Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-12-30
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
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died at Pensacola, Fla.
Ground was broken at st. Louis for
the exposition of 1903.
The Richmond House, at Torah,
MINI, was destroyed by fire.
Two brothers were murdered at Hot
Springs. Ark, by Charles Moore.
A Bryn Mawr college girl bathed in
alcohol and was burned to death.
Ministers of Beloit are arranging for
an anti-vice campaign in that city.
Representative Hull of Iowa is con
fined to his bed with typhoid fever.
A policeman of Louisville, KY, was
convicted of numbering a fellow-ofdcer.
In the St. Louis circuit court, Judge
Tally decided that strikes were law
full.
Clinton Houser, 1902 years old, died
at Treveorton, Pa, from over-exer-
ton.
Another drop in the temperature in
Florida seriously endangers the orange
trees.
Two mutinous seamen on the steam
ship Thronley tried to murder their
officer.
Luverna Schlatter, wife of an alleged
divine healer" has sued him for di-
vorce.
A strange warehouse and 48,S3O
bushels of peanuts were burned at
Suffolk, Va.
At Oakland Cal, son was born to
Mrs. Funston, wife of General Fun
ston.
Rumor places Gov. Merriam at the
head of the proposed department of
commerce.
Michael Mclaughlin, an old-time
politician of Lexington, KY, COM
mitted suicide.
James Doyle was given verdict for
SAG, 922.73 in his mining suit at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa.
The navy department has announc-
ed the final acceptance of the battle
ship Wisconsin.
William Redding and James Winton
were hanged on the same galloWs at
Birmingham, Ala.
The Wabash railroad let contract
for a $1,OOO,0O0 bridge over Ohio river
at Mingo Junction.
Frank Weber and Stephen Hinster-
ger, Valley City, N. L., were asphyxiat-
ed in a Chicago hotel
Perry Belmont's nomination to
congress in the seventh New York dis
trict may be contested.
DR.. William Osler of Baltimore has
been summoned to Detroit, Mich, to
attend Gen. r. A. Alger.
A syndicate of Illinois investors, in
Guiding Congressman Cannon, bought
10000 acres in Nebraska.
At Bristol, Va, Cicero Harris
colored, was hung for the murder of
Samuel Ware, also colored.
Mayor-elect Low selected Thomas
w, Hynes, Shepard supporter, for
commissioner of correction.
AS a result Of the intense cold and
blizzard, at Oklahoma stockmen figure
a 10 per cent. loss on cattle.
Five business buildings on Bank and
State streets, New London, Conn,
were Quilted. Loss, 100000.
John G. Dancy, of North Carolina
has been chosen for recorder of deeds
for the district of Columbia.
Arthur Martin disappeared from a
sanitarium at Kenosha and the police
cannot find any trace Of him.
Mrs. Grace Powell mysteriously
disappeared at Vancouver, and is be-
ieved to have been murdered.
At Albert Lea, Mimi, Erick Olson,
convicted of robbery, was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
Henry G. Payne, who will be the
next postmaster general, expressed
himself in favor Of penny postage.
Representative Wood Of California
has introduced a bill to establish a
department of mines and mining.
John L. Carton, of Dubuque, who en-
listed Nov. 10 last, has been reported
to the adjutant general as deserter.
A meeting of the price list com
mittee of the Wisconsin Valley Lum-
bermen's association, which is affiliat
John McQuaid, a farmer, residing in
Stanton, died in the hospital in Still
water as the result of exposure to
cold.
-Four lives were lost by fire near
Dubois, Pa, and fifteen were killed in
burning market at Zacatecas,
Mexico.
The operation was performed on
Russell A Alger, whose condition is
serious, but with good chance of his
recovery.
Chairman Foss of the house nava,
committee denied that Speaker Hen
dersOn tried to influence him in the
Schley case.
At Dodge Center, Mimi, DR.. j. A.
Carver was fatally burned by his
clothing becoming ignited from an
open CRATE.
Gossip again has it that Secretary
of State Hay will resign and be sue
ceeded by Judge Taft of the Philippine
commission.
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