Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

Eddie Burke, the Cincinnati-fielder,
will play in St. Paul.
Actor Nat Goodwin married. Maxine
Elliot, his leading lady.
Luetgert is denied a new trial and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Bijou Opera house at Worces-
ter, Mass, was burned. Loss $4,000.
Clara Barton cabled that the Names
wounded ale well cared for in Havana
hospitals.
A Cuban filibustering expedition is
Atlantic City.
Tammany is getting rid of reform
otIice-holders by akolishing their posi-
tions.
Senior Dupuy de LONE, ex-minister
of Spain at Washington, sailed for
Europe.
1t is proposed to reform incorrigible
hypnotism.
Andrew Shrob, the wealthiest far
mer in Whitley county, Indiana, is
dead aged SO years.
1t is reported that President Nc
Kinley has decided to end the Cuban
war within a year. e
A new combination of Paris green
manufacturers has been dubbed the
poison trust"
The carnival season opened in New
Orleans with q pageant Of the Phunny
Phorty PhelloWs.
Charles w. Knapp of St. Louis has
been elected president of the National
Publishers association.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton of
Harvard has rendered his resignation
to take effect in June.
More than million dollars was OBJ
tanned by the sale Of land belonging
to Union College.
Miss Francis E. Willard, who died
at the Imperial Hotel, New York,
will be buried at Evanston, Ill.
George R. Davis of Chicago has
purchased $4,000 acres of gold placer
ground in fremont county, Wyoming
Joseph Letter is reported to have
cornered the May wheat market.
wheat sold UP to $109 in Chicago.
Charles Broadway Rouss offered to
the municipality of New York statues
OF Washington and Lafayette.
w. H. II. Miller, United States at
torney general under President Har-
rIson, is dangerously i'll at Indianap-
oils. ~
The steamer Townsend sailed from
Portland, Ore, for Copper River
Alaska Thursday night with so pas
sengers.
DR.. T. p. mccullough, one of the
most prominent physicians in north
ern Indiana, died at Fort Wayne, aged
rs years.
Martin M. Travis, aged 81 years
died on his farm, near Fairbury, H.
which he entered in 1884 from the
United States.
The International League of Press
clubs, in session at New Orleans
elected P. c. Boyle of Oil City, Pa.
president.
A quarrel over an incident of the
war of the rebellion leads to a veteran
challenging Lew Wallace to mortal
combat.
Congressman McIntire will make a
strong fight to secure an appropria-
ton CT at least half million dollars
for the naval academy.
The prosecuting committee in the
Lattimer shooting trial will ask
funds to continue the case against
Sheriff Martin and his deputies.
Judge Scott dismissed Mss Deans
suit against the estate CT A. I. Ste
wart in declaring she had not proved
that she was Of Stewart blood.
Senator McCarren returned FROM q
visit to Hugh Mclaughlin, in Florida
and said that Brooklyn democrats
would fight for absolute autonomy
The wreck Of the Alaska steamel
Clara Nevada has been found and i
is believed that the 40 persons who
we've on board of her are surely lost
The organization of the Universe
Brotherhood by Mrs. X. Tingley anC
her assumption Of autocracy has spill
the Philosophical Society of America
twenty-five delegat>s OF severa
Illinois chapters, Daughters OF Amerl
can Revolution, left Chicago for Wash
ington, D. c., to attend the annua
convention Of the society.
L. E. Cooley and E. f. Cragin have
returned to Chicago from their tril
through the Central American states
where they went i'll the interest 0.
Nicaragua Canal projects.
The body of Ensign Joseph c
Breckinbridge, who was drowned from
the torpedo boat Gushing, arrived II
New York and VS. taken to Ken
lucky for burial.
In the Philadelphia municipal cleo
ton James S. Rogers, Municipal
League and citizens candidate, de-
feated James P. German, democrat
for magistrate.
The secretary CT the interior ap-
proved a ruling by the general lano
commissioner regarding the price tc