Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-13

the De Reszkes and other stage folkS
sailed for Europe.
| A monument il honor Of Henry Tim
| rod the southern poet, was unveiled
j at Charleston, S. c.
Captain McCalla is to succeed Cap
/ tain Folger in command OF the new
battleship Kearsarge.
J. P. Morgan is said to be after al
! the coal mines in the Hooking anc
Sunday Greek valleys.
/ The war department is to buy LOOT
pistols in Germany and American
manufacturers are angry.
| Thomas Esterbrook, an old-timt
New York ball player, killed himself
by jumping from train.
Durno, a magician, was. robbed Of
| $4,000, his seasons profits, While
showing at Kawanee. I'll.
Chinese Masons of Wisconsin
Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesot7
held conclave at Oshkosh.
Corn goes up to 55 cents and may
go to 65 cents before Philips com
pIetes his corner in Chicago.
An engineer was killed and thirty
persons were hurt in a Burlington pas
senger wreck at Thayer, Ia.
A robber broke into the private OF
fee of Speaker Henderson in the CAPT
! tol and ransacked his papers.
Russian officials have arrested 60(
Polish nihilists, and martial law has
been declared in three towns.
Booker T. Washington has beer
chosen to head the negro department
! Of the Charleston exposition.
Illinois Central raised the pay Of
5000 employees in the machinery ant
! car department per cent.
Major ]. w. Wham, paymaster, has
made application to be retired and his
application has been granted.
The initial ceremony of the eleva
ton Of Mgr Martinelli to the cardi
nalate took place in Washington
A ministers canteen committee re
i ported drunkenness had decreased
since the adjustment of canteens.
Willard Hale of Colorado Springs
advanced 100000 to cover the shortage
of his brother, late city treasurer.
The SAGE & Pettee Machine Shops
at Saco, Maine, have reduced thei
working force by laying off $50 men.
) The five-year-old daughter OF w. B
Matthews of Prosser, Wash, lost he
way on prairie and starved to death
Canadians are protesting agains
the plan to erect monument il
| ~ Nd a1.xy
Spain proposes opening exposition
in New York and Havana with view
to regaining trade lost through thu
war
DR.. A. G. Coperthwaite was elect
ed president and acting dean of th'
Chicago Homeopathic Medical col
lege.
| King Edward, it is reported, il
negotiating for the purchase O
Adelina PATHS castle, Craig-y-Nos
Wales.
The assistant secretary Of war il
working on a scheme to make tn,
state militia an adjunct to the regula
army.
Cuyahoga Savings bank at Cleve
land, suspended business because o
the continued absence of it's presi
dent.
The committee to select a presi
dent for Northwestern University i.
expected to recommend r. D. Shep
pard.
Six men and a woman in Maco1
county, Mo-, are charged with swind
ling fire insurance companies out o
$1,000.
Albert c.. Case has been chosen II
succeed John E. Searles, resigned, a:
president of the American Cotton
company.
An eastern syndicate is planning {
SIS, 100000 watch combine to take il
the principal companies in the United
States.
At Cambridge Mrs. Eastman test
fed that there was no animosity be
tween her husband and Richard Gro
gan, Jr.
Harcourt told the British com
mons, in attacking the coal tax, tina
italy is buying of us now instead 0
England.
Forty thousand italian emigrants
according to the Rome Fanfulla, ar
booked to leave for the United State
this month
A fire in Armour's beef house il
the Chicago stockyards endangered
1000 head of cattle, but they wer'
gotten out.
Professors Lapsley and Warren vii
/ leave Stanford university because
they cannot agree with the faculty il
the Ross case.
The Sons of the American Revolu
ton at Pittsburg chose officers, includ
ing as president Gen. Walter S. Logan
of New York.
Battleship Ohio to be launched a
San Francisco May IS. Mrs. M
Kinley is to press the button setting
the ship afioat.
julius Eve, II years old, acci
dentally shot and dangerousl,
wounded Richard Frederick, aged 19