Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-14
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
LlN1MLES'I'1C.

to become one u JIM lASIA"o1A
me rnoae ISLAND LOCOMOTIVE WORKS
are lnsolvenL, OWING over $6OO,OoO.
AL milwaukee OJuo j. Waiter, cham
pion wrestler, is oead.
AL Aiken, 5. e., une Highland Park
houel was Uurned.
Richard La Ga1lienne, poet, crlLlc
and translator or Omar hnayyaIn, the
Persian poet, arrived from Europe.
Sheriff brocknss OF Carson, New,
has been indicted for neglecting TO
prevent lynching.
Fhe trouble in DR.. John Halls
church, New York, has resulted in the
resignation OF the trustees.
George P. Tucker, OF Crescent, Ia.
killed his wife and her paramour, VIII
I1am McAllister.
Trouble is threatened in the Klon-
dixie and Canadian mounted ponce are
ordered there.
The amount of gold in this country
is estimated at $7O3, 100000, an in
crease of 81 100000 the past 80 days.
Hannah, the millionaire shoe manu-
facturer of Brooklyn, has been sued by
a woman, a sensation being in sight.
McColloch of Winnipeg was an easy
winner in another championship skat-
ing event on the Hudson.
senator Lindsay refuses to obey the
call of the Kentucky legislature to re-
sign.
At Scranton, Pa, a $225,0OO fire
burned The Y. M. C. A. building and
others.
At Little Rock, Ark, Sol Antrey.
erazed by religion, killed his father,
mother and son.
The libel suit of the Minneapolis
Trust company against the Minneapo-
lis Times resulted in a verdict of not
guilty.
The Washington government and the
Cuban revolutionists are said to be
negotiating with view to purchasing
independence for the island.
At Suisun, Cal, Frank Bellew has
repeated to the district attorney his
confession of the murder of his,
brother and sister.
The Canton, Mass, post office was
broken into and after blowing open
the safe the robbers carried Off over
$4,000 worth of stamps.
The president gave his second recep-
ton of the season in honor of con-
gress and the Judiciary. President and
Mrs. Dole, of Hawaii, were present.
The New York Central Railroad
company has absorbed the Lake Shore
road through purchase of it's capital
stock.
The trial of Sheriff James Martin
and his deputies, charged with murder
in shooting striking miners, began at
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
A resolution condemning Senator
Murphy for lis vote in favor of the
Teller resolution was introduced in the
New York state senate.
A convention of Pennsylvania bust
ness men met at the Philadelphia
bourse and declared for John Wanna
maker as a candidate for governor.
The steamship Manitoba, with $50
for the Klondike relief expedition, has
sailed from Alien, Norway.
Former Judge J. H. Garrison of
Omaha mas abandoned his law prac-
tice and become a christian science
healer.
De Wolf Hopper and his company
n Ell Captain, with John Sousa, the
Iamous bandmaster and composer,
are going abroad next season.
Philadelphia ministers to the num-
Ger of "a have declared war on the
disorderly houses of that city. which
are said to number nearly 1,400.
Gold to the amount of S13,000,000 has
been received at San Francisco from
Australia this season, including $780,,
600 soon to arrive
A call for the f'first regular annual
united labor and labor reforms con-
vention" to be held in st. Louis May
2, 1898, has been issued.
The imports of wool in December
amounted to 17,768,627 pounds, an
increase over November of about
100000 pounds.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce has authorized favorable
report on the anti-scalping bill, with
amendments.
General Merriam notified the secIe-
tary of war that he had completed the
details of the relief expedition to be
sent by the government to the gold
region in Alaska and to the Klondike
Fire destroyed the factory of the
Judd & Dunning Hat company at Beth
ell, Conn. The loss is estimated at
from $4,000 to $25,OOO About rs
hands are thrown out of employment
Henry Truetsen was reelected may
Or of Duluth over Elmer F. Mitchell
republican, by a majority of 1900 He
was nominated by the populists and
Endorsed by the democrats.
Coal operators and miners in west
ern Pennsylvania have united to fight
alleged determinations by the rail