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

All negroes are being run out OF
Lcnoke county, Ark.
AT Bangor, me, ex-Gov. H. M.
Plaisted is dying.
Secretary cage asks authority TO
coin more silver.
Letter claims to own all the surplus
wheat
Omaha gets the eighth franchise for
the western baseball league.
A sarcopnagus tor Mrs U. s. Grant
was placed in the generals tA'al;.
All claims in the Klondike region
are reported to have been taken up.
The church OF ST. John Baptiste at
Montreal was burned. Loss, 0,OOO
Hugh Bonner was appointed chief OF
the gre2ter New York nre department
The Ohio river has fallen over foot
and all danger of flood is passed.
A conference OF prohibitionists, in
GLIDING prominent men from many
states, was held at Cincinnati.
Plans are we'll under way for estab-
fishing an Abraham Lincoln Memorial
University in Cumberland Gap, Tenn
Fire in the Jones' block at Oregon,
ILL.,, caused loss of $4,000, practically
covered by insurance.
A new surety company, backed by
the Deutsche bank of Berlin, is to be
started in New York.
In the New York assembly bill
was introduced making the issuing of
trading stamps misdemeanor.
Justice Mckenna took his seat as a
member of the United States supreme
court.
Col "Tom" Ochiltree, upon whom a
surgical operation was recently per-
formed, is recovering rapidly.
Comptroller Dawes selected George
H Earle, Jr., as receiver for Lne Chest
nut Street National bank, Philadelphia.
Rev. Conrad Kuhl died at his home
in Shipman, MaCo pin county, ILL.,, OF
old age, aged II years.
Redmond Cleary, a well-knOWn grain
commission merchant and a pioneer of
st. Louis, is dead.
The exports of wheat in 1897 aggre-
gated 109, 300, 1928 bushels, and of corn
9,127,570 bushels.
Negotiations are progressing for a
reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Spain, Porto Rico and Cuba.
At Rutland, VT, Mrs. Julia J. c.
Dorr, the well-known author and poet,
is critically i'll.
Attorney General Monnett, of Ohio,
reopened war ON the Standard Oil
trust.
At Valley View, KY, there are re-
ports of Mrs General Cassius M. Clay's
misbehavior with Willie Bryant.
At Milwaukee Chief of Police JAMS
sen has decided to put stop to all
boxing contests.
An examination of the duplicate GER
tifcates OF discharge shows 10000
veterans who have not asked pensions.
Nebraska farmers refuse to raise
facturers want to deduct 81 per ton in
the event that Hawaii is annexed.
Hoboken policemen captured three
highwaymen and recovered nearly $500
which had been stolen from an aged
barge captain, Joseph Lamonnon.
William Fl. Watson, the student of
the New York trade school, who shot
and killed Joseph Miller, fellow stu
dent, was exonerated.
John D. Long, secretary of the navy,
was yesterday unanimously elected
president of the Massachusetts Total
Abstinence society.
The republican members of the
house banking committee decided to
meet three times week and begin
work on currency-reform measure.
Anthony Rainetaux Dyett, aged "A,
who introduced the Saturday half
holiday movement in New York, died
at his home in Plainfeld, N. j.
Elwood Evans, the oldest practicing
lawyer in Washington, dropped dead
from heart disease on the street at Ia
coma. He was 70 years of age.
Steps have been taken which insure
the consolidation of the New York
Central and Lake Shore railroads I'M
der one management.
1t has been found that from $12 ,000,-
000 to $20,000,0G0 in unpaid taxes are
due the new city Of New York from
the boroughs which compose it.
The schedule in the assignment of
Oscar Hammerstein, theatrical man
ager of New York, shows: Liabilities,
$166,000; actual assets, SIS, 25O.
The sureties of Haugen, the default
ing city treasurer of Minneapolis, have
been released from their $780, 900 bonds
for 100000.
The Ohio law which says the sum of
$4,000 may be collected from county
By friends of d person lynched therein,
has been declared unconstitutional.
The high price of hops last year has
greatly encouraged the hop growers in
California, anu there will be a consid-
e1able increase in the acreage.
The Notifications appropriation bill
carries $4,144.912, as against estimates
made by the war department of $13,-