Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-09
DOMESTIC.

Chicago May wheat, $1227a.
/ A panic occurred in San Francisco
| theater
The steamer Servia was burned on
Lake Superior.
John Y McKane was released from
Sing Sing prison.
is missing. It is alleged he has dis
appeared with the money.
The Standard National Bank of New
York went out of existence
Philadelphia offers $4,000 to her
ball players if they win the pennant.
Charles p. Doxey, one of the best
known politicians of Indiana, died in
Anderson
Michigan came out victorious in
the third annual debate with the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Judge Thomas A. Dyson Of the sixth
judicial district of Wisconsin died at
/ La Crosse as a result of a fall
Senator German resigned as chair
man of the democratic caucus and was
succeeded by Senator Turpie.
Six men were killed by an explosion
! at the Atlantic Dynamite company's
works near Dover, N. J.
J. Fred Meyers, editor of the Den
ison (Iowa) Review and an old-time
newspaper man, died at Denison
A decision by the North Dakota SUI
preme court will have a tendency TO
check the wholesale divorce business
A combination of the Arbuckle coffee
concern and the Havemeyer sugar in
, terests is reported as very probable
/ Daniel Bitner, one of the wealthiest
and best-known men in Kansas, died
at Emporia. He was 80 years of age
The Knights Templar triennial con-
/ clave scheduled to be held at Pittsburg
this year may be postponed because
of the war.
Samuel Nichols, managing editor of
1.-THE Buffalo Times and until recently
pension agent of Buffalo, died. He was
55 years old.
Gov. Black signed the bill erecting
the new county Of Nassau out of that
part of Queens county not included
in greater New York
Eight persons were killed and over
100000 worth of property was
wrecked in a cyclone which swept
over Iowa and southwestern Dakota
Andrew Nelson and wife were muir
dered by robbers at Black Earth, Wis.
VIM. Boston and VIM Fuller confessed
and went to prison for life. Robbery
was the motive.
A United States senator said that
the bribery charges against Senator
Hanna made by the Ohio legislature
would not be taken seriously by the
senate
The announcement of the engage
mert of George W. Vanderbilt to Miss
Edith Stuyv Dresser evoked much
favorable comment in New York So
ciety.
The Illinois supreme court declared
that the senatorial redistricting act,
J passed at the recent special session of
the legislature in January, was uncon-
stitutiOnal.
The president nominated Gen. Mi
chael Kerwin to be pension agent at
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be collector of internal revenue for
the second district of New York.
Nearly $4,000 men have applied for
enlistment in New York, and it is be-
lieved that city could supply the whole
125,O0O men called for by the president
for service in the war with Spain.
Investigation is being made of the
accounts of the Hampshire County Ma
tional bank and the Hampshire Coun-
ty Savings bank, both of Northamp-
ton, Mass. There is reported a short
age of about $4,000 and the president
Comptroller Coler reported to Mayor
Van Wyck that the constitutional debt
limit of greater New York is $246, 312,-
900; that the actual debt is $50, 1913, 246
in excess of the limit, $24,224,846 of
which was owing by the old city of
New York and 5,968, 1899 by the ter
ritory taken in by consolidation
AS result of meeting of con-
tractors holding New York city con-
tracts 10000 workmen were dis
charged. This is result of the comp
troller's decision that contract liability
must be considered in estimating the
city debt. AS the city will not pay a