Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-07
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citation met in Chicago.
Rev. Thomas G. Bosley, aged 80, is
dead at Jeffersonville, Ind.
Eighteen Mormon missionaries sail
ed to make converts in Europe.
President Mckinley has designed
November "a as Thanksgiving day.
Brave Bill Anthony of the Maine,
was married Oct. Is in New York.
| The New York police are making a
spasmodic movement against vice.
Samuel Voak, who was in his one
hundredth year, is dead at Benton, Ill.
An electric line will probably be
water.
Miller, the Fargo banker, tried on a
charge of embezZlement, was &C
quoted.
Harry Ross, aged 81, the Oldest con-
tinuous resident of Terre Haute, Ind,
| is dead.
Rev. William R. Myers, we'll
known Dunkard minister, is dead in
Bourbon, Ind.
The Catholic Young Mems National
Union adjourned to meet next year in
| Newark, N. j.
William Hyde, journalist and his
torian, aged 81 years, died at St. Louis
of heart disease.
George Barclay, a well-to-do lum-
herman was mysteriously murdered at
Pine River, Mimi.
Havemeyer's sugar refneries, it is
reported, are to be removed from
Brooklyn to Berkley, Va.
Rev. Samuel c. Edsall of Chicago
accepted the position of Episcopal
bishop of North Dakota.
A scholarship in the Catholic Uni
versity will be endowed as a memorial
of the late Erastus A. Bronson.
The Sd Wisconsin infantry, Colonel
Martin F. Moore commanding, has
reached home from Porto Rico.
Star route contractors are roasted
by the second assistant postmaster
general in his annual report.
w. A. Bode, cashier of an Orange
| IN. J) bank, shot himself because he
could not conquer the drink habit
Henry E. Waterman, captain of the
United States engineer corps, died at
st. Louis from spinal meningitis
The will of Miss Winnie Davis was
filed for probate in New Orleans. It
leaves everything to her mother.
Col. George E. Waring died of yell
low fever in New York. His body
was cremated few hours afterward.
Chairman Babcock, of the republic
can congressional committee, figures
out majority of II in the next house.
Harry Brooks shot and killed Mrs.
Emma Hibbitts at Long Branch. He
says he didn't know the pistol was
loaded.
Surgeons removed piece Of bone
that pressed upon the brain of Frank
H. Collier, the eccentric Chicago
lawyer.
The Schlitz Brewing company is
preparing to erect a 100000 building
for it's new bottling works in Mil
waukee.
It is proposed to establish a ladies'
tailoring shop in New York to give
employment to the striking ladies'
tailOrs.
Major George H. Bonebrake, the
leading banker of southern Cali
fornia, died at Los Angeles at the age
of so.
Rev. Samuel Mutchmore, aged 68,
one of the most prominent ministers
in the Presbyterian church, died at
Philadelphia.
SiIas Packard, the educator and
founder of Packard's Business Col
lege, died at his home in New York,
aged II years.
A fire at Spencer, Wis. destroyed
saloon, a dwelling and jewelry store.
The total loss was $4,000, with but
little insurance.
The presidents order removing
from civil-service protection more
than 5000 offices will be issued before
Thanksgiving day.
The agricultural department has
concluded a series of successful ex-
periments in the treatment of hog
cholera with serum.
The war department has issued an
order that hereafter all enlistments in
the regular army will be for the full
period of three years.
Al midnight Monday, Oct. 81, the
gates of the trans Mississippi expo
sition closed for good. The profits
were over 100000.
ne Philadelphia peace jubilee end
ed, with the rededication of Indepen-
dence hall and big trades display
and civic procession.
William Jay, leading New York
independent, has repudiated the
citizens union ticket and declared for
Colonel Roosevelt
The American Society Of Municipal
improvements closed it's annual con-
vention in Washington. Next year it
will meet in Toronto.
In his annual report Chief Con-
structor Hichborn emphasizes the
necessity of maintaining naval re-
pair stations on the coast.
A grand total Of 6,214, AT 900 pieces
of mail of all descriptions was
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