Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-04-21
DOMESTIC.

Miss Alice Roosevelt has returned
from Cuba.
Miss Ida Rogers declares her en-
gagement to Jasper Oglesby is not a
Joke.
John D. Rockefeller made con-
ditional gift of $125,OOO to Adelphl
college
General Frederick Funston as
sumed command of the department of
Colorado.
j. F. Gibson will succeed c. A. Good
now as general manager of the ST.
Paul road.
The national league baseball season
opened Thursday. The American
league opens April %.
President D. P Francis of the st.
Louis fair denied actual postponement
and said he preferred 1903.
Fire in the Johnson chair factory,
$50 Halsted street, Chicago, is laid to
an incendiary. Loss 100000.
Secretary of State Froehlich Of
Wisconsin announced himself as a re-
publican candidate for governor.
The American HOminy company,
with headquarters in Chicago, was
formed with a capital of $3,750,000.
double tube tunnel under st.
Lawrence river is planned at Montreal
by the Quebec Southern railroad in
terests.
Baltimore capitalists behind Charles
r. Yerkes' London railway projects
object to his $5,OOO,OOO profits and will
withdraw
Edwin D. Campbell, blind profess
sor at the Michigan university, in
vented furnace for making Portland
cement
sian orthodox church was laid at Lea
witt street and Haddon avenue, Chi
cago. The czar gave SIS 200 to the
building fund.
Lieutenant General Miles will be
fOrcibly retired soon and Major Gen
8ral John R. Brooke will probably
succeed him.
The control of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad is believed to have
passed to John w. Gates and southern
railway interests.
The six story building, occupied by
the Pacific Coast Borax company, at
BayOnne, N. j., was Quilted by fire.
LOSS, $150,O0O.
Oscar A. Schaeffer, secretary and
treasurer of the w, F. Baker Choco-
late company, shot and killed himself
in his New York office.
Navy department is preparing for ex-
tensive and exhaustive tests with
liquid fuel, which may be used in the
navy if successful.
The foreign commerce bureau an
nOunced that the United States now
sells more goods in Canada than all
the rest Of the world.
Professor Joseph Miller, the music
teacher who killed Miss Jennett OF De-
Croit, began serving life sentence in
Jackson penitentiary.
Henry Flutcher, negro boy, was
hanged for murder at St Louis
thirty-five minutes before a reprieve
arrived from the governor.
The new $200,000,000 steel trust is
believed in Chicago to represent a
combine of the Independent mills with
United States Steel company.
An expert accountant, after an ex-
animation of the books of Auglaize
county, O., says the funds show a
shortage of $24652 in ten years.
Attorney General Knox, in a letter
TO Congressman Ray, said the depart
ment is investigating the so-called beef
trust and the high meat prices.
David B. Hill, in a speech on how
Jefferson would do today, declared he
might reduce corporation dividends
and withdraw tariff protection.
The Oregon democratic state con-
yention nominated George Chamber
lain Of Portland, former attorney gen.
eral of Oregon, for governor,
The Iowa legislature adjourned
after SO days session. Just 1922 bills
were introduced and 249 passed.
Woman suffrage was defeated.
An American crowd at Juarez
Mexico, witnessed ring fight between
a 4-year-Old African lion and a Mexi-
can bull, in which the latter won.
Dun & Co.'s weekly review of
trade found the business of the
country still prosperous, in spite of
the labor troubles and bad weather.
At Columbus, Ohio, fire that broke
out in the pillow shop of the Southern
pillow works consumed two blocks and
a warehouse. The loss is $250,00O
After the exciting experiences Of
the past few months, Miss Ellen NJ.
Stone is in the care of her relatives in
Chelsea, her old Massachusetts home
Mrs. Fanny Goldman, of Toronto,
committed suicide at Lipman's hotel
Chicago, after trying to secure her
sons release from the Cook county
jail
The stock farm of the Charles f.
Bates Horse company and the resi-
denCe of Norman N. Rogers, near
Youngstown, O., were burned. Loss
$4,000.
At MantOn, Mich, four members OF