Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-06-20

death of Ansel B. Cook, pioneer res
ident of Chicago He was rs years
old.
Samuel Pentland, proprietor of the
Mel House at Columbus, Ohio, died in
Cleveland of appendicitis, aged As
years.
Robert G.. Zimmerman, one of the
democratic leaders in Fulton county,
Illinois, died at Lewiston of heart
disease
The social democracy split in con-
vention in Chicago, and Eugene v.
Debs seeded and organized separate
convention.
Anton Dreher, the millionaire brew
er of Austria, contemplates locating a
$10,000,000 branch of the Dreher brew
cry in Milwaukee.
Lambert H. Jones, whose father is
an attorney in Chicago, is to be tried
on charge of murder in Charles Mix
county, South Dakota.
Lobbyists, it is charged, got 35 per
cent. of the amount voted the Meth
odist Book Concern South by congress
on a war claim.
The sales of American wheat the
current fiscal year represent more
money than ever before received in
one year from that source.
Robert Leach of WATERFOWL, N. Y,
made a successful trip through the
whirlpool rapids of Niagara falls in
a barrel, coming out without a
scratch.
DR.. j. B. Murphy of Chicago an
nounced to the American Medical as
ISOLATION at Denver that he had a
conditional cure for consumption of
the lungs.
The treasury holds $97,OO0,0OO in
gold bullion, and Secretary Gage asks
an appropriation of $250,O00 for mint
expenses in converting a large part of
the bullion into coin.
Prince Alexander Galitzine of Rus
STA was declared insane in New York
and sent to Bloomingdale asylum. He
was formerly attached to the Russian
legation in Washington.
Papers were served on Dumont
Clark, publisher of the New York
World in suit for libel, in which w.
R. Hearst of the New York Journal,
asks for 100000 damages.
David B. Hill and two silverites
were elected delegates to the demo-
cratic state convention from the third
assembly district of Albany county.
They were not instructed.
Henry G. Cook, a Kansas banker,
died at the infrmary at Kirkville,
Mo. He was an old soldier, and his
son Allan is now serving as assistant
engineer on the cruiser New York.
Miss Helen w Tisdel of Washington
was married to M. Gregoire Alexand-
rovitch de Wollant, charge d'affaires
of the Russian embassy at Washing
ton. The ceremony was performed in
the Russian church in New York.
Rev. DR.. L. o. Burtner, son of Mr..
Ezra Burtner of Keedysville, Md, and
five other missionaries who escaped
massacre in Africa, arrived in New
York. DR.. BURNER told thrilling
SCOIy VI CuO SApSIISuCSS OIL the HIS
SiOnarieS
Col. John D. Morrisay, a Colorado
pioneer, who made and lost several
fortunes and who was once worth
100000 died in poverty in Lead
vile, and his divorced wife will bury
him.
It was officially stated in Washing
ton that there had been no settlement
of any question between Great Britain
and the United States, and that Mr..
Curzon's statement in the house of
commons had not been correctly re-
ported by the British foreign Office.
Representative Hilborn, president of
the board Of visitors to the naval
academy at Annapolis, has sent a let
ter to the secretary of the navy COM
planning of the treatment which he
says he and the members of the
board received from Superintendent
Cooper
By an amicable settlement of the
controversy between John Stetson,
ST., and Mrs Emma Stokes over the
will of the late John Stetson, jr., Mr..
Stetson will get As per cent. of the es-
tate and Mrs. Stokes 55 per cent
The estate is appraised at $685. 900.