Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-06-09

A tornado at La crosse, OleW on
roofs, broke windows, and hurt sew
eraI persons. A ball of fire fell from
the clouds and exploded in the street.
The ways and means committee of
the house ordered a favorable report
on the bill for reopening OF negotia-
tions relative to the fur seal herds Of
Alaska.
Two hundred employees of the l..
Wolff Manufacturing company, Chi
cago, will furnish two inches of skin
each for grating on Otto Bosel a
boy employe.
Andrew Carnegie's wedding gift to
his niece. Miss Lauder of Pittsburg,
who Thursday was married to James
Greenway of Hot Springs, Ark, was
81, 900, 900.
The packers attempt to break the
Chicago meat famine started riots by
striking teamsters, in which police
and citizens were hurt and scores
were arrested.
At Meriden, Conn, Adam Kauf-
mann, while intoxicated, placed a
dynamite cartridge between his teeth
and lighted it. But little OF the re-
mains were found
The war department has decided
that veterinarians are entitled to
salutes from enlisted men. The order
will be of considerable interest at all
western army posts.
Beatrice Helling of Baltimore was
B. c.. by friends, who claimed she
was being inyeigled abroad for i'm
moral purposes.
Twenty-Five thousand immigrants
are on the way to the port of New
York this week The total number OF
arrivals for May will be 10000, the
highest in weny years
The Masonic Fraternity association,
owner of the Masonic Temple, Chi
cago,at the annual meeting showed
| earnings of 3.81 per cent. on the cap
ital, against $40 in 1901,
At Fort Wayne, Joseph Bossell, a
well-known business man, is in a
critical condition as the result of be-
ing struck on the head by a golf ball
driven by his daughter
The anthracite mine engineers, fire
men and pumpmen were ordered to
strike and a majority obeyed. Presi-
dent Mitchell claimed that 80 per
cent obeyed the order
Walter Bolger Of Yonkers, N. Y,
whose parents have conducted a
Ii h
aboard the United States training
ship Franklin, at Norfolk, Va.
In San Francisco Mrs. Nettie 0.
Craven has abandoned her fight for
recognition as the widow of the late
Senator James G.. Fair. She has been
paid $4,000 for Withdrawing.
The st. Louis grand jury report on
municipal bribery declared the condi-
tion of corruption astounding" Four
officials were indicted and arrested.
City Register Beach is missing.
An earthquake throughout Alaska
was followed by the eruption of
Mount Blackburn. Dust, powders,
and ashes were emitted from the
mountain supposed to have no crater
Margaret Perkins, daughter of the
president of the Importers and Trad
ers' bank, New York, and James
Pearce, a horse trainer, are said to be
en- their way to Europe on we'd
ding trip.
By the formation of the Havana
Tobacco company, a $45, 100000 corpo-
ration, at Trenton, N. j., the Con-
solidated Tobacco company secures
IS per cent. of the Cuban trade in that
product.
The Ohio republican convention
nominated state ticket of minor of
ficers, and adopted a platform indoors
ing Roosevelt, the army and the
Philippine policy and condemning IL
legal trusts.
w. c.. Baker and his Chauffeur, C.
f. Denzer, who run down number of
New York people with their auto,
were released on $4,000 and $4,000
bail respectively. Bogart, the second
victim, is dead.
President Roosevelt will be asked
by the national conference of chart
ties and correction to appoint ma
tional commission in vagrancy for
governmental investigation of the
tramp problem.
Dr. Austin O'Malley, head of the de-
partment of English in the University
of Notre Dame, was removed from his
home in South Bend to Philadelphia to
have an operation performed for
pOtmaine poisoning.
At Birmingham, Ala, the members
Of the Grand Army of the Republic
dropped out of the parade in honor Of
General Fitzhugh Lee because a con-
federate flag was being carried by one
of the color bearers.
The extension of the Gould rail
roads to tidewater at Baltimore will
cost $20,000,000. Their mileage will
soon exceed the Vanderbilt, Pennsyl-
vania, or Hartman system and $3.50
are now controlled by Gould.
No sooner had it been announced
+h at Commissioner Fv9nS was tn no