Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-15
DOMESTIC.

Chicago August wheat, 69c.
Minnesota had a trer endous rain
fall.
State Senator Raines was renoml-
mated in New York.
Star Pointer, at Columbus, equaled
his record of 1854.
Prof. WincneIl, the Minnesota state
eeologist, is to retire Jan. 1.
Col. James o. BrOadhead, former
minister to Sw4tz rland, died in St
Louis.
w. A. Poynter was nominated fol-
governor by the fusion forces OF Ne
braska.
BENJAMIN Bidwell is dead at his
home. ten miles south of Washing
ton, Iowa.
The 400 employees OF the SYRIA
cuse Rapid Transit company went
out on a strike.
The largest whaleback ever built,
the Alexander McDougall, was fioated
at West Superior.
Rev. Allen Hill, enc of the best
known Baptist preachers in Indiana,
died at Spencer, aged IS.
Gen. T. B. Weaver was nominated
for congress by the free-silver parties
of the sixth Iowa district.
Saturdays bicycle race between
Michael and McDuffea was awarded
to the latter on a technicallty.
Mayor Samuel L. Black OF Col
umbus, Ohio was elected president
Of the League of American Munich
palities.
Three go1d-seekers are said to be
hurrying to return from the Copper
river region because of threatened
starvation.
The interstate commerce commits
sion begins investigating the griev-
ance of the Milwaukee chamber OF
commerce.
The American members of the
Hawaiian commission were entertain
ed by patriotic Chicagoans and pro-
ceeded to Honolulu
MIR. Plat may select Cornelius n
Bliss as his candidate for governor
of New York, and B. B. Odell to- sue
coed Senator Murphy.
Mills Hotel No. 2, intended to
supply solid comfort for respectable
men of small means, was opened FOL
inspection in New York.
Traffic Manager McNicoll of the
Canadian Pacific railroad defended
the course Of that corporation in the
rate war inquiry at Chicago.
The commissioner of immigration
at San Francisco dis covered Japan
csc society there whose purposes are
very similar to those of the Chine {
highbinders.
Rev. R. H. Baldwin Of ST. Johns
church, at Saginaw, Mich, is alleged
to have had two wives for several
months back. He is now fugitive
in Canada.
John J. Esch of La Crosse secured
the Black River Falls (Wis.) dele
gates. which is said to insure his
nomination for congress over Griffin
present incumbent.
LYMAN E. Cooley, a Chicago civil
engineer, says tha- recent discoveries
show that the Nicaragua canal can
he built fer several millions less than
prior estimates.
Striking woodworkers at Oshkosh
made several attacks on the ponce
who are guarding the non-union men
who have gone to work in the sash
and blind factories.
The Texas democratic convention
: which nominated Congressman SayerS
for governor also named full stats
ticket, including J. M. Browning fo1
lieutenant governor.
The wife of James Mcdowell
national bank examiner and ex
register of the United States land
Office, died suddenly "a the family
home in Highmore, S. D.
Six men rode into Richland, Mich
on a railroad handcar, boldly entered
a bank and blew open the safe, from
which they took $4,000 in cash, and
S.. 800 in notes and then made the
escape.
The steam schooner Del Norte
which left San Francisco June Il
for St. Michaely, Alaska, with rein
deer supplies and Laplanders aboard
has not arrived there and may be
, LOST