Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-12

inspector by the Chicago federation
of labor. Marchers and horses must
wear union made footgear in labor
parades.
The state and navy departments
are arranging to rush a warship to
Venezuelan waters to protect Ameri-
car interests in case of war with
Colombia
The Newark CO.. street railway
and the Newark and Granville road,
operated by the same company, are
tied up by a strike and all cars are
in the barn.
A referee decides that a New York
society girl is justified in asking an
allowance Of $4,000 for maintaining
her expenses of living and paying
social obligations.
Charges are made that Judge
Harvey of Butte. Mont. was in
fuenced by a woman in deciding the
ownership of the Minnie Healy mine,
worth $10.000.O0O
An actor who was jealous of an
other member of the company killed
the woman he loved and then COM
mitted suicide during a rehearsal in
an Omaha theater
The extension of the steel strike
to other plants of the trust may not
be completed for two weeks because
of the necessary delay in issuing
orders to the workmen.
DR.. Hodgson of the marine hospital
has discovered cure for yellow
fever in q medicine made from the
cedron bean. which is also a specifice
for the bites Of insects.
Mrs. Charles H. True of Richmond,
Ind, has brought suit against Mrs
Rebecca Starr for $4,000, alleging
that the defendant alienated the
affections of her husband
M. r. Longacre, a Philadelphia,
leaped through the window Of fast
moving Lehigh Valley train near
Vanetten and suffered fatal injuries.
He was temporarily insane.
Betsey McCray, her daughter Ida
and her son Belfeld, all negroes,
were lynched in Carroll county, Mis-
sissippi, for the alleged murder Of
Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Taliaferro.
DR.. Henry B. Horlbeck, for many
years health officer of Charleston,
S. c., died. He was an authority on
yellow fever and had been president
of the American Medical society.
Managers of the Cummins' cam
paign for governor of Iowa an
nounce that he has 726 pledged votes
in the state convention and enough
second choice votes to nominate him.
During street duel between
Barney and Sam Boyce, brothers, of
Denver, and Charles Jasper of Texas,
three bystanders were wounded, al
though none of the principals was
hurt
The Maryland democratic state
convention adopted a platform declar-
ing it the purpose of the party to
eliminate the negro from politics.
The proceedings are directed by
German.
The funeral of Rev. John Moore
bishop of ST. Augustine. Fla. took
place and was largely attended.
Dignitaries of the church from all
parts of the United States were
present.
The Dayton, Springfield & Urban
trolley car crashed into a coal car
which stood on an open switch near
Donnellsville Fourteen persons are
seriously hurt Four are believed To
be dying
Rev. DR.. Henry Collin Minton of
California, moderator of the northern
Presbyterian general assembly, has
declined the call to the passionate of
Chambers Wylie Memorial church, in
Philadelphia
Two Chicago and Alton freight
trains collided head on at Grain
Valley. Engineer Jacques was killed
and Engineer Walsh and Fireman
Pulliam, all of Slater. Mo-. we're
badly injured
William Wilson of Green Point, L.
l., and Jesse Wilson of Pittsburg, en-
p1oved ON the new Frick building at
Pittsburg, Pa, were killed by the
steering of brace while hosting a
six-ton eye beam.
At Manti. Utah. Erasmus Andnr-
son, aged 81 years, shot Miss Emily
Campbell aged %, and P. G. Christen-
sen, a stage driver, and then com
mitted suicide. Anderson was a dis
carded sweetheart.
President Mckinley has accepted
the invitation to attend the National
Grand Army of the Republic en-
campment, and will be in Cleveland
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Of encamDment week.
Word was received from Victoria
of the alleged defalcation of Quarter
masters Clerk John McCaull and his
disappearance from the United
States transport Egbert. His short
age is said to be $5.463.
George Potts and P. B. Player, two
Cumberland, La, telephone linemen,
were killed by live wire. They
were stringing a covered wire with a
bare connection, which came in con
tact with a trolley span.