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

sentatiVes a resolution was introduced
providing for the appointment of a
committee to investigate the causes
and report a remedy for the depressed
! condition of the cotton industry of the
state.
/ Henry Starr, leader of the daring
gang of train and bank robbers which
| has been terrorizing the citizens of the
years, has been received at the Ohio
penitentiary to serve eight years for
robbery and one for manslaughter.
Emil Urfer, aged %, who has been in
the employ of the BOlland JeWelry
company at St. Louis for ten years and
who was one of its most trusted en-
ployes, was arrested charged with
stealing jewelry and silverWare said to
exceed $4,000 in value.
Judge J. NJ Scott left his estate, val
ued at 100000, to his widow during
her life At her death it is to be held
iE. trust for the payment of annuities
TO twenty nieces and nephews, and
after the death of all the heirs the
! estate is bequeathed to the city OF
Bloomington to found hospital.
i ! w. L. Gorstle of the Alaska CONNER
cial company, who has been at Vic
toria, B. c., for two weeks purchasing
goods for the company's stores in the
Yukon, has closed contracts with Vic
terra merchants for $4,000 worth of
goods, principally drugs and provi-
sions.
The naval appropriation bill, now
being framed by the house sub-com-
mittee, will contain three important
items, namely, $1,O00,000 for smokeless
powder, 100000 for reserve ammuni-
ton and $4,000 for the establishment
of a government powder factory.
The ST. John train, known as the
Provincial express, on the Maine Cen
trail, was wrecked in the cut at OronO
Basin Mills. Two persons were killed
and more than score injured. The
dead are Jennie S. Murray, st. Stephen,
N. B., and Mrs. D. Cunningham,
Troy, Me-
AT the manufacturers meeting Thee
dore G.. Search of Philadelphia was
unanimously reelected president,
Charles A. Schrieren, ex-mayor of
Brooklyn, was reelected treasurer of
the association, and E. P. Wilson of
Cincinnati was reelected secretary.
The convention voted to hold its next
meeting in Cincinnati.
1 = o4& Drr1Nr
| Waters, IL years old, as she was re-
| turning home from the Marquette
school, Chicago, and pulled one of the
side braids of her long hair out by its
roots. No reason is given for the as
sault, other than the desire of the man
to possess the braid. The girl is in a
serious condition.
| On the application of both sides, the
suit brought by George H. Hathaway
and Richard Heard against F'ridtjof
hansen, the Arctic explorer, to recover
| $4,000 damages for breach of con-
tract in failing to complete the fifty
| lectures which it was alleged hansen
had agreed to deliver, was discontin-
| ued at New York. hansen made $780,
+, 900 by his trip.
| At Jackson, Ohio, as Lula Friend, q
15-year-old girl, was going from the
depot to her home near the Tom Cor
win mine, accompanied by John r.
Meyers and Vint Taught, two friends
Of the family, they were attacked by
crowd of ruff1ans who overpowered
the two men and carried off the girl,
twenty men outraging her. Meyers
and Taught offered desperate resist
ance, and the latter was struck with a
rock, fracturing his skull so that he is
not expected to live The girl will
! die.
| Civil Service Commissioner Proctor,
questioned before the senate commit
tee as to the extension of the classified
service since 1883, showed that emitting
the non-political branches, 60,879 per-
sens had, since 1883, been included in
the classified service by executive ac-
tion. To 32,987 the rules were applied
during republican administrations and
] u 1892 during the democratic admin
istration. Through the natural growth
Of the service IT, 37 persons had come
into the service. BY natural growth
non-political inclusions and executive
extensions, the total classified service
is brought to S7,098.
FOREIGN.