Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-08

The democratic. convention of the
third Arkansas district, held at Cam
den, renominated Thomas c. McRae
for congress.
S. E. Niece of North Baltimore,
Wood county, Ohio, was nominated
for congress by the ninth district
democrats.
Judge w. R. Gardiner Of Daviess
county, Ind, was nominated for con-
gress by the second district republi-
can convention.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was among
the passengers on the Lucania. His
, right side is still paralyzed, although
he appears improved.
Judge Johnson of Milwaukee has
! decided that the recent national
bankruptcy act makes imperative all
state bankruptcy laws.
! Martin Thorn, convicted of muir
dering William Guldensuppe in New
York said: 81 am ready to die, and
in the electric chair Monday.
Liliuokalani, ex-queen of the Haw-
allan Islands, is reported to be suf-
fering with a cancer of the neck
which will cause her death.
Agostino Giallovenizi, banker in
the section of New York known as
Little Italy" left for Italy owing
j $1,000 to small depositors.
Five men were killed and Others
injured at the Hercules Powder
| Works, Cal, by an explosion, be-
/ lieved to have been purposely caused.
Police Captain Sheehan of New
York has ordered his men to arrest
women without wheels wearing alb
breviated bicycle skirts on the
streets.
Lieut.. Hobson presided at an en-
/ tertainment held at the Metropolitan
opera-house in aid of the Soldiers
and Sailors Families Protective
association.
Federal Judge Hanford of Tacoma
] has decided that an insurance policy
does not lapse because of non-pay-
ments until the holder has been duly
notified.
/ A schooner passing the scene of
the La Bonrgogne disaster found
fully a hundred bodies floating, and
took from some of them articles for
identification.
The commissioner of internal rev.
!; enue has issued a circular interpret
ing the section of the war revenue
act imposing a tax on medicinal
preparations.
Joseph Banigan, the well-known
rubber goods manufacturer and for
:. mer president of the United States
Rubber company, died at his home
in Providence, r. I.
Robert Maclay, president of the
Knickerbocker Trust company and
ex-president of the New York board
} of education, died at Elberon, N. j.,
of blood poisoning.
A fast mail train from Charleston
on the Atlantic Coast line was
wrecked near Columbia. The en-
gineer was badly injured and fifteen
passengers cut or bruised.
The Dingley law imposing a tax
on all personal effects in excess OF
$1OO valuation brought in by pas
sengers from abroad has resulted in
a large increase in the revenue.
The populist party of the Jackson
vile, H., senatorial district nomi-
!, mated Ashall Duff of Pearl, Pike
county, for the legislature, and A. C.
Wood of Macoupin county for con-
I gress.
The French embassy has directed
the attention of the state depart
!, ment to the Seizure of the French
merchant steamer Rodriguez, and
has requested the immediate release
/ of the steamer.
John Henry Myers, secretary OF
the wrecked building and loan asso-
citation of Milwaukee, has turned
over all OF his property to the direc-
tors of the concern for the benefit OF
} the stockholders.
/, chosen president of the United States
League of Local Building and Loan
Associations. Julius Stern of Chi
cago was appointed member of the
| executive committee.
The Baroness Won Puttkammer,
wife of Baron Franz Won Puttkam-
mer, nephew of Prince Bismarck,
died suddenly at his home in New
York only two days before the end
of Bismarck himself.
Christine Setback, widow of
Michael J. Setback, late police in
spector of Chicago was awarded a
pension of SLIPS a year by the police
pension board. This sum is one-half
the salary CT a police captain.
| Tho Count Of Turin nnnhnvy IF
King Humbert. is said to have fallen
in love with young woman at New
port, who is young and beautiful but
poor. Consequently the counts ex-
tended visit at the resort.
! Charles H. Galusha, adjutant-gen-
j eral of the Nevada national guard, is
! dead at the German hospital in San
| Francisco as a result of surgical
| operation. He was native of
New York, aged So years.
Hamilton Odell, as referee, has rem
dered decree vacating the assess