Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-06-30
DOMESTIC

President Roosevelt has signed the
Irrigation bill.
At Toronto, Ont, the street car mer
went on a strike.
The strike of Pullman car cleaners
in Chicago is likely to spread.
DR.. CHARLES w. Needham was elected
president of Columbia university.
Corn caused an exciting days trad
ing in the Chicago board of trade.
A. B. Stoler, a welEknown resident
OF Wayne boro, Pa, committed
suicide.
Railroad companies fear a general
miners strike and have begun cor
fscating coal.
Mrs. Milton w. Kirk was granted a
divorce and 100000 gross alimony DIV
Judge Bishop of Chicago.
Booth Harrington, the author, was
married to Miss Laurel Louisa
Fletcher in Indianapolis
Dr.. harrison Randolph, formerly of
Virginia, was elected president of
the University of Arkansas.
The national convention Junior
Order OF United American Mechanl Is
at Milwaukee elected officers.
Part Of mixed train fell through
8 trestle near Shelby, n. c., killing
one pc. son and injuring dozen.
A mob at Paterson, n. j., cIos2
every silk mill there, after conflicts
in which many shots were fred
The collapse of a hotel building AT
Dallas, Tex, buried thirteen guests IN
the ruins, but no one was killed.
Heavy frosts were experienced
1-roughOut Iowa section but no serious
damage to crops has been reported.
Dun &c Co.'s weekly trade review re-
ported the anthracite coal strike was
beginning to make itself felt on trade.
Five great lakes freight steamers,
costing $1,300,000, are contracted for
by United States Transportation com
pany.
Mr.. Herman S. Herring, of BaltI-
more, was elected first reader of the
Mother Church of Christian Science
in Boston.
The berry crop in Kenosha county
is almost a failure. The crops Of hay
oats and corn promise to be record
breakers.
Henry Cabot Lodge warned against
the popular election of United States
senators in his address to the Yale
law class.
The western immigration bureau
may break up through failure to settle
the Rock Island and Southern Paciflc
differences.
At Chickamagua battlefield, the
Maryland commission selected a site
on Orchard Knob for the states
monument
Virginia, North Carolina and
Georgia bankers, in session at
Savannah, refused to indorse the
Fowler bill
Joseph Wharton gave 100000 more
to the endowment of the Wharton
School of Finance of the University
of Pennsylvania.
DR.. Albert A. Ames, mayor of Miu-
neapolis, pleaded not guilty in court
to the Indictment charging him with
attempted bribery.
The bicycle races which were to
open the racing season at the Man
haitian beach track have been post
pOned until July 5.
Chicago city railway employees win
demand a wage increase of so per
cent. for electric and 20 per cent. TOR
State street cable.
Prof. John B. Johnson, dean of Wis
consin university engineering school,
vas killed at Pine Grove, Mich, by a
wagon running over him.
Six persons were killed and twenty
nine hurt in head end collision of pas
senger trains on Northern Pacific rail-
road at Staples, Mimi.
Governor Aycock has offered re-
wards aggregating 100000 for the con-
viction of men who lynched negro az
Salisbury, North Carolina.
Estes G.. Rathbone, pardoned after
conviction Of Cuban postal frauds,
reached New York from Havana; be