Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-03-14

murdered mother at Salt Lake City,
Utah. was sentenced to be shot April
p.
Six skyscraper hotels TO cover most
OF two blocks are to be built north OF
Madison Square, New York, at total
cost Of $4,000, 900.
Booth-Tucker is expected TO retire
from command of the salvation army
in America. He may be assigned to
literary work in London.
Mark Dunn. convicted Of the MUIR
der Of a farmer named Fenton and
sentenced to be hanged March IL, es-
caped from Jail at st. Joseph, Mo.
Miss Elizabeth White, chief .eH
poundress of the dressmakers' asso-
citation, wearing large diamond ring
signifying her engagement to be mar
ried.
Nine. Gadsld asked $1,000 a per
Torrance for ninety-six performances
10 sing the role of Kundry in Col.
Savage's production of Parsifal in
English.
Prof. Parsons. of Columbia, lecturing
TO women on art in dress, told them
TO make their costumes match their
hair and skin in the daytime, their
eyes at night.
Rev. Russell H. Conwell in Baptist
Social union declared modern
church was slowly but surely dying be-
cause Of indifference of pastors and
congregations.
The Juror in the trial of Chauncey
Dewey. William Mcbride AMI Clyde
Wilson at Norton. Kan, charged with
the murder OF Burchard Berry, was
still too III to attend court and the case
was adjourned.
The Merchants and Miners steam
ship Essex collided with and sunk an
unknown ive-masted schooner in
Chesapeake bay. The crew is reported
To have been saved. The Essex was
only slightly damaged.
Assistant superintendent Burdick of
the New York Juvenile asylum, disap-
peared a week ago and 5000 of payroll
money belonging to the institution is
missing. He left a bride, whom he
married last November.
Mrs. Mary ]. Pierce. divorced wife
of former Sheriff HirOm Pierce. com
mitted suicide at Lincoln, Ill, by
taking strychnine on the street
Family troubles and loss of eyesight
arc the reasons assigned.
Three trainmen were killed in
.rear-end collision between freight
trains on the Missouri Pacific road in
the tunnel four miles from Jefferson
City. Mo. The dead: Charles Shoe
maker. conductor; Charles Wryant and
Frank Nevans. brakemen.
Two Wisconsin Central freight
trains came together head on between
Hewitt and Auburndale, Wis. Three
trainmen were killed and another IA
tally injured. Fireman Kelly and
brakeman Burt Mccarthy. who were
killed, lived in North Fond du Lac.
George P. Hossey, a negro voodOo
doctor. was sentenced TO death at
Philadelphia. Hossey was convicted
Of murder for selling poison to the
wife OF William c. Dance Mrs. Dame
IS in prison awaiting trial on the
charge of causing her husbands death
by administering the poison.
In a collision off Fort McHenry, Md,
between the Norwegian steamship
Iberia. Captain Jacobson, from Bar
acOa with a cargo of bananas, and the
Norwegian steamship Simon Dumois,
Captain Nieuwjar, for Banes, the
former was sunk. The latter was
damaged and returned TO port.
All pneumonia and general death
records for a decade are shown TO be
broken by the New York health de-
partment report for the past week,
which recorded $500 deaths. 400 of
which were attributed TO pneumonia.
For the corresponding week of last
year there were 1.479 deaths, 303 due
a. pneumonia.
Buried under fifty feet Of snow is
the body of John Street, one of the
best known troopers of the north
west. Street and several companions
We're at Mount Cleveland. Mont, when
tie snow hogan 10 slide. An overhang
ing ledge Of crusted snow % which
Street had been standing dropped
straight down 5000 feet