Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.


England.
Frank Owens, an old resident OF
Carthage, ILL.,, is dead, aged 80
Caleb F. Davis, pioneer merchant
of Keokuk, Iowa, is dead.
A thousand South Dakotans will go
to the KIondike in the spring.
J. H. Blumenthal & Sons. clothiers,
of Montreal, have assigned. Liabilities,
$15O,OOO.
Louis Ranger, a member of the New
York Cotton Exchange, died yesterday,
aged 65
Judge Albert G.. Boynton, for 25
years political editor of the Detroit
Free Press, aged 60.
Simon Hopkins was hanged at Balm
bridge, Ca, and Thomas Cyrus at At
Ianta, both for murder.
Rev. S. c. Adams, a well-knoWn
Unitarian minister, died at Salem,
Oregon, aged rs years.
A vein of gold ore assaying $1,000 to
the ton is reported to have been found
in Uvalde county, Texas.
Mrs. Darlington Booth is stated, at
the New York Presbyterian hospital,
to be improving.
Ex-Congressman Mark S. Brewer OF
Michigan was offered place on the
interstate commerce commission.
William Carson, the millionaire lum-
herman, died, aged 80 years, at Eau
Claire
The trial of Charles L. Draper FOR
the murder of Charles l.. Hastings has
begun at Jacksonville, Ill.
It is stated that In Chicago that Jo-
seph Letter has not sold his S,75O,OOO
bushels OF wheat, as reported.
Manager Julian maintains that Fitz-
simmons will not meet Corbett until
the latter has met Maher.
Edward Hartford, one Of the dele
gates from the British trades union
congress, held recently at Nashville,
The remains OF Mrs. j. G. Aver,
who recently died at Paris, will be
buried at New York.
Major General Godolphin Yeatman-
Biggs of the British forces operating
in northwest India is dead. He was
81 years old.
A new edifice for St. Johns Protes-
tant Episcopal church, Fort Hamilton,
where Stonewall Jackson was baptized,
was consecrated.
John Desmond Scully, president OF
tho Pittsburg Clearing association, is
dead at his home near Hazelton, Pa.
He was II years old.
Orrin H. Lumbert, former president
of the Syracuse Industrial Benefit AS
ISOLATION, was sentenced to three years
in Auburn prison for larceny.
Henry Craemer has been sentenced
to be hanged at Seattle, Wash, March
Is, for the murder of Mrs Phillippa
Mueller and her child.
Chance L. Harris, aged sc, one Of the
Oldest newspaper men in the west and
a veteran of the war of the rebellion,
died suddenly at Butte, Mont.
A cyclone at Morganfield, KY, caused
the death of City Marshal Harvey Sell
lers and wrecked a number of build
ipgs.
Rev DR.. John Hall, for 80 years
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terian Church at New York, resigned
his pastorate yesterday.
At Greenville, Tenn, A. w. Carter, a
wealthy citizen, killed his wife, fatally
wounded his daughter and then COM
mitted suicide.
The manager of one Boston theater
has announced his intention of enforc-
ing the ordinance compelling women
LII
An English syndicate is said to have
secured options on all but one of the
American glass manufacturing plants
east of the Alleghenies.
Isaac Beck, the Muncie, Ind, agent
of the American Express Company,
respondent over BUSINESS troubles and
overwork, committed suicide.
The Nebraska supreme court has rem
dered a decision affirming the peniten
tiary sentence Of 20 years imposed on
9x-State Treasurer BARLEY, convicted
of embezzling $735,00
Henry Collier Mix, Chicago student
at Harvard, and Miss Maude Evelyn
Shaw eloped from Cambridge and were
married at Buffalo.
Captain John MeCUllagh, who has
been connected with the New York po-
ice force for % years, has been made
chief of the greater New York police.
The Storrs lecturer in the Yale law
school course this year will be Elk
Postmaster General William L. Will
son, president of the Washington and
Lee University of Virginia.
Louis Richards, George Washington
and Foxli Morris, colored, were hanged
in St Charles, parish, Louisiana.
Richards confessed that he had killed
eleven persons.
Spain is reported as having asked
the United States to establish a pro-
tectorate over Cuba and perhaps an
mex it.
The president nominated Charles
Page Bryan of Illinois to be minister
to China, and Owen L. w. Smith of