Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-11

American OApUIlS " CnO 40Aohoo VIII
reach s45 ,0OO, 900 for the fiscal year.
What is supposed to be another case
of plague is discovered in San Fran
cisco.
The presidents barber is paid $4,000
a year. Mr.. Mckinley shaves him
self.
Extra help will be needed to harvest
Kansas wheat crop of 80,OO0,OOO bu-
shells.
A condemned murderer gave ban
quet in his cell in the Williamsport,
Pa, jail.
Maryland democrats declared for
"bimetaIIism," but said nothing about
free silver.
CONGRESSMAN W. Smith was renomi
mated in the twenty-second Illinois
District.
Ex-Gov. Peck is thought to be sure
of nomination for congress by Milwau-
kee democrats.
A setting hen pecked the eyes of
J. M. Knox at Lebanon, Ind, i'm
pairing his sight.
Mrs. Caddell was killed at Blocton
Ala, by the woman who had stolen
her husband.
It appears almost certain that both
houses of congress will be ready to
adjourn this week.
Lightning killed a child in bed at
the farmhouse of Alfred Abear, near
Memominee, Mich.
The entire outer frontal bone of a
patient was successfully removed at
St. Vincent's Hospital.
Orville H. Plat of Connecticut is
doomed to run for vice president on
the republican ticket.
Bryan, in discussing campaign is
sues, continues to attach the first
Importance to bimetallism.
Mayor Van Wyck Of New York may
be removed from office because OF his
connection with the ice trust.
The sheriff at st. Louis is called up
ON to furnish posse of thousand
men to quell laWless thinkers.
The Breen oratorical medal at
Notre Dame university was awarded
The biennial convention of the Ger
man Catholic Benevolent societies of
Wisconsin was held in Fond du Lac.
Business men in New York and ST..
Paul closed deal by telephone after
one hours conversation costing S120.
Dowie and eight Of his leaders will
be prosecuted on a charge of detafn-
ing an insane person without license.
The Federal Steel company's plant
at South Chicago closed down indef-
initely, throwing 3,40O men out Of en-
ployment
Wharton Barker, nominee of the
'middle-of-th e-road' populists for
president, has written a formal letter
of acceptance.
After quarrel with his f1ancee Har-
rison Blake, son of a wealthy farmer,
shot himself through the head at
Procterville. O..
It is again announced that Rev.
Henry Moeller of Cincinnati has been
appointed bishop Of the Catholic see
of Columbus. Ohio.
The United Confederate Veterans at
their reunion in Louisville, Ky, re
elected Gen. John B. Gordon Of
Georgia commanders chief.
Decatur, ILL.,, citizens accepted the
offer of James Milliken to give $780,
900 to found an industrial school on
condition that they give 100000.
Painters found the decomposed
body of Mrs Ann Greenwood, prom
inent woman at Grundy Center, Iowa.
The cause of her death is unknown.
W. S. Taylor, formerly republican
claimant for the governorship of Ken
lucky, has announced that he will be
a candidate for the Office next fall.
Mrs. Christine Ellis of Ashtabula,
O., has been left $150,000 by a brother
who died recently in Jacksonville, Fla,
not having seen her in twenty years.
The New Jersey democratic conven-
ton met at Trenton and decided to
send an uninstructed delegate to the
national convention at Kansas City.
Cingress' important acts included
the financial bill and Porto Rican and
Hawaiian government bills. The ap-
preparations will reach $700,OOO,000.
Robert B. Roosevelt says ''the Paris
exposition is the worst fake and fraud
ever perpetrated on mankind. 1t
costs 1900 francs to see every fake.
The death of Mrs. Pierre Lorillard
Reglid, once a society queen Of New
York, recalls her wedding to a former
grocer's boy, now heir to her fortune.
| Delivers name arouses the most
| enthusiasm of the vice presidential
suggestions, but Washington regards
a. stampede for Roosevelt as possible.
Frank Carney, son Of the woman
who owns the Erdlitz hotel at Menom-
inee, Mich, has been arrested, charged
with having destroyed the building by
fire.
Women's club delegates to the bien-
nial convention of the national fed
GRAFTON are pouring into Milwaukee,
where they are spending a profitable
| week.