Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-03-21
DOMESTIC.

land was found frozen 10 death.
At Great Bend, Kas.. Herman Re-
inert. while insane, killed his wife and
himself
A heavy snow storm reported in
Kansas, Missouri, Iowa. and centrar
Illinois will aid winter wheat.
The Santa Fe railroad has received
reports from all over the state saying
that Kansas wheat is uniniured.
Buffalo Bill Cody filed a suit for
divorce against his wife in North
Platte. Neb., charging that she was
cruel.
Nine. Patti in New York en- route
nome TO Europe expressed regret that
she ever attempted another American
tour.
Ignorant aliens admitted under the
present immigration law must be ex-
Guided or American elections will be
endangered.
The great tunnel between New York
and Jersey City was completed after
thirty years work. Il is for pas
senger traffic.
Thousands OF acres OF wheat have
been overflowed by the Ohio river
and may be ruined. The Wabash river
also is doing damage.
Chicago council changed the closing
hour fer saloons from midnight to l a.
m. The ordinance passed, 40 TO %,
and is regarded as a compromise.
Jacob Obrecht. a former sheriff,
who officiated in 1862 at the only hang.
ing ever held in Kankakee county,
H.. was killed by a railroad engine.
The Chicago car barn bandits have
a schedule of prices for their cen
LESSONS" Neiderme.er' charges being
the highest They will hang April %
4 Secretary Wilson is very weak
from an attack of grip but is i'm.
proving steadily and is not confined
10 bis room. He will go TO Florida
next week.
The departure from Toxic Of Prince
Arisugawa, who. with the princess, is
to represent the. japanese court at
the st. Louis exposition. has been
postponed.
At Leavenworth, Kas., William Gun
sauer. a white man, killed Mrs. Anna
Palmer, a colored woman, because she
would not pay a bin, aud then COM
mitted suicide.
The flagship Kentucky of the Uniteo
states Asiatic feet, with Rear Admiral
RObley ID. Evans on board. sailed from
Manila for HongkOng, March Is.
After being locked at that port the
vessel viii return home.
Rev. Charles A. Smith of Detroit, a
bishop in the African NJ. Z. church
advocates the colonization of the
negro in Santo Domingo. Bishop
Smith says he sees little hope for
them IN the United States.
Mrs. Elizabeth Darlington of Chi
cago, SO years ed, died as the result
Of injuries sustained in the Iroquois
theater fire. Her death makes the
total number of victims of the fire, ac-
cording to the coroner's records, 576.
A Kansas City Southern freight
train was derailed six miles south Oh
Joplin, Mo-, while running at a rapid
rate down the Saginaw hill. Three
men were killed, three injured ana
. seventeen cars of merchandise de-
molished.
4 Mrs. J. II. Cooke, wife of an attor-
ney at WapakCneta, o., is dead, the
result of asphyxiation by fumes from
a gas furnace and her three children
and a servant who were overcome by
the fumes are in a critical condition,
but will recover.
. Senator Tillman, who for a week
has had serious trouble with his
throat, is reported to be much i'm
proved. The marked improvement is
due 10 The relief experienced from
the lanc.ng of another abscess. The
senator swallows readily now and is
able TO converse without difficulty.
Allison Aylesworth, secretary of
the Dawes commission, criticised in
the BOnaparte report, has resigned
and. il is said, viii go into business in
Indian territory. II. V. Smith, dis
bursting agent of the commission, ana
Chilion Riley, chief law clerk, had
previously resigned.
The grand jury in the Sarah Schafef
case at Bedford. Ind, returned two in.
dictments against James Mcdonald,
the first charging murder in the first
degree and the second with assault.
When told of the finding OF the grand
jury Mcdonald seemed surprised. Il
am not guilty" he said.
. Chancellor Andrews of Nebraska
university who had been i'll in Chi
cago hospital. returned TO Lincoln.
The students of the university we're so
glad TO see him that several hundred
OF them unhitched the horses that pull
ed the chancellor's carriage and drew
. it themselves from the station to the
residence