Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-20

at Aurora, ILL.,, threw acid in the face
of Chas. Straussberger, seriously in
juring him.
Three men were killed and four
seriously injured by the explosion of
the boiler Of a sawmill near Hunting
ton, w. Va.
Lewis Sands saw, single and
stave mill, at Manistee, Mich, was
burned Loss 100000; insurance
$4,000
Erskine Tells, of Schenectady, N. Y,
painter, fell from a ladder in a
house in which he was working and
was killed.
Admiral Walker will soon call the
Isthmian canal commission together
to consider the Panama company's
proposition.
J. E. Doyle of Lexington, Ky, sued
the Standard Oil company for $4,000
damages, charging conspiracy to ruin
his business.
The store and postoffice at Leeston,
Mimi, burned with all it's contents.
The fire is believed to be the work OF
an incendiary.
The laborers employed in the gov
eminent departments will be brought
into the civil service under presi-
Dental orders.
Rats are overrunning the white
house, and makes the structure al
most uninhabitable for the president
and his family.
Sidney Lascelles, a noted swindler
who has posed as Lord Walter Beres-
ford and under other aliases, was
arrested in Boston.
The recent disaster in the New
York Central tunnel will hasten the
substitution of electricity as the
motive power there.
Mrs Mary H. Hunt of the w. G. I.
U. takes exceptions to Professor
Atwater's assertion that alcohol has
nourishing properties.
The Shields and Hill hotels at
Mount Vernon, Texas, and six bust
ness houses were destroyed. Loss
100000; insurance $4,000.
It is estimated that loss of $25,-
900 was caused by a fire in the
factory of the Waltham emery wheel
company at Waltham, Mass.
The Grand Forks school census of
the city shows that the number of
children between the ages of 6 and II
attending the schools is 2,267.
An Indiana man claims to have dis
covered way to see over telephone,
g., o4sx \
from sand at a nominal cost.
Reports reach Duluth of excitement
over valuable gold discoveries in the
Sturgeon lake district, fifty miles
north of the Canadian Pacific road
Gross earnings of New York rail
roads for the year ending on June 30,
1901. The report of the state rail
road commissioners were $276, 676, 102.
Emperor William may send his
brother, Prince Henry, to visit Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the time of the
christening the emperor's new yacht.
1t was announced in Wall street
that rival corporation with $30,000,-
900 capital would enter the field oc.
cupied by the Pressed Steel Car COM
pany.
Sir Robert Ball, the English
scientist, in lecture at Columbia uni
versity predicted another glacial
period, to continue for thousands of
years.
A bill providing for a large number
of lighthouse and fog signal stations
in Alaska has been reported to the
senate from the committee on com
MERGE
The Virginia constitutional conven-
ton adopted the judiciary report,
being the first article of the new
organic instrument so far passed by
that body.
Representative Lowering of Massa-
chusetts has introduced a bill provid-
ing salary for ex-presidents of the
United States at the rate of $4,000
annually.
At West Superior post norton ex-
animation was held over the remains
of Nels Holm, and it was discovered
that death was due to a stroke OF
apoplexy.
James Burgess was killed and two
companions injured by the explosion
OF a blast in the mines Of the Webster
County Coal and Land company at
Lehigh, Ia.
The senate committee on census
unanimously agreed to recommend the
passage of the bill introduced by
Senator Hale to create a permanent
census bureau.
Ed Cheney, of Galesburg, ILL.,, an
ex-convict, shot his wife and her
sister, Mrs. Lettie Goshorn. He then
killed himself. Both women are
fatally wounded.
Lerona Bell was scalded to death n
pail of water at South Bend, Ind.
Mrs. Nancy Taylor, aged Sc years
was burned to death at Muncie, Ind.
Suicide is alleged.
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