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

trainer of race horses, is dead.
Chicago claims that its directory
shows present population of 1885,
600.
The republicans of Vermont named
Col. E. G. Smith of st. Alban for
governor.
Nine Chicago firemen were more or
less injured by an explosion while
fighting a fire.
The republicans of the twentieth
Illinois district nominated Theodore
G. Risley for congress.
| J. W. Porter of Port Huron, Mich,
was elected president of the Michi-
gan Bankers Association.
Issac r. Mills of Macon, ILL.,, was
selected as the candidate for congress
from the seventeenth district
Growing grain fields in Walsh
county, North Dakota, were severely
injured by hailstorm.
L. D. Lewis of Hayden is nomina-
ted democratic candidate for congress,
eleventh Kentucky district.
Congressman Richard P. Bland was
renominated by reclamation in the
eighth Missouri district.
/ Fire in Louisville destroyed the
Snead iron works, causing a loss of
between $25O,OOO and 100000
w. F. Swisher, a leading physician
of WOODBURY., iowa, east of Creston,
was murdered by an unknown man
John Chatterton, better known as
Sig. Perugini, has applied for di-
vorce from his wife, Lillian Russell
Samuel B. Donnelly of New York
has been elected president of the
International typographical Union.
The Clifton hotel, in Clifton, Ont,
on the Niagara river, was destroyed
by fire the estimated loss being $780,,
600.
Two firemen were killed, eight
others were injured and many persons
missing as result of a severe fire in
Philadelphia.
| Comptroller Coler announced that
Mrs. Hetty Green had offered to loan
the city of New York $1,OOO,OOO at
2 per cent.
William w. Cooper shot his wifes
parents and killed himself near
Fulton, N. Y, after having failed to
shoot his wife.
Samuel B. Donnelly of New York
, Typographical union, No. 6, was
elected president of the international
typographical union.
President Mckinley will shortly
issue an order revoking the extern
sions of the civil-service law made by
President Cleveland.
ST. Louis wholesale grocers are
fighting the Havemeyer sugar combf-
nation because of it's method of sell
ing by jobbers.
Bishop oadjutor William Mont
gomery Brown of Arkansas Episcopal
diocese, was consecrated at Trinity
cathedral, Cleveland.
Chun Ying, a Chinese merchant, of
San Francisco, was murdered by a
Chinese ''highbinder" on the orders of
Chinese secret society.
Three thousand persons witnessed
the lynching of Charles Washington,
who had committed an outrage near
Double Springs, Tenn.
Mis- Mary Garrett sold her Baltimore
| $1,200,000 assessments.
Two hundred young women, Irish
immigrants, arrived without male es-
| cort in New York. Every girl wore
the 'stars and stripes"
Several hundred women participated
actively with riotous strikers to defy
police and prevent work at sash
and blind factory at Oshkosh.
Professor George Herbert Stephens,
faculty of Lafayette College, admitted
he set fire to Pardee Hall Dec. IL.
James H. Bowen, a Chicago man,
was elected president of the Inter
national Printing Freshmen and
Assistant unions of North America
The Federation of Women's clubs,
in session at Denver decided to make
a regular revenue by taxing each club
ten cents annually for each member.
Frederick D. Hadley, a New York
grain exporter, made an assignment
as result of the slump in wheat
following Joseph Letters failure
Tammany has announced post
ponement of the New York city bond
issue of Sz3,OOO,00O until after the
United States war loan has been
placed
James A. Clemmer, who has been
on trial at Norristown, Pa, for the
murder of Mrs. Charles o. Kaiser
was convicted of murder in the first
degree.
Gov. A. E. Lee, Congressman Kelly
and Knowles were renominated by
fusion conventions of South Dakota
populists, democrats and silver re-
publicans
EX-Congressmau J. r. Whiting was
named for governor of Michigan by a.
fusion alliance of democrats, populists
and silver republicans, meeting at
Grand Rapids.
Columbus, Ohio-The supreme court
has sustained the law which says if a
man petitions for particular party