Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-03-06

the city Baltimore is without oysters
during the season on account of the
freeze.
The vast irrigation system, with the
Snake river as it's basis, opened, and
will reclaim 271,0OO arid acres in
Idaho.
The Missouri house offers reward
of 81 900 for the person who stole the
anti-betting bill, and takes up a sub
stitute.
Discomfort among employees OF the
Panama canal is the burden of a let
ter received by the commission from
Governor Davis.
The Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad announced an increase In
firemen's wages of from to 20 cents
per 100-mile run.
Porto Rico is agitated by an effort
to change the country's coat OF arms
from the American symbols to the for
mer ones of Spain.
Receiver w. T. English of the East
End Savings bank of Columbus, o..
says that the bank will pay depositors
about so cents on the dollar
Henry Phipps bought plot of land
in New York City for the first group
of his model tenements, on which he
proposes to expend $1,000,O00.
At Carroll, Iowa, Addins Lyman, a
17-year-old boy, was found dead on the
Chicago and Northwestern railway
tracks, with bullet in his brain.
Letters from the interior of Russia
to settlers in South Dakota tell of
famine and dire distress brought on
by the war and failure of crops.
While playing with a supposed un-
loaded gun, Miss Bessie Irby Of Ard
more, I. t., accidentally shot and kill
ed Clarence Morgan, her sweetheart.
Elaborate plans for the Inauguration
Of President Roosevelt and Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks, eclipse all former
ceremonies of the kind in brilliancy.
Thirteen persons were killed and
nearly fifty injured by the collapse of
the flooring in the Fleet Street African
Methodist Episcopal church in Brook
lyn.
At Crown Point, Ind, Judge Mahan
overruled a motion for new trial and
sentenced Ed Donahue to be hanged
June 9 for the murder of A N. North
rup.
The Illinois Central will rebuild the
burned docks and terminals in New
Orleans on larger scale. Estimates OF
the fire loss vary from $4,000, 900 to
$4,000 900.
A general strike of the smelter en-
ployes Of British Columbia has been
declared as a result of the defeat OF
the eight-hour bill in the British Col
umbia legislature.
The total loss of life in the anthra-
cite coal mines of Lackawanna
county, Pennsylvania, in 1904, was 1877,
against 121 in 1908, when the output
was much larger.
Ninety-two bodies had been re-
covered from the Virginia mines at
Birmingham, Ala, and the rescuers
estimate that at least rs more are
still in the mines.
Richard Croker in sailing from New
York announced that he never will live
in England again, but will make his
home in Ireland, with occasional visits
to the United States.
Fire in Hot Springs, Ark, caused the
death of five persons and property
loss of $1,0O0,00O. Two thousand per-
sons were homeless. The fashion
able hotel section escaped
Judge Joseph L. Andara of Vene-
zueia arrives in New York City on his
way to Washington to- ask the United
States not to interfere in revolution
Castro.
Charles Kratz, former member of the
st. Louis city council, who is on trial
at Butler Mo-, on bribe charge.
denied the allegations made against
him in connection with the 10000
Doodle fund
Mrs Chadwick refuses to answer any
questions in a hearing before a referee
in bankruptcy in Cleveland on the
ground that her testimony might aid
the prosecution in the criminal cases
against her.
ligion and baseball mix splendidly.
and backed by James J. Corbett, the
pugilist, will not only manage the To-
cal baseball team, but will favor Sun
day games.
A German society III Milwaukee sent
a warning to the fatherland declaring
that of foreigners only laborers have a
chance for success in this country, and
that professional and business men
would better stay away.
At Detroit Floyd S. Harper was
found guilty of killing Patrolman John
Daley, who had caught him burglariz-
ing store. William q. Harper, a
brother, is under arrest on the charge
of completely in the murder.
Robert Sheasley, a laborer, has re-
tanned attorneys to further his claims
as an heir to the estate of William
Rice, the New York millionaire, for