Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-03-29
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The members of the Mississippi
river commission set out from St. Louis
for New Orleans on board the govern
ment boat Mississippi to inspect the gov
eminent work from Cairo to New Or
leans.
Judge w w Wood of the Johnson
(kas) county circuit court has decided
that the Sedalia school district must pay
$50, 900 to the holders of school bonds.
issued in 1883 and fraudulently sold to
Eastern people.
Application has been made for the
appointment Of a receiver for the Pitts
burg (Pa.) Provision company. The con-
Germ has capital of S25O.000. and it is
alleged that its affairs have been mis-
managed.
The residence of Jacob AIDE, fifteen
miles from Nashville, Tenn, was
burned. The bodies of Jacob AIDE, Mrs.
Ade Lizzie AIDE, aged 20 years, their
daughter, and Rosa Morirer, aged 10
years, who was visiting the family were
found in the ruins of the building.
Articles of Incorporation were grant
ed in New Jersey to the Composite Type
bar company, with an authorized capital
of S10,O00,000. The company is to man
ufacture machinery and objects used in
the art Of printing.
The crew of the scurvy stricken ship
Z. f. Cakes has been notified that it will
States shipping commissioner in New
York city Eleven of the men are recov-
ering slowly in the marine hospital on
Staten island.
L. E. Booker, ex-state treasurer and
president of the Grand Forks On. d.
National bank, and H. f. Salyards
president of the First National bank of
Minot, have been indicted by the federal
grand jury for illegal banking methods.
Both men have been arrested.
The sinking fund commission Of New
York city has granted tract of land III
the southern part of Bronx park as Il
site for a new geological garden. The
grant calls for POI acres and there the
New York Geological society proposes
to found the biggest and best 200" in
the world.
The board of trustees of the Catholic
Mutual Benefit association concluded it's
meeting at Buffalo. The annual report
shows that the total receipts for the year
aggregated $749,3 disbursements,
81, 1896, $5973. The addition to the re-
serve fund during the last year was $46,-
459, making the total fund at the end of
the year 1921 $50.
The lumbermen of San Francisco are
again trying to organize trust with the
hope of raising the price of lumber from
81 to Sc thousand.
packing house in Kansas City, Mo-, Civ
ing employment to at least 100 men. The
force will be gradually increased to 250.
The New York court of appeals has
denied the application of Union college
for reargument in the Fayerweather
will case, decided about two months ago.
The disabled steamer Orthia, from
Glasgow for Baltimore, was towed into
Halifax by the Indralema, from Newport
News for Dublin. The Orthia's shaft lis
broken.
The Rocky Mountain News has
moved into it's new home in Denver and
now has the largest and finest quarters
of any newspaper between the MISSISSIPPI
ri river and the coast.
Information from Meridian, Tex, is
that j. r. Blanther alias A. 3. Forbes,
the man arrested at that place as the sup
posed San Francisco woman murderer,
and who took morphine with suicidal in
tent, is slowly but surely recovering.
"A bill for a receiver for the Christie
pher Columbus Building association was
filed at Chicago by President Julius
Brieske. The bill charges David j.
Sachsel, secretary, and Karl Kroenenber-
ger, treasurer, with being short in their
accounts and places the shortage at $780,
600