Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-26
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port, ILL.,, demanded an investigation
of the charges against the war depart
ment.
The governments of Chilli and Ar
gentina have been urged by the
United States government to submit
their differences to the arbitration of
Queen Victoria.
The war department is assembling
large force in the south to serve as
an army of occupation in Cuba after
the Spanish troops have withdrawn
! from the island.
/ Governor Bloxham of Florida has
called q national convention to meet
at Tampa February 8, 1899, and dis
cuss plans for a reorganization Of the
state militia service.
Elijah Brainard, a New York con-
tractor, was killed by fall in the
hallway of house next door to his
home, which he entered late at night
in mistake for his own.
| William D. Bynum resigned as
| chairman of the national gold demo-
cratic committee at a meeting in Chi
cago, and George Peabody Wetmore
was elected his successor.
| Democratic congressional conven-
lions in Cincinnati refused to indorse
silver and Bryan. There was a pic
ture of Cleveland and none of Bryan
in one of the conventions.
It is reported in Chicago that Philip
D. Armour. Marshall Field, Norman
B. Ream and James ]. Hill have Sc
cured controlling interest in the Bal
| timore and Ohio railroad.
Conductor D. M. Riley and Engineer
John Pettinger we're killed and Brake
man Tressler was badly injured in a
railway wreck on the Denver G Rio
Grande in the black canyon.
In Chicago Fritz Benfiel killed him
self, after firing two bullets into Mrs.
Minnie Youngberger and fatally
wounding her 2-year-old son. His
death was a joy to his family.
On October 10 the Lafayette mem
orial commission proposes to take up
a collection in the schools and col
leges in the United States to build a
monument to Lafayette in Paris.
In collision with the Baltimore
steamer Gloucester in Vineyard Ha-
ven, Mass, nine men of the crew of
the schooner Alice G. Jordan were
drowned and the schooner was sunk.
Marshall Field declined to sell the
Woman's Temple of Chicago to the
German banking firm which was ne
| gotiating for it. He says it will not
be sold to any one except the w. c..
T. u.
| A special train of an engine and
four cars on the Chicago & Northwest
ern railway established a new record
between Chicago and Omaha, making
the run of 493 miles in 9 hours and 20
minutes.
The government, getting them
cheaper, will reduce the price of
stamped envelopes, etc., JAM 1, so that
the people will save $1,000,0O0 as re-
suit of the abrogation of Lou Payn's
contract.
I A case of yellow fever has been dis
covered at New Orleans and quaran-
tine has been proclaimed. No new
cases were reported at Jackson. Two
were reported at Orwood and one at
TaylOrs.
Professor G. G. Williams, former
president of the State Teachers asso-
citation and late years teacher of sci
ence in the high school at West Su-
perior, Wis. died at Ashland of ty-
phoid fever.
Brig.-Gen. J. T. Haskell dropped
dead at the Columbus (Ohio) bar
racks. The excitement incident to
the return of the 18th infantry to that
city brought on apoplexy and caused
his death.
A. F. B. Crofton, who returned from
the Klondike, has been arrested in
Chicago, charged with passing a
forged draft for $1,000, three years
ago, on the First National bank Of
Chicago. Crofton denies.
The Franklin, n. Y, county grand
jury indicted every coal merchant in
Frankfort charging conspiracy. The
coal men have combined the last few
months ana nave Do0n supplying IfdQ0
at prices agreed on by the combina
ton.
Capt R. d. Evans, at his own re-
quest, has been relieved of the COM
mand of the battle ship Iowa. He has
been granted leave of absence and as
signed to duty on the naval inspec-
ton board Capt. Silas Terry will
command the Iowa.
The contracts for building three bat
tie ships have been awarded to the
Cramps, the Newport News Ship
building company and the Union Iron
Works of San Francisco. They will
be of 12,500 tons displacement and
have speed of 1872 knots.
An increase of 1855 per cent. in
gross receipts from traffic and 27.63
per cent. in net income after deduct
ing taxes and expenses of operation is
shown by the Illinois Central railroad
for the year ended June 80, 1898, when