Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-11-29

/ the act creating the state railway COM
mission declared unconstitutional
A jury at Minneapolis found Alder
man George A., Durham guilty of So
| Letting a bride of $4,000. He was
sentenced to prison for 61s years.
Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, the son of a
prominent Methodist Episcopal minis
ter of Baltimore, was installed pastor
of ALI Souls Unitarian church, New
| York.
A confession that may prove Drey-
| fus innocent was made by an Alsatian
officer, it is said, an alleged accomplish
of Count Esterhazy in selling French
army secrets to Germany.
Upon the appeal of Richard Croker,
the Tammany society subscribed $780,
900 for the starving people Of Cuba
and like sum for the poor of New
York.
Professor Jordan and Secretary
| Clarke of the seal commission have
! left Washington on their return to
their homes, having completed their
| work.
| Standard Oil people pushed through
| the big deal by which the CONSOLIDATE
! ed company will control the gas for
greater New York, having only one
weak competitor.
| The Sam Fine company at Cincin
natl, Ohio, was placed in the hands of
Sam Fine and Harry Mack as receiv-
ers. Liabilities, $4,000 to 100000; as
sets SIS, 900 to 100000.
The appellate division of the supreme
court of New York has given deci-
sion upholding the labor union rate
| Of wages for state and municipal en-
ployes.
The trustees of Mount Holyoke col
lege have received from Queen Vic
toria a reply TO a message of congratu-
lation sent to her on the occasion of
Ler diamond jubilee.
Senator Morgan of Alabama, who
has just returned from Honolulu, is
more than ever convinced of the de,
STABILITY Of the annexation of Hawaii
to the United States.
Two children Wer murdered at
Oconomowoc, Wis, and their father
was found with his throat cut. He is
thought to have committed the deed
because of domestic troubles.
J. R. McMurren has brought suit in
New York against Edwin Barbour
formerly of Virginia, a stock broker,
for $4,000 profits from a speculation.
in Poll Tnl0nh0na stock
Senator Elkins will make strong
fight for his bill imposing discrim-
i1ating duty of 10 per cent. ON foreign
goods brought into the United States
over the Canadian Pacific railroad,
The directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern Railway company
met in Cincinnati and reelected Pres
ldent E. R. Bacon A deficit of $685.
345 for the last fiscal year was report
ed
Joseph Kreig died from yellow fever
at Fort Banancas, eight miles from
Pensacola, Fla. This is the second
death from the disease that has oc-
Cured in that vicinity within the last
ten days.
George w. Ward, a youth, who
comes from a good Virginia family,
was committed to New York hos
pital for examination as to his sanity
on complaint of ex-Congressman John
S. Wise of Virginia.
In the orphans court of Washing
ton, Mrs John A. Logan was appoint
ed guardian of Miss Evangelina CHS
neros, who was rescued from a Cuban
prison She will be educated in Wash
ington.
All the information reaching Wash
ington is that the movement for a.
change in the control of the Catholic
University has not been carried out,
and that it is not likely to be carried
out.
The adjutant general of the army
Las been informed of the death of
Lieut.. A. B. Jackson, ninth cavalry,
at Lincoln, Neb., following an opera
ton for appendicitis.
Chauncey M. Depew, who was elect
| ed president of the Republican club of
New York, said that his name was
used without authority and that he
would not accept the position
Martin Bartholomy and George
| Roehl were fatally injured and Robert
Loren was severely beaten as the re-
suit of an attack of 20 masked men on
the night shift of miners at the Kolb
! coal pit near Mascoutah, Ill.
Fred r. Ketcham, who took part in
the great railway strike of 1894 at
Chicago, was awarded $21, 666 in a
damage suit in that city against the
Northwestern Railroad company,
which, he said, blacklisted him.
Lieutenant Ellsworth Brice Bertholf
Of the United States revenue cutter
i service, who will command the over
lend expedition for the relief of the
whalers imprisoned in the mountains
OF ice in the Arctic seas, has arrived
in Chicapn