Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-28
pie fell. Nine persons were injured.

The Western Unitarian conference
in Chicago elected Lawrence Conover
president, Rev. F. G. Southworth sec
rotary and H. w. Brough treasurer
President Mckinley will ride on
horseback in the G. A. R. parade in
Chicago in August, having accepted a
place on the staff of Commander
Shaw.
Congressman Clark ILL.,, and Cousins
Iowa were renominated. A. M.
and Frankhauser nominated by the
republicans in the twentieth Illinois
district.
John Alexander Dowie and his asso-
ciates in the Zion institutions incorpo-
rate a $1,000,000 company for the man
ufacture of lace fabrics at the projected
Zion city.
w. r. Hearst, the new president of
the national association of democrat
ic clubs, issues statement outlining
needed action during the presidential
campaign.
Wharton Barber the middle-of-
road populist nominee for president,
called on Mckinley. He states he will
draw 1,50O,000 votes from Bryan and so
defeat him.
Mrs. Frances B. Hills of Whining
ton, Mass, who married her coachman
and built a 100000 mausoleum for her
% children, died, and will ho buried in
$4,000 robe.
Governor Tanner has slight adj
vantage in the organization of the
Illinois republican state committee,
although the Cullom men claim half
the membership.
In a saloon fight at Memphis, Mrs.
McKenna wife of the proprietor of
the saloon. shot and killed Edward
Wilmington and fatally wounded
Dennis Brogan.
Mrs. George Ray, Garrett, Ind, has
sued the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company for $4,000 for the death of
her husband, a fireman, who was kill
ed in a wreck.
Fire destroyed the Grand Army
Home for Soldiers Widows, at Haw-
kins Station, Pa. The forty inmates,
ranging in age from SO to 95 years, es-
capped without injury
A monument to Frances Slocum, the
white rose of the Miamis,'' was I'M
yelled at Peru, Ind. Oil portraits of
Black Hawk and Wapello will be hung
in the Iowa state library
1t is said in Washington that Will
lam A. Clark will not be permitted to
take his seat in the seante, although
lawyers in that body admit he is
technically in the right.
G. w. Knapp Of st. Louis and
Charles S. Diehl were elected to sue
coed Victor f. Lawson and M e.
Stone as president and general man
ager of the Associated Press.
Samuel j. Richie, alias Sam Scott,
arrested in Baltimore charged with
robbing the Bradley Bank of Eldon,
Iowa, was at one time prominent
democratic politician in Chicago.
The Methodist committee on book
concern voted to abolish the ST. Louis
book depository and to consolidate the
central, Omaha, and Rocky mountain
papers with the Office at Kansas City.
The committee of the Methodist Epis-
copal general conference having
charge of the subject of amusements
will recommend that no change be
made in church discipline in this re-
gard
r. NJ. Patterson, who contests the
nomination of William j O'Nei1l for
congress by the republicans in the
third Illinois district, has fled suit
charging fraud in the convention
proceedings.
J. e. Hutchinson, editor of the
Guthrie, KY, Graphic, and Virgil Mar
Shall, freight agent, were fatally shot
in a saloon in Guthrie. KY, by Fl. f.
Duvoid. Marshall was a bystander.
All are young men.
Manager Brady of the Jeffries camp
says that he has uncovered plan by
Corbett and the notorious Mcvey to
give fake fight for the purpose of get
ting pictures and calling them pictures
Of the Corbett-J effries fight
LII S1l1S ClnpIOySuq dS
cigar makers at Hamburger, Holman &
Co.'s factory, New York, refused to
strike because the superintendent
bought gallons of ice cream and
candies and engaged an orchestra
After three years inexplicable illnei
Miss Barbara Knobei Of Altoona, Wis,
has been relieved by surgical opera
ton of four inch steel hatpin imbed-
ded in the muscles of her right side.
How it got there she doesn't know.
The Indiana supreme court decided
that the Wabash roads purchase Of the
Eel River line to prevent competition
was illegal, and the latter road reverts
to the state The decision paves the
way for an effective antitrust law in
Indiana
Judge Tuley formally declines to
allow his name to be considered for
the democratic nomination for COVER
nor in Illinois. Mayor Harrison and
other c011ntv leaders decided +o c,1n