Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Citizens OF Alexis. H., attempted to
blow mp an Illegal whisky joint with
dynamite and shook the whole town.
The packing house of the Sioux City
Stockyards company is said to be haunt
ed by a ghostly pig-sticker nine feet tall.
John E. Redmond, NJ. p for Wa
terford City, Ireland, and leader of the
independent section of the Irish party, is
in New York to lecture.
Frank Tierney, who was to have
been hanged in Sandusky. o., today for
numbering William Hupman, has been
respited for twenty days by Gov. Bush
nell.
drew Carnegie for the construction of Il
big ore and coal loading plant at Con-
neaut, o., and extensive docks will also
be built there.
President Cleveland spoke at q Re-
publican banquet in Boston and was
heartily cheered.
The annual meeting of the Golden
club took place III London, Lord Farrer
of Abinger presiding.
.--Slattery, the ex-priest lectured in
New York and it took twenty police to
save him from mob after the lecture.
"A committee of the State Firemen's
association is in session at Monmouth,
Ill., engaged in revising the constitution
and bylaws.
The FIVE persons charged with the
murder of Baroness de Valley, an aged
and eccentric miser last June, were
found guilty in Paris.
Miss Cora L. Turner of Cincinnati
has invented and patented a boiler es-
pecially adapted for securing great econ
omy in storage for fuel.
Fred Beaker, an aged and wealthy
resident of Pana, ILL.,. created a sensation
by becoming suddenly insane and throw
ing money on the street.
AT St Bede's college in Peru, ILL.,,
Very Rev. Canon Moynihan's golden ju-
bilee was celebrated by the Roman Cath
Ollie clergy of the Peoria diocese
w. o. Chapman and J. M. Ashton
of Tacoma have filed claims aggregating
$40 900 against the Northern Pacific
Railway company for wages as counsels.
1t is said that Archbishop Ireland
will soon receive a letter of instruction
from the vatican cautiOning him to
maintain reserve in political matters.
Judge Neeley of Chicago has decided
that the JOhnstoWn flood was an act of
God and the railroad companies cannot
be made to pay for baggage lost in the
disaster.
George E. Ross. for several years
money clerk at the Kansas City Union
depot Office of the Pacific Express COM
pany, has been mysteriously missing
since Sunday.
Five hundred employees of a ware
house company in Bremen have gone on
a strike. The strikers demand 80
marks per day instead of marks they
have been receiving.
Consul Weisike reports from Mana
geta, Nicaragua, to the state department
that the duty on lard has been suspended
for six months, thus opening a market
for the American product.
Gen. E. E. Bradley has been noni-
mated for mayor of New Haven, Conn,
by the Gold Standard Democrats and
the Republican nominees for auditor and
city clerk were endorsed.
The commissioner of patents has is
sued an order directing that any person
disbarred from practice before the patent
office by order of the commissioner be de-
MED access to the files of the Office.
Cecilia Smith, daughter of United
States Senator James Smith, Jr., was
married 10 Peter Hack, Jr., son of the
millionaire brewer of Harrison, n. j.
A discovery has been made that the
walls Of old Trinity church, New York,
are sinking in the sand, and the best en-
gineering skill in the city has been Sc
cured to make the old structure safe.
"A petition was presented to the city
council of Clinton, Ia, containing over
1900 names, asking that a curfeW law be
passed prohibiting children under 10 from
being on the streets from p. M. to
a. M.
Mr.. Hess, proprietor of the johann
nesburg Critic has received a cable dis
patch in London saying that. the whole
staff Of the paper has been arrested by
the Boer authorities under the provi-
sions of the new press law.
Albert E. Holimbaugh, the Indiana
forger has been sentenced to two years
at Michigan City.
-Hy Sidney Wallace, the bigamist and
burglar, broke Jail at Sandusky, o., and
has not been captured.