Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-07


225 passengers and the crew were
saved.
The interstate convention of coal
miners and operators adjourned at
Chicago, after deciding upon an adj
vance of ten cents ton in miners
wages.
The New York Herald has brought
suit against the San Francisco Chron-
icle for using the Herald's copyright
cable without permission.
The monthly statement of the col
lection Of internal revenue shows the
total receipts for December to have
been $14, 1873, 682, a gain for the month
of $1,107,520.
The Kentucky state senate passed
the resolution, previously adopted in
the house, asking United States SEN
ator Lindsay to resign. He is a gold
democrat
Representative John c. Otis of the
Ohio legislature, who charges that an
attempt was made to bribe him to vote
for Mark A. Hanna for United States
senator, testified before the investigat-
ing committee at Columbus
State Treasurer Hay of Wyoming,
chairman of the republican state COM
mittee, has resigned because the United
States senators from Wyoming voted
for the Teller resolution.
The steamer Humboldt has been
chartered at San Francisco for the
Alaskan trade by John A. MCGEE, Jr.,
at a stipulated rental of $4,000 a
month for five months.
The national monetary convention
adjourned at Indianapolis, after pass
ing resolutions urging congress to
adopt the principles embodied in the
monetary commissions plan for cur
1 rency reform.
The Ohio National Guard association
at Columbus asked congress to grant
Cubans the same belligerent rights
which the proposed confederate states
of America had.
The directors of the st. Paul and
Omaha railroad have declared semi
annual dividend of 3 per cent. ON the
preferred stock and a per cent. divi-
| uC11u I'll C1O COll1l1Cu 0IOCh.
| Rev. Leroy Church, one Of the most
widely known Baptist ministers in the
west, and founder of the Standard, the
! Baptist western denominational organ,
died at Chicago.
| A. r. Steward, secretary of President
Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad company, says there is no
truth in the published story that Van
Horne will resign the presidency.
Rev. Abishai Scofie1d died in Spen-
cerport, N. Y, aged 80 years. Before
the civil war, while preaching at Ham
ilton, Ont, he was deposed from the
ministry for preaching against slav-
cry.
Gov. Budd has granted respite to
cover the time necessary for the return
from the east Of certain documents
bearing on the sanity of Train Wrecixer
Worden who was sentenced to be
hanged February II in California.
Miss Pauline Weber, daughter of
Rev. Paul Weber of Baltimore, COM
mitted suicide at Milwaukee by jump
ing into the lake because she was
unsuccessful in securing q position to
teach in the public schools.
In the Luetgert trial Otto Klatt tes
tilted that on the night Mrs. Luetgert
disappeared he saw a woman come out
of the Luetgert residence who looked
like the sausage makers wife. She
had a package under her arm.
President Dole of Hawaii arrived in
Washington. President Mckinley
promptly called upon him. The Ha-
waiian executive is the guest of the ma
ton.
The Bloomfield (I1l) hotel burned
with almost the entire block adjoin-
ing. Albert Pieper was killed by b
falling wall Constable Snodgrass and
two other men were injured. Loss,
| $780, 900.
Mrs. E. L. Hager, widow of the late
John S. Hager, collector of the port OF
/ San Francisco and United States SEN
ator from California, is dead from
heart paralysis She was the daughter
of James H. Lucas, st. Louis banker.
Mrs. Lucinda M. Huff, who claimed
to have caught pneumonia in Rox-
bury, Mass, hotel, owing to the failure
of the owner to provide sufficient heat,
was awarded $1,000 damages at Boston.
Max Rosenberg, the former manager
OF the West Side Hopkins theater in
Chicago, was found guilty of bigamy
fined $500 and sentenced to the county
Jail for $50 days.
"A premature explosion of dynamite
on the Duluth and Iron Range extern
sion north of Two Harbors, Mimi,
killed Frank Burrows, Foremen Van
dergrift and Jacobs and injured several
other persons.
At Chillicothe, Mo-, announcement
is made of the marriage of Rev. w. E.
/ Dockery, aged IA years, and Mrs. Julia
Dimmock, a widow of As. Rev. Mr.
Dcckery, who is a superanuated
Methodist minister, is father of Con