Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-09-08
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DOMESTIC.
Strikers at Bluefield, w. Va, MUIR
dered a mine blacksmith.
Mrs. John McCurdy, Chicago bride,
committed suicide by hanging.
Police Officer J. J. Flower was killed
at Bessemer, Ala, by two tramps.
Three Denver aeronauts will try to
make a balloon trip to New York.
President Roosevelt will attend the
soldiers reunion at Carbonate, III.
Anthracite coal in Chicago is going
higher and offers of $40 and $11 were
refused. Ill
Two large new forest reserves have
been created by the president in
Montana.
BY the will of Mrs. Mary j. Winth-
rnp of N. Y, Princeton will receive
100000.
Carlisle D. Graham swan through
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara and
landed unframed.
A Chicago messenger girl was at
tackled by boy strikers and routed
them with hatpin.
DR.. George G. Pardee of Oakland
was nominated for governor by Cali
fornia republicans.
Four girls, the Duncan and Beach
sisters, were drowned in Pearce Pond,
near Pawling, N. Y.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, passed
through Chicago on way to hunt big
game in the DakOtas
David P. James of Holton township,
Mich, killed his son and wounded a
neighbor in family quarrel.
President Roosevelt took a holiday
and hunted in New Hampshire game
preserve, killing a big boar.
The twentieth century fund of the
Methodist church is said to have
reached total of $4O,OOO,OOO.
Five professional nurses were
drowned by the sinking of a rowboat
by steamer at Battle Creek, Mich.
The annual report of the civil serv-
Ice commission showed 121 10000 gov
eminent positions in the classified
list.
A Toledo man was shot to death by
mob at Monroe, Mich, while fleeing
from a man with whom he had quar-
relied
A fire which at one time threatened
all the principal buildings of Bethle-
hem, Conn, was stayed by a shift of
the wind
The postal officials are engaged in
the task of framing a plan for the pay
ment Of money orders on rural deliv-
cry routes.
The United States is asked by China
to punish the Oregon mob which at
tackled Chinese and drove them from
Baker City.
The reported lynching of a negro
al Sparta Ill, proved untrue as the
negro escaped through the crowd that
sought to hang him.
NOnunion mine workers on their wav
to the mines were chased by mobs of
strikers in Pennsylvania and several
sought safety in church.
Walter L. Payton of Mount Olive.
lid, was killed at Rockledge quarries
aC Bedford, Ind, by a large slab of
stone falling upon him.
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs Charles
l.. Fair were removed from the Made
leine to a Paris railway station for
shipment to New York.
Indians fired eighteen shots into the
village of Naper, Neb., and the gov
ernOr shipped guns to the sheriff and
troops were promised
Two hundred and forty thousand
school children began fall term in the
Chicago public schools. Each child
carries its own drinking water.
The secretary of agriculture issued
statement on the progress of the
beet sugar industry in the United
States which is growing rapidly.
At Little Rock, Ark, Judge H. G.
Caldwell of the United States court of
appeals has reached the age limit of
70 years He has decided not to re-
tire
The public alliance of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, appealed to President Roosevelt
to end the mine strike, scoring J. P.
Morgan. Troops were ordered to
shoot.
The president spoke at Rutland VT,
and further emphasized and defined