Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-01-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Domestic.

California, died.
The public debt decreased $8,643, 192
in December.
In New York there were 7O,8O8
deaths reported in 1901.
The twenty-ninth general assembly
of Iowa convenes Jan. ID,
The Illinois Central station at
Alden, Iowa, was destroyed by fire.
Helen Gould is to build a sanitarium
for children in Idaho Springs, Colo.
At Amigo John Conway was killed
while attempting to board moving
train.
Hawaiians are opposed to the
scheme to establish d leper colony IN
the islands.
The will of c. H. Peary was filed
at Minneapolis. The estate is valued
at $2,8OO,O0O
Standard Oil interests are said TO
be seeking a franchise for a gas
plant in Paris.
The entire tobacco crop of 1900, OF
Wisconsin, is cornered by eastern
manufacturers.
Hope Booth, the wel[knoWn actress,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.
She has $40,O 600 debts.
The Mckinley Monument associa-
ton has decided to endeavor to raise
81 900 in North Dakota.
Clyde Moore, aged II, of Winfield,
Kas was sentenced to twenty years
Imprisonment for murder.
A street car carrying non-union
workmen at Springfield. Ill, was
blown Up with dynamite.
Dudley Evans of New York has
been elected president of the Wells
Fargo Express company.
The annual sparrowhunt' of Pleas
ant township, Illinois, resulted in the
killing of $4,000 sparrows.
Kankakee is i'll need of servant girls.
Efforts to import colored cocks from
the south proved q failure.
At Seattle, Wash, William Allen
Seaton was hanged for the murder of
his uncle, Daniel Richards.
At Oskaloosa, Ia, Constable John
Ruggerberg was fatally wounded in
attempting to make an arrest.
Al Rib Lake Joseph Depto, who was
accidentally shot, died. The remains
were taken to Stevens Point.
At st. Paul Bernard Michel, 81
years old, was found in his Office with
his throat cut. 1t was case of sui
eide.
At Decatur, ILL.,, four men broke in
to the bank of A. r. Scott at Bethany,
blew up the safe and secured $4,000 in
bills.
At Cartwright, Wis, Patrick Dono-
van was burned to death His re-
mains were found in the ruins of his
house.
G. N. Wiswell Of Milwaukee, who
was slated for fourth assistant post
master general, may die of pneu-
mOnia.
Captain Leary, former governor of
Guam, was promoted to rear admiral
the day before his death, but he never
knew it.
The Methodist Sunday schools of
Cincinnati barred from the libraries
Rev. DR. McIntyre's book, The Modern
Apollos.
At Columbus, Ohio, the republican
caucus nominated the Foraker ticket
for the senate and the Hanna ticket
for the house.
At Grand Rapids the fifteenth an
nual meeting of the Wisconsin State
Cranberry Growers association will
be held Jan. IA.
Admiral Schley will be invited to be
the guest of the Maryland society Of
Chicago at an entertainment in his
honor this month.
In his message to the New York
legislature, Governor Odell takes
strong ground against open Sunday
saloons in New York.
Paul Blouet ("Max O'Rell'), the
French author and lecturer, has I'M
dergone a successful operation for ap-
pendicitis in New York.
Terry McGovern and Dave Sullivan
agreed to fight before the Yosemite
Athletic club of San Francisco the
second week in February.
At Lewiston, Idaho, James w. Reid,
ex-congressman from North Carolina,
died after an illness Of several months.
He came to Idaho in 1887.
Mayor Seth Low was inaugurated,
and almost the entire government of
New York city changed hands from
Tammany to the reformers.
In New York a receiver has been
appointed for the Crude Rubber com
pany. The assets are about $3,000,-
900 and liabilities, $5,O00,000.
At Omaha Anne Johnson, colored
woman, held up and robbed T. J.
Graham, stockman, of $3.50 She was
caught and the money found.
Both Argentine and Chile have been
endeavoring unsuccessfully to buy
warships in the United States n
anticipation of a possible war
Miss Alice Roosevelt accepted an in
vitatiOn to christen Emperor Williams
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