Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-07-25

accident and may die.
Physicians OF Brooklyn predict that
the city viii become vegetarian as
result Of the increased cost Of meat
caused by the strike.
Miss Nellie Shepherd Of Henry
county, Ind, declared her willingness
10 marry Haley Gipe. the Starbuck
murder suspect, in jail
Paralyzed and respondent, Albert
Huston Of Granville. Ohio, a civil war
II veteran. committed suicide by shoot
ing. He was 20 years old.
Rear Admiral Barker and the officers
of the American battle-ship squadron
We're entertained at banquet by Rear
Admiral Won Jedina at Trieste.
Fire in the plant of the Uvalde AS
phalt company in Jersey City de-
stroyed the refinery building ana
III caused a loss of about $4,000.
J. r. Koontz, general freight agent of
the Santa Fe railroad, after careful
investigation, places the Kansas
wheat crop at 10000, 900 bushels.
When Cashier Tejada of Santiago de
Cuba went TO his Office he found the
u custom-hOuse safe open and $4,000
missing and the safe uninjured.
u The cotton mills Of the Edwards
Manufacturing company at Augusta,
Me-, were shut down for two months.
About 900 employees will be idle.
Some worlds fair employees were ar
II rested charged with being connected
with conspiracy 10 defraud the expo
sition company by reselling tickets.
Edward Cox, the s-year-old son of B.
ID. Cox. who was assassinated two
years ago at Jackson, KY, accidentally
shot and killed his 4-year-old brother
TOT.
II Several thousand Christian Scien-
lists assembled at Concord, n. H, to
assist in the dedication of a church
in the home of Mrs Eddy, founder of
the faith.
N Miss Cecilia Lotus. the actress has
arrived in New York from Liverpool.
United States Senator Alger of
Michigan and Mrs. Alger have sailed
for Europe.
A change in the New York divorce
law, which goes into effect Sept. l,
relieves men from the payment OF
alimony TO former wives who have
married again.
At Marysville, Ohio, o. w. Reed, a
wealthy farmer, aged So, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head. Temporary insanity is attribut-
ed as the cause.
Charles Schnepper, one of the
wealthiest farmers of Warrick county,
Indiana. was fatally injured by being
struck in the breast by hay fork fall
ing from a carrier.
Two firemen were killed and bag
gageman was seriously injured in the
wreck of a Pennsylvania passenger
train at Shipper, Pa. The train was
run into by a freight.
The finest aquarium in the world, it
is reported, is to be established in
Golden Gate park, San Francisco by
Henry Tevis as a memorial TO his
father, the late Lloyd Tevis.
Al G. Fields, the minstrel, has been
named as head of a commission to col
lect funds for the erection of a monu-
ment to the late Daniel Decatur EN-
NETT, author of the song Dixie.
A cable message from Carlsbad re-
ceived at San Francisco states that
Rudolph Spreckels, who is suffering
7 from appendicitis, is much better. His
Z early recovery is said TO be assured.
Two Italian contractors named Ferro
and Mardi engaged on the plant of
the Hen Island Electric Power COM
pany at Mishawaka, Ind, were drown
ed in St Joseph river while bathing.
John Bremen, a farmer of Clinton
county. Iowa. was struck by lightning
and killed. The farm buildings, except
the residence. were destroyed, and
f. Bremer's body was nearly consumed.
The Iowa supreme court yesterday
affirmed the d1Eth sentence in the case
Of Louis Busse the Bremen county wife
murderer. His execution will be the
first hanging in the state for twelve
years.
Nearly a dozen people were injured
IN the derailment of the north-bound
passenger train on the Paris-Cleburne
line Of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railroad. nine miles south Of Dali
las. Tex.
The controlling interest in the SYRIA
cuse Rapid Transit and the Utica and
Mohawk trolley lines have been sold
10 the Vanderbilts and these roads will
be used as feeders for the New York
Central.
The Paris Academy Of Science has /
awarded a prize OF 1000 TO Profes-
sor Alfred Nerinex of the University
OF Louvain for the best critical review
Of the judicial system of the United
States.
=. T. Washburn, a Buffalo man,
shot his wife and daughter dead as
they slept, and committed suicide. He
left letter which stated that LIES
trials were too great, all his efforts
resulting in failure.