Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-17

CrowninshieId expects to ask congress
to increase the enlisted naval force to
$4,000 men and boys, an increase OF
$4,000.
Philip Weber, ten years old, while
chasing a ball fell into tank of hot
water belonging to a New York Tur-
kish bath-house and was scalded to
death.
The count of seventy three cities was
finished by the census bureau. The
extremes are Atlantic City, N. j., gain
1884 per cent; Lincoln, Neb., loss
2s17.
Chiefs of bureaus of the navy depart
ment are preparing estimates for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1902, which
are expected to aggregate nearly $780,
100000
Customs inspectors found more than
$4,000 worth of diamonds in the coat
collar and shoes of Isaac Kaufman
when he landed at New York from
Bremen.
The British squadron arrived at Bar
Harbor, Maine, and Edward Van Ness,
a wealthy New Yorker. raised large
boer banner on the flagstaff at his
cottage.
George thinner, manager of the Lex
ington, Neb, telephone exchange, and
a companion named Thomas, of Kear-
ney, were drowned while attempting to
ford the Loup river.
Small dealers in coal who have been
giving short weight in Chicago are
being looked up by City Sealer Quinn,
wac. says he will prosecute everyone
selling short measure.
1t is reported that Col. S. w. For
dyce will pe made president of the
Missouri Pacific, with offices at st.
Louis, and that George Gould will be
chairman Of the board
The convention of the National As
ISOLATION of Stationary Engineers, Mil
waukee, adjourned after selecting
Rochester, N. Y, as the next meeting
place and electing officers.
Judgment on default for S153, SIG
was taken in the district court. Den
yer, against the Victor Gold Mining
given in 1900, bearing 10 per cent.
The Abbott reduced the worlds mile
troting to wagon record at Charter
Oak Park, Hartfrod, Conn, to 2:05A.
The former record was 2:O9A, held by
Lucille and made at Cleveland in 1897.
The wedding of Miss Mabel McKin-
ley and DR.. Hermanus L. Baer, Somer-
set, Pa, Sept. II brings together no
table party of distinguished people,
including President and Mrs McKin-
ley.
General Manager Russell Harding OF
the Missouri Pacific railway. while en-
route east with his wife and some
friends, was taken suddenly i'll and
when the train reached Toledo he was
removed to hospital.
James T.. Mulhall was held in $4,000
for examination on a charge of sWind-
ling New York dealers. The police
said merchants had lost $4,000
through him and they thought he was
one Of the old Valentine gang.
The annual report of St. Paul shows
a decrease of 1888, $40 in net earnings
and an increase of 81, 458,000 in operat-
ing expenses. The net earnings of the
New York Central for the fiscal year,
were 62O,511 SOS; a gain, s2,55S, 5O6.
Owing to the disinclination of the
Western Passenger association to grant
the rate of cent mile, which was one
of the conditions on which Denver was
selected as the place for the next en-
campment of the G. A. R., Cleveland
has made bid for the encampment
General Manager Nudge of the Santa
Fe, at Topeka, Kan, denied the report
that his company is backing the pro-
ject of the Kansas and Southern rail-
road, short line in Pottawattomie
county, Kan, to build north and
south road from Nebraska to Okla
homa.
The English salt trade is excited over
the report that an American syndicate
covets control of the British salt mar
ket. Boxers are said to be quietly
buying shares Of the salt union, CON-
bination of producers which has a
monopoly of the industry in the United
hln2QOm.
From reports of family physicians it
is probable that rs per cent. of the
population of Chicago has been passing
through most extraordinary period OF
suffering from an epidemic of cramps.
In one week there were III deaths
from stomach troubles. The excessive
heat was the cause.
The body Of the man found dead in a
room in the Stafford hotel, Van Buren,
and Pacific avenue, Chicago, has been
identified from letters found in his
possession as that of Archibald c.
Haynes, Jr., son of Archibald G. Haynes,
general agent of the Equitable Life
Insurance Co., in New York. Whether
The death was caused by suicide drink
ing laudanum with suicidal intent, Or
whether tne poison was taken by mis-
take is not certain.
FOREIGN.