Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-01

in the wreck Of work train on the
Norfolk and Western railroad near
Bluefeld, W. Va.
The body of Peter Marcoux, chief
more. was found on the beach near
Au Sable. Mich.
! Corporal Tanner declared republican
national committee promised in writ
| ing that Pension Commissioner Evans
would be dismissed.
Lawyer Charles Ogden of Omaha
was fined $25 and sent to jail for con
tempt of court for threatening to
smash" opposing counsel.
Edward Cudahy. Jr. is dan
gerously i'll of typhoid fever, the result
of the excitement and exposure
incident to his being kidnapped
Pittsburg was visited by the worst
storm in its history. Three lives
are reported lost and nearly a quarter
of m1.-.on damage to poperty.
James J. Fitzgerald has been sus
| pended as tax commissioner of South
Omaha, pending investigation Of
charges of malfeasance in office.
Frank Wyant, a wealthy ranch
owner in Nebraska, secured possession
of his younger daughter after long
legal fight with New York relatives.
John W. Goodman was sentenced at
Sedalia. Mo-, to thirteen years i'm
prisonment for the murder Of Jesse
Mcbride, farmer near Dresden. Mo.
The engagement Of John M. Steele
and Miss Matte Eskridge of Emporia,
Kas., is announced. Miss Eskridge is
daughter of the late Governor Esk-
ridge.
Three persons were killed at Pitts
burg in a severe storm, which partly
wrecked the National league ball park
structures. The property damage
! was 100000.
/ A report comes from the country
town of Cadun, B. c., of a horrible
tragedy. A Chinaman, whose name $
not known, murdered four of his
countrymen.
The London Morning Post an
nounces that the wedding of Miss
Sartoris, granddaughter of Gen.
Grant, and Mr.. Archibald Balfour will
not take place.
The gold output last year was $118,-
1856 for the United States, and
S225.924,654 for the world at large,
compared with 500 ,578,972 and $311,-
| 5,947 in 1889.
A copious flow of crude petroleum
was discovered on the farm of w. w,
Stevens, about six miles northwest OF
Niles, Mich, during the sinking of an
artesian we'll.
Fishermen find safe of the Pacific
Express company in the river near
Toledo, Ohio, which had been looted.
Express officials refuse to say how
much it contained.
Shipbuilding on the great lakes has
grown to be larger than on the sea-
board, and officials say they will soon
supply by far the greater number of
! 1000 tons or less.
Richard Friedman, made insane by
overstudy at the Harvard dental col
lege, killed one sister, shot at another,
and then committed suicide in a
crowded street in Boston.
| w. G. Brown elected vice president
| and general manager of Lake Shore
road. w. H. Newman is to retain
the presidency and become the head
of all the roads in the Vanderbilt sys
| tenn.
The agricultural department is to ex-
pertinent in the shipment of fruit to
Europe with view to securing new
markets. The ships are to be
equipped with a cold storage ap-
| paratus.
Charles L. White, who claims to be
a naturalized American citizen, was ar
rested and placed on trial in London
as being Arthur Blatch. a murderer.
An own brother recognizes him and he
was released.
A syndicate of capitalists is planning
a combination with $100,000,000
capital to control the entire production
and sale within the United States of
the various products and by-products
of cotton seed.
A National Locomotor Ataxian
league was formed in New York. It's
object is to discover a cure for the
disease and to build a national
sanitarium A reward Of $4,000 is
| offered for a cure.
The boiler of Chicago and Alton
locomotive pulling passenger train
exploded at Blue Cat, fifteen miles east
of Kansas City, killing the engineer,
George Gerew, and fatally injuring
the fireman. julius Crowley.
Three persons were killed and
several injured by lightning during
| the severe electrical storm which pass
ed over Indiana. The dead are: Bert
Hathaway, Idaville; Grace Larkin.
Riley, and Ira Smith, Youngstown.
Floods in the Elkhorn river valley,
West Virginia, destroyed the towns of
keystone and Vivian and damaged
other villages, causing loss of 60 to
100 lives twenty-five miles of the
Norfolk and Western railroad was
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