Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-03-23

/ for whites and Dlacks IN the street
cars.
Camille Hugo. S feet 3 inches high.
| weighing SOP pounds, and the largest
man I'm the world, reached New York
| from France: his breakfast consisted
OF two quarts Of coffee and twelve
rolls.
Fifteen Purdue freshmen were fined
for disorderly conduct. Sophomores
and freshmen also arranged to pay
$3.50 for the damage done when the
freshmen attacked the sophomore
banquet.
Mrs Anna Powalek, believed TO be
the oldest resident of Manitowoc,
died. aged 1O1 years. There are
Twenty-Five great grandchildren
living in Manitowoc and sixteen in
! Poland.
Kansas City Teasters' union was en-
| joined by the United States court
! from interfering with wagons en- route
to railroad depots; goods held to be in
transit and protected by interstate
commerce law.
Charles Longwell, a Toledo. o., at
torney, is under arrest on four
! charges of embezzlement. 1t is
claimed that he appropriated money
I that he was TO handle as attorney
for an assignee.
Mayor Harrison has issued review
of his work as a bid for reelection:
brick and asphalt paving. modern ac-
counting system, special assessment
! department improvements, and street
! cleaning are cited.
: A man named ROher got off train
at Oconto Junction, and, gcing into
the tankhouse, attempted to commit
suicide by cutting his throat with
pocket knife and pounding himself
with a mallet.
Fourteen armed and masked men
entered the house of Mrs. Jacob
Reicshelderfer. an aged and wealthy
widow. near Criderville. Ohio. bound
the inmates and secured several
thousand dollars.
John Newman of Cropsey, H., was
found dead. He had been duck
hunting and in climbing a barbed
wire fence the trigger of his gun be-
came caught, discharging the con-
tents into his side.
! Mississippi river levee eighteen
miles from Memphis overtopped by
water and mile wide crevasse pre-
dicted; 500 men strengthening it with
sand bags. North Memphis residents
are fleeing from homes.
A psychological study of Loie
Fullers serpentine dance will be
issued by Clark university. President
G.. Stanley Hall declares age has
compelled her to substitute light ami
color effects for agility.
! Whitaker Wright, fugitive London
promoter arrested at New York, an.
, nouncei he would return to England
without extradition papers; losses de-
clared by him 10 aggregate $2O,O00,-
600; hearing postponed.
Roster OF officers and enlisted men
in union and confederate armies will
be compiled by war department under
authorization of congress-: thirty
volumes planned; governors of eon.-
Tolerate states asked to aid.
, Hetty Green is in New York and
in an interview declared she does net
want n home. because personal prop
erty taxes would have TO be paid;
business keeps her journeying be
tween that city and Chicago
President Roosevelt arranged in
general way plan of his coming trip,
which will carry him as far west as
the Pacific coast No political
significance is attached 10 the reasons
suggesting states to be visited.
Alleged Philadelphia murder mill
where undesirable relatives or
friends can he disposed of at nominal
cost. is declared 10 have been I'M
earthed by detectives. George Hos
sey. negro, held as proprietor.
Senator Cullom in an interview de-
clarCd the demand for tariff revision Is
not general and legislation at the next
session of congress is unlikely; a com
mission TO investigate the needed
changes probably will be named.
Clinton Peters, Baltimore portrait
painter, and wife celebrated the
thirteenth anniversary of their mar
rage on Friday. March Is. During
conjunction of Saturn and Uranus a
bad omen, crepe tied to doorbell.
| District Attorney Jerome of New
York declared the investigation of the
Metropolitan street railways alleged
finacial irregularities was started by
a remark of w. n. Amory, whom he
met at he Manhattan Chess club.
President Roosevelt will arrive in
Chicago at a. m. on April and
remain until midnight; suggestion
made that Union League, Marquette,
Hamilton, and other clubs arrange
for meeting at which he will speak.
The fiI,h biennial session of the
Utah legislature has adjourned.
Among the more important bills
lpassed were the pure food law, the
state irrigation bill and the general
appropriation bill, carrying s1,525,O0O.
The Omaha through express on the
Wabash WIS wrecked at Film POINT