Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-01

McLeansborO, III.
New England manufacturers are up
in arms against the shoe machinery
trust, which may compel them to go
back to hand lasting
General Ludlow returned from his
European war studies and says the
Germany army is the best organized OF
any in the old world.
Four negroes, suspected Of burglary,
we're lynched in Louisiana and
wholesale hanging of imprisoned
colored men is feared.
The vice president Of a Chicago
coal company states that the fuel scare
is unfounded, as there is supply for
the rest of the year.
| A Santa Fe engine crashed through
wharf at Point Richmond, Cal, and
sank in fifty feet of water, killing the
fireman, Press S. Adams.
The central labor union of New
York took up the miners strike and
passed a resolution denouncing the
employment of detectives.
! The Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad will shortly unite into
one system all it's branch and leased
lines in Iowa and Missouri.
Philip A. Julian, one of the best
known of old-tine newspaper men o.
the country, is dead at Butte, Mont, OF
heart disease, aged Sc years
H. H. Campbell, a millionaire at
torney of Boston, who had been at
Prescott. Ariz., for year, died I'M
expectedly of consumption.
J. w. Lathrop, one of the earliest
merchants in Jacksonville, H., is
dead. He was the father of E. B.
Lathrop banker of Chicago
The recovery and cremation of
bodies at Galveston continues, and
the work of caring for the living is
being prosecuted Systematically.
Chicago hotel men united in a trust,
the first evidence of which is shown
in a pool of the laundry trade and a
/ project to build a big warehouse.
A slight mishap to the battleship
Wisconsin has delayed her departure
from San Francisco for Puget Sound,
where she will undergo her trial.
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Confederate veterans denounce
Grand Army utterances made in Chi
cago. accusing their former foes of
attempting to revive sectional strife.
-Four men robbed Burlington ex-
press car near Lincoln, Neb., but got
little booty. They failed to open a
safe containing a large sum of money.
President Mitchell Of the Mine
Workers. Union estimates the num-
Der of strikers at 126,000. The strik-
ers gained ground in all the districts.
Trustees of Northwestern university,
unable to agree on successor to
President Rogers, appointed COM
mittee of seven to make the choice.
DR.. Thomas A. Wallace and pa
tient named Mrs. Eva Bass were found
unconscious in the physicians Chi
cago Office, with the gas jet turned on.
The curator of the Field Columbian
museum claims to have found geolog1-
cal proof that the advent of life on
this globe was more than 100000
years ago.
w. B. Hornblower announced his
intention to vote for Mckinley, and
Moorfeld Storey, ex-president of the
American Bar Association, declared
for Bryan.
Four of crew were drowned by the
sinking of the schooner John Martin
in a collision with the steamer Yuma
near Port Huron. The wreck blocks
the channel.
The new census figures at Joliet
show through some error that the
convicts of the penitentiary 1857 in
number, had been made part OF the
citys population.
George d'Vys, the last surviving
member of the government relief eX-
petition which rescued DR.. Kane, the
American Arctic explorer, in 1855, is
dead in Massachusetts,.
Chicago water officials will present
a bill to the Continental Packing COM
pany for water alleged to have been
stolen, and it is thought the amount
will be nearly $4,000.
Another mob broke loose yes
terday and Elders Ephraim Bassinger
of Bluffton and Silas Moot Of Lima,
Zionists, were painted black, after
being stripped by the mob.
Thomas Doyle, whose engagement
to Miss Grace Baldwin of Unionville.
N. j., was broken, mortally shot ne
father, Horace Baldwin, at his home
and was himself dangerously wounded.
William B. Dunton of Chicago, al
legged to have induced Teller Forbes
to lend him $4,000 of bank funds a
loan which resulted in Forbes suicide,
was caught at Old Point Comfort, Va.
John Butler, one Of Chicagos prom
inent citizens and old residents, VINO
was connected with the Chicago Gas
Light and Coke company for mo e
than forty years, died. He was 68
years old.
The effect of the coal strike in the
anthracite region is being made man
ifest by the decreased output of coal.