Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-09


saved.
A good roads congress opened at
Port Huron.
A destructive fire ragged at Cass
Lake, Mimi.
Railroads will charge 50 cents extra
to extend G.. A. R. return tickets to
Sept. 80. J.
denly in New York.
A decision against the ice trust was
rendered in New York.
Big sales wiped out a third OF the
22-cent bulge in wheat.
Fire destroyed half of the business
portion of Oneida. Ill.
Forest fires destroyed railroad prop
erty near West Superior.
Mr.. Dole was inaugurated governor
Of the territory of Hawaii.
The drought near Grafton, n. d.,
was broken by heavy showers.
Aaron T. Bliss was nominated for
governor by Michigan republicans.
/ A Chicago man will attempt to go
through Niagara rapids in boat
A non-sectarian college was opened
at Manila, with 500 pupils enrolled.
Meat extracts will not be affected
nv the German meat inspection law.
At Black River Falls, Wis, three
men were badly injured in a tornado.
University of Chicago may abolish
the Ph. B. and B. S. degrees, using
only A. b.
A Chicago boy died of lockjaw, Que
to the discharge of blank cartridges IN
a. revolver.
The Nilsson Rendering works, near
| Cheektowaga, N. Y, were burned.
Loss, $500, OO0
Gus Rubin announces that ne will
fight either Jeffries or Fitzsimmons
before Sept. l.
The reduction in wages at the Brook
| lyn navy-yard will be from 8 cents to
% cents a day.
German manufacturers will meet
the competition of American shoes by
copying models.
Samuel Hill of the Great Northern
railway was elected an overseer OF
Harvard college.
An agricultural expert will visit
Hawaii to arrange for government ex-
pertinent stations.
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
road decided to refuse employment to
users of cigarettes.
/ The destruction of the Saale will de-
| Law departure of Christian Endeavor
delegates for London.
Fire at Pittsburg caused loss Of
$500. 900. One fireman was killed and
eleven others injured.
An Indian outbreak is feared in the
Rainy lake region of Minnesota. Set
tiers flee across to Ontario.
Sixty-seven bodies of victims of the
Hoboken fire have been recovered, but
over 200 persons are still missing.
The Northwestern wheat crop is re-
ported completely ruined, but Wal
street says the report is exaggerated.
Miss Helen M. Gould attended the
twenty-ffth anniversary exercises o.
Wellesley college and held a recep
ton.
Prohibitionists nominated. John G
Woolley for president and Henry b,
Metca1f of Rhode Island for vice pres
ident.
David Bell, formerly one of the bes
known lumbermen of Canada, is dea(
at his home in New York city, aged q
years.
one-third of the s2O,OOo,OoO called fol
by Methodist bishops in twentieth
century thanks offering has been sub
scribed.
Chicago building contractors AM
their men are determined and TIL
fight is not expected to end befor'
next winter.
President Burn of the wall pape
trust announced its voluntary dissolu
ton, as it's operations have been un
profitable.
Two slaughter-houses occupied b,
Hess Brothers and Rudy Brother
were destroyed by fire in Chicago
Loss $4,000.
James F. Gookins proposes t
spend S10O,0000O0 for ten-mile sub
way in Chicago to connect doWn-toWl
: and North and West Sides.
Commander Daniel Delehanty OF tn
navy confirms the report from Wash
ington that he will be retired becaus
incapacitated for service.
Governor Roosevelt was given
warm greeting by Kansasans Will
on his way to Oklahoma City to atten
: reunion of the rough riders.
The smoking of cigars and cigs-~cte
is on the increase, according to tn
annual report of Collector Coyne OF tn
: Chicago internal revenue office.
The St. Louis street car strike END
/ ed with the signing of agreement be
: tween employers and men. Those nov
} at work are not to be discharged.
Bryan declared he would not be
2 candidate on platform which doe
l not declare specifically for the fire
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
: The Anti-Imperialist League re
solved, on motion of Carl Schufz,
| yooo+ o. flor tho dom rcratic natiOnS