Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-05-02
DOMESTIC.


Nebraska has been broken.
An unknown donor has given Am,
herst college a Henry Ward Beecher
. lecture fund.
Seventy-five per cent of the apple
crop in Illinois has been killed by the
cold weather.
Robbers blew up the safe in the
bank of Naper. Neb.. and escaped
with $1,000.
John Baptise Aiello was hanged at
Rockville. Pa. for the murder OF
Frank Carfa, May 2.
Nineteen persons were killed in d
storm which swept over Arkansas.
Indian Territory. and Texas.
John II. Rayond, a Chicago sales
man. was struck by a train near
Galva. H.. was seriously injured
Al GAINESVILLE the fire which de-
strCyed the Art Study plant was
caused by burglars blowing open the
safe.
Az Farmingdale, H. Aaron Beard
was shot and fatally wounded by
Patrick Fogarty. a farmer, in a
quarrel.
DR.. Edward II. Lee fell nine stories
down the spiral stairway at the Chi
cago Athletic association clubhouse
and was killed.
The New York tax rate is TO be
fourteen points higher this year.
There is no permanent gain from rails
ing assessments.
AT Pound. Wis. William Squire was
killed and FIVE other men were in
jured by the explosion OF a boiler in
Frank Hammes' sawmill.
The New York bank statement
again set a new high mark. deposits
reaching sL1O9.3744OO; excess re-
serves stand at S34203, 700.
George Jensen. an employee of the
malthouse at Chiffon. Wis. was
caught in the rope of car-pulling
machine and instantly killed.
Armstrong milford of Plainfeld, n.
J.. has been appointed temporary re-
ceiver for the Ideal Cash Register com
pany Of East Bound Brook, y. J.
Mrs. Elizabeth Birdsall Of Brooklyn
was forced into bankruptcy as the re-
suit OF efforts TO force her daughters
into society. One became engaged.
John n. Raymond. a travelling sales
man for a Chicago electrical supply
house. was struck by a train near
Calve. III. and perhaps fatally injured.
The residence Of Jesse Glasco. Jr.
at Alto Pass. III. burned and his S.
month-old child. who had been left
alone in the ouse. was burned to
death.
A loss Of $1,000 was suffered in a
fire on the farm Of J. ". Mcmillan.
near Lafayette. Ind. IL was caused
by a spark from a passing Monoh
engine.
. Robbers blew open the safe in the
. pOstofice at Paw Paw. H., ana
. secured SSI in cash. besides several
. registered letters and a quantity of
stamps.
Elijah Scott, a colored school
. teacher at Mexico, Mo-, cut his wife's
throat and then gave his last months
salary TO bury her. The murderer is
i'm jail
Baron Sternburg. the German am
bassador. presented to the president
Eugene label is I'm the country to
study economic and industrial eondi
lions.
Lillian Nordica's divorced husband
is sued Q statement showing his ac-
counts with her. and declared he
turned over $4,000 more than he
received.
Z. s. Blydenburgh. convicted at
EldCra. who was convicted of the
murder OF his wife at Eldora. has APP
pealed TO the Iowa supreme court for
a new trial.
The Van Duzen-Harrington company,
operating a large line Of elevators in
the northwest. has bought fifteen
houses along the Rock Island in Kan
sas and Oklahoma.
Arrangements have been completed
for the removal of the headquarters of
the Sisterhood OF the Holy Nativity
lEpiscopaD from Providence, r. l..
To Fond ju Lac. Wis.
Martin Wescott. who on the night
"a beC. Il struck anu killed GeoIse
LCgue in a quarrel at Hanlontown,
Iowa. was sentenced to FIVE years I'm
The penitentiary.
Arthur Phelps Of Burton township,
near St. Joseph. Mich. swallowed car
bolic acid and a race with death fol.
lowed. He reached his dooryard and
then dropped dead.
Fort Scott (Kas) streets were food
ed ten feet deep in the northern sec
ton of a city as the result of over
flowed rivers. Hundreds of persons
were rescued in boats.
I'm a head-on collision on the Santa
Fe railway near Hartoum. Cal. be-
tween q special train carrying soldiers
and a lone engine two soldiers are
dead and fifteen injured.
Miss Ethel Isley Of Monroe. Wis. is
Guaranteed at Ormsbv hall. the girls
dOrmiiOry of Lawrence university,
with scarlet fever and costernation