Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-07

>.U4IC vi Tic Un-VcI5lty VI I1lInoIs, las
ueen otfeI ed the Position OF superln-
itendenG OF pubic schools OF greater
lNew York.
resulted in victory for the republic
cans, Notwithstanding the division in
their ranks caused by the municipal
league or reform ticket.
A jury at Omaha has retuned "a
verdict relieving the bondsman of ex-
State Treasurer BARLEY, who was
sentenced to the penitenitary for 20
years for embezzling $555,O00.
The disabled French line steamer
La Champagne was towed into Hall
fax harbor by the Roman, which
picked her up 500 miles east of that
port. She had 400 people aboard.
! Alice Gle Lacey Radcliffe and Caro-
line R. Radcliffe applied for legal
separations from Edward j. Ratciffe,
the actor, who is alleged to have mar
iried both of them.
Comptroller Coler says he has dis
covered startling ir- egularities in the
affairs of the late city officials of
Brooklyn. In one instance $4,000
was paid for work worth $4,000.
VIM. P. Moody, of Chicago an en-
ploye of the banking firm of Dunlap
brothers, was arrested on the charge
of embezzling $4,000 from the funds
of the Oak Park building and Loan
Association.
A priest in New York state who
said Catholics should fight with Spain
in case of a war with the United
States, was ordered to leave the do
cese by Archbishop Corrigan.
Rev. James F. Callaghan, assistant
priest of St. Thomas Catholic church,
Chicago, has been assigned to St.
Jerome's parish, Rogers Park, sue
ceeding Rev. A. P. Longergan, who
died last week.
/ According to report laid before
President Mckinley, 10,073,576 able
bodied men are now available for
military duty in the United States. OF
these 112,082 are already in the
militia.
AT Bayard, Neb., two masked men
took A. o. Taylor, president of the
Bank of Bayard, from bed and conn
PEELED him to open the safe in the
bank. Only a small sum was secured.
Taylor was severely beaten.
The crack cruisers Columbia and
commission at once, and arrangements
have been made for transporting
troops to Key West if an emergency
arises.
Senator McCarren and other Brook
lyn politicians, with the consent of the
sugar trust, have Incorporated in
New Jersey company to make whis-
key-the product to be distilled from
the refuse of sugar ref1neries.
Governor Budd has informed his
friends that, in view of the retire
ment of Senator White, he will be Il
candidate for the United States senate,
providing the next California legisla-
ture is democratic.
A delegation of the Naval Militia
association appeared before the House
committee on naval affairs in the in
terest OF the Barber bill, which pro-
vides for the construction of twenty
torpedo boats for the use of the naval
militia.
The Kentucky house of representa-
tives has passed the anti-cigarette bill.
The bill is sweeping in its penalties,
and absolutely prohibits the sale, bar
! ter, loan or use of cigarettes or cigar
cite material, or even to have these
things in ones possession. 1t now
goes to the senate
! The application of Chris Won der
Abe for release on writ of habeas
corpus was refused in Pittsburg by
Judge Burlington of the United States
circuit court, and bail was fixed at
$4,000. on an appeal to the supreme
court. The bond has been secured and
Wonder Abe was let cut Of Jail.
At South Bend, Ind, officers Louis
Keller engaged in pistol fight with
gang of burglars. He was shot
dead, but not until he had nlortally
wounded Jack Burke of New York.
-Four more of the gang were captured.
Burnes, Frank O'Connor and Frank
Monroe.
/ The British steamer Legislator,
bound from Liverpool to Belize, Hon
duras, caught fire Feb. 10, when
700 miles west of the Azores islands,
and after four days was abandoned by
her crew and passengers, 30 of whom
reached Boston on the American
steamer Flower Gate. Six of the
crew persisted.
I Henry Mentzer has returned to
Centre Point, Ia, with 100000 as
result of two yeas spent in Alaska.
Despite his good fortune in the Klon-
dixie country, Mentzer states the re-
ports of it's fabulous wealth are great
ly exaggerated, and that far more
money is being taken into the coun-
try than ever will be brought back.