignation was accepted.
Miss Katherine Grathwal OF ST.
Paul. Mimi. died Of heart disease
while climbing a mountain at Santa
Barbara, Colo. A false rumor was
started that her companions were lost.
Frank Sinoni q barber, twenty-five
years old, is under arrest in New York
10 await the action of the Chicago
police. He is alleged to have killed
Oscar Cuarnstrom with a razor Aug.
I =. 1899.
} AT Fort Wayne. Ind, ". L. Petit.
/ for many years assistant cashier OF the
First National bank. shot himself I'm
the head, dying instantly. Continued
ill-health is believed TO have been the
cause.
Robert NOakes testified in the caleb
Powers murder trial at Georgetown,
KY. that ex-Secretary Of State Charles
Finley proposed TO him a payment of
$4,000 10 James Howard for killing
| GoebeL
Miss Sarah Jefferson. granddaughter
of Joseph Jefferson. submitted to an
/ Operation at Buzzard's Bay, Mass, TO
supply skin for a grating operation
on the wife OF her grandfather's coach
man.
Tho Lake View Beach hotel at
| Sheboygan, Wis, owned by the PaJst
Brewing company OF Milwaukee, was
destroyed by fire. The hotel viii not
be rebuilt, but cottages will be put up
/ Instead
At Denver, Mrs. Edwin II. Roberts,
( a well known young society woman,
died from a fractured skull, and her
husband is suffering from a dislocated
shoulder, the result of a runaway &C
lCident.