Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-25


guards at the Providence coal mine,
near Madisonville, Ky. One striker
was killed, another fatally wounded,
and three men slightly hurt.
President Williams of the San Fran
cisco board of health recommends that
the famous Chinatown be burned to
The ground as a safeguard against In
/ lection from oriental diseases.
At Marionville, Mo-, Mrs. George
Justice locked her two children in the
house while she went for water When
she returned the house was in flames
and the children were cremated.
The First National bank of Spring
Lake, N. J., was robbed of $4,000 by
safe blowers. Six months ago the
Ipostoffice was robbed in the same man,
ner of $1,000 in stamps and cash,
Mayor-elect Low and Governor Odell
held conference at Albany, at which
the latter gave assurance that he
would cooperate with the mayor in Sc
curing home rule for New York
William Tackle, aged rs, who several
Schanz. a saloon keeper, died at Qutn-
Icy Schanz, who was out on $500 bail
is now in jail charged with murder.
Under the direction of J. P. Morgan,
q combination of all the trans-cOnti-
mental railroads has been effected, and
a company with $400,000,000 capital
has been formed to finance the scheme
/ al 4
ing an Indiana syndicate, has consum
mated one of the largest mining deals
in the history of the Klondike, pur
chasing PA gold hill claims for $780,
600.
A committee of residents of Higgins
Ferry, S. c., visited two Mormon elders
who have been preaching there and
warned them and four converts to
leave under threat of summary punish
ment.
The wedding of Miss Florence Mar
earet Foraker, daughter of Senator
Foraker of Ohio, and Randolph Mat
thews. took place and was followed by
a brilliant reception at the brides
home.
$3.50 diamond ring ratified by the
Chicago maternity hospital in connec-
ton with the flower show, was won by
Thomas B. Scott, expression of the
Northern Exchange National bank at
st. Paul.
Five dead bodies have been taken
from the Baby mine, at Pocahontas, w.
Va. Several other persons are unac-
counted for, and twenty-five persons
have been rescued, more or less Sc
verely burned
Secretary Long in his annual report
asks for three first-class battleships,
seventeen minor vessels, and recon-
mends a material increase in the per-
sonnet of the navy.
The executive committee of the Nc
Kinley Memorial association of New
York met Chairman Cornelius n.
Bliss presided. Fourteen thousand
two hundred dollars was subscribed
toward the memorial.
A delegation from the commercial
organizations of Baltimore, New York,
Boston, Buffalo, Pit,sburg, Cleveland
Indianapolis and Cincinnati called
upon the president to urge the impor-
lance of reciprocity with Canada.
The body of Cerro Gordo Hooks,
Memphis business man, who died sew
eral weeks ago, was exhumed and the
chemist reported to a coroner's jury
that sufficient ground glass and arsen-
ic were found in the organs to cause
death.
The British schooner Union, which
arrived at Mobile, brought % pounds
Of Spanish gold in coin dated 1889
and bars, valued at $4,000, found In
Central America near Cayman Brac,
by Capt Magnus Barton and asso-
ciates.
The sixth district committee of the
National Founders association COM
prises: Chairman, o. P. Briggs. Min
neapolis Charles E. Sammond, Mil
waukee; H. H. Wallis, Racine, Wis;
F. G. Marcy, Milwaukee, and George M.
Gillette Minneapolis.
dispatch from White Lake, N Y.
Col William H. Powell, u S. A., re-
tired, died at Sackett's HarbC~, N. Y.
He entered the army as a private in
1861 and won his first commission the
same year. He became colonel Of the
ninth infantry in 1897 and was retired
at his request in 1899.
says Miss Mcconnell is slowly recov-
ering from her terrible experience of
two days and nights in the north
woods. She is given the best Of care
but cannot be removed to her home in
Utica for several days.
There are 10000 people in the Yukon
terri DRY, and the population of Daw-
son CITY is approximately 8,VvO. Maj.
H. ]. Woodside of Dawson, the domin-
ion government census commissioner,
who arrived at Vancouver, B. c., from
the north, is authority for the figures.
Damage by fire, smoke and water. es-
tima'ed at about $4,000, was caused
at Winsted, Conn, by a fire which
! started on the stage of the Winsted