Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-02-10
Domestic.

CISCO.
Bob Fitzsimmons has agreed TO
fight Jim Jeffries.
Rumors of railroad extensions ale
rife in North Dakota
Boston elevated roads and trolley
lines are to consolidate.
A woman of 80 and man of 80
eloped at Pyrmont, Ind.
The property loss in the Waterbury
IRE will reach $3,500,000.
Mrs. Shaw called on Mrs. Roose-
welt and was delighted with her recep-
ton.
Depositors of the broken bank at
Bellwood, Neb., tried to lynch the
cashier.
Louis Kellihan, life convict at the
saltwater prison, died raving
maniac.
Labor leaders plan to push d
scheme of government department
OF labor.
A choir singer of New Rochelle, N.
Y, killed herself because of her hus
bands arrest.
nearly the entire business section.
Loss, $4,000.
A conductor and negro were killed
on a train at Pembroke, KY, in re-
volver fight.
The Iowa senate appointed com
mittee to draft new law governing
railroad taxation.
Another stockholders suit begun at
Minneapolis to prevent the merger of
northwestern roads.
Present conditions in Kansas pres
age the greatest wheat crop in the
history of the state.
The Pittsburg and Western railroad
has at last been transferred to the
Baltimore and Ohio.
A Chicago boy was killed by
burglars while he was defending his
employers property.
A twelve-year-old girl at Springfield,
O., is accused of numbering her
foster mother by poison.
An inmate of the Kenosha poor
house became insane and fought
twelve men for an hour.
The senate committee postpones
action on the treaty for the purchase
of the Danish West Indies.
Six thousand operatives are out
owing to strike at the American
WOODEN mills at Olneyville, R. I.
Two Italians who killed man at
Shawmut, Pa, Jan. % we're captured
by a posse near Crenshaw, Pa.
The Menominee and Marinette
street railway systems were con-
solidated under one management.
The steel trust gives up $4,000
acres of school lands Minnesota con-
veyed to railroad through error.
John D. Rockefeller pledged a 81 ,OOO,-
600 gift to Harvard, which will swell
a recent endowments to $2,5O0,OOO.
The kidnapers of Mrs. Mabel
Stearns Of Philadelphia were SEN
fenced to terms in prison and fined.
Lost sermons, for which a preacher
OF Portsmouth, Va, was paid $1.23
each, were found in a negroes house.
The new grand jury at st. Louis
was instructed to continue the investi-
cation Of bribery in the city council.
The selection of illustrious Ameri-
cans for the Columbia University
Hall of Fame was postponed until
1906.
Six distinct Investigations are being
made into the causes of the terrible
explosion in the subway tunnel New
York.
Representative Tawney insists that
the house has a right to take a hand
in the negotiation of reciprocity
treaties.
The Misunderstanding Shakspearean
collection of Birmingham, England,
was bought by M. J. Perry of Provi-
dence, r. |.
Two prominent members were ex-
PEELED from the New Orleans cotton
exchange for defrauding a customer
out of 100000.
Leslie NJ Shaw took the oath of
Office as secretary of the treasury.
Ex-Secretary Gage may accept
Chicago offer.
The Vanderbilts and Goulds are
said to be engaged in a fight to
secure control of the Delaware and
LIackawanna.
The Atlantic hotel, Columbia office
building. and a block of stores were
destroyed by fire at Norfolk, Va
Loss, $500,000
A man accidentally locked in
freight car was carried from San