Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-21
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC,

DIR. Frederick l.. Vonsuesmilch is
dead at Delavan, Wis, aged II.
Fire destroyed the Auditorium opera
house at Moline, ILL.,; loss $4,000.
Isaac b. Potter was reelected presi-
dent of the l.. A. w.
Tommy burns has been offered
Anson's place. He will accept.
Five persons were killed in a col
lision on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad near Kirkland, Ala.
A state constitutional convention,
which is expected to restrict suffrage
in Louisiana, began at New Orleans.
DIR. William e. CattelI, former presi-
dent of Lafayette college, died at
Philadelphia, aged II.
Paul HaWIey, a prominent Kendall
county (Illinois) lawyer, died at his
home in OsNego.
The Canadian Pacific Railway COM
pany has purchased the Manitoba and
Northwestern road.
Thomas w. Hallock, one Of the
pioneers of Charleston, ILL.,, is dead
He was aged 81.
twenty-five thousand miners in
Alabama have been vaccinated by the
marine hospital service.
AT Gate City, Va, MISS Mollie Vim
cent shot her lover, Taylor Wyatt, and
then committed suicide
There is much excitement at But
Ter, Ind, over woman faith-cure
healer, Mrs Woodwork.
There is excitement in Ogle county,
ILL.,, over the discovery of gold on IA
farm near Mount Morris.
A dispatch says gold in paying
quantities has been found in Howell
county, Mo.
Frank C. Weed, an insurance agent
of Kansas City, Mo-, is missing and
foul play is feared.
j. l.. Waite, editor Of the HaWkeye,
will be the postmaster at Burlington,
Iowa.
The will of the late William Carson,
the Wisconsin lumber man, was made
public. lie was worth $300,OOO.
Letter, owning the unprecedented
amount of 100000 bushels of wheat,
is about to close UP his deal.
John Jacob Astor had his valuation
for taxation on pei sonal property re-
duced from $2,OOO,O00 to $z5O,OOO.
Or. Charles Lubbock and DR.. Carl
Elfstrom of Brooklyn have discovered
an anti-toxin which they claim will
cure pneumonia in it's worst stages.
A convention of Georgians met at
Atlanta and took steps III the dlrec-
ton of having manufacturing indus
tries exempted ii ON local taxation.
Judge Gary at Chicago, allowed
counseI for Adolph L. Luetgert, wife
murderer, until February - to pre-
pare a motion for new trial.
A $25O,0VO fife destroyed the seven
story office building owned by eX-
Vice President Levi +. Morton, in New
York city.
Joseph Letter has ordered 100000
more bushels Of wheat sent to the sea-
board nom Chicago. He will send
abroad 4,0OO,L00, bushels of his stock.
Col. Thomas e. Moore OF Bourbon
county, KY, has challenged Desha
b ecklnridge, son OF Col. w. q. r.
Breckenridge, to duel.
the consolidated city or New York
made by the board of health gives a
total OF 3,438,S99.
The New York assembly has passed
a resolution censuring United States
Senator Murphy because he voted for
the Teller resolution.
Baron Harden Hickey, who several
a
of Trinidad" committed suicide at
: ort Worth, Texas, by taking poison.
G. M. Rose, aged %, pl esldent OF the
hunter Rose company, one OF tho
laI gest publishing houses IN canada,
died OF paralysis.
The president will allow eX-Con-
gresham Cultivate, of Ohio, gold
democrat, to serve out his term as "a
member OF the fertilization board.
Peter Biazza, Emanuel Naimo and
Michael Saba were killed in the New
port mine at IronWood, Mich, by an
explosion of giant powder.
William Athens Of Button, Ind,
was shot and killed by Mis-. De Witt,
whose resort he was trying to enter
after having been warned away.
Ira Sexton, who killed Nathan Stark
at Princeton, Mo-, last October while
trying to rob him, has been convicted
of murder.
The Harvey Steel car company OF
Harvey, ILL.,, has been placed in the
hands of receivers on a judgment for
$58,OO0.
The Rt. Rev. John Richardson
Selwyn, master OF Selwyn college,
Cambridge, since 1893, died at Pau,
France.
The "Co-eds" Of Michigan university
have declared war on smoking among
the men students, and want ban
placed on cigarettes.
Rev. DR.. J. M. Buckley, editor OF the
New York Christian Advocate, was
made seriously i'll by canned corn at
Pittsburg.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ending Feb. were