Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-06

Bryan 0IecClOn.
Fire in the Chicago and Eastern Hi
nois roundhouse at Dalton Junction
caused $1,000 loss.
More than s10O,OOO,0oO has been
taken out Of the Cripple Creek sold
mines since 1889.
DR.. w. T. Baum of Mobile, Ala, is
among those reported as perishing by
freezing in Alaska.
Oliver H Little, a house-mover al
Omaha, Neb, was killed by touching
an electric wire.
Oil strikes in Texas are causing
wild speculation in securities of the
companies organized.
Robert Presley, a phrenologist from
Des Moines, Ia, died suddenly in the
city hall at Batavia, III.
The American Bankers association
will hold it's annual convention in Mil
waukee in September.
Buffalo exposition directors decided
to keep the exposition open Sundays
but to close the midway.
Henry H. Hamilton, for years a
prominent business man at Sycamore,
ILL.,, died from paralysis.
Bruno Mazotta, chief of the Pater-
son, N. j., anarchists, was arrested for
attacking Salvatore Blanchi.
Reports of election in the Indiana
territory indicate that the Cherokee
treaty failed of ratification.
John M. Foote, treasurer of Lake
county, Illinois, since 1898, is dead 1t
Waukegan, aged As years.
Arthur G.. O'Leary, the oldest
plumbing contractor of Evanston, is
dead. He was A years old.
An expedition is to be sent to
Hawaii to study the fish and other
aquatic resources of the islands.
An electrician who became suddenly
insane in a Portland (Maine) ex-
change shot five other persons.
Two Indians visiting the white
house astonish the attendants by their
knowledge Of American history.
John M. Elliott, an old-time newspa-
per man Of Deadwood. died of NOR
phine poisoning in New York.
j. D. Rockefeller bought terminal
facilities at Port Arthur, giving him
control Of the Texas oil district.
One hundred and fifty persons were
killed or injured in chemical works
explosions near Frankfort-on-Main
A Chicago girl saw an X-ray refiec-
ton of her heart in a mirror and was
convinced that it was not diseased.
Mr.. Bryan said he would not have
started his paper if he had intended
to be a candidate for president in 1904.
Three robbers secured small
amount of money from Walter Wood
ward near GAINESVILLE, o., by torturing
him.
Colonel George L. Gillespie was
made chief Of engineers and Colonel
George B. Davis judge advocate gen
eral
The American claimant for the
title of Count Won Rosen was declared
by an English court not to be a real
count.
The widow of Marcus Miller of
Binghamton, N. Y, prevented the
burning of IngersolPs books at his
funeral.
Senator Beverage of Indiana spoke
on the American Situation at the
annual meeting of Grant club in Des
Moines.
James D. Reid, the assistant Of
Professor Morse in the invention Of
telegraphy, died after a long Illness in
New York.
Three students from the Argentine
Republic have entered at the Univer-
sity Of Illinois at Urbana to study
agriculture.
The Kansas governor repents of his
offer of silver mugs to all triplets born
during his second term. He has given
fifteen already.
Government Chemist DR.. Wiley de-
clared that small proportion of the
food sold in the American markets is
adulterated.
Five thousand dollars required for
memorial shaft at Valley Forge has
been raised by the Daughters of the
Revolution.
The Mechanics Saving bank of
Westerly, R. l., will go into liquidation
with assets of 81 100000 and liabili-
ties of $1,0OO,O0O.
The Pennsylvania road is behind the
company which proposes to bridge
the Hudson from Twenty-third street
to the Jersey side.
In the murder trial of Prof G. R.
Eastman, Of Harvard University,
the defense obtained the exclusion of
certain evidence.
The birthday of General Grant
was observed at Galena The address
was delivered by DR.. f. w. Gunsau-
lus Of Chicago.
The italian girl who, with a male
companion, was detected burying her
baby alive near Hastings, N. Y, has
made a confession.
The body of Abraham Lincoln was
restored to the crypt of the Lincoln
monument at Springfield, ILL.,, which
has been rebuilt.
Edward Rosewater of Omaha said