Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-03

mOLner.
The test of the armor plate for the
Dattleship Wisconsin was wholly salts
factory.
Montana roughs attacked Japanese
laborers, shooting five, one Of whom
will die.
Miss Lena Fake of Chicago was
drowned by the capsizing of boat al
Put-in-Bay.
Secretary Alger talks of his alliance
with Pingree and says he does not in
tend to resign.
Apram Gould, only brother of the
ty'' Walsh, died suddenly at New York
aged Sc years.
w. H. Sullivan of Chicago was
drowned in the Yellowstone river al
Anaconda, Mont.
Gov. Roosevelt attended the reunion
of rough riders at Las Vegas, N. M
and made a speech.
The Cleveland street railway strike
ended. So did the strike in the Chi
cago stockyards.
Joshua Gray, aged rs, one of the
AtAN"NoNOO~~N>
setts, died at Medford.
The Russian government is said tC
have contracted for $6,000,0OO worth OF
American ordnance.
President Mckinley left Holyoke and
went to Adams, Mass, where he will
rest for a few days.
A large amount of property was de-
stroyed by a waterspout in the Pine
Ridge Is. d. district.
Over $500 physicians are attending
the American Institute of Homeopathy
in session at Atlantic City.
The town marshal of Avoca, Wis,
was fatally shot by a tramp, who was
then killed by the marshal.
Gov. Roosevelt said in Chicago that
the remedy for the trust evil was equal
taxation for rich and poor.
The government ordered the removal
of all the whites from the Chippewa
Indian reservation in Minnesota.
Ex-Detective Dan Coughlin and Will
liam Armstrong have been indicted for
tampering with a Chicago juror.
The Distilling company of America
has been organized to take in all the
existing whiskey and spirits combina-
tons.
A thief grabbed $4,000 through a
teller's window in a Boston bank, but
was captured when he arrived in New
York.
Col. Henry B. Plant, founder of the
C7lorida system of railways, steamships
and hotels bearing his name, died sud
denly.
Tie American Institute of Homeopa-
thy decided to meet next year in Wash
ington, D. c., if certain plans are car
ried out.
J. G. Johnson has been succeeded by
J. w. White of Rock Falls as general
attorney of the Modern Woodmen of
America.
Owing to an order from the white
house the report of the proceedings IN
the army-beef investigation will not be
printed.
Trusts have affected the price of ma
terials used in federal buildings, and
government plans will have to be
changed.
Furnace manufacturers have organ
lied and will advance prices to meet
the increased cost of iron and other
materials.
The Congregational ministers of
Connecticut censured Rev. w. M. Bar
rows for marrying Perry Belmont and
Mrs. Sloane.
John G. Moore, of Moore e Schley,
died. It was in his suit that the in
come-tax law of 1894 was declared I'M
constitutional.
Lolita, the actress, is being sued in
New York for $4,000 by David A. Ban
ia, engaged to manage a tour after
ward abandoned.
In Omaha, at a fire in Allen Bros.
grocery, a powder magazine exploded,
injuring eleven fremen, but none of
them dangerously.
At Philadelphia, the terra Gotta
works of William Galloway were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is 100000,
insurance $4,000.
German Americans of Detroit in
mass meeting protested against any
characterization of the American peo-
pie as Anglo-Saxons.
At Jersey City, in the public street
man supposed to be Antonio Maco-
late, laborer, shot and killed his wife,
and then killed himself
The Cambria (Pa.) Steel company
posted notices of a general advance of
wages of 10 per cent. About $500 men
are affected by the advance.
Rev. Paul Wetzel of Kansas City,
Mo-, one of the first German Dunkers
clergymen to preach in the country,
died in his seventy-sixth year.
G. B. Barrow in a confession of the
kidnapping of Marion Clarke to a New
York reporter said he forced his wife
to aid him. She gets 10 years.
Major George H. Sands, of the sixth
United States infantry, saved his
daughter and sister-in-law from
drowning at Atlantic City, N. J.