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

/ ouaintance with her former husband,
John Chatterton, otherwise Signor
Perugini.
Lieut.. Col. Henry D. Borup, chief
ordnance officer at Santiago, has been
ordered to the chief of ordnance in
| Washington.
The prairie fires in Indian terri
tory have revived during the past few
days. Five hundred cattle and hogs
were burned.
The blizzard has struck New York.
The northern part of the state exper-
fenced one of the heaviest snow
| storms In it's history.
/ The plant of the Racine, Wis, Nal
leable and Wrought Iron Works was
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000; in
surance, $4,000.
BY the retirement of Rear-Admira
Bunce at Christmas George Dewey will
become the ranking admiral of the
American navy.
At Cape May, N. j., Jacob Beck
secretary of the National League OF
Musicians, was found dead in bed
! from heart disease.
Mrs. Place, under sentence of death
for the murder of her step-daughter,
Ida, will take her case to the New
York court of appeals.
There promises to be an interesting
and bitter conflict in congress between
the various interests connected with
the Nicaraguan canal.
The private deposit boxes of the
Kansas state treasury have been loot
ed. Gov. Leedy is one of the victims
| to the extent of $165.
Alfred Hauge of Utica, visited at the
home of H. B. Howe last Monday
Rumor has it that he is about to start
restaurant at Marshall.
Rev. George R. Parrish pleaded
guilty to the charge of forgery at
Sycamore, ILL.,, and was given an in
determinate sentence.
Judge Taft, of the United States Cir
cuit Court, at Columbus has ordered
the sale of the GAINESVILLE (Ohio) cleo
trio railroad January 8.
The United States supreme court
has announced the new rules under
| the national bankruptcy act. They
will take effect Jan. 2.
A controlling interest in the newly
formed Union Tobacco company is
reported to have been sold to the
Widener- Elkins syndicate.
James Gray of Cleveland brake
man on the Lake Shore railroad, has
fallen heir to S350,00O, being his share
of his grandmother's estate.
In New York Nine Biamchini is
under arrest, charged with attempting
to poison her husband, Charles
Bianchini, the scenic artist
DR.. Lesser, in testifying to the wan
Investigating commission, said thai
Red Cross usages did not allow him
to criticise government officials.
In court case at Anderson, Ind.
the attorney for the defendant in
sisted upon arguing the case in rhyme
and the judge adjourned the trial.
The United States naval recruiting
Office at Chicago received orders to en-
list six apprentice boys, twenty lands
men and fifteen seamen at once.
Merritt Rose, colored, who was re-
Gently cured of insanity at the Bing-
hampton, N. Y, hospital, has now de-
veloped into a mathematical freak.
at the request of the government OF
Venezuela on account of the preva-
lence of small pox and the existence
of political troubles in that country
Rafael Yglesias, president Of Costa
RIGA, arrived in New York. He is OF
a pleasure trip and will spend severa
months in this country and Europe.
Ships at Brooklyn and Philadelphia
are being loaded with railroad ma
terials ordered in the United States
for the Russian railroad in Manchuria
At Williamson, w. Va, Samuel Ken
media is under arrest for the assassina-
ton of Constable Charles Steele near
Gray. Steele was shot from his horse
At Lancaster, Pa, Ralph w. Wier
back, convicted of the murder of D. B
Lands, in April, was refused a new
trial and was sentenced to be hanged
Newton county, Mississippi, farmer
are reported to have lynched threv
negroes and are hunting for other
implicated in an assault on a whit
man.
Six persons were killed and thirt.
others scalded or injured by boile
explosion on the steamer T. G. Walker
bound from San Francisco to Sacra
mento.
Chairman Dingley states that tn
"open door, policy in the Philippine
will mean, not free trade, but equa
opportunities to merchants of all ma
tions.
Senator Quay, his son Richard, ex
Treasurer B. J. Haywood of Pennsyl
vania and others pleaded not guilt,
to the five indictments found agains
them.
Miss Catherine Wiselogel, of ST
Louis, is ON her way to Havana
where she will marry William Fl
Mepham an American merchant o
that city.
The Baldwin hotel in San Francisc
was destroyed by fire, causing a los
of $1,500,00 Two lives are known t.
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