Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-22
DOMESTIC.

| pI10SI, 10 o.
Rear Admiral William A. Kirk an
died at Vallejo, Cal.
| A daughter of A. j. Grant of Fari-
| bault was drOWAlou
Seventeen people were drowned by
a cloudburst in Tennessee.
Fire at Fresno, CAL, DESTROYED abou
! $500, 900 worth of property.
DIR. James B. Angel, ex-minister to
/ Turkey, started home.
| A dangerous gang of cOunterfelters
is arrested in Detroit, Mich.
A peace jubilee will be held at the
! Omaha exposition Oct. 10 to II.
| The democratic state convention
will be held at Syracuse Sept. 20.
The sheriff of Buffalo threatens to
stop the Corbett-McCoy prize fight.
Gov. F. A. Briggs of North Dakota
| died at Bismarck of consumption.
Major A. M. Hosford is dead al
! Geneseo, Ill. He was 76 years old.
The Francis Scott Key monument
was dedicated at Frederick, Md.
| A costly collision occurred o1the
Northwestern near Milwaukee.
Serious trouble is expected in the
| Choctaw nation, Indian Territory
Florida republicans held a conven-
tion and nominated a state ticket.
Poison from a black stocking, her
mother thought, killed Jessie Devlne
Twenty thousand acres of grain
were destroyed by hail in North Da-
kOta.
A city marshal and two bandits
were killed in fight at Kokomo
Col.
Governor Black of N. Y, it is said
has decided not to decline renomlna-
ton.
The corner stone of the new Penn
sylvania capital was laid at Harris
burg.
Ambassador Hay or WhitelaW Reid
! are mentioned as Secretary Day
successor.
A stampede to Pine creek occurre
at Juneau and other Southeastern
Alaska points.
| A complete customs tariff for Cub
has been adopted and will go into
immaculate erect.
The estate of the late Adolph Sutro
! ex-mayor of San Francisco is apprais
/ ed at $2,S49,572.
The value of iron and steel manu-
features exported in the past fiscal
year was $40, 1867, 527.
/ New York and Chicago capitalists
Incorporated a $5,O00,000 lager beer
trust in New Jersey.
Twenty thousand window glass
i workers will return to work next weel
at an advance in wages.
The floods in the Scioto, Ohio, val
ley have covered $4,000 acres, causing
a loss of over 100000.
Diego de Vivo, one of the bes1
known impresarios in the United
States, is dead in New York.
President Mckinley appointed Lieut.
Hobson's father, democrat, post
master at Greensboro, Ala.
Three men are dead and a woman
dying as the result of a shooting
affray at Central City, S. D.
The United States commissioner t.
the Paris Exposition has received
many applications for space.
Colonel John Atkinson, a prominen1
Irish American of Detroit, Mich, dice
suddenly of neuralgia of the heart.
/ Indians report that the river steamer
Jessie was lost, with Is passengers
aboard, in Kuskowin river, Alaska.
, ) Passengers from Alaska arriving
| at Port Townsend, Wash, say Their
! are 25, 1000 idle men in Dawson City.
Ex-Congressman Alex. Campbell
who was known as the father of tn
greenbackers, died at La Sale, Ill.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue has prepared regulations for the
collection of the tax on mixed flour.
The will of the late Julia D. De-
Forest, of New York, bequeathes near
! ly her entire fortune to Catholic
charities.
The Garment Workers National
association, in session at Cincinnati
elected Edward Sabine, of Sy1 acuse
) N. Y, president.
! Charles Frohman, the theatrica
manager, has secured the rights Il
Canon Doyle's decentralization of Sher
lock Holmes.
Maria Finn of New York, commit
ted suicide by drowning at Watch Hill
R. l., to save her honor. Her assail-
| ant was arrested.
| One hundred and four blind and
| destitute persons were given $50 il
| gold each as their annual bounty from
| the city of Brooklyn.
Two Dover (Del.) women diet
| from the effects of poisoned candy
/ supposed to have been sent to one OF
them from San Francisco.
The tea tax for July amounted /
/ $299,948. The estimates of the treas
| ury department are that the tax will
/ yield $10,000,000 a year.
In a fight between officers and ne
| gro gamblers in Georgia, five of thu
negroes were killed and three others
are mortally wounded.
! DR.. George F. Baker, of the geolog-
ical survey, will go to the Philippines