Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-07

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river threatens to cause further de-
struction.
Mrs. Mcmahon of Griggsville, ILL.,,
demanded a seat in the Methodist gen
eral convention and caused much con-
sternation.
Americas richest heiress, Miss Gam
nell, is reported to be engaged to
marry Thomas Shaw Safe, an English
explorer.
Thousands attended Galenas decen-
NAL observance of Grants birthday
Governor Roosevelt of New York was
the orator.
Roosevelt's emphatic declaration Of
his position increases the probability
of Secretary Longs nomination for
vice president.
Police Sergeant Timothy S. O'Con-
nell was found dead on the Eighteenth
street viaduct Chicago, shot through
the breast.
DR.. Pfeiffer, discoverer of influenza
bacillus, says handkerchiefs propagate
70 cent of all colds in head, throat,
and nose.
Governor Tanner visited Chicago to
consult surgeons regarding an opera
ton. He has gall stones and can
scarcely live.
At Cincinnati Mrs. Jessie Adams
was acquitted of murder She re-
Gently killed her husband, agent of the
U. P. railway.
S. w. Jacobs, president of the Loan
& Trust company. is under arrest in
Chicago for forging so shares Of Amer
lean sugar stock.
High school students at Flndlay, O.,
removed the hands from every clock
in the building. Four youths have
been suspended.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler has forwarded
| to Gov. Johnson, of Alabama, his re-
signation as congressman. He prefers
| to stay in the army.
J. c. Bayes, ex-editor of the Iron
| Age says a general collapse of iron
and steel prices is impossible, because
| of export demand.
The taxation of railroads on a gross
earnings basis is to become a part of
the conservative administrations pro-
gram in Manitoba.
Beckham's answer in the Kentucky
contest case, filed in the United States
national tribunal
Hanna is credited with an attempt
to control the middle-of- the-road pop
ulist convention and secure the nom
ination of Dewey.
Bishop Thoburn has a plan to enlist
an army of 100000 men to bring new
members into the Methodist church
and raise money.
Fifteen men planting corn on Will
liam Keerp's farm, near Bonefeld, H.,
were poisoned from eating cheese. A
doctor saved them ALL
Resolutions and Endorsements of
Mckinley were adopted by republican
conventions in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsyl-
vania and Wisconsin.
The Indiana republican state CON
vention nominated Winfield 7. Dur
bin, colonel of volunteers for COVER
nor, and a full ticket.
The Lima presbytery at a special
meeting decided unanimously to ask
the general assembly to adopt a short,
comprehensive creed.
At Buffalo, N. Y, George P. Dold, a
son of Jacob Dold, the pork packer,
was found dead in bed at his home.
Heart disease killed him.
F. L. Campbell, of Washington, D..
c., has been named by Mckinley to
succeed Webster Davis as assistant
secretary of the interior.
Buildings occupied by two saloons
in Blue Island avenue owned and
rented by the University of Chicago.
are condemned as unsafe
Edward G. Delano. dean of the as
sistant superintendent of schools of
Chicago, will be acting head till Dr.
Andrews successor is named.
P ID. Armour, it is announced, will
retire as head of the Armour packing
firm. He leaves for Europe May TO-.
He is now in the best of health.
Populists demand the same rates to
their convention at Sioux Falls, S. D.,
as have been granted the middle-of-
the-road convention at Cincinnati.
Many Japanese are leaving Van.
couver and Victoria for the Klondike,
in the hope of securing work for wages
or to wash abandoned ground.
Secretary Roots declaration at a
banquet that eve must abandon the
Monroe doctrine or fight created a
profound sensation in Washington.
Disguised with the hypocrisy of the
sultan Oscar Straus, United States
minister to Turkey, has resigned and
will not return to Constantinople.
According to statements of his
family, Harry Dribble, 18 years old,
who died from consumption, in New
York grew seven inches in two weeks.
The North American turquoise syn
dictate, which aims to control the tur-
quoise industry in the United States,
was organized with S1,O00,O00 capital