Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-16
Domestic.


Milwaukee.
Gen. Chauncey McKeever. U. S. A.,
died in Germany.
A Kansas ball player fell dead
while playing a game.
The Canadian rifle team won the
worlds championship.
Judge Ambrose B. Carlton died at
Terre Haute. Ind, aged 76.
A flowing we'll of sulphuric acid was
discovered in Vineland. N. J.
Simon Lyons of Detroit, Mimi. was
married to his sons divorced wife.
A counterfeiting plant was dis
covered in the woods near Hedrick,
Iowa.
Thomas ]. Sullivan was fatally
wounded at indianapolis by an angry
husband.
Michigan has become one of the
greatest producers of Portland
cement
John Nelson. Chicago cyclist, in
jured at the Madison Square Garden,
New York. is dead.
Harvey Develle shot and killed Mrs.
Hanna Bornwasser and himself a,
Covington, Ky.
Richard Croker sailed for New
York. He is said to be preparing for
British citizenship.
Governor Brady of Alaska was
placed in quarantine at Sitka by
Surgeon Koesher.
The opinion is freely expressed in
Pittsburg that the big strike is
practically settled.
One hundred thousand visitors at
tended the opening of the G. A. R. en-
.campment at Cleveland
Otis Green, Abba, a., shot AMI
killed his wife and fatally wounded
himself at Des Moines..
The Weyerhauser-Rutt syndi-
cate has purchased control of Edward
Hines Lumber company.
Iowa socialists met at Des Moines
and nominated state ticket with
James Baxter for governor.
A procession of automobiles mile
long started from New York for
Buffalo on an endurance test.
A. E. Bournique, Chicago, was elect
ed president of the association Of
American Dancing Professors.
The Kentucky farm on which
Abraham Lincoln was born is to be-
come an asylum for inebriates.
Tarrant, head of a Chicago machine
plant about to move to Aurora. H.,
says labor troubles are running trade.
The body of an Indiana farmer was
found in a field near Warsaw with his
throat cut five days after his mar
riage.
A st. Louis youth shot and killed a
16-year old girl who refused to marry
him and probably fatally wounded
himself.
Yerkes gained virtual control of
London's rapid transit by purchasing
the projected Brompton-Piccadilly
roads stock
Stationary engineers in session at
Rochester, N. Y. rejected PROPOSE
ton to exclude negroes from the
organization.
Mrs. Albert E. Peters killed herself
with carbolic acid in New York be
cause her husband rebuked her in
front of family guests.
The steel trust made gains and sue
ceeded in putting to work men i'm
ported from Philadelphia. The gen
eral situation is quiet.
The sloop yacht Columbia, cham
pion of 1899. has been chosen to de-
fend the Americas cup against Sir
Thomas Lipton's Shamrock H..
President Shaffer again declined the
steel trusts proposition to end the
strike, and the board of Cancellation
abandoned its efforts at arbitration.
Relatives here of Marie EastwicK,
. accused in London of 100000 stock
forgery, declare that for years she
has been mentally unbalanced at
times.
President Mckinley in an address
at the pan-American exposition urged
reciprocity, more American ships, an
isthmian canal and Pacific cable as
means to expand our foreign trade.
Gold coin and bullion in the United
States treasury and in circulation
amounts to within a half-milliOn of
the total money in the country at the
beginning Of McKinley's first admin
istration.
81 would rather be known as the
daughter of ]. Pierpont Morgan than
share the throne of any court in
Europe" said Miss Anna Morgan IN
denying a report that she is to wed a
British nobleman.
Rosa Wells. stenographer, Tilted
by Frank P. Poston. leading lawyer
of Memphis, because she announced
their engagement, committed suicide
after writing pathetic letters and
making an unusual will.
The United States Steel corporation
says it is not opposed to union labor,
and offered to give the Amalgamated
all the mills they have gained since
July 1. The strikers advisory board,