Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-13
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Yellow fever exists at Tampa, Fla.
Forest fires threaten the Yellowstone
park.
At Cape Nome the smallpox scare is
over.
Chicago September wheat. "A xw
747kc.
Bryan will be his own campaign
manager
An anarchist riot occurred in Chica-
go and Lucy Parsons and others were
arrested.
| Western Wisconsin had destructive
hailstorm.
Canadian Pacific machinists and
| bOilmakers strike.
Three persons in Illinois died from
eating toadstools.
Lewis c. Vanderbilt died at Will
mington. Delaware.
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison Jr. said she
had left her husband.
A clash occurred between American
troops and miners in Alaska.
Seventy warships are now building
or authorized at a cost of $5O,00O,0OO.
Rt Rev. Augustine Healy Catholic
bishop of Maine, is dead at Portland.
Milwaukee's population, according to
the census, is 258,315 A gain of $4,000
in 10 years.
Mrs. John Lee of Atlantic City COM
mitted suicide after trying to kill her
two children.
The census figures for Cincinnati
show a population of 325,902, which is
a very small gain.
The annual report of Pension Com
993, 529 pensioners.
The doom of the carette has been
sounded by the introduction of autobus
lines in Chicago.
Fire destroyed nearly 50,000,000 feet
of lumber at Ashland, Wis, entrailing
a loss of S1.O00.000.
New Hampshire democrats nominal
ed DIR. Frederick E. Potter of Ports
mouth for governor.
Iowa republicans nominated a ticket
headed ny w. B. Martin of Greenfield
for secretary of state.
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is appointed guardian Of Charles H.
Hoyt, the playwright.
A consular report says the United
States far surpasses all other nations
in the output of steel.
Harry N. Git was nominated for
i congress at the democratic county
convention at York. Pa.
Hilda Grave, of Chicago, wrote Il
poem to Death and killed herself with
in a week of her wedding.
Forty-two thousand schedules out Oh
a total of $4,000 have been returned to
the census office by enumerators.
College managers fear a loss of the
football monopoly. Professionals are
cutting into the amateur fed.
A big building at Scranton, Pa, was
wrecked by an explosion and eighteen
persons were injured, three fatally.
Adoption of automatic couplers by
railroads may result in the discharge
of many bral emen and switchmen.
A Union Pacific passenger train was
robbed in Colorado, and man who
fired at one of the robbers was killed.
Foreign commerce was exceedingly
heavy last year, exports and imports
amounting to more than $4,000, 100000.
Treasury officials are endeavoring to
locate $500, O00, 900 of gold in circulation
in this country, but not accounted for.
The militia was ordered to Cass
Lake. Mimi, where rioters took posses
sion of the town Many were arrested.
The conservation of DR.. r. w. Barn
well as bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese of Alabama took place
at Selma.
The wife of the Italian consul in
Chicago asks city authorities to extend
protection to her husband against local
anarchists.
The official report of the census
bureau makes Buffalos population
352,219, an increase of 37.77 per cent.
over 1890,
Mrs. Adrian Schoenmacher. Dutch
heiress, quilted her coachman husband
at Appleton, Wis, and returned to
Holland.
John w. Trowbridge, a widely
at his home in Englewood. N j., Of
cancer of the liver.
w. K Vanderbilt, Jr., and wife, had
a narrow escape from death at New
port. Their automobile ran under the
feet of rearing horses.
Ruben Miller aided the defense in
the Powers trial when he swore that
the bullet which killed Goebel was not
fired from the statehouse.
Chicago packers are asked to bid for
furnishing 100000 pounds Of meats
for troops in the orient. England
placed large order.
The resignation of William F. ORA
| per as ambassador to Italy has been
! forwarded to the president. Ex-Gov
Wolcott of Massasschutes was APP
pointed to the vacancy.
President Mckinley is said to have d
special cipher code in which all his
correspondence is done by wire when
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