Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-04

circus at Sioux City. A wild panic
ensued, in which one person was
killed and many injured.
In the arrest of AlonZo J. White
man, alias w. H. Martin, at st. Louis
Chief of Detectives Desmond believes
he has captured the boldest forger and
criminal in the country
Recently an Indian belonging to
Chilkat band of Sticks, fired two
shots from ambush at Jack Dalton,
the noted Alaska explorer and trail
breaker, just missing him.
Fielding Profit, a farmer who lived
near Darnburn, Mo-, and his wife and
two daughters, aged Is and 16 years,
were killed by Chicago Great West
ern train at a crossing.
Scoop Lloyd is reported to have
returned from st. Mary's, the new
town on the B1ackfoot reserve, with
samples of ore that runs between
$4,000 and $1,000 to the ton in gold.
George Herbert Stevens, formerly
a professor in Lafayette College, was
al NY IAS pO11OC VI 12c1oCO1s l. c''s
on charges of committing acts Of
vandalism around the college prop
erty.
Martin Thorn, convicted of the
murder of William Guldensuppe, a
bath rubber at Woodside, Long Is
land, a year ago, has been condemned
to be executed the week beginning
Aug. 1.
Opium is being struggled on
large scale from Victoria, B. c., to
the Hawaiian islands. It is said that
the men engaged in the business own
the schooners Henrietta, Lena L and
Salvador.
The natural gas area of Indiana
once embraced 5000 square miles;
it embraces less than half that now
The rock pressure fell off thirty
pounds in 1897, and is gradually be-
coming weaker
The right of local seIf-government
in Nebraska cities of the first class
was upheld by the supreme court in
an opinion rendered in which it de-
clared the metropolitan police law
Train No 40, the north-bound Bur-
lington express, was attacked one mile
north of Whitehall, Ill, by two men,
and the engineer shot and killed. All
to hold up and rob the train.
In Chicago Ex-Banker Edward S.
Dreyer was found guilty of withhold
ing $4,000 of the funds of the west
park board of commissioners, of
which he was treasurer, from Fred
M. Blount, his successor in Office.
Considerable time was spent in New
York by the central labor union pro-
testing against the decision of the
pool brewers to charge the war tax on
thes oonkeepers, who in turn are
left to charge it to the customer.
A life-sized oil portrait of the late
Emperor Frederick, which cost
$4,000, and which adorned the new
North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser
was slashed by some un-
known person at the pier in New
York.
The most remarkable deadlock con-
gressional convention ever held in
Michigan terminated on the three
hundred and >thirty-third formal bal
lot in the nomination of Rev. Wash
ington Gardner of Albion by the re-
publicans of the third district
Mayor Van Wyck of New York
created political sensation by ap-
pointing Jeremiah O'Donovan Rosa,
Fenian and former political prisoner.
an inspector of weights and measures
in the borough of Richmond, where he
lives, at a salary of $1,000 a year.
The New York rapid transit COM
insists upon the demand for
per cent. Of the gross receipts as
rental for the extension of the
elevated railways along the North
river front, and there seems little
hope of a compromise with the
The president signed a commission
authorizing the use of the hospital
ship Bay State, which the people of
Massachusetts have subscribed $780,
600 to pay for. 1t is to operate in
the sick and wounded
from the southern points to a north
ern climate.
The Great Western distillery, the
second largest in the world, was
struck by lightning at Piona, and
everything was burned except the |
bonded warehouse. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000, fully covered by
insurance. The establishment was
running at capacity of 1000 to 5000
blu. per day.