Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-26

in Washington is expected.
A young white girl was murdered by
a negro near Pierce City, Mo.
Captain Charles Pearce, aged IS
years, died at Port Norris, N. J.
Forest fires in Oregon threaten the
destruction Of vast amount of timber.
At New Orleans Dexter S. Caster,
chief of police, died of cirrhosis of the
liver.
Mrs. Asenath Glidden. mother of
Maude Adams, the actress. sued for
divorce.
A receiver has been appointed for
the George H. Phillips company Oh
Chicago.
August Belmont's Masterman won
the United States $4,000 stakes at
Saratoga.
Miss Bessie Anthony, the western
woman golf champion, wins the Ex-
moor cup.
A shortage is discovered in the
funds of the postOffice at Marshall
town, Iowa.
Government receipts for the first
half of July exceeded expenditures
by 100000
A Missouri. Kansas and Texas train
was held up by masked robbers at
Caney, I. T.
Gertrude Hess, II years old, rejected
by B. c. Remington, drowned herself
in Chicago.
Professor Dickson of Yale succeeded
in grating part of an adder to rattle
snakes body.
The treasurer of the New York
house of Swift & Co., is alleged to be
defaulter.
Edwin Manning, a pioneer resident
of Iowa, worth several millions, died
at Keosaqua.
w. J. Bryan refuses to speak at a
meeting to which David B. Hill had
been invited.
Railroad workmen at Point Concep-
ton, Cal, found mass of ambergrfs
worth $4,000.
The private bank of H. S. Miller at
Prescott, Wis, was closed by the state
bank examiner.
organizing a salmon trust with $685.
100000 capital.
Twelve hundred cattle will be
shipped to the Klondike for the winter
supply of meat.
w. ]. Bryan in his Commoner adj
mits the charge that he voted for
Weaver in 1892.
Baseball magnates agree that one
big ten-c1ub league will be the thing
for next season.
Vive President Roosevelt announces
that he will speak at the Minnesota
state fair Sept. 2.
A Massachusetts man invents de-
vice to keep ROSTERS from Growing IN
the early morning.
The International Typographical
union tabled resolution boycotting
the national guard.
A boy at Saginaw, Mich, imprisoned
a big flock of sheep in barn and set
fire to the structure.
Thomas Murphy, former collector Of
the New York port under President
Grant, died, aged 81.
The farmers alliance of North Caro-
lima is to fight the fertilizer trust by
boycotting the monopoly.
The Catholic Order of Foresters will
admit saloonkeepers, provided they
pay an extra assessment.
Bad water is said to be responsible
for three deaths in DOwie's Zion City.
More fatalities are looked for.
The drought in Illinois and adjoining
states was broken by a long rain. It
will save part Of the corn crop.
In Chicago Chief O'Neill accused
Captain Colleran of receiving SO from
the fraudulent expense account.
The Knights of Pythias began suit
to recover $4,000 from J. A. Hinsey
and H. B. Sto1te. former officers.
Mrs. James Simera1, the wife of a
travelling salesman, was killed in a
runaway accident at Decatur. I'll.
In three and half years the
bonded debt of New York has in
creased $65,OO1,257, or 281h per cent.
The United States government will
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traffice bv Colombian revo1utiOnists.
A Polish bishop was arrested in
CHICAGO on aff1davits of four members
of his church alleging serious crimes.
Frastus H. Lewis. champion fat
man Of New Jersev. died in Jersey
Citv aged 35. He weighed 440 pounds.
The cotton operatives of Fall River,
Mass. say they will resist the pro-
nosed IA per cent. wage cut September
8,
J. A. Boldt, ex-secretary of Cleve-
land Guarantee Savings and Loan AS
sociation, was arrested for embezzling
$500
The weekly trade reviews indicate
a good outlook for business. Prices
in steel products advanced because or
the strike.
The treasury department. decided
that a government official away from
home must live in a hotel to have his
expenses paid.
Charles T. Yerkes has a rival for
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