Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-12-07
NEWS, OF THE WEEK.

the latest addition to the forces of light
and power manufacturing in st. Louis.
Justice Childs at Buffalo appointed
Henry II. Parsons of East Aurora and
John r. Hazel as receivers for the Bank
of Commerce. A bond of 100000 will
be required from the receivers.
Bound to iron rings anchored in the
walls and Gagged like a wild beast, Grace
Solomon, the daughter of wealthy
pawnbroker of Denver, has raved for the
past seven months in a condition and
under surroundings the most terrible.
BY the arrest Of Charles Rubinsky
at Pottsville, Pa. the federal authori-
ties say they have broken up a daring
gang of sWindlers, who during the past
at many thousands of dollars from mer-
chants of New York, Boston, Chicago,
Philadelphia and other cities.
Mrs. William Aitken and her 10
year-old sister were in q crowd near the
Grand Opera house at Kalamazoo, Mich,
when an unknown young man made an
insulting remark to the girl. Mrs. Ait
ken resented it, and backed her feelings
by her strong right arm, much to the
discontinue of the young man.
jeff Paget, aged % years, and Albert
Ellis, p years, have been arrested at
Kansas City. Mo-. for supposed connec-
ton with the Chicago & Alton robbery
on October %. They were scene shutters
at a local theater. Paget admitted hav-
ing planned to rob the Missouri Pacific
passenger at Leeds with Oscar Bridges,
leader of the electric car robberies.
BY the first of the year every flour
mill in St. Louis will be running full
blast This is the prediction on change.
The United States gunboat Benning-
ton has finished taking on coal at San
Francisco and will sail for Callao in the
wake of the Philadelphia.
Natural gas wrecked the $4,000
vile, ". T. The inmates Of the house
escaped with slight injuries.
The Postal Telegraph-C company
and the Commercial Gable company di-
rectors took action in New York in re-
gard to forming a closer alliance.
The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
has passed resolution petitioning Con-
gress to create new cabinet position,
that of commerce and manufactures
The canals of the state of New York
were officially closed by order of the
superintendent of public works. Active
work on the improvements is to be be-
gun at once.
AT meeting of the Royal society at
London medals were presented to Prof.
Roetgen for his ray discoveries, and to
Prof. Moissan for his discovery OF the
isolation of the element fuorine.
"A dispatch from Rome says that
great sensation has been caused in that
city by the attempted murder of an Eng
fish lady who wrote for the press under
the nom de plume of Comtessa Lara.
Admiral Walker has gone to Port
land, Or. to arrange for the completion
Of lightship No. 81, which was under
construction by John #. Steffen & Co.
of Portland at the time of their failure
some months ago.
Consul Ridgely at Geneva in report
to the state department says there IS
small demand in Geneva for American
tin plate, more especially for the raw ma
terial packed in boxes, also for block
sheets packed in bundles.
Interest in Ohio Southern first mort
gage per cent. bonds has been default
ed at New York Payments of June
coupons have recently been completed.
The default is attributed in part to
strike in the coal regions through Whlc2
the road trayerses.
Oscar Hammerstein, the New York
theatrical manager has made propo-
sition to his creditors, offering to pay his
outstanding indebtedness of $4,000, IN
full with interest during 1887 IN install
ments and to give collateral mortgage
OH all his property as security.
The Postal Telegraph Gable company
announces the completion of it's new com
meeting cable, known as the UNITED
States and Hayti Gable company. This
connection with the Postal company
causes a reduction in rates to points In
the West Indies and South America froga
10 to 30 per cent.