Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-28
DOMESTIC.
Chicago May wheat, 657sc.

Congress will probably adjourn
June 9.
Kid Mccoy whipped Dan Creedon in
six rounds.
The president has signed the free
| homes bill.
The price of horses is higher than q
year ago.
The Aurora council enacted a cur
few law.
The fishing season in Wisconsin
opens May 25.
Abner Dawson died in Davenport
Iowa, aged 81.
Kansas republicans renominated al
the state officers.
William L. Houston died at Leads
vile, Ind, aged 81.
Indiana G. A. r. eletced d. E. BEEN
of Spencer commander.
Kansas republicans renominated W
E. Stanley for governor.
The National congress of mothers
met at Des Moines, Iowa.
Rev. E. K. Squier, D. D., is dead
at Marshall, Mo-, aged 81.
Rich copper ore is said to have been
found near Van Buren,, Mo.
Strikers in st. Louis remain qu1el
and cars are run on five lines.
Smallpox prevails in many sections
throughout the United States.
A German firm has ordered 100000
tons of Alabama coal at $3.50.
Professor F. B. Cooper may be
made president of Iowa College.
The national conference Of charities
and corrections was held at Topeka.
American exports to Asia are four
times as great as eight years ago.
The borough of Richmond threatens
to secede from greater New York.
Secretary Root and Adjutant General
Corbin Endorsed the army canteen.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
is suffering from cancer of the neck.
The University of Wisconsin won
the dual athletic meet with Illinois.
The immigration of Japanese la
borers more than doubled last year.
Nearly 10000 immigrants, mostly
from Italy, are on their way west.
Indians on the Pine Ridge reserva-
ton want the squaw men removed.
Joseph McGrath of New York, aged
102, wanted to box with reported.
One highwayman held up two stage
coachers at once in California, taking
$500.
Lew WaHaces royalties for six
months of Ben Hur as play are $780,
600.
A Topeka Christian scientist healer
will be prosecuted for patients
| death
The ministers of Arcola, H., form
trust to keep up fees for funeral ser
vices.
Simon W. Cramer of Paulding5
Ohio, shot at rat and killed his
wife.
| Work on the convention hall al
Kansas City, Mo-, is being rapidly
pushed.
The Chicago recruiting Office has
supplied 385 men to the navy since
Jan. l.
w. A. Shepard of Jackson, Mich, was
arrested at Findlay, o., charged with
swindling.
Wireless biography is being used
between the islands of the Hawaiian
group.
Fire damaged the Mesta Machine
company's plant at Homestead, Pa,
$4,000.
German capital amounting to $1,000
100000 is invested in the western hem
isphere.
j. NJ. Flynn of San Francisco says
Russia is promoting an international
wheat trust
Six fires in different parts of Eau
Claire are supposed to have been in
cenidary.
Barclay Gallagher, once a well
known newspaper man, is dead al
Baltimore.
| Gage will issue a call for the re
demption of 1885,, 800 of outstanding
1891 bonds.
| Bubonic plague is said to have
reached San Francisco, causing six
deaths already.
An employe of the orphan asylum
in Pueblo killed two inmates and
wounded his wife.
Secretary Gage asked congress tic
appropriate 1897 900 for the Rock Is
land arsenal.
The Nebraska campaign will be
hard fought. The legislature will
elect two senators.
The city council of Knoxville, Tenn
has invited the boer commissioners tc
visit that town.
The republican congressional com
mittee's headquarters will be re-
moved to Chicago.
Harry Kimball Thaw of Pittsburg
gave dinner at Paris to 25 persons
that cost $4,000
Alabama democrats called conven-
ton to nominate a successor to Gen
eral Joseph Wheeler.
Indiana republicans decided to start
a boom for Senator Fairbanks fol-