Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-04-11

Governor Atkinson of Georgia has
commuted the sentence Of Mrs. Eliza
beth Mobiles, who was to have been
hung.
Three Methodist Episcopal annual
conferences voted in favor of equal
Law representation in the general con-
ference.
The North Carolina railway COM
mission reversed it's recent action and
restored the old rates on passenger
| fares.
w. G.. Brann, editor Of the lcono-
clast, and another citizen OF Waco,
Tex. fought with revolvers and both
we're killed.
| Floods and terrible loss of life are
IDOL I'D from Illinois, the number
| 1..tims at Shawneetown being
,4acea. at 100.
Miss Helen Gould mas given another
$40 900 to the University of New York,
making $4,000 given by her to the
same institution within a year.
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual meeting OF the General
Society of Daughters Of the Revolu-
ton in Boston ON April Is.
New York Corporation Counsel
Whalen has rendered formal
opinion, sustaining Mayor Van Wyck
in his refusal to issue any more city
bonds for public improvements.
Funeral services OF Anton Seidl at
the Metropolitan Opera-House fur
nished one of the most remarkable
demonstrations ever seen in New
York.
Sir Nicholas Hanna, as arbitrator,
decided that Siam must pay 100000
to the estate of DR.. Cheek, an Ameri-
can, for Selling his elephants and
other property.
In a collision of two freight trains
at Adairsvi11e, Ca, Engineer Charles
E. Elliott refused to jump when
urged to do so by his SON, and was
killed. The son jumped and escaped.
Gov. Black signed bill which will
upset the calculations Of Tammanys
civil-service commission in New York
and will put out the 200 officials ap-
pointed under that commissions
rulings.
The Boston fire insurance officials
are having almost hourly applications
for policies covering possible risks by
bombardment The insurance COM
missioner, however, has refused to
permit agents in this state to write
such risks.
Steve Brodie, bridge jumper and
pride of the Bowery," who had sue
ceeded in causing his friends and the
public generally to believe that he
was dead, arrived in New York alive
and well. He had made the announce
ment of his death as joke.
At Rockford ILL.,, Louis j. Smith
and Louis Hail, two 16-year-old boys,
were arrested and confessed to hav-
ing tempered with a switch which
caused passenger wreck on the
Northwestern road, resulting in the
death of Fireman Daniel O'Leary.
At San Fraccisco AdOlph Stecker
has beaten the worlds record on
single targets by making SCI rings in
twenty shots. Stecker beat his own
record by nine points, having made
on a former occasion 552 points.
Stecker's fine work did not end at this
record, for he scored seventeen out
Of twenty possible bullseyes.
The Episcopal church at its General
Convention will be asked to adopt the
report of a joint committee which
has just concluded it's six years Ia
bors. Among other recommendations
is one that neither party to divorce
shall be married again. Among those
opposed to this is Bishop Potter, who
holds the innocent party to divorce
should be allowed to marry.
Chauncey M. Depew will cease to
be president of the New York Central
railroad on April 20. On the same day
he will be elected chairman OF the
boards of directors of the four great
railroads of the Vanderbilt system.
S. r. Galloway, now president of the
Lake Shore railroad, practical rail-
road man Of great experience,
admired by w. K. Vanderbilt, will
succeed Mr.. Depew as president of
the Central.