Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-06

bark at Milwaukee expect additional
dividends as the result Of suits in
stituted recently.
Scalpers are focking to Chicago III
droves, preparing for the rush of ex-
cursionists expected during the Grand
Army eneampment.
At Philadelphia Mrs Charles Mar
cnand gave her 6-year-old daughter a
fatal dose of carbolic acid and then
committed suicide.
Charles H. Hoyt, the playwright
and theatrical manager, has been adj
Judged insane at Hartford, Conn.,, and
taken to a retreat there.
President Mckinley and Senator
Hanna favor the plan of a Rough Rider
campaign Of the Kentucky mountain
districts by Gov Roosevelt.
It is possible that, reaching the age
limit on March next, Chief Con-
structor OF. the Navy Hichborn will
retire from active service.
! The Lehigh Valley freighthouse at
East Buffalo, together with so cars
loaded with merchandise, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $150,000.
Residents in Campbell park Chi
cago, vigorously oppose the movement
on foot to cut down a giant willow
tree, ordered felled by west park
board.
Two babies were found locked in a
room in their home in Sheffield. Mass.
Their mother had disappeared and
they had been three days without food
or water.
Representative of the leading pub
fishing house met in New York and
organized the American Publishers
association, with Charles Scribner as
president.
Half-fare rates to indianapolis were
promised by the railroads, and it all
doubts as to the Bryan notification ex-
ercises being held there were re-
moved.
A man named Carr, said to be an
assistant paymaster in the govern
ment geological bureau and to have
embezzled $4,000, has been arrested in
Vermont.
The board of classification of the
United States general appraisers de-
cides the government has the right to
assess duty on merchandise imported
from Hawaii.
1t is said that James j. Hill, presi-
dent of the Great Northern railway
system, will make a tour of the world
in his yacht Wacouth, which he has re-
Gently purchased.
The best available data puts the
center of population of the United
States about Bloomington, Ind. The
center of area, excluding Alaska, is in
northern Kansas.
Elizabeth Blair, beautiful young
woman, called on w. H. Dodd, a
patient at the Presbyterian hospital,
New York, and, returning later, killed
herself with poison.
Report of Explorer Borchgrevinck of
the south polar expedition is received
at San Francisco. Two new islands
are discovered, which are reported to
be rich in minerals.
Mr. Bryan may insist that the demo-
cratic national committee make a
declaration favoring an income tax to
take the place of the plank which was
lost from the platform.
Sensational testimony was given in
the Powers trial when Golden, a re-
publican, told of the plans made to
murder GoebeI and how the defendant
fed before the murder.
Four hundred Catholics from Chi
cago and surrounding towns made a
pilgrimage to the shrine of st. Anne
as q curative and preventive for
diseases and other ills.
At Nation, Ill, a cab carrying Mrs.
E. NJ. Waller, Thomas Bartles and
William Bosely was struck on an
Illinois Central crossing and all three
passengers were killed.
E. B. Core, of New York city, was
elected president of the National
Photographers Association Of Ameri-
ca. Detroit was selected as the place
for the next annual meeting.
James r. English, for many years
the republican leader in Union county,
New Jersey, died at his home here
from paralysis, aged 60 years. He was
graduated from Princeton university
The United States cutter Manning
arrived from Dutch Harbor, with flag
at half-mast on account of the death
Of Chief Engineer A. j. Noonan at
Dutch Harbor July 16 from apoplexy.
Louis B. Scott, law student at
Hamilton, Ont. two years ago at AT
lantic City saved from drowning Miss
Nerschoyle of Los Angeles Cal. The
lady died recently and left Scott 81 900.
Owing to the dullness in the trade
and in order to make repairs most of
the morocco factories of Wilmington
have either closed or will shut down as
soon as their present stock is worked
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Brighten. Patrick Henry Jones died
at Port Richmond, n Y, aged 70. He
was born in Ireland and came to
America in 1910. He was postmaster
of New York city during Grants first
term.
The steamer Amur, brings about