Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-12
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Two were killed by eating ice
cream at Celina. Ind.
A man was killed during sham
battle at Rockford, a.
Steady rains fall in the northwest
and mole are expected.
The Kansas exposition building
was destroyed by fire.
Two miners were killed by falling
rock near Negaunee, Mich.
Steamboat island. in Lake Superior,
after storm.
Senator Tillman: in a speech at
Marinette, Wis, justified lynching.
The state board of control assumes
charge of the Saltwater penitentiary.
Railroads entering Chicago are
planning a $4O,OO0,O0O central station.
The City of Stiles. a river steamer,
was destroyed by fire at Green Bay,
Wis.
The cost of running the federal
government last year was $5O9,967, ;
353.
George H. Phillips, the Chicago
corn king" expects to resume bust
ness.
Temperature reached 1O8 degrees
at Huron. S. D., stopping harvest
work
Honolulu society gives the cold
shoulder to Capt. Strong and Lady
Hope.
Caldwell, N j.. held a fete in honor
of Grover Cleveland, but he did not
attend.
An insane man at Provo. Utah,
committed suicide by jumping into
furnace.
George w. Rauck, a new-known
Kentucky literary man. was killed by
a train.
Mrs. Carrie Nation. in jail in
Topeka, was pardoned by Governor
Stanley.
Oil for mosquitoes was successfully
tested at Camp Jackson, near New
Orleans.
The chief of police at COvington,
KY, won $1,000 in crap game in
Cincinnati.
Dun's weekly report shows an i'm
prGvement over a week ago in trade
conditions.
Bombardment of the sky with
mortars at Lincoln, Neb.. failed to
cause rain.
Adolph Hartman of Duluth, nearly
killed German army officer in a
sword duel.
New finds of corundum are re-
ported from North Carolina, Georgia
and Canada.
Ha1sey c. Ives was selected as
chief of the art division of the st.
Louis exposition.
A highwayman held up farmer
near Elk River, Mimi. and shot him,
probably fatally.
Armour & Co. are building large
fertilizer works in Georgia to control
animal products.
Two private cars of King Alphonso
of Spain have been completed at
Wilmington, Del.
The national socialists convention
decided to expel any member who
joins the militia.
The National Founders association
is to import holders to take the
places Of strikers.
Consul Baker at Sydney reports
the discovery Of diamond fields in
New South Wales.
The Cadillac was officially selected
to defend the Canada cup against the
challenger Invader.
Vice-President Roosevelt spoke in
the Colorado quarter-centennial con-
vention celebration.
Farmers of Sumner county, Kas.,
are to celebrate the great wheat
yield of the county.
Topeka Joe" Ropley, a notorious
criminal, has again broken jail, this
time in Toledo. Ohio.
The daughter of Governor Jones Of
Alabama was killed by a street car
at Montgomery, Ala.
The arid lands Of New Mexico are
getting the rains that heretofore
have fallen in Kansas.
M. G. Rich is under arrest at Troy,
N. c., charged with impersonating a
United States officer.
New dry docks are to be con-
structed at New York and Charleston
to cost $1,O00,O00 each.
The attendance at the pan-Ameri-
can exposition for the first three
months was 2,724,908.
DR.. P. M. Rixey has rival for the
position of surgeon general of the
navy in DIR. ]. G. Boyd.
The organization of nine more
companies of coast artillery has been
ordered by General Miles.
James Kirby and Robert Lee were
hanged at st. Augustine, Fla, for the
murder Of Julius Eskew.
A Russian girl in New York has
hiccoughed since last fall, and has
wasted to a mere skeleton.
1t is said the Southern Pacific Rail
road company will use oil fuel on it's
Texas and California lines.
William Hanford was robbed Of
$500 worth of diamonds in Grand
Rapids and Indiana sleeper.
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