Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-18

from politics upon the expiration of
mis- term in 1903.
Allison will not accept the vice
presidential nomination even if the
convention names him.
Judge Boggs has been elected chief
justice of the Illinois supreme court
| for the ensuing year.
General Shaw predicts 100000 visi-
tors to Chicago during the Grand
Army encampment.
Chairman Jones expects the renom-
nation of Bryan and reaff1rmat- on of
the 1896 platform.
Wheat is booming on crop scare,
prices advancing q per bushel. Hog
products advance sharply.
The Chicago health department es-
Inmates that drainage canal has saved
many lives and $11,000,000.
The Colorado democratic convention
instructed it's delegates to the Kansas
City convention for Bryan.
Governor Shaw was cut and bruised
in a collision on Northwestern road
inside city limits of Des Moines.
Kansas City jury has awarded dam
ages against local coal monopoly,
under the Sherman antitrust law.
Wife of nomas Blythe Scott, former
banker of Chicago clubmen, was grant
ed divorce at st. Paul, for desertion.
Estimates by ward superintendent
of the census place Chicagos popula-
Y1nor1u dO11h1n th ar of
1890.
A French syndicate is said to have
been formed to extend the Siberian
railway to Bering sea and across to
Alaska.
At Anaheim, Cal, two earthquake
shocks were felt. Santa Ana also re-
ported two shocks. No damage is re-
ported.
At San Francisco Robert Brandley,
a self-confessed counterfeiter, dropped
dead when sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary.
A divorce suit between a prominent
st. Louis couple is based on the wife's
alleged affection for the ghost of w. J.
Florence, the actor.
Riots continued in st. Louis in con-
nection with the street car strike.
women patrons of the cars being mall
treated by rioters.
An explosion in mine near GlOuSter,
O., resulted in four deaths and caused
whom were imprisoned.
DR.. D. K. Pearsons has agreed TO
give the Grand Prairie seminary of
Onarga, ILL.,, $4,000 on condition that
the trustees raise $4,000.
Governor Stephens of Missouri, in
signed statement, blames Mayor
Ziegenheim for declining to assist in
suppressing the st. Louis rioters.
A number of Photographic plates of
the solar eclipse taken by scientists of
the United States naval observatory
have been satisfactorily developed.
Miss Lille J. Ray has been ap
pointed a deputy United States mar
shall for Hawaii Her father is United
States marshal for the new territory.
George E. Roberts Of Iowa telegraph
ed his newspaper, the Fort Dodge
Messenger, assurances that Deliver
will be the republican vice presidential
nominee.
Chairman Peabody of the gold dem
ocratic national committee said the
question of ticket will remain in a
allegiance until after the other con-
ventions.
Dun's Review says that the failures
for May break all records for that
month, but holds that the situation
is encouraging and shows frmness of
financial affairs.
DR.. Paul Gibier, head of the New
York Pasteur Institute and famous
bacteriologist, died at Suffern, N. Y,
as result of runaway accident. He
was 40 years old.
By an electric railway collision in
Providnce, r. l., four persons were
killed and may dangerously injured,
the latter including Lieutenant Cover
nor Charles d. Kimball.
The majority report of the Occur d.
Alene Investigating committee COM
mends Governor Steunenberg for his
courage and fearlessness" and con-
graduates the military.
The navy department is preparing to
carry out one of the largest ship
building programs in American his
tory the armor plate contract alone
reaching nearly $17,000,000.
At Cedarville, Ohio, the Reformed
Presbyterian synod discussed the to-
hacco question and passed resolution
against ordaining elders or licensing
preachers who use tobacco.
Chippewa Indians of Leech Lake re-
servation, excited by pretended Mes
siah's'' prediction of disaster have
armed for battle. They held council
of war, defying the authorities. Set
| tiers were alarmed.
The agricultural departments re-
port shows further decrease of L.
| $4,000 in the acreage of winter wheat