Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-12-13

to the penitentiary for embezzlement.
Martin Thorn was sentenced in New
York to be electrocuted in the week
beginning January 10, 1898, for the
murder of William Guldensuppe.
The sum of $4,000 was collected at
the salvation army congress in New
York to aid in establishing colony OF
poor families in the Southwest.
George Washington Kavanaugh,
member of the New York assembly
from Saratoga county, was married to
Miss Julia Churchill Hickman of Louis
Vile
The president appointed George Har-
ris of Washington to be brigadier gen
eral of the militia of the district OF
Columbia to succeed the late General
OrdWay.
Fire i'm Waupaca damaged the brick
store building owned by W. G. Lord
and occupied by Peter Hoist as
grocery and w. P. Talbot as a notion
store.
Senator Elkins announced that the
reports that he would oppose Attorney
General McKenna's confirmation as
Justice of the supreme court were err
roneous.
The wife of the sheriff in Houlton
Maine, left her husband and children
to elope With tramp prisoner. She
had nursed him through an illness
while in Jail.
The steamer Egyptian, bound from
Cleveland for Milwaukee, with a car
go of coal burned to the waters edge
in Lake Huron off Sturgeon Point.
The crew was rescued.
William Kern has made a confession
at Waterloo, Ia, i'm which he alleges
that he was led by his sweetheart,
Delliah Fales, to assist in the murder
of his father.
Owing to adverse popular feeling, it
is probable that most of the street
railway and gas franchises granted by
New York and Brooklyn aldermen
will fail of final approval.
The secretary of state has issued his
warrant for the surrender to the Ger
man authorities of.George Steinheuer,
who is charged with murder commit
ted in Pingsdorff, Prussia.
Two masked robbers entered the
home of John Hartong, farmer, 80
years old, in Green township, Ohio,
and after torturing him into insensi-
bility, secured $500.
The North Carolina democratic state.
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affirmed the Chicago platform and de-
clared that William J. Bryan lis the
great leader of the party
Philip Hodge, who while fugitive
lives in the flood there, is now on trial
at Valdosta, Ca, on the charge of muir
dering his uncle, Samuel Hodge.
Secretary Gage said that in the an
gress he would name $20,000,000 as
the amount of the treasury deficit for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1898.
A. E. Sibley, a merchant of Sheffield,
Iowa, was shot dead while robbing a
neighboring store. The safe in his
private apartments contained plumber
of every description.
Bishop Capers, of South Carolina,
has fixed December 10 as a day upon
which the Protestant Episcopal clergy
of the state are to preach against the
crime of murder.
The subcommittee of the 1898 Cen
tennial association, under whose aus
pieces the pilgrimage to Ireland next
July will be made, reports 1000 names
of New Workers who will go.
D. N. Dickinson, who professed to
represent medical institution of
Pittsburg, Pa, was convicted in court
at Butte, Mont, of swindling and SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
Adolphus Hadley Sutherland, the
18-year- old youth who shot and killed
Sarah Wren in Brooklyn, March %,
Was sentenced to be electrocuted the
week beginning January 10.
Representative Dingley, the chair
man of the House ways and means
committee, says currency legislation
cannot be expected from the free sill
yer majority in the senate.
Chicago's council has passed the
joint ordinance for elevating twelve
miles of the tracks of the Chicago e
Northwestern and Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway companies at a
cost of S., 100000
Judge E. G. Whiting, ex-state sena-
tor. and one of the pioneers of the
Hawkeye state, is dead at Sioux City
at the age of 76. In 1885 he ran for
governor of Iowa on the democratic
ticket.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern are said to be in the Union
Pacific's combination, which is deter
mined to crowd Huntington to the
wall, and these properties, it is ru-
mored, will be consolidated.
The government having already paid
claims amounting to $2,820,000 for
overtime work by letting carriers and
being liable for nearly S1,000,000 more
a rule has been made laying liable TIC