Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-28
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Several persons we're drowned in
three cloudbursts in New York state
Eber B. Ward brother of Princess
Chimay, has obtained a divorce by de-
fault.
Fire in the Texas state fair grounds
destroyed the main building and did
100000 damage.
A census report showed the value of
all farms in the United States for
1900 was $16,674 ,694,247
The coal miners national conven-
ton at indianapolis dropped the
talk Of a general strike.
Immigrants arriving in the last
fiscal year numbered 73O,798, an in
crease of 160,825 over 1901.
Ex-Secretary of the Navy Hilary A.
Herbert, who has been i'll with fever,
has been removed to Austin, Va.
The United States will not have a
warship in the naval review on the
occasion of the kings coronation.
Kansas supreme court ordered the
American Book company ousted from
The Ancient Order of Hibernians is
to begin crusade against caricatures
of the Irish on the stage and in news
papers.
Col. R. NJ. O'Reilley was appointed
surgeon general of the army, to sue
coed Gen. Torwood, who will retire
Sept. Z.
At Marshall, Mo-, George Wiley shot
and killed Dovie Finn, on her refusal
to marry him, and then committed
suicide
Baltimore was swept by a severe
wind storm, during which thirteen
persons were killed and heavy damage
done to property.
May YOhe instructed her New York
lawyer 20 cause the arrest of Capt
Putnam Bradlee Strong on the charge
of grand larceny.
''The average laboring man would
be much better off if he were with
out union," said John w. Gates in
Chicago interview
Ellsworth, Wis, with 1900 popula-
tiOn is the hea1thiest town in the
deaths there in 1901.
Ex-senator Pettigrew says a thru
party will be formed if either Cleve-
land or Hill obtains control of the
democratic party.
New York garment workers number
ing $4,000 went on strike for shorter
work day, and $4,000 more are ex-
pected to join them soon.
The New York union pie bakers
struck and famine is threatened.
Employees want to go to work at 7 a.
m. instead of midnight
The 38-foot launch A A. Low, in
which Capt. Henry Newman is cross
ing the Atlantic, was seen far out at
sea by two ocean liners.
Joseph Quirk, aged Is, dived from
a height of fifteen feet into two feet
of water at Oakland Beach, N. Y, Oh
a dare and broke his neck.
A Missouri woman, who escaped
from prison in order to settle UP an
estate in the interest of her children,
returned to the penitentiary
Frederick Schmidt, known as the
millionaire labOrer in Bowling Green,
o., proposed in overalls and was &C
ceDted by Mrs. Martha Norris.
Chicago freight handlers will start
a boycott against the Panhandle rail-
road in retaliation for its refusal to
reinstate the men who went on a
strike.
The value of torpedo boats in naval
warfare is expected to be definitely
ascertained in the maneuvers on the
Atlantic coast within the next few
weeks. -
Maj Gen. John r. Brooke was re-
tired after forty-one years service
Maj. Gen. Macarthur succeeded him
in command of the department of the
east.
At Leadville, Col, one of three
robbers who tried to force an entrance
IT, the Hayden gold placer works was
shot, but carried away by his com.
rades.
Two engineers we're killed and a
fireman and BRAKEMAN injured in a