Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-14

growing surplus in the islands treas
ur.L.
The Dewey day celebration cost
| Chicago $4,000.
A building in Kansas City collapsed
burying seven persons.
A cyclone damaged nearly every
! building in Jerseyville, Ind.
At Leavenworth, Kan. Mayor Nicely
forbade the production of Sapho.
Northern Pacific assumed active
control of st. Paul and Duluth road
The rush to Cape Nome exceeds the
Klondike stampede of two years ago.
| The number of striking mechanics
in Philadelphia has been increased to
5000.
Chicago department stores will es-
| tablish schools for all employees under
age.
Girls in the public schools of Wash
| ington are victims Of the cigarette
habit.
Bishop Bowman is the only Meth
odist Bishop who ever attended a
| theater
| Value of the estate lett by Sidney A.
Kent Of Chicago is found to be
So, 900, 900.
| Iowa democrats Endorsed the Chi
cago platform, but ignored the free
silver issue.
The total received for liquor licenses
in New York city for the coming year
is $4,8O9,19O.
Final report of George M. Pullman's
executors will show an estate of
s15,OO0,O00.
The senate passed a resolution for a
survey of the Illinois and lower Des-
PLANES rivers
Archbishop Keane says that he has
no news of his reported appointment
to the Iowa see.
Miles says his objection to disap-
pearing carriage is the result of per-
sonal Inspections.
The council of Atlanta asked Mayor
] Woodward to resign because Of his
personal habits.
Miss Helen Gould has rented T.
Townsend Burdens Fair Lawn, New
port, for the season.
Rev. w. E. Johnson of Bamberg, S.
c., shot and killed W. T. Bellinger,
court stenographer.
In New York Carl Wylie Scofield,
vice president and manager of the Ii
dal Oil company, is dead.
General James A. Weaver denies
! 4 in
the event of Bryan's election.
The state G. A. r. encampment at
Jacksonville elected Joel M. Longe-
necker of Chicago commander.
Captain Thomas Mein, one Of the
best-known mining men in California,
is dead of lung trouble at Oakland.
Strong sentiment in favor of the i'm
mediate passage of the Nicaraguan
canal bill developed in the senate.
] Plans have been finished for
bridge connecting Broadway, Brook
Ign, and Grand street, Manhattan
| c. F. Nicely was arrested on the
charge of having embezzled $4,000 as
treasurer of the post Office in Cuba
| Ambassador Choate asked Lord
Salisbury for explanations regarding
the boarding of an American vessel.
EX-Congressman David B. Culber-
son, father of United States Senator
Charles A. Culberson of Texas, is dead
Admiral Dewey received a negro
delegation at Memphis, reviewed big
parade and attended many entertain
ments.
William Crowinshield Endicott, sec.
rotary of war under President Cleve-
lands first administration, is dead in
Boston
A combination, to be known as the
American Sheet Metal company, is be-
ing organized, with a capital of s5,-
100000.
The Chicago board of trade collected
$3.50 for the relief of the sufferers by
the recent fires at Hull and Ottawa
Canad.
Ice formed at many points in north
ern Ohio. The damage to fruit is
not yet known, but it will probably
be heavy.
In San Francisco Fred Bortzmeyer
a young man from Cleveland Ohio
was shot and fatally wounded and rob-
bed Of 500.
The death list of the mine disaster
at Scofeld, Utah, is still growing, the
indications being that $50 persons lost
their lives.
The total number of pieces of money
made at the Philadelphia mint in
April was 1881, 100, the value of which
is $12,954, 4SO.
| State department. denies any change
in the Turkish situation The govern
ment awaits the sultan's reply to the
formal demands
Forced to choose between saving
wife or child from a burning steamer
in New York, Charles Larkeson let
the baby drown
Most congressman believe postmas-
ter General Smith has a better chance
for the presidency than has any
other n q l0innt OHio