Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-12-06

a member of the committee on civil
service, says there is demand for
{ some important notifications Of the
/ system.
p. A. B. Wildener of Philadelphia
will give that city his collection OF
American art, together with his hand
some residence for use as a free IL
brary branch.
The trustees of the First Unitarian
church of Oakland, CAL, have invited
Rev. Theodore G. Williams, OF New
York, to occupy the pulpit of that
church for six months.
The Excelsior Brewing company,
at Chicago. was closed on confession
of Judgment for $6,393 in favor OF
Edward O. Gunderson. Assets, $780,
600; liabilities half that amount.
Detective Deveraux of Chicago Las
gone to Montreal for the purpose OF
obtaining the extradition Of Fortier.
/ accused of embezzling $4,000 from
Shaw, Mccoy & Co., of Chicago.
The widow Of Arthur Forbes. alias
Blanther, a Texas suicide, says she is
sure her husband committed the muir
der of which Theodore Durrant has
been convicted in San Francisco.
Attorney E. j. Toban, who was
being brought to Chicago for trial on
a charge of conspiracy to defraud,
leaped from a passenger train near
Logansport, Ind, and escaped. Y
Rev. Theodore F. Clifton has re-
signed the pastorate of Trinity Con-
/ EDUCATIONAL church. in Chicago, to be-
come western secretary of the Con-
gregatioral Educational society.
| An airship, in which it is proposed
| to make trip to the Klondike region,
| is being constructed by the Atlantic
and Pacific Aerial navigation corl-
pany.
Aretas Blood, ONE of the foremost
| manufacturers of New hampshire, is
dead, aged 81 years. FIR. Blood was
owner of the cotton mills at Columbia,
S. c.
William j. Bryan has given to the
Missouri state university $3.50, which
| is to be annually used in awarding a
prize lOI LILO U0SG essay I'll OAO 0oIOAASo
of government.
A fire at Temerkat, suburb OF Oak
land, Cal, completely destroyed
the church and school OF the
Sacred Heart, the clergy house and all
the adjoining buildings.
X. II. Rochester, treasurer of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
died suddenly In Englewood, N. j.,
from heart disease. He was 46 years
old.
/ It is reported that Congressman
/ Quigg, president of the republican
county committee, will be one OF the
police commissioners of greater New
YORK.
The marriage of Miss Aline O'Don-
nell of Baltimore to Viscount Sayfe
Of Paris has, been indefinitely post
poned on account of the illness Of the
young lady.
1t is reported that the verdict OF the
court-martial at Fort Sheridan, Chi
cago, which has been trying Capt.
Leonard A. Lowering, is that the cap
tain be reprimanded for lll-treating
| Private Charles Hammond.
!! The Blacklisted Association OF
America has been organized to raise
funds to prosecute the cases of men
| who are refused work because they
| cannot show clearance from their
last employer.
Colonel George Butte, prominent
mining man of Telluride, Col, is
missing and his friends believe he was
murdered, as he had large sum OF
money when he left that camp.
A prairie fire is sweeping over the
country south of Clayton, N. M. The
course Of the fire is through the great
cattle range belt and for over 200
miles there is no barrier in it's path.
Thousands of sheep are in danger.
Madison c.. Stookey, of Belleyllle,
ILL.,. Deputy district internal revenue
collector and one of the best-knoWn
men in southern Illinois, was found
dead under trestle, mile beyond
| Columbia, Ill.
Canada's postmaster general an
nounces that after Jan. l the rate OF
postage on letters from Canada to all
parts of the British Empire Will be
reduced to cents an ounce.
The prosecution in the trial OF Mar
tin Thorn, on the charge Of numbering
William Guldensuppe, rested its case
without having called Mrs. Augusta
Mack to the witness-stand.
Sheriff Lamy has seized the plant OF
the Martin Gibson Manufacturing
company on an execution secured by
the Peoples bank on a note for S5,53o
The plant is one of the largest de-
voted to bicycle making in Buffalo
The United States consul at Wood
stock, New Brunswick. reports that
since the Dingley tariff went into Ell
feet trade relations between that part
of Canada and the United States have
been at standStill.
Con ornssman DOlliVer of Iowa,