Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-10-21
Domestic.

The monthly crop report shows corn
at it's lowest record.
Henry Watterson is said to be
candidate for governor of Kentucky.
About $4.500,000 worth of gold has
been shipped from Nome this season.
Robbers entered the Bank of Marys
vile at Potomac, H., and secured
$1,000.
| Ambassador Choate sailed from
Southampton on his way to the United
States
John C. Sheehan declared the Tam
many ticket will be defeated by $4,000
plurality.
| The Duke and Duchess of Corn
wall and York arrived at Niagara-on-
the-Lake Ontario.
Tammany has nominated Mayor
Van Wyck for justice of the New York
supreme court.
Omaha chief of police concerning his
offer to surrender
| Strike sympathizers attacked street
cars at Scranton, Pa, but were dis
persed by police.
| Alonzo Snow, president of the Nor
mon church, is dead in Salt Lake
Utah, aged 81 years.
! Peter Nissen of Chicago passed sue
cessfully through Niagara whirlpool
in his boat, the Foolkiller.
| Ex-Governor Stone, Champ Clark
and two others will contest the Mis-
souri, senatorship with Vest.
| A member of the football team OF
the Philadelphia preparatory school
was fatally hurt in a game.
| Two persons confessed to killing
negro at Lexington, KY, each believ-
ing he fired the fatal shot.
The Episcopal house of deputies
adopted canon prohibiting the re-
marriage of divorced persons.
A census report just issued shows
that the male population of the coun-
try is 512 per cent. of the whole.
The Tammany county platform at
tacks Low, charging him with swear
ing off $5O0,000 in personal taxes.
| The Rockefeller Institute for Medi-
cal Research in New York will begin
| The United States ambassador to
Germany, Andrew D. White, again
denies rumors of his early resignation
| A new line of freight steamships
| from New York to Hamburg is estab-
lished by the Baltimore and Ohio
road.
| A ranchman at Leadville killed one
| boy and seriously wounded two others
who were poaching in his rabbit pre-
serve.
! Colonel Van Horne, comman0ant Of
Fort Sheridan, was recommended for
retirement because of physical dis
abilities.
| The water reservoir at East Liver
pool O., broke under the pressure of
1O,0OO,OOO gallons of water. Loss,
$4,000
| A prisoner at Bloomington, H., de-
cIared that Patsy Devine did not MUIR
der Aaron Goodfellow, for which he
was hanged.
William F. Miller, of the defunct
Franklin syndicate, which promised
$40 per cent on loans, has been grant
ed new trial.
| Miss Agnes Jirsa promised to marry
John Benesh of Vinton, Ia, after he
serves a two years sentence for try
| ing to kill her.
Bishop Willis of Honolulu announc-
ed his intention of resigning the
charge of the Hawaiian diocese of the
Episcopal church.
| The boundary line between the
United States and Canada in the
northwestern mining sections is &C
curately surveyed.
About $57 100000 claims growing out
of the Spanish-American war have
| been filed for consideration by the
| treaty commission.
1t is tated that there is friction be-
tween the earl of Mino, governor
general of Canada, and Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, the premier.
A New Hampshire judge held that
a christian science healer cannot b.
held to the same legal tests as a
regular practitioner.
The American board of commission
| ers for foreign missions in session at
Hartford, Conn, decided to meet next
year in Oberlin, Ohio.
Maryland republicans bought 14,4O0
pairs Of spectacles to help illiterate
negroes pick out the name Re
publican" on their ballots.
- G. H. Hays, who resigned the presi-
dency of the Southern Pacific, was
given $155,000 to surrender his five
year contract with the road.
Denman Thompson, the actor re-
ported to a detective agency that
$4,000 worth of valuables had been
stolen from his wifes trunk.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Miss
Abby Greene Aldrich were married at
the home of the brides father, Sena-