Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-21

managing editor of the Chicago Tri-
bune, has accepted the position of
managing editor of the New York
| World.
Milwaukee democrats made nomi-
nations as follows: For mayor, d. S.
Rose; city comptroller, john R. Wolf;
city treasurer, William BolloW; city
attorney, Carl Runge.
Benjamin R. Willis, the second rob-
Der concerned in the murder OF David
S. R. Lambert, at Wilton, Conn,
December IL, has been captured, In
Columbus, Ohio.
The president has signed the bill
appropriating $28S,oO0 for property
belonging to the Methodist Episco-
pal church south at Nashville de-
stroyed by the United States army DUR
j ing the war.
Governor Pingree warns members of
the Michigan legislature not to &C
cept railroad passes, and threatens to
proceed against those wno disregard
! the warming under the laws against
bribery.
i The appellate court las reversed the
| decision in favor of creditors of the
Ramsay bank at Carlyle, ILL.,, thus CIV
| ing the bcndsmen of the late state
treasurer first lien on the assets of
the bank
The steamer Australia has arrived
from Alaska Her officers report that
the ship Lucille, with the government
packtrain which was to have been
used in the government relief ex-
petition, has arrived at Taiva.
Miss Lolita Crabtree, the actress
appeared before the New York grand
plant against a firm of brokers in
regard to $4,000 which she claims
they failed to return to her.
Gray wolves are doing serious dam
age to stock in the neighborhood of
the Laramie river, in Colorado. They
come down from the timber in packs
and raid the cattle ranches, killing
large numbers of calves and yearlings.
A syndicate has been formed in San
Francisco to utilize the water power
on the western slope of the Sierra
Nevada mountains by converting it
into electric power conveyed to Sam
! Francisco, 10 miles away.
John Bingham, one of the men in
dcted for the murder OF Gus Collian-
der Nov. Z, 1894, in a Chicago voting
precinct, has escaped from the Oregon
penitentiary where he was serving
a term of three years for burglary.
! The spring breakup in the logging
camps on the Menominee and it's trib-
utaries, in Wisconsin, has taken place.
The amount of logs put in will prob
ably amount to 4OO,OO0,0OO feet.
A terrific snow storm ragged at Me-
nominee, Mich. The wind blew a
gale from the northeast. The weather
is gradually growing colder and
railway traffic will be greatly inter-
fered with.
The railroad transfer boat S. D.
Barlow, plying between Cairo, Ill.,, and
Birds Point, Mo, burned to the
waters edge at Birds Point Loss
$4,000 No lives were lost.
During fight at Dubuque, Iowa, be-
tween John Earle and his stepsons
Charles Redmond, aged II, and Will
! lam Redmond, aged 10, Earle was so
badly beaten that he died. The boys
/ escaped.
William Seaman of Wolverhampton
was sentenced in the supreme court
at Rlverhead, L. L., to 10 years I'M
prisonment at Sing Sing for the theft
of bicycle. 1t was Seaman's second
OMense
Samuel D. Hoardley Of GIenns Falls,
N. Y, was publicly presented with q
/ state volunteer life saving association
medal for having saved from drown
ing Prof William Humphrey Of Yale
college, at Lake George.
The National Association of Dem
ocratic clubs through President
Chauncey F. Black, has issued an ad-
dress to democratic associations urg-
! ing them to celebrate the anniversary
of Jefferson's birthday on April IS.
W. G. Bradbury & Co. of Denver,
in connection with the Nassau Con-
struction Company of New York city,
/, have closed a contract for the con-
| struction of 125 miles Of railway from
! Chihuahua to Guerrero, Mexico, at a
cost of $2,5OO,OOO.
/ Rev.sDr. Howard Agnew Johnson,
pastor of the Forty-frst Street Pres
byterian church, Chicago, announced
/ to his congregation that he would de-
cline the passionate of Bethany Pres
byterian church at Philadelphia, which
was offered him.
During the eight months ending
with February this country exported
I breadstuffs to the value of $2O5, 316, 900,
against $13S,OOo,O0O for the CORE
spending period the year before, 1884,
224 900 two years ago, and $71,609, 900
three years ago.
Monticello, the country seat Of
Wyne county. Kentucky, was nearly
! destroyed by fire. The court house.
Jail, two hotels, half a dozen store