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

Chicago cash wheat, $1.o1M; silver,
54Ac
Gen. w. S. Rosecrans died near Los
Angeles.
Wisconsin turner's have voted not
to admit women.
Colonel Vanderbilt Allen died at
Capri, Italy, Sunday.
Sheriff Martin and his deputies
were acquitted at Wilkesbarre.
The Zoarites, the cOmmunistic
colony of Ohio are about to disband.
The total gold imports of the pres
ent movement amounts to $15,66O,0OO.
Hundreds of people have been driven
from their homes by flood at London,
Ont.
Pugilists are laughing at McCoy's
claim to the heavyweight champion
ship.
Ex-Congressman Jason Brown is
dead at Seymour, Ind. He was 81
years old.
Register of the Treasury B. K. Bruce
is critically i'll at his home in Wash.
ington.
A thread trust with capital of ST.
/ 900, 900 has been organ zed at Trenton,
N. J.
David S. Conley, secretary OF the
state board of CONTROL is dead a.
Madison, Wis.
Peter H. Bell, VINO was governor
Of Texas from 1849 to 1853, died at
Littleton, N. G.
! A regiment Of Chippewa Indians
will be raised in case their services
are needed against Spain.
| The democratic state convention of
Rhode Island has nominated Daniel
Church for governor.
The nomination Of w. j. Calhoun
for interstate commerce commissioner
has been confirmed.
Cyrus w. Russell, a pioneer of
Livingston county, is dead at his
home in Pontiac, Ill.
Chicago wheat brokers tried to
break Joseph Letter by underselling
him, but failed.
i Professor Ashley D. Hurst of Tulane
university died at New Orleans from
a stroke of apoplexy.
A suit has been brought that may
delay the reorganization of the Wis
consin Central.
Prince Albert, heir apparent of
Belgium, arrived in New York on a
visit to this country
Congressman Johnson of North
Dakota announced his candidacy for
the senate to succeed Roach.
American women have succeeded in
endowing a table for biological study
at geological laboratory at Naples.
Gen. VIM. S. Rosecrans, the we'll
known Union veteran, died at his
home, near Los Angeles, Cal.
The democratic committee on the
west side, Chicago, has decided to bar
gold democrats from the primaries
Captain Frederick Pabst of Milwau-
kee has been invited to become di-
rector of the proposed permanent
American exposition at Paris.
The receipts in February for fifty
of the largest postof1ces were
,$241,341 in excess of the receitps for
the corresponding month in 1897
Miss Florence PEBBLES OF Luther
vile, Md, has been awarded the Mary
b. Garrett European fellowship of
Bryn Mawr college.
Rev. ]. d. Borden, aged Sc years, is
dead at Greenup, Ill. He served
through the civil war in a Kentucky
regiment.
Mrs. Lucinda Bent died at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, aged rs. She was wealthy
and prominent and had lived there for
nearly forty years.
b. c. Bassick, locator of the famous
Bassick silver mine, near Silver Cliff,
Colo, died in Denver of heart disease.
He was sc years of age
The populists of Georgia are plan
ming to nominate Tom Watson for
governor and lead to fight with Ma
tional Chairman Marion Butler.
Thomas Walsh, a prominent resident
of Joliet, was found dead near Plain
field. 1t is believed he was muir
dered by robbers.
President Andrew S. Draper of the
University of Illinois has declined the
superintendency of New Yorks public
schools.
I The peoples party of the second
Indiana congressional district nomi-
mated Rev. William j. Trout for con-
gress.
Nathaniel P. Wilder, a resident of
Chicago since 1889 and once an extern
sive owner of real estate there, died.
! aged rs.
/ The war in passenger rates to the
northwest continues, the Western Pas
senger association fatty refusing to
restore rates.
The senate committee on immigra-
(, ton reported adversely upon the nom
lnation of T. V. Powderly to be COM
missioner of immigration.
Louis Pullison, the negro who
choked Kate Pullison, his wife, to
death at their home in New York, has
been arrested.