Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-23
DOMESTIC.

Chicago October wheat 7OAc. Silver,
So 3-8c.
Dewey was overwhelmed by the
BOstonese.
Chicago university defeated Cornell
at football.
Chicago officials issued 328 marriage
licenses in four days.
The Milwaukee Street Railway COM
pany enters the freight business.
A company was incorporated in New
Jersey to build railways in Cuba.
Chocolate manufacturers have
formed pool to control prices.
Collections for home for Admiral
Schley at Washington have begun.
Rumor says that Vermont republi-
cans may urge Dewey for president.
The National Baseball league season
ended, with Brooklyn as champion.
The South Dakota regiment reached
home and was received unanimously
The United States took charge of
British interests at the Transvaal cap
itaL
Admiral Sampson retired from the
command OF the North Atlantic squad
ron.
William K Vanderbilt has copyright
ed the plans for his house at Oakdale,
L. /.
A steamer was burned on Long ISL
and Sound, 10 persons losing their
lives.
Illinois and Wisconsin suffer from a
coal famine, due largely to scarcity
of cars.
Miss Ruth Underhill Of Long Island
became champion woman golfer of the
United States.
An evangelist was arrested in Iowa
being wanted in Montana on charge
OF bigamy.
The PilIsbury- Washburn company
will build another Touring mill at
Minneapolis.
A Chicago rumor says that Pull
man and Wagner palace car companies
are to combine.
An Iowa druggist and town marshal
were shot and dangerously wounded
by burglar.
The formal opening of the interna-
tional commercial congress in Phila-
delphia took place.
England is now especially glad that
she sided with the United States in
our war with Spain.
The death list of the Aetna powder
mill explosion at Millers, Ind, has
reached four.
Cass Gilbert of st. Paul is to be the
architect for the new So, 600, 900 custom
house at New York.
Woodman c. Hamilton, the million
aire lumberman, is dead at Fond du
Lac, Wis, aged a..
An attempt is being made in the
United States to raise regiment to
fight for the beers.
The Iongshoremen' strike on the
Eastern Minnesota docks at the head
= of the lakes is ended.
The Produce exchange building,
Minneapolis, was burned, infiicting
loss of over $4,000.
Senator Mason is preparing a reso-
luton of sympathy for the beers, to be
presented in the senate.
Col. Frost of the first South Dakota
volunteers, was appointed major of
the Thirty-ninth regiment.
Rockefeller is said to have cornered
the lake freight market, doing up"
the Carnegie company.
At Champion, Mich, Simno Kinsman,
mining captain, fell 1000 feet down
on a shaft and was killed.
Highwaymen at Chicago locked the
bartender in the icebox and then
robbed the saloon till.
Francis NJ. Eagle, Wabash, Ind,
died, aged IS. He had been a resident
of Wabash for sixty years.
Lieutenant Commander T. B. M,
Mason, u. S. N, retired, Saugerties,
N. Y, is dead, aged 81 years.
Mrs. Mabel Wood with her child ar
rived in Chicago penniless, in search of
her husband, who is worth $4,000.
Final returns show that the demo-
Gratis carried indianapolis by S47 Two
years ago their plurality was $500.
The Federal Telephone Co, with