Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-10

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Miss Julia Marlowe and Miss Ada
Rehan one at the Knickerbocker and
the other at Daly's, each playing
! Rosa5ind in AS You Like IT. are rival
stars in opposition in New York.
Nearly ten years ago the same actress
es were playing Rosalind simultane-
ously at rival theaters in the same
city.
The holiday festivities at San An
tonic closed with a bull fghs. at
which all the bull fighters we're wo-
men. Miss Igneacia Fernandez, one of
the most daring fighters, was caught
on the horns of one of the ferocious
animals and carried around the ring
several times before she could be
rescued from her dangerous position.
Six bulls were killed.
Captain Rich, formerly chief engi-
neer of the Wisconsin Central and
| later connected in the same capacity
ON the 500 line, has been appointed
director general of railways in China.
He has spent the most of the past
year in China, and while there made
a survey through 700 miles of the in
! terror of that country for a railroad
from HankOw.
Clerks in the sixth auditors office,
Washington, now must take a number
and turn the corresponding key in the
corresponding hole of the mechanism,
thus recording the Gin time. On go
| ing away in the evening each employe
! has to let himself out by a similar
recording movement upon the out
board. The system will be extended
| to- the other departments.
Mayor Van Wyck's message (greater
! New York;, advises economy and he
says office holders must do their duty.
The figures indicated a net funded
debt of the entire city of 1927, 453 500,
and an assessed valuation of real es-
tate of the entire city of So, 464, 763 1872
tate of the entire city of So, 464, 1853 1872.
There is, therefore" the mayor said,
''an apparent margin within the con-
stitutional limit of further indebted
ness of about $19,000,000'
| Colonel William r. MORRISON is no
longer a member of the interstate
commerce commission His time ex-
pired with the year 1897, and he has
gone to his old home at Waterloo, I'll .
| Colonel Morrison was chairman of the
/, commission. Until week ago it was
! believed that Judge Paxson, of Penn
J sylvania, would be his successor, but
the opposition of labor. organizations
l - f.. "a
/ place is believed to have Influenced
! the president to look further west for
commissioner.
Augustus Fragin, a well-educated
Italian of Portland, Me-, renowned the
! Catholic faith, and was admitted to
Jewish communion. An enormous
crowd was present. Fragin has been
studying the Hebrew faith four years
! The name of the new Hebrew was
changed from Augustus to Abraham.
. tana territory, after being dead for
! 70 years, is rapidly reyivng through
the enterprise of Chicago men. H. j.
Reiling, of Chicago, conceived the idea
of working the bed of GrasshOpper
creek with a floating dredge. The
dredge is worked by electrical power.
| One rum alone melted the company
$1,000 in "a hours. The ground and
dredge cost 100000.
At the twenty first convocation of
the university of Chicago at the Audi
torium President Harper announced a
gift of 5000, 900 by John Rockefeller to
enable the university to swell it's in
come for the year beginning July 1,
1898, to- $4,000, the sum needed to
carry out it's work as planned. Coupled
with the announcement was an init
nation that the founder of the un1ver-
sity and others interested might event
ually give the 100000 which would
be required to yield an annual income
to cover this deficiency. There was an
address by Comptroller James H
Eckels. The subject was Public
leadership and the speaker deplored
partisan loyalty, exalted the "ildepen-
dent VOTE" and indirectly lauded ex-
President Cleveland as the personifica-
ton of all that is great and good.
Mrs. Ellen H. Simpson, the widow ot
great Methodist, Bishop Simpson, diec
in Philadelphia. She was the presi,
dent of the Methodist Episcopal
orphanage, and also the Home for the
Aged. She organized the Woman's
association of the Methodist hospital
and was it's first president. In 1876
during the national centennial, Mrs
Simpson was one of the women selected
by the commission to represent one OF
the thirteen original colonies. She
started the Silk Culture association
and the Western Temporary home
West Philadelphia. She was connect
ed with the Indian association and the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
She was also a trustee of the Ameri-
can university, Washington; one Cd
the directors of the Museum of Art
vice president of the Home anG
Foreign Missionary societies of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and g
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