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

engaged WILn Joseph AG1CSI anu LIE
Kee-C happell company of Chicago in
a scheme to control all shipments of
milk into Chicago.
Sulphide, the famous race horse
owned by A. V. Hunter OF Leadville,
died while undergoing an operation
for paralysis of the larynx. He was
five years old.
The body of Purser Leighthead, OF
the steamer City of Syndey, was found
in the ruins of the burned Baldwin
Hotel, San Francisco. Other persons
are still missing.
At Hancock, Mich, the Franklin
stamp mill has been destroyed by fire,
the loss being $15O,000. Six hundred
men will be thrown out of employ
ment for six months.
William Shaw was convicted in St
Louis of sweating gold COIN upon
the evidence of comrade, James Will
cox, who served a term in Baltimore
for the same offense.
The six Thousand cotton mill opera
tives at Augusta, Ga, are likely to
lose their fight against a reduction in
wages because of a lack of Organiza-
ton and of money.
Two more victims of the powder ex-
plosion at Butler, a suburb of Ports
mouth, O., are dead, being George w.
Ferguson and his wife. Another
child, a girl, will die.
The secretary of state announced
the official vote for Missouri state Ct
ficials at the recent election. 1t shows
that the democrats carried the state
by over 10000 votes.
Secretary Long, in his annual re-
port, discusses the navy's part in the
war, and says the policy of territorial
expansion will necessitate an increase
in the number of ships.
Little 7-year-old frankie Hull
travelled unattended from Grand Rap
ids, Mich, to San Francisco recently.
She made the trip to join a sister who
lived on the coast.
Proceedings for the disbarment OF
Attorney Burke of Cleveland, who is
also a state senator, are attracting
attention because the charges involve
Judge Dellenbaugh.
Theodore Proulx, assistant city at
torney of Chicago, was discharged be
cause he managed the French bali
against the protests of the mayor and
the law department.
Governor Bloxham's call for a Ia
tional convention at Tampa, Feb. 8, 70
consider a reorganization of the ma
tional guard, is receiving favorable
support from governors.
Grant z. Gillett, the missing cattle
king, has telegraphed from New York
tha- he is ON his way to Spain. He is
said to have raised cash by duplicat-
ing mortgages OF property.
"Bat" Regain, a burglar in Jail at
Bridgeport, Conn, attempted to SUI
eide by refusing to take food, and The
warden was obliged to forcibly pump
liquid nourishment into his stomach.
Officers Conway and Bohne of the
Chicago police force rescued seven
children from house which the par
ents had left locked and which the
youngsters had accidentally set afire.
Secretary Hay presented formally to
President Mckinley the newly ap-
pointed Japanese minister, Mr.. Ko-
mura, who succeeds Mr.. Hoshi. who
has retired to enter the Japanese par
lament.
DR.. Lyman Abbott, pastor of Ply
mouth church, Brooklyn, Henry Ware
Beecher's successor and one of the
leading preachers Of the country, has
resigned his charge because of fail
ing health.
The sailors and marines of the bat
tleship Texas, held their annual ball
at the Lenox Lyceum, New York.
Capt. Sigsbee and Miss Sigsbee led the
grand march, in which 400 couples
participated.
Edward Murphy, Jr., whose term as
United States senator expires March
next, lis SO thoroughly Disguised
with the result of the New York cleo
ton that he has decided to quit poll
tics forever.
The report of Paymaster-Ge Genera
Stanton shows an increased expendi
ture in the regular army Of $2,306,8
compared with last year. He suggests
an increase of officers in the paymas
ter's department,
James Meecham, prominent at
torney,, 80 years old, fell from a trai1
on the Denver and Rio Grande rail
way near Swallows when attempting
to pass from one car to another. His
neck was broken.
Governor Hastings granted the re
QUESTION of Governor Bushnell fo1
Frank Mcgowan, his wife and he1
Sister, ON a charge of abducting Mrs
| Magowan's daughter by a forme.
husband, from Cleveland.
Mayor Van Wyck has written a let
ter to the New York board of public
improvements requesting action to b.
taken toward the construction of ;
new bridge over East river, to cross a
Blackwell's island.
At Lynn, Mass, an unknown negrc
murderously assaulted Mrs. Louise
Butterick, battering her head with q
stone. The assailant escaped to the
woods. Circumstances indicate that