Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02

ditions are better than admitted.
farmers are prosperous. and trade will
continue good though not abnormal.
At South Bend fire destroyed the
Morrison hotel, formerly the Glenview.
L. C. Smart, of Hudson, Mich, lost his
life and six guests were severity injured.
One of the hardest rain-storms in
years swept Indiana. The Wabash
river is out of it's banks and still ris-
ing. Much damage has been done to
crops.
Samuel P. Molenear, instructor in the
French language at the University or
Pennsylvania, is dead, after an illness
Of three months. His death was due to
heart disease.
Hanna offered Quay the chairman
ship of the national republican COM
mittee and the Pennsylvania declined
the post. They are said to be now in
thorough accord.
Governor Roosevelt, who has re-
turned to his home at Oyster Bay, L. l.,
will remain there until June 30, when
he goes to Oklahoma to attend meet
ing OF his regiment.
In Chicago the building contractors
council announced that the withdrawal
of the unions from the building trades
council is essential to the settlement OF
the labor trouble.
For the first time in 1919 years Yale
had no baccalaureate sermon at COM
mencement Instead President Had
ley, layman, delivered an address,
eulogizing patience.
DR.. H. S. Lucas, formerly of Chester,
Mass. died in Franklin, N G. He was
born in Blandford, in 1917. DR.. Lucas
was a scientist of note, being the first
to produce epson salts
Five Of the strongest labor unions
in Chicago seriously contemplate
withdrawal from the building trades
council. Bricklayers and plumbers
are eager for settlement
National republican headquarters
will be opened in New York and Chi
cago about July 20. Henry C. Payne
will be in charge in Chicago and
Joseph H. Marley in New York.
The new republican national ex-
ecutive committee will be announced
after the Kansas City convention, and
may include Graeme Stewart. Chi
cago will be the headquarters.
The death is announced in London
Of Captain George F. Towle, U. S..
A., retired, aged IS years. He was
twice breveted for gallant and meri-
torious service during the civil war.
Joseph Mullett and James Fitzharris,
the Irishmen who served sentence in
an English prison for completely in the
Phoenix park murder, have been de-
ported by the Cunard steamship Servia.
A strange case is reported to the
Illinois state board Of health, in which
it is charged that resident OF
Geneseo purposely sought infection by
smallpox in order to spread the disease.
Sheriff Neal Morrison was wounded
and two of his deputies were killed
near Cloud Chief, Okla, while pursuing
George Nearey and a man named
Mckee, who had broken jail at
Arapahoe.
Resolutions have been prepared by
the American Institute of Homeopathy
requesting the resident to appoint a
board of physicians to secure uniform
medical legislation throughout the
United States.
Fortified with the belief that the
occult power of Charles H. Mackey OF
Boston can direct her to fabulously
rich diggings, Mrs Lydia r. Clements,
M. D., of Brookline, has taken a trip to
Cape Nome.
An electric railway encircling Chi
cago from Milwaukee to Kankakee is
planned. A considerable portion of the
right of way has been obtained and
work on the line may commence in a
short time.
Archbishop Ireland of st. Paul, who
sailed for Havre, said that he would
first go to Paris, where he is to de-
liver the Grafton at the unwilling Of
the Lafayette monument, and would
then visit Rome.
Close confinement in cell and work
rooms has proved too much for Omer-
lin NJ. Carter, late captain of engineers
of the United States army, and he is
broken in health and shows signs OF
giving away completely.
The two battleships will be called
the Virginia and the Rhode Island, the
armored cruisers will be the Maryland,
Colorado, and South Dakota, and the
protected cruisers the st. Louis, Mil
Waukee, and Charleston.
ST. Louis merchants complain of the
| boycotts instituted by striking en-
ployes Of the transit company. The
posse comitatus is to be reduced from
$500 to 500 men. Cars now run
regularly in the daytime on all lines
and at night on many.
A cyclone passed over Beaver county
| Ok. Henry Bardwell, Steve Bird and
| Abe Weightsman were killed and
! William Hamburger and Paul Rhodes
| fatally injured. The storm swept the
county for six miles. Thousands OF
cattle were stampeded and many killed
The Southern Pacific roundhouse at
| Knrn Citv Gal was burned and the