Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-31

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capisized.
There is only a remote prospect of
the adoption by the Episcopal general
convention of a new canon of marriage
and divorce.
Andrew Carnegie, just back from
Europe. in an interview, has strongly
declared himself against territorial
expansion.
Chairman James K. Jones of the
democratic national committee has
announced that the party will stick to
free silver.
The Episcopal council decided
against any change in the canons
respecting the remarriage Of divorced
persons.
John Melchert of Chicago killed
Lillian Morris, his sweetheart, in an
Omaha photograph gallery. Jealousy
was the cause.
Billy Walker, the pugilist knocked
out by Andy Dupont, at Omaha,
Monday, died after remaining uncon-
scious Sc hours.
At Lexington, KY, Miss Mary Dud-
ley Breckenridge, daughter of Gen.
Joseph Breckenridge, was married to
John FAIR Hines.
D. A. Twyman, the cOlored post
master at Junta, Va, has been forced
to resign because the white residents
boycotted the office.
Texas was visited by a severe storm,
which, among other things, blew
freight cars in the path Of an express
and caused a wreck.
The round house of the Canada
Eastern railroad at Gibson, n. B., and
four locomotives have been destroyed
by fire. Loss 100000.
The japanese government has ap-
pointed Intaro Komura, vice-minister
of foreign affairs, minister of Japan
to the United States.
Leech Lake Indians petitioned the
government to be allowed to continue
dead and-down timber as their sole
means Of livelihood.
John Kennedy of the District of
Columbia, was appointed a member
of the industrial commission in place
of Sargent, resigned.
Capt. Gabriel Reynaud Of the
French army is in New York arrang-
ing for a carrier pigeon service from
transatlantic steamships.
D. C. Bower & Co., a big dry goods
firm of Lisbon, Ohio, has assigned, as
a result of the suspension of the First
National Bank of that city.
Mrs. Margaret FOLSOM Westhall
who says she is a cousin of Mrs
Grover Cleveland, is in Yonkers
II. Y, prison charged with theft.
A majority of the members of the
industrial commission believe no at
tempt should be made to gather labor
statistics from original sources.
Miss Winifred Lavinia McCaull,
daughter of the late John A. McCaull
the theatrical manager, was married
to Frank NJ Holahan, of New York
The yellow fever has so far abated
that the state of Mississippi has
abated the quarantine. Cool weather
has removed fears of further epidemic
The largest steamship launched in
Asiatic water has just been foated at
Nagaski, Japan. She is the Hitachi
Maru, and her displacement is $500
TONS
According to the report of the di
rector of the mint the worlds produc-
ton of gold in 1897 was $685., 504, 800,
of which the United States produced
$57, 363, 900.
President Gilman in an address at
Princeton said that the problems left
by the war are graver than the war
itself Mr.. Cleveland was an atten-
tive listener.
By an explosion in the mixing
room of the Judson dynamite and
powder works, North Berkeley, Cal,
two men we're killed and the build
ing totally wrecked.
Justice Cox of Washington sustained
the action of Secretary of the Treas
ury Gage, who refused to award bonds
to subscribers whose names had been
used by syndicate.
The Episcopal General Convention
decided to extend the missionary work
of the church to the territory &C
quired by the United States and also
to Mexico, Brazil and Hayti.
During the last quarter the north
ern half of Germany has exported to
America 11,247,380 of merchandise,
an increase of $3,91O,835, compared
with the same period of 1897.
John Mccain of Clinton, Iowa, was
attacked with hemorrhage from the
nose. Doctors were unable to check
the flow of blood, and he died. He was
II years old and we'll known.
The Boston Fruit company's steam
er Beverly arrived having on board
Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hob
son, who is en- route to Philadelphia
tC participate in the peace jubilee.
The postoffice department. has ar
ranged with the postal department of
Japan for the indirect exchange of
money orders between this country
and Korea on and after Jan. 1, 1899.
David English of Jerseyville, ILL.,,
has given himself up to the police
in st. Louis, saying his conscience
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