Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-02-23

$4,000 for injuries received in falling
eff a sidewalk. Mr.. Martin is "a
years of age.
| Henry E. HughesOn, New York man
ager for Sargent Manufacturing COM
pany Of Muskegon, Mich, who com
mitted suicide declared to be $4,000
short. His salary was $1,000 annual
ly, but he lived high.
Miss Ora Montgomery, % years old,
a school teacher in Western Port Md.
slipped and fell while running after a
recalcitrant pupil. Her neck was
broken in her fall down the stairway.
She died almost Immediately.
The famous Mueller case involving
title to valuable ore-bearing land en-
the Mesaba range, was decided in the
district court at Duluth. The deci-
sion is in favor of Kosmerl, the plain
tiff and record owner, in every point
J. Edward Addicl1s notified the
''bolting" Delaware republican legisla-
tors that they must return to the party
caucus and help elect two senators
near to him Or the campaign for his
own election will be kept up indefi-
nitely.
I The California legislatures investi-
cation of the San Quentin and Folsom
state prison abuses disclosed one con
vict killed and many permanently
crippled by straitjackets. The Span
ish Windlass is used at Folsom to ex-
tract confessions.
The New York World says: cit ap-
i pears that Emperor Williams sudden
and mysterious recall of Baron Won
Holleben, German ambassador at
Washington, closely followed charges
, that he had used his official position to
advertise certain wine"
The William Thompson FELLOWSHIP D
for purposes Of study abroad has been
awarded by the vote of the faculty and
trustees of the Hartford, Conn, Theo-
logical seminary to Walter B. Pitkin of
Detroit, a senior at the seminary. He
will spend two years in Germany.
Another Cornell university student
died from typhoid. He was George
A. Wessman Of Passaic, n. j., junior
in the mechanical engineering depart
ment There seems to be no material
decrease in the disease at Ithaca, there
being more than 400 cases at present.
A large meteor struck the earth in
the vicinity Of Bingham, Utah. The
collision with the earth caused win
dOws to rattle and houses to tremble,
while a sound like a mighty clap Of
thunder awakened the inhabitants.
People thought there had been an
earthquake.
Harry German, who had masquerade
cd as a man for twenty years and
threatened to throw herself over
Niagara Falls if compelled to wear
kirts after being liberated from Buff
falo hospital, is missing from the hos
pital A doctors suit Of clothes dis
appeared at the same time.
J. r. Miller, with many aliases, who
secured transportation from the Rock
Island, the Wabash and the Great
Western railways on forged checks,
has been sentenced at Des Moines tC
eight years imprisonment in the Iowa
renitentiary. Miller is wanted at Syca-
more, ILL.,, on similar charge
Stephen Bonsall, a newspaper and
magazine writer and at one time con-
rected with the United States diplo-
matte service, was waylaid and at
tackled by a negro servant of the hotel
at Caracas, Venezuela, whom Mr.. Bon
sail had chastised for insOlence. His
assailant was Immediately arrested.
The old officers were reelected at
| q Of A1on
makers, as follows: President H. S.
Earle, Detroit vice presidents, Ed
ward A. Bond of Albany, N. Y, Charles
Hill, N. c.; treasurer, Colonel F. w.
Dickinson, Springfield, Mass; secre-
tary, w. S. Crandall, New York city.
Mrs. Eugene S. Spalding of Atlanta,
Ga, is a legatee for $4,000 under the
will of Charles Waldo Haskins, who
died last month in New York. Mrs.
| Spalding is the widow Of Eugene S.
| Spalding, who died four or five
months ago. He was president Of the
Atlanta & Knoxville railroad. The mat
ter causes some gossip.
Dr. Irvine, the prison physician at
Sing Sing, N. Y. examined William
Hooper Young, who began his life SEN
tence for the murder of Mrs. Annie
Pulitzer The doctor found, as did
the New York physicians, that Young
was medically insane and legally sane.
| Young's condition, the doctor said,
was due to the excessive use of NOR
phine and cigarettes.
The great prevalence of smallpox in
the coke region of Pennsylvania has
prompted the officials Of the H. G.
Prick Coke Company to issue an order
calling for the free vaccination Of all
it's employees and their families. AS
the Prick Company has about $4,000
men on it's pay roll, this order will
affect about 100000 persons. Ten
thousand dollars has been expended in
vaccine virus
| Miss Blanche Boise, who smashed
| the plate glass windows in four joints