Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-31


0arthed in Chicago.
Grover Cleveland bought game pre-
serve in New Jersey.
At Randsburg, Col, 100000 ire
destroyed thirty buildings.
Things are going Leiterward again
and dollar wheat is prophesied.
The coal miners and operators agree
upon an eight-hour day.
A conference in aid Of primary
election reform began in New YORK
city.
Judge Pryor granted a decree OF
divorce to Mrs. Nat c.. Goodwin, wife
of the actor.
The Japanese cruiser Kasagi was
launched at Cramp & Sons shipyard,
Philadelphia.
John w. Griggs Of New Jersey was
nominated for attorney general vi the
United States.
It is asserted that Fitzsimmons and
Ccrbett have signed to fight at Carson
City in July.
Ex-Chief Justice Thomas H. Hines
died at Sycamore, Ill. He had lived
in that city for SO years.
Additional strikes at cotton mills
occurred at Fall River, Mass, Bruins
wick, Me-, and Westerly, r. I.
Congress is expected to authorize
at this session an increase of two reg
iments in the artillery service.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage was mar
ried for the third time. His wife
was a Pennsylvania widow OF 80.
There was thunder, lightning and
ten inches of snow in parts OF New
England.
The president has withdrawn the
nominations of Edwin B. Webster and
Heorge w. Simpson to be paymasters
aA the navy.
Madame We, wife of the Korean
minister to the United States, has be-
acme a convert to Christianity, ana
will espouse the faith.
Two missionaries sent to Klondlke
by two New York women write that
there is no fear of starvation at DaW-
son City.
Ex-President Cleveland will preside
at a meeting to be held in New York
February 12 in aid of cOlored IN
dustrial education.
The senate confirmed the nomina-
tions of Charles Page Bryan to be
minister to Brazil; E. H. Conger OF
Iowa, to be minister to China.
CAPTAIN Thomas Keville, chief OF the
fire department for many years, is
Uo Of nh
aged 20 years.
Charles Thomas Parsloe, the actor,
famous for his presentation of My
Partner in conjunction with Louis
Aldrich, is dead at New York.
The new home of the democratic
club at Sixth avenue and Fifty-fifth
street, New York, was transferred to
Richard Croker for $4,000.
The house banking and currency
committee is divided in opinion as to
the character of the currency reform
bill to be reported to the house
Mrs. Augusta Mack was taken to
Auburn prison to serve a sentence
of fifteen years for her part in killing
VIM. Guldensuppe.
Two men were killed in collision
of a through train OF the Atlantic
coast line with local train so miles
west Of Charleston, S. G.
A composite picture of a western
girl has been selected as one of the
designs for the souvenir medal of the
trans Mississippi exposition.
The democratic caucus of legisla-
ditional ballots for senator without
making a final selection.
A measure providing for a gerry
mander Of Ohio congressional dis
tricts was presented in the legisla-
ture of that state.
Governor Bloxham of Florida, has
issued call for south and west com
mercial congress, to be held at Tampa,
Fla, February 8, 9 and TO-
Henry Gaebe, aged 50 years, one of
the wealthiest and most prominent
business men Of Washington county,
is dead at his home in Nashville, III.
AT san Diego, Cal, Slgnor Anton
Casseletti has died, aged 81 years In
his younger days he had an European
reputation as a violinist.
The northern Colorado coal opera
tors, whose 1900 miners areon a strike,
refused TO grant the demands for an
increase of wages.
Senator White, it is said, was elected
chairman of the democratic congress
SIGNAL campaign committee through
the efforts of Richard Croker.
The President has nominated R.
Butler Malone, a son of the late
Senator Malone, a son Of the late
United States consul at Nueyo Laredo
Mexico.
At a meeting of the board of esti-
mate and apportionment the mayor
denounced the greater New York
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