Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-06

| elected.
Mary E. Miller of Elkton, Md, viii
go $4,000 miles to a point in India, 10
marry James Moore, who has made
| fortune there.
The Volunteers of America gave a
Christmas dinner to thousands at Chi
cagi Basket dinners were served to
| 300 families.
John S. Pinover jumped off the
Brooklyn bridge in order to gain no
toriety. He apparently suffered no
serious injury.
J. l.. Farr, general superintendent of
| logging in the Indian service, alleges
| frauds in timber operations on Mime
sofa reservations.
Colonel w. F. Cody SAYS he is going
to give up the show business and de-
vote his entire time to the develop
ment of the west.
The Rev.~David BeatOn of Chicago
in a sermon, declared Governor Yates
| had blasted his reputation by his
abuse of power.
Venezuelan revolutionists under
Matos at Martinique are making ex
tensive preparations for the eXpedi-
ton against Castro
The financial views of Governor
Shaw are not Endorsed by Chicago
bankers, who criticise his scheme Of an
elastic asset currency.
The Grassland stock farm at MenOm-
onie has added to it's flocks four prize
Shropshire sheep from the Altamont
farm at MillbroOk, N. Y.
L. A. LANCE is soliciting subscrip-
lions for the erection of a canning
factory at Menomonie, Wis. The cap
ital is limited to $4,000
Fragments of a letter found on the
[ lake shore at Chicago indicated that
woman drowned herself at that place.
Her identity is a mystery.
United States Senator William J.
SeWell died at his home at Camden,
! n. j., from diabetes, complicated with
stomach and heart trouble
An Ontario and Western railroad
coal train ran away on a mountain
near Poyntefic, Pa, and fell down
mountain, killing four men.
An explosion at the old SharpsviHe
Pa, furnace wrecked the furnace plant
and killed three men who were work,
| ing at the top of the furnace.
| The governors of five northwestern
states met Monday at Helena, Mont,
| to decide upon a plan of action for op-
| posing the big railroad merger.
The body of Miss Ella Cropsey, who
had long been missing, was found in
the Pasquotank river in front of her
home, at Elizabeth City, N G.
Elijah" Dowie announced his de-
cision to remove to Zion City, because
of alleged discrimination against him
| by the Chicago tax assessors.
Emperor Francis Joseph ordered
the expulsion from Austria of the
| principals in a baccarat game IN
which Count Potockl lost $5OOOOO
WI Ting Fang, through the secre-
tary Of state, asked congress to in
vestigate the working of the Chinese
! exclusion law before extending it.
| Apostle Brigham Young, president of
| the quorum of twelve of the Mormon
church and eldest living son Of the IA
nous prophet" is critically ill.,
After a cOurtship of less than "a
hours Rev. Peter Hunt Fields and Miss
Josephine Mary Lacone, of Chicago,
were married at Warwick, N. Y.
Chicago bowling representatives
held a meeting and made arrange
ments to go to the Buffalo tournament.
Eight teams are to represent the city.
A Christmas tree for blind hoy
started fire which destroyed the
Alexandria apartment building in
Chicago in which seventy persons
lived.
In Philadelphia several police sta
tons have been quarantined and hun
dreds of houses and schools are being
fumigated in the effort to stamp out
smallpox.
Reports from some sections of Mis-
souri, say that owing to the severe
weather of late and the scarcity of
feed hogs are dying in considerable
numbers.
II. R. Penny, head of the defunct
brokerage firm of Penny .& Co., of
Omaha, was arrested charged with
maintaining and operating gambling
Devices
The Northern Pacific Railway will
shorten its main line by SO miles by
building the Lind-Ellensburg cutoff
across Yakima Valley, which will cost
$4,000,O0O.
1t is said that the car has accepted
an invitation to attend the coronation
of King Edward, provided that the
czarina is in good health at the time
of the ceremony.
At the tercentenary Of Duke Ernst
the Pious, at Gotha, Kaiser Wilhelm
said the union of the evangelical
churches of Germany was one of the
aims of his life.
Near Guthrie, Okla, Simon Owens,
alleged to be 102 years old, was
burned to crisp in his cabin. He