Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-16
and the village of Steamboat Rock

st. Louis grand jury blames the po-
lice for much of the violence during
the street car strike.
Fire losses in the first six months OF
1900 were s103, 2298, 800, so per cent.
more than in 1899.
Miss Nellie Ryder of Fall River is
on her way to we'd Weather Observer
Myers of Dawson City.
John Bennett, stolen twentY-three
years ago, when years old, found his
mother in Plainfeld, N. j.
Revised figures on fourth Of July
casualties show dead, SO; injured, p
767; fires losses $546, 1856.
G. H. Ownes shot a wild dog in
Chicago after it had besieged women
and children for eight hours.
1t is rumored that the Chicago &
Alton, Kansas City Southern and Union
Pacific will be consolidated.
The trial of A. J. Jester on charge Of
murder Of Gilbert Gates thirty years
ago began in New London, Mo.
California hop growers have Joined
an association to regulate the supply
and demand and control output.
A rain and wind storm in southern
Michigan caused 100000 damages in
the vicinity Of Kalamazoo alone.
City Attorney Andrew J. Ryan OF
Chicago may lose his arm as a result
of the bite of an unknown insect.
Bowser the Chicago man, nayigated
successfully the whirlpool rapids at
Niagara in his boat the Fool Killer.
Naval Governor Tilley Of Tutuila has
asked to be allowed to organize 80
native Samoans as military police.
Ex-senator Corbett of Oregon was
sued on the charge Of alternating the
affections of a Montana mans wife.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin will
not be a candidate for reelection and
may resign before the expiration of his
term
The sultan has promised to pay
$780, 900 indemnity in settlement of
American missionary claimes in ninety
days.
John Roe, an 1S-year-old negro, was
lynched near Columbia, Ala, for al
ATTEMPTED assault. His body was shot
to pieces
Archbishop Feehan opposes the APP
pointment of Father Mcguire or any
other priest to the Chicago board of
education.
Exports of provisions for the fiscal
year about to end will exceed those of
any previous year. The total will be
$1SO,0O0, 900.
The yacht Idler capsizes in a gale in
Lake Erie, sixteen miles west of Cleye-
land, and five woman and children
were drowned.
Dr.. Henry Barnard, father OF
education in the United States, is
dead at his home in Hartford He was
SO years old.
The headless body Of man, found
near Baltimore, is believed to be that
Of John Marshall, an actor who disap-
peared June 5.
Fire broke out in the extensive
plant Of the Cramp Ship-building
company, in Kensington, and the loss
will be 100000.
Charges that tugboat men refused to
save drowning persons during the
Hoboken fire are to be investigated by
the grand jury.
A ranch of $50 acres, with 100000
chickens and an output of 100000
eggs a year, will be established at
Manasquan, n. j.
Thirty more bodies OF victims of the
Hoboken fire were found, making a
total recovered 124. The total missing
and dead is now 302.
ST. Louis street car strike and boy
colt was declared on again because of
alleged violations of agreement with
the traction company.
John Macarthur, an officer at Amigo,
Wis, shot and killed a burglar, who,
before dying, gave his name as Billy
Walsh of Akron. o..
At Wichita, Kas.. Douglas Walker
was shot and killed by his brother-in
law, Albert Boyle, at Kingman as the
result of family quarrel.
Pringle e. Mitchell, only son of
Donald G.. Mitchell author of Reveries
of Bachelor, died at his home in Rye,
N. Y, aged AZ years.
Franklin D. Cossitt. founder of the
village Of La Grange, committed sui
eide by shooting while temporarily in
sane from long illness.
The deep waterways commission
report favors twenty one-foot
channel from lakes to ocean, which
would cost $190,183,3S6.
A conference Of big steel manu-
facturers held in New York considered,
it is said, cutting prices so as to freeze
out smaller competitors.
s Dr.. G.. R. Wieland of Yale found a
turtle in the Black Hills that lived
millions OF years ago, which proves
that region was once an ocean.
American Sugar Refining company
raised the price of sugar again 10
points and the advance was met at
once by the Independent companies.
Rear-Admiral Barker, commandant
of the Norfolk Navy Yard, has been
to succeed the late Rear-Ad-