Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-15

KlOndlke.
Sophia Adelaide, who said she was a
daughter Of Queen Victoria, is dead in
New York.
Two men were killed and four
wounded in a riot of striking miners at
Telluride, Colo.
The business portion of Polo, Mo-.
was destroyed by fire, entailing loss
OF $4,000.
A Burlington train in Nebraska was
bombarded by hailstones as large as
goose eggs.
Probate Judge Rathdrum, of Idaho,
was killed by man he had de.
clared insane.
A bomb thrown into the yard of a
house at Denver killed 5-year-old child
of NJ 0. Oliver.
Unless the taxes are boosted in
Chicago the city employees will have to
be paid in scrip.
Thomas Barker, who tried to kill
Rev. John Keller in New Jersey, was
taken to prison.
A European squadron is to be re-
established with Rear Admiral Crom-
well in command.
The Florida sponge industry is in
danger of destruction because of too
many fishermen.
Christian Endeayor meetings are
held nearly every hour throughout the
day in Cincinnati.
Mrs. Emma Ryley was killed at her
window in Newark by slug from a
homemade cannon.
Aaron Morgan, patient in the
Kankakee insane asylum, escaped
disguised as woman.
Paul Neumann, who represented
Queen Lilioukalani in Washington,
died at Honolulu.
Ernst Reid, ,colored, was hanged at
Carthage, Mo-, for the murder Of his
wife Jan. 10, 1900.
A. B. Cummins now lacks only 1870
votes of enough to get the nomination
for governor of Iowa.
Prof. John Fiske, the historian and
lecturer, died at East Gloucester,
Mass, aged SO years.
American athletes won in every
event entered at Huddlesfield with the
exception of one event.
Fifteen thousand acres of Kansas
wheat were destroyed by a fire
started by cigar stub.
Edward Parker Deacon, who killed
Emile Abeille at Cannes, died in a
Boston insane asylum
Severe storms in Buffalo flooded the
exposition grounds and disabled the
electric lighting plant.
A farm at Dayton, O., sued the metal
polishers' union for $4,000 damages
on account of a strike.
1t is reported the three men who
held up a Great Northern train in
Montana secured $4,000.
Raymond Albers, 10 years old, killed
a playmate aged II in Albany, N. Y,
and then hanged himself.
Joliet is forbidden to exceed the 5
per cent. debt limit in order to enlarge
the waterworks system.
Miss Jessie Morrison was sentenced
to five years in prison for the murder
of Mrs. Castle in Kansas.
w. H. Bowen, the new minister to
Nenezuela, was given final instructions
before leaving for his post.
Internal revenue receipts show no
falling off since the amended revenue
law went into effect July /.
Jose Sanchez was hanged at Silver
Ill
Almundares last December.
w. S. Stratton, the millionaire mine
owner Of Colorado Springs, is to leave
the place to escape beggars.
Friends Of Thomas Sterling urge his
appointment as successor of the late
Senator Kyle Of South Dakota.
Four negroes called man to the
door at Muncie, Ind, and fatally
wounded him with a Ratchet.
Sidney Smith of Massachusetts has
filed claim to about $25O,O00,000
worth of property in Chicago.
A Missouri farmer in Gentry county
became insane on account of heat and
killed two men and himself.
Gentry Bros. circus at Grand Island,
Neb, was blown away and a large
number of people was injured.
Rear Admiral Crowinshield wrote
the dispatch ordering Dewey to sink
or capture the Spanish fleet.
Professor Joseph lie Conte of the
University of California died in the
Yosemite valley on an outing.
Attorney General Gibson of Ontario
has decided that Sunday steamer
excursions must cease in Ontario.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt bought
Sycamore Lodge and 1900 acres on
Shedd lake, in the Adirondacks.
Reports on the fourth of July cas-
ualties make the dead Is and the in
jured 1873. Fire loss $128,785.
Only one portrait is needed to COM
plete the collection of patent office
commissioners from the beginning.
A speaker at the librarians conven-
ton at Waukesha declared that boys
have better literary taste than girls.
The proclamation opening to settle