Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-02-15

$4,000.
Tsaac W. Parkinson was appointed
postmaster al Stockton. H.
Five Princeton students were eN-
PEELED for buying stolen examination
papers.
The Iroquois fire investigation was
begun by the special grand jury with
a visit 10 the ruins.
Mrs. Richard Harding Davis will 90
to Japan with her husband. who Will
act as a war correspondent
Mrs. Clarence W. Mackey has
written a novel. The Stone of Destiny.
which is about TO be issued.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago is ill with appendicitis. An
operation is believed unnecessary.
The car barn bandits trial began
I'm Chicago. Spectators not known 10
the police are searched for weapons.
Customs officials seize $2.o"0 worth
OF Jewels concealed in a railway guide
look mailed from Germany to Denver.
Two guns i'm the battleship Iowa's
forward turret were ruined by the
blowing on of the muzzles during
practice.
In Chicago Louis Witze. T. S. Nc
Carthy and Charles Conway have been
convicted of robbing the body of an
IroquCis FIRE victim.
Edward Butler. the st. Louis mil
liOnaire politician. was declared not
guilty of a charge of bribing nine mem
bers of the house of delegates.
Ernest Thompson Seton's IA days
old daughter. born in New York win
be brought up out of doors in Indian
fashion. according to her father
Rev. F. w Gunsaulus in a Chicago
sermon declared that women of to-
morrow must rule men through their
affections as Queen Esther iii.
Henry J. Bebro. OF New York. filed
charges with tine governor of Mas
.sachusetts that inmates of Charles.
town prison are inhumanly treated.
a new revision of the bible. based
.On n literary classification of its
books. is favored by Profs. Stuart
and Coe OF the Garrett Biblical in
stitute.
James B. Dill. the New York cor
poration lawyer. shot at and wounded
a burglar at mis- home in East Orange
The burglar escaped with $4,000 worth
OF jewels.
Mrs. Sarah J. Lippincott (Grace
Greenwood has sued Harper & Bros.
for $4,000 DANCES because of a state
ment made in a recent book by Julian
Hawthorne.
In an alteration on a railroad plat
iCrm at Lewistown. Mo-. Noah Bowles,
town marshal. was shot apd killed by
William Pittman. who snl seqUently
cUmmi' ed suicide.
George Bearskin. principal chief of
the Seneca Indians, has been found
dead by the roadside near Cayuga, |. T.
II Is supposed he lost his way and
was frozen To death.
SIrs. Catherine Conway. aged GO.
Wa Iu over and killed in New York
IS az cntomohile driven ny George
Gordon. The latter tried 10 escape.
but was arrested.
Fred r. Havens. a Kansas City insur-
ance man is undeI arrest in ST Louis
on the charge of obtaining S562.90
from II. /. Bright OF Carthage. Mo.
or false pretenses.
James J. Hin and the Great North
en- railroad are accused by J. T. Bib
of Tacoma with depriving Washington
farmers OF 100000 by illegal rate
discrimination
In a fight in ST. Louis Joseph Littler.
proprietor of the Bachelor hotel. on
Olive street. was shot and killed and
Police Officer Edward Mackeele was
shot and seriously wounded
The Standard OIL company controls
the worlds supply of asbestos. II
plans a huge monopoly The mineral
will be used for many purposes. in
Guiding railway cars and tunnel lining.
The best paid woman secretary in
the world is Miss Harrison, private
secretary 70 II. II. Rogers. head of the
STANDARD oil company. She gets
$4,000 and knCws the trusts secrets.
The auxiliary cruiser Yankees
launch was fired on by San Domingo
insurgents. and ]. c. Johnston. en-.
gineer. was killed. United States
marines were landed.
At Saginaw. Mich, Mrs. Charles A.
Valois 10. is dead. and her husband. q.
may not recover as a result of taking
carbolic acid because their relatives
would not reconcile themselves TO their
marriage.
Rear Admiral Clark is fighting a bat
tie against death I'm order to save his
cid schOolmate. Rear Admiral Cook,
who is suffering from heart disease
and melancholia over the death of his
wife
A double runner Carrying two boys
ana two girls. each about IA years old,
collided with an electric car at Haver-
hill. Mass. All four children were
+, seriously injured. and one. Benjamin
Slider. will probably die.
Attorney General Proutt has begun
suit i'm the Nebraska supreme court
Z TO annul the charter of the North