Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-05

A report IN the investigation OF the
Indianapolis insanity trust shows that
nearly half the persons examined
were found sane.
Fire caused by lightning destroyed
Rockford, H., owned by L. Goldman.
The loss is $4,000.
The skeleton of John Russell, far
mer, murdered thirty-three years ago,
was found near Tower Hill, Ill Ar
rests are being made.
A farmer near Mattoon, ILL.,. was
ordered to leave $4,000 in designat-
ed spot for blackmailers or his daugh-
ter will be murdered.
Prof Brouardel, dean Of the medical
faculty of Paris. declared in the
British tuberculosis congress that
consumption is curahle.
The Jackson Pulp company's works,
at Jackson. Mich, caught fire from
sparks of passenger engine and
were totally destroyed.
Secretary Long ordered everybody
connected with the navy department
to refrain from talking publicly Of
the Santiago controversy.
In Chicago Rev. Peter J. Muldoon
was consecrated titular bishop III
Tamassensis and auxiliary to Arch
bishop Feehan of Chicago.
General Land Commissioner Her
man has suspended all proof made
during the past year in Montana and
Idaho on account OF frauds.
New York doctors do not fear a
spread of bubonic plague in this
country, despite the predictions OF
DR.. Kempster of Milwaukee.
A stoker taken from the steamer
Hohenfels, which arrived at New
York from Calcutta. is said to be
suffering with bubonic plague.
Three hundred Alabama negroes
to work in steel mills were prevented
by an armed mob from landing.
Cumnins carried the conventions
in Clayton and Iowa counties, Ia, an !
now has 731 out of 1,426 delegates SC
far chosen to the state convention.
Rear Admiral John Irwin, retired,
died in Washington after an illness of
several months, due to a complication
of diseases. He was SO years old.
The First National Bank of New
York has absorbed the National
Bank of the Republic, agreeing to pay
$275 a share for stock of the latter.
The Buffalo exposition has been
more than paying it's express since
the beginning of June, and has al
ready accumulated considerable
surplus.
A Chicago physician who was sent
abroad by the Harrison administra-
ton to study the plague predicts that
the disease will sweep the American
continent.
Fire destroyed a bridge on the
Galena division of the Illinois Cen
trail railroad, completely tying up all
traffic pending a rebuilding of the
structure.
Michael Kelly. an insane man,
killed one man, probably mortally
wounded another and shot four others
and was himself killed in Leaven-
worth. Kan.
Cyrus Larke, 8 years old, was
robbed of 48 cents by several COM
panions Of his own age at Rogers
City, Mich, and then was drowned III
a mill pond by them.
At Louisville w. H. Johnson. VIII
said to have invented the switch
board now used in an improved form
by the Western Union Telegraph
company in 1856, is dead.
While bathing at East Battle Lake.
N. D.. Allen Huel and Allen Harris
each II years of age, got beyond their
depth and were drowned. Both be
longed to prominent families
Secretary Root called for reports
by army post commandments on the
effect of the abolition of the canteen.
His recommendations to congress are
to be based on the information.
Florence Dorcy, aged 20 years, was
killed and Clara La Voy and John
Quirk were badly Injured by being run
down by an electric car while driving
from Depere to Green Bay, Wis.
The Workingmen's Protective as
ISOLATION, of st. Louis, has sued tc
restrain the Louisiana Purchase Elk
position company from using Forest
park as a site for the fair in 1908.
Mayor Black. of McKeesport. has
announced that he will not allow the
police to be used by the steel com
panies, nor will he permit the impor-
tation of labor if it will cause strife.
Frank Hanoi, Of Escanaba; Mr.
Moslock, Of Milwaukee, employed as
bartender in a saloon in that city, and
jim Woodin, the later aged 10, were
drowned in Doan lake, at Floodwood
Mich.
AS result of a fight between
Slavish and Hungarian miners at
Kingsmones, Ohio, Grant Taylor is
dead and Joe Reedon, Melvin Sheldon
and Mack Sheldon are seriously in
jured.
The government lottery to select
owners for land in the Kiowa reserva-
ton began at FL Reno in the presence