Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.


ambassador. was presented 70 Presi-
lent Roosevelt at oyster bay.
President Burt emphaticaIly denies
that Governor Odell of New York is TO
become head OF the Union Pacific.
The independent long-distance tele-
phone system of Texas has passed
into the hands q II. r. Huntington.
10 is reported that there are fifty
cases OF diphtheria among the sailors
at HarbOr island. of Newport. r. l.
The refunding Of government bonds
which ended has resulted in a saving
OF between S5.OOO.0OO and s6,00O,OOO
A probate judge at St Paul at
tributes the decrease in insanity cases
there 20 the establishment Of public
baths.
A crusade against fruit dealers who
sell baskets stuffed with paper and
dishonest wagon peddlers was begun
in Chicago.
Judson G.. BuusOn, a smuggler OF
Havana cigars into the United States,
has Implicated seventeen others by
his confessions.
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--avannah. Ca, are implicated in a
cigar smuggling plot by the confes-
sion OF JuisOn c. BrinsOn.
J. Whitaker Wright. the crooked
london promoter. sailed for Liverpool
IN charge OF J. W. Mills and II. R.
Phillips. London detectives.
Miss Berdie AarCns, while standing
on the steps Of the home OF a neigh
Dor. was killed by a stone which fell
from the coping OF the house.
Three persons were killed and many
hurt by the collapse OF the bridge at
Portland. ore. while a crowd was
watching an armless man swim.
The Hartford City Und.l jail was
stCrmed Ly q mob CT 500 men in an
effort To lynch two negroes for ar
alleged attack on a farmers son.
AT Philadelphia a loss of 100000
was caused by a fire. which damaged
a four-stOry building occupied by the
Atlantic * Pacific Tea company.
Alfred Blon OF rs Elm street. Chi
caso. was robbed OF $3.50 in the ST.
James hotel az Minneapolis. Thieves
entered the room while BlCn slept.
While attending a dance at Newton.
Wis. Mrs. Albert Mueller fell dead
on the floor. She was 45 years of age
and the mother of four children.
Two large producing furnaces in the
PittsbuTg district have advanced the
price OF iron - cents q ton and are
now selling above quoted figures.
-
negro. at Albany IN. " was pre-
vented by the police after a riot, in
which stones and bricks were thrown
Sixteen persons. including six from
Chicago. were injured at Hartford
City. Ind. in a collision between the
Panhandle freight and passenger
trains.
Arvid ROdelius. 1912 North Haisted
street, Chicago. and three other chill.
jren were drowned at Moline. IL. by
the Capsizing % a skin in the Mis-
sissippI.
The California prune crop for 1908
Is only twO-thirds that OF last year. or
l33000.000 pounds. OregCn's ship
mGrJ viii be 1000 cars. against 500
last year.
Three wives and thirteen children
are charged 10 Baldwin F. Strauss. a
weIlknOwn lawyer and politician OF
Brooklyn, who disappeared a short
time ago.
Representative Bankhead, who has
returned to the capital. says Senator
German will be satisfactory to south
.HamnWawmHm -
nominee.
Nine persons were indicted By the
federal grand jury for postal frauds.
August W. Machen, named in four OF
the bills. was required to give ad-
ditiOnal bonds.
John r. Rockefeller closed the
Wetdell house at Cleveland because
a barrOOm was conducted there and
he VIII not allow a saloon on any
property he owns.
ImpOTtatiOns Of iron and steel into
the United States during the fiscal
year ending June 80 exceed all
previous years since 1891. the total
value being S51,617.3I2.
Curtis Jett testified In his own de-
tense in the J. b. Marcum murder
trial at Cynthiana. Ky. The killing
was denied and his friendliness for
-Mscum was recOunted.
The famous sacred jeweled tree OF
the Chinese imperial family is said to
be I'm Boston. Excitement among
chinese officials was caused by its dis
appearance prior 20 he outbreak.
The firm OF Streeter & Lusk. Chi
CagO and Denver contractors, has been
awarded the contract for constructing
the new MOffet railroad that is TO be
built from Denver to Salt Lake City.
StTyChnine was found in the
stomach OF 6-year-Old Ewart Checks.
field. who died mysteriOusly at Bunker
Hill. H.. and Ii is thought he was
poisoned by a woman who gave him
candy.
Herbert Knox Smith has been ap.
pointed deputy commissioner of cor.