Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-10
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

earthquake.
Excessive bicycle riding caused the
death of Mrs Graft Bullock at La
Grange, Ind.
Political friends of William j. Bryan
have arranged to offer him the fusion
nomination for congress from first Ne
braska district.
Sewell Avery, one of the wealthiest
Iumbermen of Saginaw Valley, is dead.
Charles S. Taussig, St. Louis attor-
new was found dead in bed. He was
40 years old.
Florida fruit men are scared. The
cold wave all over that state causes
apprehensions as to crops.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, who has been
writing for only ten years, and has
produced very few books, has earned
100000.
Dr. Fred Roepke, aged IS years, a
well-known German physician OF hfty
Years practice in St. Louis, died OF old
age
l.. Stephenson, a carpenter, who had
arrived from Chicago but few days
ago. fell from a scaffold at Newkirk,
o. T., and was fatally injured.
Eric Parnell, the 5-year-old colored
boy who was given whisky by Martin
Pointer, his mothers boarder, is dead
IN Chicago.
In brownsville, Ga, Benjamin But
terworth, commissioner OF pensions Is
dangerously ill. He has been there tor
his health.
Electric light is successfully used IN
mining shafts in ST. Clair, ILL.,, mines
The fumes of the oil lamps are thus
obviated
James H. Eckels, ex-comptroller OF
the currency, has begun his duties as
president of the Commercial National
bank of Chicago.
british stewards ON the American
Line steamship ST. Louis are alleged
to have burned an American flag at
their Christmas dinner.
r. G.. Triplett, president of the Al
CORN Agricultural and Medical college
for colored people near Rodney, Miss
was shot and fatally wounded by an
unknown assassin.
In Saginaw, Mich, the Warren Ave-
Tue Presbyterian church was burned
The loss on the building and contents
is $4,000; insurance, $500. The fire
was caused by a defective f1ue.
In Clinton, ILL.,, Colonel Vespasian
Warner, congressman OF the Bloom
ington district, and Miss Minnie Bishop
were married, Rev. J. A. Clark, OF
the Universalist church officiating.
The New York and Cuba Mail
Steamship Company has just complet-
ed a contract with the Cramp company
of Philadelphia for five new 5,OOO-ton,
sixteen knot twin-screw steamers.
It is semi officially announced at
New York that w. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.,
has, with the consent of the elder
members of his family, engaged him
self to marry Miss Wicks of Baltimore.
William Carson, millionaire lum4
herman, is dead in Eau Claire, after
an illness of several days, aged 80.
Carson came to Wisconsin sixty years
ago. He was connected with various
enterprises.
James Calder, IA years old, leaned
too far over the balcony railing in
Hopkins theater, Chicago, and as a
result, he fell among the people in the
parquette He sustained nothing more
serious than cash on the head
At Stockton, Cal, two large ware
houses belonging to the Farmers
Union and Milling company, filled with
10000 tons of wheat mostly owned by
farmers who were waiting for prices
to advance, burned with a loss of
$500,000 insured.
Charles Schreiner, millionaire live
stock man of Kerrville, Tex, has cor
nered the wool market of southwest
Texas by buying 100000 pounds of
the fall clip, all of which he has stored
in his warehouse to await an advance
IN prices.
DR.. James Backett, aged SO years,
one of the foremost physicians of ST..
Louis, died from an overdose OF chloro-
fern. He had long been a sufferer
from stomach trouble and was In the
habit of taking chloroform to relieve
the pain.
Mrs. Ann J. Stiles, who erected Stiles
hall at a cost of $4,000, for the Re
ligious and social uses of the students
of the university of California, died in
Berkeley, at the age of "a. Mrs. Stiles
was born i'm Milbrae, Mass. She had
lived in California since 1855.
Judge Edmund H. Bennett, the ven
cradle dean of the Boston university
law school, is dead. Judge Bennett
was an ex-justice of the superior
court. He was born in Vermont in
1924. He was made dean of the Bos-
ton university law school 25 years ago.
The Woman's club, of Evanston,
ILL.,, has bought a hosiery machine and
will knit for the poor. 1t will turn out
stockings, jerseys, mittens and warm
caps for the children. The twenty
women who have sworn to alternate
in operating it will furnish the yarn.
There was 1927, $500 in gold dust and