Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-21
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Scores of victims Of the Johnstown
mine disaster were buried
Crown prince of Siam is to visit the
United States in simple and I'M
pretentious manner.
In Norfolk, Va, DR.. J. G. Watts,
city coroner, was shot and killed by
negro named Graves.
E. L. Bonner, the Montana million
aire and politician, fell from his auto
mobile dying instantly.
Fifteen men were terribly burned by
a shower of molten metal at the
Homestead (Pa) steel works.
Gen. Arthur Macarthur will succeed
Gen. Brooke in command of the de-
partment of the east July q.
Carman Smith, of Freeport, L L.,
was found murdered on the beach,
and Fritz Peterson was arrested.
A $100,000000 tobacco company. to
compete with the American combine,
is said to be forming in London.
The drought of 1901 has a notable
effect upon exports of corn during
1902. reducing them considerably
Otto Faust of Valley City, N. D.,
who gave away thousands of acres of
land, is declared insane in Chicago.
Chicago's population is placed at
100000 by directory publishers
estimate; increase for the year was
$4,000
AS a result of a shooting ARRAY Oh
the Diamond 10 packet Dubuque near
Clinton, Iowa. two ba-ad men were
killed.
Failing. ground in the Franklin and
Hecla mines. near Houghton Mich.
killed John Carter and John Peterson,
miners.
H H Brinker, teller of the German
National bank at Pittsburg, is accused
of a $1,000 shortage. Wheat specula-
tion is blamed
Two negroes were killed at Pensa-
cola. Fla. by bolt of lightning and a
number of bystanders were given
severe shocks.
Rabbi Joseph Eisner of Baltimore
will start for Jerusalem with his
wife, so that he may end his days in
The holy land
J, ogden Armour of Chicago is pre-
pairing to squeeze John w. Gates in
September corn in which the latter is
heavily short.
The body of an unknown young
woman was found in Frankfort creek.
near PHILADELPHIA. She is thought to
have killed herself.
A census report on American cloth
ing industry shows 48.497 establish
ment with 1884 .969,634 capital $685.
300 persons are employed
At wheeling, w Va. Cant. Black
burn B. Dovener. republican, was re-
nominated for his fifth term in con-
gTess from the first district. N
The big coal strike is losing IN
favor, and anthracite men themselves
think the soft coal miners can help
them more by continuing work.
The wedding of wo1cott lie Clair
Beard. son of the New York amman
painter William H. Beard, becomes
known after a year of secrecy.
At Oyster Bay, L. L., President
Roosevelt caught his daughter Ethel
Just in time to save her from falling
from the horse she was riding.
Louis A. Disbrow was held for the
grand jury at Good Ground, L. T.. on
the charge of numbering Clarence
Foster and Miss Sarah Lawrence.
Democratic leaders say that Hill
will run for governor in New York
now that Justice Parker and Daniel
Lamont have decided not to run.
Richard Jones, a prominent farmer
living near Belmont Ark, was killed
by a runaway team Two children
with him were fatally injured
Jack Burns of Chicago was killed
by a Michigan fast train at Gales
burg: he was crippled. both legs hav-
ing been amputated at the knees.
Sir Thomas Linton refused to con
firm the report that he would again
said he thought British yacht could
win.
r. r. Robson of Boston is threaten.
ed with a coat of tar and feathers I'M
less he removes a tent from the
grounds of one of his cottages at Ma
haDt
At New Ulm Mrs. Tanke confessed
murder in the second degree i'll killing
her husband. She is sentenced to life
Imprisonment and her husband tC
hang.
A fight between Hill aud Cleveland
democrats is expected over the ap
pointment of a state chairman tC