Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-20
DOMESTIC.

! Chicago August wheat, 75Ac.
New York has a yellow fever case.
John Drew is to play Richard Carvel.
Heavy rain floods Minnesota iron
mines.
Four women persisted in fire in
| Chicago.
Texas democrats nominated State
ticket.
Grafton IN. d. druggists were
burned out.
BARLEY King" O'Neill filed a petition
! in bankruptcy.
A Minnesota man invents an auto
mobile cannon.
Crivitz, Wis, had a fire causing
$15G,O0C loss.
Two firemen were killed on J. j.
Rills yacht Wacouta.
Providence, r. T., has population,
a gain of 32.89 per cent.
The school census showed Chicagc's
population to be 2,0O7 695.
William Steinitz, the noted chess
| player, died in New York.
| Considerable damage was done by a
storm around Pierre, S. D.
| Mosquitoes stung boy almost TO
| death in New Jersey swamp.
| George H. Greenwood, Dunbar, Pa,
received first honor at Oxford.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker is reported by her
| physician to be out Of danger.
| The International Typographical
| union is in session at Milwaukee.
The first session of the LVIth con-
gress appropriated $40, $50, S68.88.
The Alton railroad expects direct
| line to Denver via the Kansas Pacific.
The street railway employees in ST.
Louis are organizing line OF their
| own.
Speaker Sherman will act as COVER
nor of Illinois during Tanners absence
in Colorado.
| Charles A. Towne announces his
! withdrawal as populist candidate for
vice president.
Evidence in the Powers case is all in
| jury Saturday.
Rev. Fred D. Tucker of Morris, ILL.,,
was chosen principal of the Minnesota
agricultural college.
At Detroit Mrs. Carrie N. Walker.
supreme commander of the Ladies Of
| the Maccabees, died.
Governor Shaw of Iowa will appoint
sor to Senator Gear.
The estimated decrease of wheat in
the northwest is about 67,000,000
bushels behind 1899.
Seattle is to have a worlds fair in
| 1904 to commemorate the settlement
of the Pacific northwest.
Fitzsimmons defeated Rubin in the
sixth round on their meeting in
Madison Square Garden.
| The populist national committee will
meet in Chicago on Aug. II to act on
the presidential problem.
Daniel A. Thompkins of North
| Carolina has been appointed member
! O., the industrial commission.
The third annual encampment on
| the old Black Hawk backgrounds on
Battle island, Wis, was held.
Bryan will make but two speeches in
Kansas before election day, one in
Wichita and one in Topeka.
Professor r. D. Salisbury and four
teen students, University of Chicago,
started west to study glaciers.
A circuit judge at Kansas City holds
that telegraph companies must furnish
quotations to grain dealers.
A Dowio votary was thrown into a
public fountain by angry citizens at
Mansfield, O. and nearly drowned.
Two sons of ex-Alderman Smith Of
Newark, N j., were drowned while
bathing at Highland Beach, n. J.
James Blackwell, wanted at Massa-
chusetts for an alleged gold-brick
swindle, was arrested in New York.
The ceremony of the notification of
Mr.. Bryan by the silver republicans
will probably take place in St. Paul.
Jame1 Rape, a veteran of three
wars, started on bicycle trip from
Marinette, to Chicago and New York.
A forest fire has driven all the
guests from the Hotel Kaaterskill and
! the Laurel House, Catskill mountains.
William j. Bryan and Adlai e.
| Stevenson were formally notified at
Indianapolis of their nomination by
the democrat party for president and
| vice-president.
John Alexander Dowie. founder Of a
strange western sect which Worsnlps
him as the Messiah, sailed for Jeru-
salem.
William Clark of Newark, n. J.,
president of the William Clark Thread
company, died suddenly of heart
| failure.
Fifteen persons were killed and
eleven others injured by a train that