Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-30
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Fire at 81. Pdul, destroyed tHO
Cold, Storage and Warehouse COM
pany's warehouse, causing $750,00O
damage.
The board Of regents Of Iowa uni
yersity issued a decree that any stu
dent found partaking Of liquor will be
suspended.
An ossified man in Indiana, who is
petrifying fast, will be sent to New
York to undergo a new cure,- that of
being baked.
Two paintings valued at from $780,
600 to $1o0O0O belonging to John
Mack of Albany, N. Y, have been
mysteriousIy lost.
Postmaster General Smith received
the resignation of Perry S. Heath,
first assistant postmaster general, to
take effect July 81.
Thousands of acres of timber land
are being destroyed by destructive
forest fire in the South mountain near
Pine Grove furnace, Pa
The remains of 700 Americans, who
fell at Buena Vista, are to be removed
from Mexico to the government GEM
etery at San Antonio, Tex.
Rt. Rev. Monsignore Laughlin,
chancellor Of the diocese of Philadel-
phia, will, it is said, be appointed
bishop of Monterey, Cal.
Chinatown in Chicago gave up its
oriental dress in order to impress the
citizens that they are not in sympathy
with any anti-foreign element.
The price of ice was raised by the
trust from $3.50 per 1000 pounds to
So. household consumers and small
dealers being the only users affected.
Colonel L. L. Latin, assistant ser
geant-at-arn1s of the Kansas City con-
vention, was horse-whipped on OF
tumwa street by Mrs. Thomas Gal
lagher.
The farm owned by the Locomotive
Engineers union near Nation, ILL.,, is
to be sold, the project of raising a
home for disabled members being
given up.
Archbishop Keane was appointed to
fill the archepiscopal see OF Dubuque
A report states that Archbishop Kat
ger of Milwaukee opposed the ap-
pointment.
Mrs. Ida Bremen, notorious woman
burglar of New York, confessed that
she became a thief because when in
business customers would not pay
their bills.
Three men held up their eight COM
panions in a box car near Jefferson,
Iowa, secured $50 in money, wounded
one of their victims and escaped in
the darkness.
In New York Mrs. Jane Lindsay
completed her 1000 miles, making her
the champion woman long-distance
'cyclist, and then started on an extra
spin of 500 miles.
All the union employees of the Dali
las Street Railway company struck.
The company secured a number OF
new men, who operate few Of its
lines. There has been no trouble.
Charles D. Pierce, trustee and
treasurer of the boer relief fund and
consul general of the Orange Free
State, denies that 10000 beers are
about to, emigrate to the United
| States.
At York, Pa, Irene McMaster, aged
II years was burned to death while
assisting with the family wash. Her
| clothing was ignited at an open fire
and she rushed about frantically until
overcome.
Rufus M. Stivers, vice president OF
the National Carriage Builders asso-
citation Of America, is dead at his
home in williamsburg, N. j., from in
! juries he received by being struck by
cable car.
Horace C. Disston's will bequeathed
valuable property to his beloved
friend, Rachael Asch,' always sup
posed to have been his wife. She will
distribute benefactions. Disston was
the great saw maker of Philadelphia.
Representative Chicago women dis
agree with Mrs. John A. Logan con-
corning the appointment of Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer as commissioner to the
| HdT1S 0XpOSlClOu duu Says CuO loCSOA :
official presence reflects credit on her
self and American women.
Comptroller NColor ordered thai
hereafter the names of bidders on as
phalt contracts in New York and al
interested with them must be given
This may compel the publication o.
the list of stockholders in the asphal
trust, which list is said to include The
names Of many city officials.
At Newport, R. l., an explosion OF
Whitehead torpedo with service wal
head of guncotton was made in thf
bay to demonstrate to the class at thu
naval war college and the officers O.
the north Atlantic squadron wha
would be the result. The torpedo
was fired at a rock partly submerged
at distance of 600 yards. The ex
pertinent was complete success, the
explosion taking place under water
! The rock was shattered beyond ex
pectation. The torpedo cost $4,000.