Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08

a glowing picture Of prosperity in the
United States
Rev. William S. Brandon of Detroit
wife of cruelty
The internal-reyenue collections Of
the country for the fiscal year
are $3O5, 100000
Rev. DR.. Joseph Cook, the dis
tinguished lecturer and author, is dead
at Ticonderoga, N. Y.
Miss Sadie Freysinger and Jacob
Lands of Sterling, Ill, were killed
by live electric wire.
A scaffold at the Eastern elevator, at
Buffalo, fell and two men were killed
and five seriously hurt.
Carnegie offered to give Detroit
$750,000 towards the erection Of
public library building.
Great damage was done at La
Crosse, by tornado, which wrecked
several business places.
Jacob L. White and his family were
bound and tortured by robbers at
Brothers Station. w. Va.
Lulu Prince Kennedy was sentenced
to serve a term of ten years for killing
her husband in Kansas City.
Forest Park, St. Louis, has been
selected as the site for the Louisiana
purchase exposition, in 1903.
Sixty persons in Boston and vicinity
are reported to have been poisoned by
being bitten by brown moths.
At. Piedmont Ala. while stacking
wheat Robert Coke and his son were
struck by lightning and killed.
The estimate of the number of lives
lost in the recent West Virginia flood
is raised to something like 100.
Thirteen persons were killed and 45
were injured in wreck on the
Wabash railroad, near Peru, Ind.
About 5000 persons participated in
the pilgrimage to Mrs. Mary Baker
G. Eddys home at Concord. N. H.
Frank Miller and Alonzo Williams
were hanged at Birmingham, Ala,
and John Bateman at Marion, Ark
Volunteer Capt. Thayer, who was
horsewhipped by his wife in Lincoln
Neb., committed suicide in Omaha.
A British flag over the Canadian
customs office in Skagway, Alaska,
was hauled down by an American.
President Mckinley appointed T. H.
Hawks, of Huntingdon w. Va, warden
of the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga.
C. D. and Clarence Guild, father and
son, were killed by Oliver Bricker as
the result, of feud near Dayton Iowa.
DR.. Alexander Won Peez. a German
economist, advocates European tariff
combination against the United States.
Yale defeated Harvard in the
varsity and freshman races and
Harvard captured the four-oared event.
DR.. Wintner. in his trial at Granite
Falls, admits having shot Leonard but
claims that he did not intend to kill
him.
Ex-senator Marion Butler, chairman
of populist national committee, de-
clared the party will go it alone in
1904.
Theodore S. Bryan, for So years
grand secretary of the Iowa Masonic
Grand Lodge, is dead at Grand Rapids,
Iowa.
Iowa politicians are figuring on minor
places on the republican state ticket
Cummins is far in the lead for gov
ernor
Miss Louisa NJ Stead, a pretty mis-
sionary, is to sail for Liberia, where
she will wed Rev. Mr. Carson on her
arrival.
D. J. Dickey, a well-to-do citizen of
Elk Rapids, Mich. shot and killed
Fritz Huegli in a quarrel over line
of fence.
An excursion steamer with 900
passengers abroad struck a rock and
sank in 400 feet of water. All
escaped.
Nearly $4,000 steel workers are idle
as the result of strike ordered by
president of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION.
The Rev. Otto J. Scoville. an Epis-
copal clergyman, died at Salem. Ore,
aged 43. He leaves widow and a
daughter.
Mrs. Matilda Shaw. widow of
Thomas Shaw, the inventor, is dead
at her home, in Shawmont. Pa, OF
pneumonia.
Boston was selected for the next
convention of the American Park anu
Outdoor association. in session IN
Milwaukee.
Samuel Gompers, head OF the
Federation of Labor, was seriously
hurt by fall from street car IN
Washington.
Joseph Laude. founder OF Dawson
City, died at his home near Plattsburg,
N. Y, of consumption contracted IN
the Klondike.
John Tyson, aged IA. and Howard
White, aged II, while swimming IN
Green river, below Curdsvllle, ny,
were drowned.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
we are now raising as fine tobacco,
rice and macaroni wheat as can be
found anywhere.
Twenty houses in the little town OF
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