Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-05


power house in Newport, KY, gave
way. Ben Boursen, white, was fatally
injured; John Davis and R. F. Jack
son, colored, We're seriously injured.
The National F'raternaI Union is re-
ported to be $845,299 in debt and to
have only $4,000 cash assets. Ger
tifcate holders are considering the
advisability of taking the affairs of
the organization into the courts.
At Monticello, Ca, Ed Merriweather,
the negro who was lynched, confessed
before ne was hanged to the murder Of
a young white man, and said three
other negroes, Irwin CLANCY, Jake
Glover and Mary Ramey, assisted him.
DR.. Charles A. L. Reed, secretary of
the pan-American medical congress,
the next meeting of which was set for
December rs, 1898, at Venezuela, mail
ed circulars postponing the meeting
till December rs, 1900. This he did
Gold has been discovered on the
property of the Riverside Iron COM
pany, near Steubenville, Ohio. The
find was made while digging post
holes. If the same relative yield con-
tinues the property will be developed.
Dr. M. r. Regain was assaulted in
the street at Eureka Springs, Ark, by
J. D. Williamson, Chicago capitalist,
and severely beaten. Trouble between
their children was the alleged cause
Suit for $4,000 damages has been be-
gun.
WI
in metallic furniture and manufac
turer of bedding and touches, made an
assignment at New York. Mr.. HeY-
man has been in business twenty-five
years. The liabilities are about $780,,
900.
Solomon McWie of Chicago in on
trial in the federal court at Des
Moines, charged with using the mails
for fraudulent purposes in connection
with a bucket-shop. Prosecution of
several other Chicago bucket-shop men
is to follow.
The $1,000,00O bequest left to Phila-
delphia by Thomas w. Evans, the
famous dentist, with which to found a
dental institute, may be invalidated
regardless of the efforts of his rela
tives to break it. A new will has
been found.
George Grafton died Sunday in Cal
cago, and his death is thought to he
due to the cattle disease called acGi~
nomycosis, or lumpy jaw. Graf N
was a government inspector of cattle
and meats He had suffered for four
months.
The executive boards of the state
brewers associations of Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Kentucky met for the purpose of tax
ing concerted action toward securing
from congress the repeal OF the war
tax of 81 a barrel ON beer
Col. Theodore Roosevelt testified
before the war investigating commits
sion at New York, saying that he
blamed the priyations of the Rough
Riders and others of Skaters regi-
ments on ineficiency in providing
transportation.
Thomas M. James, a prominent cap
italist and politician of Topeka, Kan
sas, shot and perhaps fatally wounded
William Hayes, his next door neigh
Dor. The affair grew out of a dispute
over the line dividing James lot from
that of Hayes.
At the business session of the ma
tional grange at Concord, N H., S. H.
Messick, of Delaware, was elected
member of the executive committee
for three years. 1t was voted to hold
the next annual meeting in Ohio, the
city to be selected later.
The factory of the Allen B. Wrisley
company, makers of soap, at 479-85,
Fifth avenue, Chicago, was destroyed
by fire. It is generally supposed that
spontaneous combustion was the
cause. The loss is $105,000. The loss
is protected by insurance.
Officials in charge of the Trades
mans National bank of New York
have informed the comptroller of the
currency that they have abandoned
the plan of reopening the bank and
have asked him to appoint commit
tee to liquidate it's affairs.
Senator William V. Allen writes
letter to the Nebraska press saying he
intends to remain in Nebraska after
he completes his term in the United
States senate, and denying the report
that he had accepted position as gen
eral solicitor for an eastern railway.
Receiver Rhode, of the public land
office at Nulatto, Alaska, reached
Washington and commenced the re-
moval of that Office to Weare, a settle
ment 200 miles further up the Yukon
and at the mouth of the Tanana. Inc
removal will be authorized at once.
Joseph Baird, the negro orator, and
Mayor A. w. Mills exchanged about
fifteen revolver shots at Seymour
ind, without damage to each other
Baird accused the mayor of heading
the mob which recently horsewhipped
him, and the encounter was the result
The New York presbytery of the Re-
formed Presbyterian church is in reS-
sion for the purpose of trying about
twenty members who are alleged to
have voted at the presidential election