Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-11-22

Gen. Lee sailed for Cuba to resume
his duties as consul-genersl at Ha-
vana. He left his family behind, and
in a talk with friend expressed
rather gloomy views Of the Cuban sit
uation.
Robert Delahay Of Kansas City,
travelling auditor of the Rock Island
railroad, died suddenly at S. Contre,
Kas., from hemorrhage Of the stomach.
He was "a brother-in-law Of Ex-Gover-
nor Thomas A. Osborne
Grand Rapids capitalists are to de-
velop the pearl fishing industry in
southern Michigan and employ several
hundred men gathering mussel shells,
in which some valuable pearls have
been secured this season.
Within the past few months several
hundred appointments have been made
on the New York police force from
the civil service list, leaving only two
men to be selected to make up the
city's complement Of 5000 policemen.
! General Master Workman James r.
Sovereign, in his annual address to the
general assembly Of the Labor, in ses-
sion at Louisville, denounced court
,iniuDctions. He declined reelection
and will stand for the presidency III
1900.
George Dobbs and Mrs. Joseph New
are under arrest at Eureka, Kan,
charged with having murdered Mrs.
News husband. The crime was COM
mitted October 81, at the home OF the
murdered man in Otter Creek town
ship.
The large pavilion and dance hall
at Willow Dale, a summer resort five
miles from Lowell, was burned fiat,
together with a small steam launch
which was propped up alongside the
buildings. The loss is $1,000; insured
for $500
2. X. Drummond, one of the best
known practitioners in the country, is
in iail at Chillicothe, Ohio, having con-
fessed to having assisted in stealing
the body of Charlton w. Kelley from
cemetery The body was secured by
mistake for another.
Robert T. Lincoln has become di-
rector and practical president of thC
Pullman company. He refuses to for
give his daughter for her marriage
with Warren w. BeckWith OF Mt
Pleasant, Iowa. The couple were mar
ried in Milwaukee.
Chief Hazen of the secret service
l,,,roo,, DUo cJ,i identified
Albert Thomas recently arrested at
New Bedford, Mass, for passing raised
United States notes, as Albert Lint
ner, said to be a noted burglar and
confidence man of Indianapolis.
The Government printing Office has
just issued valuable publication en-
titled History of the Currency of the
Country and of the Loans of the
United States from the Earliest Period
to June 80, 1896, compiled and pre-
pared by Major W. F. de knight.
Two weeks age Lynn Taylor came to
Cynthiana, KY. instead Of appearing
at the side Of Miss Maria Burns on
the evening he was to make her his
bride. The girl took the matter so
seriously that she committed suicide.
Later Lynn Taylor took his own
life from remorse.
Charles A. Buddensiek of New York,
who was sent to prison owing to the
collapse of a fimsy row of tenement
houses he built in New York, has begun
suit against julius Lipman, his coun-
sci, to recover lands and property he
transferred to Lipman when he went
to serve his sentence.
While watching the Pawnee Bill
company load their stock at Girard-
vile Station, Pa, Enoch Davis, 10,
Henry Jones, 81, Edward Davis, %,
and Frank Grady "a, were struck by
an engine. Enoch Davis and Jones
were killed. Edward Davis and Grady
were seriously injured.
Mrs. Augusta Mack was the princi
pal witness in the trial at Long Is
land City of Martin Thorn, accused of
numbering VIM. Guldersuppe and cut
ting up his body. She confessed that
she lured Guldersuppe to a cottage at
Woodside, l.. l., where, according 20
her testimony, Thorn shot him and
dismembered his body. A juror fell
i'll. The trial will be resumed Nov. ~.