Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-07

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consin will be launched at San Fran
cisco Nov. 26. The christening party
will leave Milwaukee Nov. 10.
The trial OF Jesse James, the noted
outlaw Of that name, for alleged com
plicity in Missouri Pacific train rob-
Der, was called at Kansas City.
Ten thousand persons attended
meeting at Goldsboro', N. c., in behalf
of white supremacy in that state, and
strong resolutions were adopted.
At Oswego, N. Y, the Tonkin River
boiler and engine works were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $1O5,000. Otto
Snyder, night Waterman, persisted.
Federal methods of caring for In
dams were severely criticised by the
American Congregational Missionary
society, in session at Concord, N. H.
A speaker at the National Council
of Women in Omaha asserted that wo-
man was the inventor of trousers and
that man simply appropriated them.
The steamer L. r. Doty of Cleve
land is reported to have foundered in
Lake Michigan, and it is believed that
her crew of sixteen men have all been
lost.
Mrs Bankhead, wife of Representa-
tive Bankhead, of Alabama, will
chaperon a party of young Ladies who
will spend the Christmas holidays in
Santiago.
Theodore Hoffman, who killed Pat
rick Rocks, "a striker, was justified by
coroner's jury in New York, but
Coroner Fitzpatrick held him for the
grand jury
The gold excitement at Malvern,
Ohio, is still spreading and there now
seems to be sufficient evidence to in
dictate that gold really exists in pay
ing quantities.
Nathaniel Childs, press agent of the
way Down East company, committed
suicide at Philadelphia while despond
ent over the failure of play in which
he was interested
Mrs Botkin was indicted in San
Francisco for the murder of Mrs.
Dunning, and the Delaware authori-
ties have abandoned the idea of trying
to obtain her for trial.
"a Sy uulCdLC uOdOCu NY W. He d40CCS
c. P. Huntington and other Pacific
railroaders. is waging war on the
Maritime Canal company for the Nj
caragua canal grant.
w. G. Shockley, a Georgia farmer,
became suddenly demented in an At
lanta street car and with razor
killed J. D. Bishop, fellow-passenger
by cutting his throat.
The canal concessions reported to
have been granted to American CAPT
talists by the Nicaraguan government
will be sold, it is believed, to the
Maritime Canal company.
The anti-Teller silver republicans
of Colorado Endorsed the regular re-
publican candidate for governor,
Henry r. Wolcott, and also other re-
publicans for other places.
Vice President Hobart had a mar
row escape from death at Philadel-
phia. The horses attached to his car
riage ran away, but were finally stop
ped by heroic policeman.
The National Council Of Women, in
session at Omaha, determined to issue
a statement showing that its purposes
were different from the General Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs.
Walter Brown Holt, aged So, an ex-
soldier of the United States army and
the claimant to the immense Holt
estate in England, is dead in New
York of bronchial pneumonia.
Commissioner Jones, who has been
in Minnesota on on6 in n6oOtio
with the Indians who were recently
in revolt, believes the Indians were
badly treated by the whites.
J. M. Hurt, the presiding judge of
the Texas court of criminal appeals,
has declined to allow the use of his
name on the populist state ticket for
reelection to the same position.
H. B. Hardt, assistant manager and
general superintendent of the depart
ment of exhibits of the Omaha expo
sition, is under arrest charging him
with changing the awards of the
judges.
The schooner st. Peter was sunk
during storm on Lake Ontario just
as help was drawing near. The cap
tain was picked UP from the water,
but nine others, including his wife,
were drowned.
The cornorer's jury at Virden has
returned verdicts in the cases of men
killed in the mine riots that "the de-
ceased came to his death by gunshot
wounds inflicted by weapons in the
hands of parties unknown to us.
Representatives of all the manu-
facturers of wire held a meeting in
Pittsburg a few days ago and decided
upon an increase of 81 a ton on gal
vanized wire The increase was made
necessary by the scarcity of zinc
Johnson Creek is the state head
quarters for the growing order of the
'non-treating club" The organiza-
ton requires Of it's members the
pledge that when they want a drink or
a smoke they will not ask anyone to
join in.
Franklin Matthews has offered to
point out to Chief of Police Deverv.