Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-01-18

, ShUun was sLCt and killed by her son
: while protecting a young woman from
his assault.
w. J Bryan. home from Europe
says he visited eleven countries and
ten capitals in two months. He will
not be a candidate this year.
Fifty persons persisted by the sink.
ing of the steamer Clallam near Smith
island, of Victoria, B. c. Many WON
en- were among the drowned
Eighty-five horses were burned TO
death in a fire which destroyed the
stables of the Peoples Brothers, con.
tractors, in West Philadelphia.
T. II. Hartman was elected presl-
dent of the Union Pacific railroad.
but will retire when a president is
found for all his western lines.
The Cunning Ull.) infirmary nurses
union is opposed by DIR. Podstata,
superintendent. The standard of ser
vice would be lowered, he says.
Smoke from defective furnace in
the Roman Catholic church at New
Richmond, Wis. started wild panic,
in which many lives were imperilled.
AT Cory. Pa, Pearl Sharing. 10
years old. while playing soldier with a
brother and two sisters. discharged a
shotgun in their faces. killing two.
Frank II. Burgess. under death sen.
tence at Sing Sing IN. W for nine
murders. says his victims deserved
TO die. Revenge for injuries was his
reason.
Four thousand jack rabbits were
chased into a wire pen at Echo (Ore)
and killed by excursionists. including
many young women. who used clubs
rs weapons.
Grover Cleveland. discussing Judge
Parker's candidacy for the democratic
nomination. says he once offered to
make Parker second assistant postmas-
ter general
Postal checks Tor TRANSMIT. sing
small sums. postal savings banks in
Porto Rico. and increased pay for
rural carriers are uged b. the post
master general
Miss Ida Mueller. of Milwaukee.
aged % is missing from Evanston.
where she went to marry a man al
ready welded. Goodwin is short
$4,000 aud gone.
Mrs. +. A. SandersOn of New York
paid $500 for an authors edition of
Theodore RoOseyelt's works and
claims fraud because experts say il is
worth only S25.
A servant girls union was formed at
Orange. n. J.. as an offset To the wo-
mans club. Families are already
broken up by help" problem and gone
TO New York fats.
IN estate of $4,000 900 was left by
the Will of Capt Frederick Pabst of
Milwaukee TO the widow. four chill
dren ami an adopted daughter There
were no public requests.
The enormous increase of immigra-
ion i'm 1908 threatens the entire
country. The fetal is nearly 100000.
OF when over half remained i'm New
York and the eastern states.
Working hours Of government en-
Eloyes. except in the printing house
and navy yard. were heightened half
an hour by President Roosevelt TO
avoid hiring more clerks.
The democratic national conventi1.
viii be held in Chicago. one or two
weeks after Gle republican. according
u national cCmmitteemen; St. Louis
and New Yorl, are competitors.
Campbell Bros. merchants Of New
Castle. Ind. were AWARDED damages
against a restaurant keeper who fried
onions Gay and night The verdict
was upheld by the appellate court.
President Roosevelt will speak II
the Wisconsin university semi
centennial celebration at Madison
next June II ne can leave washing
ton. c. r. Van Hise will be in
augUrated.
Attorney Lyman +. Barnes is at the
point of death az Appleton. with acute
appendicitis. He is among the best
known democrats and lawyers in the
west and was congressman for the
eighth district from 1893 to 1895.
Rev. William +. Huntington. dean
Of the Boston university. was elected
president OF that institution in place
OF DIR. William F. Warren. who re.
signed a year ago. He graduated
from the Wisconsin university in 1870.
Alfred Ernst. conductor of the
Choral symphony society at S. Louis.
Mo.. was appointed conductor of the
worlds fair symphony orchestra. He
was born in Goltra. Germany. July Is.
1868. and studied music three and a
half years in Leipsic.
The general relief committee which
has had charge Of all contributions
and directed the relief work during
the prevalence of the typhoid fever
epidemic in Butler, Pa. issues a state
ment that the necessity for further
contributions has passed.
Chief of Police Byrne of La Crosse
stopped all street cars which were
without conductors and arrested the
mOtOrmen operating them. This was
done in accordance with the ordinance
providing that all street cars in the