Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-03-18

MEANS I'll CnSIl1ISHA0 o. y
successful.
The government is soon to open
5000 900 acres of Indiana lands to set
tlement.
Wind, rain, and sleet scourged the
middle, west, from the great lakes
to the gulf.
Fire destroyed the medical building
of the Iowa University, Iowa City.
Loss, 100000
Five lives were lost in a tornado
which partly destroyed the town OF
Wills Point. Tex.
President Mckinley remominated
his entire cabinet and the senate con-
firmed the list.
Frank Stout, who killed John Will
son at Dawson, ILL.,, was captured at
Stroud, Ok. T.
At Omaha, Frederick Metz, Sr.,
brewer, one of the wealrhiest men In
Nebraska, is dead
The Illinois Central will absorb the
MINNEAPOLIS and st. Louis and the
Iowa Central lines.
The Indiana general assembly adopt
ed the United States flag as the official
banner of the state.
The first number of Mrs Nations
new paper, the Smasher's Mail, ap-
peared at Topeka.
Carl Darlington, a we'll known news
paper man and writer of short stories,
is dead at San Francisco.
The report of the grand jury at
Anderson, S. c., condemns the labor
contract system in that county.
The major portion of Sherwood, a
small mining town eight miles from
Dubois, Pa, was destroyed by fire.
The Missouri house passed the pan
American exposition bill, appropriate
ing $4,000 for an exhibit at Buffalo.
Samuel Moser, Pekin, Ill, was sen
fenced to 81 years Imprisonment for
the murder of his wife aid children
Major William Warner of Missouri
may be appointed pension commits
sioner to succeed Henry Clay Evans.
Mr.. Allen, well known and
wealthy south Jerseyman, died at his
home in Bridgeton, N. j., aged 80
years.
Captain William H. Stevens, a re
tired capitalist, and at one time a
prominent miner in Colorado, is dead
at Detroit, aged 80.
New York city is threatened by
water famine, which the engineer de-
clares can only be averted by Steady
rain for 60 hours.
TOh A soJ
Eotentiary to negotiate reciprocity
treaties, resigned because the senate
failed to ratify treaties.
E. J. Wolter, Schuyler, Neb, was ar
rested at Omaha on the charge of at
tempting to extort money from United
States Senator Kearns of Utah.
Mrs. Emma Jones and her three
daughters were badly burned and six
families were made homeless by a
fire in Madison street, Hoboken, N. J.
The Indiana legislature passed a
bill providing a penalty of death in
extreme cases and imprisonment from
ten to a life term for kidnapping for
ransom.
Despondent over his recent dis
charge from the Duluth, diocese, Rev.
Francis Budzyoski, a Roman Catholic
priest, shot himself in a Minneapolis
hotel, and died.
Stunned by girlhood friends be-
cause she had gone on the stage, Mrs.
Grace Munzill Grady, of New York,
after a quarrel with her sweetheart,
took strychine.
Ex-President Cleveland and Prof.
Paul Vandyke have left Princeton for
the south, where they will spend
few days shooting ducks along the
coast Of North Carolina.
Kirby William Johnson and Henry
Brooks, negroes, were hanged at Rich
mond, Little River county, Ark, for
numbering Edward Evans, white, and
Frank Hopson, colored.
An open switch on the Northwestern
road at Bark River, near Escanaba.
Mich, caused work train to collide
with a car load of oats, Louis Ander-
son had two ribs broken.
Andrew Carnegie has promised She
boygan, Wis, $4,000 for a public Ii
ply the site and appropriate $1,000
yearly for library purposes.
Roy Powell. who is under arrest at
Freeport, ILL.,, for the murder of Wood
bury Workinger, 16 miles from Free
port, H., and who was indicted for
the crime, made confession.
Recently Andrew Carnegie offered
Montgomery $4,000 for a public
library building if the city would pro-
vide a site and $4,000 year for sup
port. Council accepted the offer.
Three Invertebrates White, Charles
Young and r. Jamieson-and seventy.
six head of horses were burned to
death in fire which destroyed Nor
tons livery stable in San Francisco.
The treasury department is satisfied
that bubonic plague exists to an alarm
ing extent in San Francisco and that
stringent measures must be taken to
prevent the spread of the disease