Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-14

suit for alleged SANDER.
Ten men lost their lives in a
Pennsylvania mine.
Natural gas for power is successfully
used at Pierre, S. D.
Chinese laundrymen in New York
| City have organized trust.
Striking miners and imported ne
groes at Pana, ILL.,, fought again.
The historic house in which the
Boston tea party met in ITO, has been
torn down.
Charles S. Bulkely, once a wealthy
man, died in a charity ward in a New
York hospital.
President Mckinley in a proclama-
ton reserves land in Hawaii for a
naval station.
Patrick Gilligan, a Brooklyn con-
tractor, was murdered and thrown into
Newtown Creek.
Carl Schurz, in a speech to the
Citizens Union, made an attack on a
policy of imperialism.
The increase in the ordinary rev.
enues of the government for the past
year has been 1887, 582.
The total death list resulting from
the collapse of the Wonderland theat-
er at Detroit, Mich, is Is.
Two negroes we're wounded in a
battle between colored miners and
strikers at Pana, ILL.,, yesterday.
Captain George G. Benner and five
of the crew of the schooner Jennie r.
Wiley have reached New York after
Captain John M O'Keefe, of the
New York police force, died of in
juries received in falling down
stairs.
Joe Jefferson is suffering with
throat trouble and has been ordered
by his physicians not to leave his bed
for week.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., has de-
signed a railroad locomotive, with
new economic features, which is said
to be a success.
Texas voted favorably upon a con-
stitutional amendment to pension con-
federate veterans at So month. The
vote was light.
The Gillian minister requested Pres
ident Mckinley to permit Mr.. Blu
chanan, American minister to the Ar
gentine Republic.
DR.. T. D. Witherspoon, president
of the Louisville Theological semi
nary, and an eminent Presbyterian
preacher, is dead.
Eve girls escaped last evening from
the Illinois industrial school for
girls at Evanston by climbing down
the fire escape.
Senator Redfield Proctor, in an ad-
dress to the Vermont legislature, said
that we should retain all of the
Philippines if any.
The United States army and navy
are in good condition for active SER
vice if there should be a resumption of
hostilities with Spain.
J. Goldschmidt, the United States
consul general at Berlin, died. He
had been in i'll health for some time.
He was a Milwaukeen.
In Chicago Carl Doelle shot Mrs.
Bertha Riedel for refusing to elope
with him. He then shot himself.
Mrs. Riedel will recover.
C. H. Summers, chief electrician of
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany at Chicago, was suddenly seized
with heart failure and died.
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, is
sued statement that he had left the
populist party because of its course
at Washington and in his state.
Secretary Gage will furnish the
president his views regarding the
conversion of the Spanish silver of
Porto Rico into American money.
King G. Staples, a member of the
Wisconsin legislature, has been SEN
fenced at Washington to eighteen
months in prison for embezzlemeTt.
Princess Troubetskoy, formerly
Amelie Rives Of Virginia, is en-
gagged in writing two novels, and her
husband is illustrating one of them.
Arthur Williams, colored, OF Jack
sonville, Fla, after confessing to the
murder of Miss Eline Ogden, was
taken from the jail by a mob and
shot.
The New York convention Of Wo
mems Clubs applauded the sentiment
that no nation has right to go to
war without the consent of the Wo-
men.
George H. Babbitt, general superin-
tendent of the northern New England
division of the American Express COM
pany, died at Bellows Falls, VT, aged
20 years.
A sensation has been caused by the
disappearance of E. V. McConkey, a
commission merchant in Chicago. 1t
is supposed he has been kidnapped or
murdered.
Estimates have been made that the
Alaska gold yield FOR the next year
will be S300O0000 1t is said the sup
ply of ore will hold out for a hun
dred years.
Admiral Miller, in an interview in
Chicago, says that the Nicaragua
canal is needed by this country to aid
in protecting it's long stretch of coast
on two oceans.
A test of armor plate made by the