Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-14

bertS as united SCdI0S CIcdSul 81
j. Fitzpatrick, jockey and starter,
known on every track in the United
States and Canada, died in Saratoga or
pneumonia. He was born at Mount
Holley, N. j., SO years ago.
AT Galveston, Texas, John E. Pierce,
ranchman and land owner, announces
that he has closed deal with the
G. "A. r. people whereby they take
Is, 600 acres of land in Matagora
county for colony.
The Belleville, ILL.,, police believe
they have in their clutches Paul Miller,
alias Ed Ginger, the man charged
with the murder of Frances D., Sarah
A. and Elsie Newton, at Brockfeld,
Mass, on the night of Jan. Z.
The criminal court jury in the trial
of j. w. Keith, christian scientist,
on trial for failing to report a case
of diphtheria in his family to the health
department, failed to agree at Kansas
City.
Three miles from Greenville, Ohio,
Dayton and Union passenger engine
struck buggy containing G. F..
Young, wife and 4-year-old girl. Mr..
Young and the child were killed and
the mother was terribly injured.
Samuel Robinson, who has just
completed a sentence of eight years
in the Colorado penitentiary for rob-
bing the Florence, Col, post office, has
been arrested, charged with the muir
der of Government Agent Robert Hub
bard, in No Mans Land, in 1888.
Cashier William J. Quinlan OF the
Chemical National Bank, New York,
resigned, saying in letter to the
banks president that he had lent $685.
600 of it's money and concealed the
transaction by improper methods.
The president has nominated Ethan
A. Hitchcock, now minister to Russia,
the Russian government having con-
ferred similar rank on Count Cassin1,
it's new diplomatic representative to
the United States
The general land Office has decided
the cases of Archbishop John Ireland,
involving the right to about 10000
acres of land in Minnesota. In one
case the decision is against the Arch
bishop and the other in his favor.
A joint committee of both houses
of the Tennessee legislature is en-
gagged in Investigating charge of at
tempted efforts to bride member OF
the lower house in regard to legisla-
tion touching the sale of cigarettes.
New York's export trade is dwind-
ling. Thirty years ago it commanded
70 per cent. of the total exports Of the
country, but the report of the state
engineers shows that it today COM
mands but 81 per cent.
Policeman Schultz, of Chicago, at
tended church Sunday. While his
head was bent during prayer he saw
between his fingers pickpocket steal
a purse from woman, and arrested
him.
Few sugar beets will be grown in
turers insist ON a contract requiring
the farmers to accept so cents less per
ton for their beetS in case Hawaii is
annexed, and the farmers refuse to
sign.
The Volunteers of America have re-
ceived substantial encouragement in
their work on the Pacific coast. A
lady who wishes to conceal her iden-
tity has decided the organization an
orange orchard of twenty acres, valued
at $4,000, situated at Thermalito,
near Oreville, in Butte county, Cal.
DR.. Mary Wood Allen Of Ann Ar
bor' for some years superintendent O
the purity work in the National W. c.
T. u, has been chosen by the general
officers as successor to Mrs. Josephine
Butler in the department of work for
the promotion of social purity in the
worlds w. G. T. U.
Japan has withdrawn all objections
to the annexation of Hawaii by the
United States. Under the treaty with
Japan proclaimed in 1895 and which
gees into effect in July, 1899, Japanese
in Hawaii, in the event of annexation,
would have the right Of naturalization
and the franchise.
It is reported that a syndicate
headed by Mike Mcdonald, Chicago's
boss gambler, has purchased Fighting
island, located in the middle Of the
Detroit river, about eight miles from
Detroit, with the intention of making
it big gambling resort The island
contains $500 acres, and the
price was between $1,5O0,OOO and
1000, 900.
DR.. Miguel, Prussian minister of
fiEace, has issued decree forbidding
the importation If American fresh
fruits of any kind into Germany, on
sanitary grounds. AT the state de-
partment it is said the president will
probably use his statutory power to
retaliate sharply, if the decree is not
justified.
Other than to take measures to pro-
tect the Nicaraguan canal commission
from injury, the administration will