Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-07-18

at any moment
Floods in Kansas have driven more
than 10000 persons from their homes
and the suffering is great.
Scores of soldiers deserted from Fort
Sheridan. M. The object OF some is
10 fight for the Japanese.
Miss Julia Bovine. who elOped with
Rev. J. F. COrdova from South River,
y. J.. in May, returned home.
Henry Jost, aged SO, was burned to
death in a fire. which destroyed his
farm residence in Mequon, Wis.
Irrigation work in Montana is ex-
pected TO make that state the leading
agricultural region of the west.
A tornado blew a train from a bridge
at Petersburg. III. One person was re-
ported killed and a score injured.
Haley Gipe was arrested. suspected
of having murdered Mrs. William M.
Starbuch and child near Greensboro,
Ind.
Loss to the farmers of Iowa because
OF a lack of proper drainage is es-
t'mated each year to exceed 100000
600.
Fifteen persons were killed and fifty
injured in a collision between an Erie
passenger and excursion trains at Mid
vale. n. J
Several persons were killed and con
siderable damage done by a thunder
storm that swept st. Louis and the
southern mart of Ulinois
At Quincy. III, Chokeree Alegee
NathOO. a travelling conjurer from
India. and Miss Hattie May Goddiag Of
Madison. Wis, were married.
Andrew Cuneo. a wealthy Chicago
Italian, was shot. perhaps fatally, by
Tony Cresicio. an old acquaintance.
Trade jealousy was the cause.
Webster City. Iowa, the center Of
the municipal ownership idea, will
start a daily newspaper as the result
OF fight over a gas franchise.
Consul Gottschalk at Callao has re-
ported TO the state department by
cable that cholera has broken out at
a Peruvian coast town.
Miss Bertha Dolbeer. % years old,
daughter OF the late millionaire of San
committed suicide by jump
ing from the ninth floor Of a New York
hotel.
The wife and child OF Harmon
a farmer near Chaplin, Ill, were
drowned in a cistern. The mother
lost her l:fe while trying to save the
child.
William B. Childers. United States
district attorney for New Mexico. has
been called upon for an explanation
81 his conduct by the department or
Justice
Dr Thomas Herran. formerly charge
i'affaires at Washington for the United
States of Columbia. Is reported 10 DO
IN from tuberculosis at
-ibert. " Y
President Roosevelt has approved |
he recommendation of the naval re-
.iring board that Lieutenants Ford II. |
5rown and Lay Fl. Everhart of the
iavy be retired.
Marblehead Ohio was wrecked and |
possibly a hundred persons injured by
ne explosion of a magazine contain !
ng Inventive tons of dynamite and |
700 kegs Of powder.
III. Poole and six other men were
,illed by the premature explosion of
charge of dynamite on the new
Canadian Pacific Sudbury-Toronto line
lear Romford. Ont
Announcement is made of the en-
.agement Of Miss Cecilia TObin and
,harles w. Clark. son Of Senator Clark
# Montana Mr.. Clark's first wife
led a few months ago.
At Bonneville. Ind. Charles and |
Stella F'ulk, aged ! and II years. chill
iren of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fulk, ate
at poison which had been spread with
,utter on bread and died.
Senator w. a Clark of Montana
made public the announcement that he
lad married his ward, Miss Anna z.
"A Chappelle. in France in May, 1901. !
rhey have a 2-year-Old child.
Alexander c. Hitch of Blandinsville
md Miss Ada Lee Hotel. daughter Of
Judge John Hottel OF Canton, Mo,
we're drowned while attempting 10 |
ross a creek in a buggy south of Can
on.
Miss Emma Patrick of Austin, Tex, |
Who is in charge of the Texas mining
exhibit at the worlds fair, has been
appointed first vice president OF the
Mining Exhibit superintendent asso-
.iatiOn.
At indianapolis Michael Kane, a
Traction conductor, shot |
md fatally injured his wife and then
,ent a bullet into his own body, making |
! wound that may cause his death. |
Kane was jealous.
Santos Dnmou. the aeronaut sail
"a for Havre. He took with him the
silk covering Of his airship. which was
damaged recently at ST. Louis. He
aid he would return TO take part IN
he aerial contest at St. Louis In
october