Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-01
DOMESTIC.

Inc bodies of six infants were
found in a vacant lot in Boston.
Ex-Police Justice Koch and his
wife have separated in New York.
McGovern & Thompson Brothers, al
old New York shoe firm, assigned.
The Chelsea Jute Mills, at Green
point, N. Y, were damaged $4,000
by fire.
7. c. Powers's grain elevator at
Belgrade, Mont. has burned; loss
100000.
The prospect is being discussed in
San Francisco of a food shortage next
winter in the Klondike.
Hugh Mclaughlin. Brooklyn's vet
eran democratic leader is confined
to his home by illness.
The president appointed Ferdinand
w. Peck of Chicago commissioner
general at the Paris exposition.
E. Will Kirk, a prominent merchant
of Muncie, Ind, died of Bright's
disease. He was 80 years of age.
The state board of arbitration has
made a report fixing 93 cents, mine
run as fair pay for the strikers at
Pana.
William D. Magruder, aged 43 years,
native of Baltimore, employed as
gun salesman, was found dead in
New York.
An attempt will be made at once to
start the six Oshkosh sash and door
factories that have been idle for the
last ten weeks.
The electric-light plant in Livings-
ton. Mont, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, S24,600.
George w. Short of Cleveland, aged
IS, who was prominently connected
with several manufacturing institu-
tions is dead
The large sale stables at Bement
ILL.,, owned by All Ramp of Buffalo, n.
Y, were destroyed by fire, together
with sixteen horses.
The first bale of new cotton was
sold at auction in New York for
$500 for the benefit of the United
States hospital fund.
Jasper Simpson. while resisting ar
rest, shot and killed j. B. Grady and
L. S. Hill, deputy United States mar
shals, near Renton, Ark
Lewis Warner, the absconding bank
president from Northampton, Mass,
who left shortage Of $64O,0O0 was
arrested in Louisville, Ky.
Major Williams Jefferson Hearin,
president of the Stonewall Insurance
company of Mobile, died in New Or
leans. He was Is years of age.
President Mckinley made a number
of Louisanan appointments, includ-
ing that of A. T. Wimberly to be col
lector of the port of New Orleans
Mrs. Jacob L. Simon, of Paterson,
attempted suicide because her baby
was a girl. She wanted boy, SO
she could name it after her husband
1t is thought the candidacy of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt will help Gov
ernor Black to obtain the republican
nomination for governor of New York.
Edwin Storey Smith, the most
| prominent paper manufacturer in
! New England, is dead in Boston. He
was born in Brooklyn, n. Y, in 1850.
A Dawson City correspondent, after
a review of the Klondike gold field,
says that ''the American side would
seem to be the place for the future.
The car barn of the CONSOLIDATED
Traction company in Pittsburg was
Quilted by fire, entair1ng a loss OF
about $157 600, we'll covered by in
surance.
/ Peter Burton, negro, murdered
Henry Myers, a white farmer, his wife
and infant child at Cypress, small
town near Houston, Tex. The negro
escaped.
J. D. Sublett, proprietor of the
Shirley Hotel in Petersburg, Va, died
after an illness Of two months. He
was a native of Richmond and 81
years of age.
General John B. Gordon was re-
/ elected commander-in-c chief of the
/ United Confederate Veterans, in
their annual reunion at Atlanta, an6