Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-06-23

press messenger.
Machines to displace glass blowers.
gatherers and snappers have been in
stalled by the American company at
Pittsbu1g and will let out thousands of
skilled workmen.
President Roosevelt plans to leave
the limits of the United States and
witness the naval maneuvers in West
Indian waters. Dewey will command
the combined fleets.
At Philadelphia Miriam L. Medley.
arrested while demanding to see Pres.
ident Roosevelt, was relieved of her
revolver and committed to the hosni.
tai for the insane.
The United States Shipbuildire.
comp any purchased the Bethlehem
Steel company from J. P. Morgan.
The ship trust can now build battle
ships and make armor for them
Abram Halsey, returning to New
York after an absence of twenty
years, found his wife married again
put husband No. 2 was induced to
leave for his former Kentucky home.
George M. Finney, a member of the
yacht Tartar's crew, was knocked
overheard and killed by a swinging
or boom at Michigan City as the Yacht
started to return from the annual race.
Frederick Hickman, living at
Temple, Pa, was stung by a 17-year
locust and his hand is swollen to twice
its normal size. The physician fears
that his hand will have to be ampu-
tated.
Venezuelan government forces are
reported to be bombarding La Guayra.
Two German cruisers which were at
st. Thomas, Danish West Indies. have
been sent to Venezuela under hurry
orders
At Taunton, Mass, Timothy
Donohue, a baseball pitcher under
contract with the Washington Ameri-
can League club, died. He plaveg
last year with the Chicago National
League team
Former President Grover Cleveland
will be given the doctor of iuris-
prudence degree by Augustinian col
1ege, Philadelphia, DR.. w. L. Bryan,
Indiana university, is to be president
of Swarthmore
The Allis-Cnalmers machinists. VINO
nave been on a strike over a year.
will return to work, having been
granted an eight-hour day and an III
crease OF IL per cent. in wages and
recognition of their union.
| Marie Stevens, the Florodora Girl
who was taken to Detroit hospital
some weeks ago as a charity patient.
is seriously i'll with consumption, and
was later discovered by her wealthy
father from Chicago has died.
Because w. w. Kempf, banker. re-
FUSED to doff his hat before the picture
OF the emperor of Austro-Hungary
II the Chicago office of the consul
from that country, the latter has fled
charges with the state department.
lightning struck three churches in
! chicago. Calvary Presbyterian Sun
Gay school was thrown into panic.
The memorial German Methodist Epis-
copal Church was destroyed, and Our
Lady OF Sorrows Church was injured
AT Denver, Mrs. Mamie Thorne in
| stltuted suit against Miss Keturah Sim
Ior 100000 damages for alternating the
directions Of her husband, Albert J.
| Ihorne, formerly cotton broker Of
New York city, but now a resident of
| Denver
The Chicago vaudeville actors
chorus girls and 'supers" presented
demand to the managers for more
SALARY dresslng rooms, and pay for
rehearsals. The demand is backed
| by the stage employees national al
| lance.
Inc mysterious drowning 0,
4 Clarence Foster and Sarah P
Lawrence at Good Ground, N. Y is
| partly explained by an eye witness of
a hight between Foster and his rival
| Louis DisbrOw Foster was a married
man, the girl an heiress.
Former Mayor Washburne and
others viii apply for permission to
construct a subway reaching all Dor
lions of the downtown district of Chi
cago for the use of traction lines and
telephone and telegraph wires, and To
be tWenty-four feet deep and extend
from curb to curb.
Inc republican congressional cam
palgn committee decided not to main
tain branch headquarters in Washing
ton. Branch headquarters will he
maintained in New York, and the
campaign will be directed from Chi
cago, as it is in the middle west that
the campaign will be hottest.
Helen Vanderbilt Wackerman, the
American girl who became insane
after she had been requested to leave
the home Of the English artist Hilbert
Herkomer, for whom she has been
posing, arrived in New York from
southampton. She was accompanied
by her mother, her uncle, Dr.. Lewis
T.. Smith of Buffalo, and two trained
nurses.
Captain Reuben F. Kolb leader Of
the Kolb movement in Alabama some