Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-06-16
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
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It, is announced that Captain r. P.
Hobson will return and run for state
senator.
Five persons were burned to death in
the destruction of the Arcade building
at Saratoga, N. Y.
Charles w. Spalding, president of
che defunct Globe bank, may get
freedom from Joliet.
Mary Twain receievd the honorary
degree of doctor of laws from the
University of Missouri.
Dr. Harry Koppellberger of Whea-
Gon. MINI, died at his old home at
gEau Claire of consumption.
Two prisoners at the Oregon state
Denitentiary killed three guards and
"a feIIOw-cOnvict, and escaped.
H. G.. Prick has let contracts for an
eighteen-story hotel building at
Pittsburg, to cost $3,000,000.
At New Orleans the legislature has
extended the "Jim Crow car" for
negroes to street railways.
Mrs Kingdom, mother of Mrs. G.
j Gould, was robbed at hotel of
diamonds and money to the value of
$4,000.
Sunday school pupils at West Pitts
Eon, Pa, refused to be taught by SUI
perintendent Davie, non-union
miner
The British remount commission,
which has been purchasing and ship
ping mules, will be dishanded within
a few days.
The plant of the Illinois Car com
pany burned, causing a loss of ST.
600 900 and throwing LOO men out of
employment.
At Sedalia, Mo-, John Baldwin, lead
ing politician, is under arrest charged
with the murder of his brother-in law,
s. L. Lipscomb
Wheat prices weak in Chicago ON
good weather reports; July closed
with Ia cents loss and September
with IL cents.
The Insular Railway company, cap
ftaI $2,500,000, has incorporated in
New Jersey to construct and operate
railways in Cuba
Scientific test Of milk made in the
Chicago Ghetto district showed one
third of the samples to be below
state law standard.
Henry Bosch, registrar of ST. Louis
under Mayor ziegenhein, has been in
dicted on the charge of receiving
bride while in office.
William J. Bryan says he is not
candidate and under no circumstances
will be a candidate for governor of
Nebraska this fall
Senator Gamble thinks that the re-
publican majority in South Dakota this
year will be at least 10000, as com
pared with $4,000 in 1900
At Havana the nomination of Seno~
Quesada as Cuban minister to the
United States was confirmed by the
senate by vote of 10 to TO-
Captain Lewis Bayly, British naval
sattache accused of too much activity,
returning to London and will be given
command Of battleship.
The San Francisco prison doors will
open for seventeen ex-volunteer
soldiers who have been undergoing
sentence at Alcatraz inland.
Senator Harris of Kansas an en-
gineer, favored the Nicaragua route in
speech on the canal bill The Pana-
ma valuation held excessive
General James H. Wilson and Rear
Admiral John C. Watson will sail on
the ST. Paul to represent the army
and the navy at the coronation.
The centennial celebration of the
West Point military academy began
with cadet drills. A class of fifty
-four is to graduate on Thursday.
The quarantine order issued against
Indians on account of smallpox was
suspended, again until July by the
Kentucky state board of health
Joseph Calvin, chief of police OF
David City, Neb., committed suicide
by shooting himself. He was despon-
dent because of failing health.
Lightning struck and set fire to the
stock barns of G. N. Mihill, just south
Of Fond du Lac. The loss will amount
30 about $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
David Warfield, the widely known
comedian, has been removed from his
home to the General Memorial hospf-
tai, where he is threatened with ap-
pendicitis.
President Francis T. Patton of
Princeton University resigned and
Woodrow Wilson, professor of juris-
prudence and politics was elected his
successor.
Combine of all marine labor unions
30 be formed in Chicago; council to
ee elected in every port, with long,
shoremen as backbone of the organ
iZatiOn.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, the marriage OF
Miss Sarah Duncan, a niece of the
late president, and George Herbert
WinsIow occurred. They will reside in
Pittsburg.
William Simmons of GRANVILLE, ILL.,
while operating an edger in a sawmir
was struck in the head by a piece oil
timber thrown back by the saw ami
fatally injured