Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-04-04
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death at Kent, MINI.
| Augustur LAYER, architect, is dead
at his home in Alemeda, CAL
E. D. Fulford won the grand Amer
lean shooting handicap cup.
Rev. DR.. e. H. Emerson is dead al
Salem Mass, at the age Of Is,
Nine shooters divided first money
in the grand American handicap.
w. G. Collins becomes general
manager of the Milwaukee road.
c. B. Wright, ex-president of the
Northern Pacific, died in Philadel-
phia.
| Fire in the Wisconsin industrial
school for boys caused a loss OF
$1OO,O
Both houses Of the Ohio legislature
have passed the 2-cent railroad fare
bills
A fight against the Abbot interests
in the Wisconsin Central was begun
in Milwaukee.
The Iowa republican state commit
tee has decided to hold the next state
convention at Dubuque, Sept. 1.
Chicago's city council has passed a
law limiting "sky scrapers' Or high
buildings to ten stories, or 13O feet.
At Omaha James Williams, wanted
at Springfield, H., for the embezzle
ment of $4,000 has been arrested.
New York theatrical managers are
reviving the project of combining
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Two robbers held UP a train in Cali
fornia, blew up the express car and
drove off with a registered mail pouch.
Joseph Letter and Philip D. Ar
mour, the rival Chicago wheat specu-
lators, are believed to have fixed up
treaty.
Rev. Dr. John Hall, pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
suffering from nervous prostration, is
better.
Commander Eugene D. F. Herald,
U. IS. ~, in command of ships at the
naval academy, died suddenly of
Bright's disease.
At Altoona, Pa, James w. Buchanan,
grand nephew of the late ex-Presi-
dent Buchanan, was run down by Ia
train and killed.
New York's state legislature passed
a primary election law, requiring the
use of regular election machinery in
all large cities.
Thomas E. Watson has declined the
populists nomination for governor OF
Georgia and announces that he is out
of politics for good.
The floods in the Ohio river and
it's many tributaries receded because
rain stopped, but the damage to prop
erty is estimated in the millions.
The secretary of the interior has
sent to the house an estimate calling
for appropriations of over 100000
to meet a deficiency in the pension
funds.
The Louisiana constitutional con-
vention practically adopted a suffrage
article which will limit voters to
$500 of property.
The funeral of the late General
Wheelock G. Veazey, formerly inter
state commerce commissioner and
one Of the heroes Of the late war,
took place in Washington.
Mrs. Jane Winchester, widow of the
founder and proprietor of the Win
chester Repeating Arms Co., is dead.
She was 81 years of age. Her estate
is estimated at $40,0O0,O00.
Councilman Louis J. Walker of
Philadelphia admitted ON the wit
ness stand that he had taken $500 for
a favorable report on an ordinance
leasing the city waterworks.
The Philadelphia council has drop
ped the Investigation of bribing
charges in connection with the pas
sage of the city water lease bill and
the matter is now in the hands of the
district attorney.
A sealing steamer arrived at Bay
de Verde with the bodies of Is of 4S
men who had persisted on ice-dOes
while hunting seals. Fifty-five men
were so badly frost-bitten that they
probably have to have their limbs
amputated.
Miss Christine Bradley, sponsor for
the bAtteship Kentucky, launched at
Newport News, was congratulated by
telegraph by the national w. c. T. U.
on her action in using water to chris
ten the man-Ofwar.
Nine former city officials of Brook
lyn were indicted for corruption and
conspiracy, the amount involved be-
ing about $4,000 Of the city water
departments funds, said to have
been taken by means of fraudulent
contracts.
The suicide of Cashier Hopkins, of
the Peoples Bank, Philadelphia, re-
suited in the banks doors being
closed, and it was learned that with
out authority he had loaned 100000
to the Guarantor's Finance company,
which made an assignment later.
Miss Virgie Frost, twenty years of