Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-21

amount of money, but are unable to
open the through safe. The passen-
gers were not mOlested.
The state department has received
formal notification that Austria-Hun-
gary is about to raise it's legation in
Washington to the rank of an en-
bassy. This government will recipTo-
cate by advancing the rank of the
American legation at Vienna.
The British ship Cromartyshire was
seized at Philadelphia on libel filed by
the Campaignie Generate Trans
Atlantique for $2,5OO,OOO to recover
damages for the collision between the
Cromartyshire and the French pas
senger steamer La Bourgogne.
The Spanish Countess Anita de
Bellencourtt McMurrow, who enter
tanned Dom Pedro, General Grant and
General Sheridan, and was a friend of
Grover Cleveland, is in dire poverty
at Philadelphia. Fine pictures belong
ing to her are to be sold at auction.
Judge VIM. H. Taft of the United
States circuit court of appeals, presi-
dent, and w. G. Heron, secretary Of
the Cincinnati Civil service society,
forwarded to President Mckinley a
protest against the proposed contrac-
ton Of the civil service merit system
which rumor says is about to take
place.
J. H. Laird, merchant of Kirk
wood, ILL.,, had $4,000 in currency wrap
ped up in piece of newspaper to
take to st. Louis. He laid the pack
age down in his bedroom while he
took bath, and during his absence a
young daughter picked it up with
some other papers and burned it in
the stove.
Joseph Baird, a colored politician
orator, was taken from Seymour, Ind,
jail and beaten by a mob. He was
then ordered to leave the city. Baird
was arrested for collecting money for
forged order. He declares he will not
leave the city and threatens to prose-
cute the men who whipped him.
Henry Breuck of California, a mem
Der of Troop K, United States cavalry,
and Miss Maud Nicholson Of Bedford.
Ind, were married at Jeffersonville
Ind, by a justice. They had never
met before, but as he was passing
through on train Breuck saw Miss
Nicholson and fell in love with her
A proposal and elopement followed.
1t was decided by the Chicago ban
quet committee of the national peace
jubilee to contribute the $4,000 profit
derived from the banquet to the benefit
fund for needy soldiers and sailors of
the late war. With the $4,000
turned over by the ball committee
and the twenty per cent. dividend Of
original fund, the benefit fund will
amount to $4,000
The race trouble at Wilmington, n.
c., reached a crisis. At least nine
negroes were killed and three white
men were wounded. The whites as
serted their supremacy and new mu-
nicipal government was installed.
Eight lives have been lost as re-
suit of race troubles that started on
election day in Abbeville county,
South Carolina
At Norfolk, Va, a negro giving the
name of George w. Broan, who ar
rived from Wilmington, n c., was at
tackled and badly beaten in the post
Office by several young men, who it is
said, took him to be Manly, the negro
editor who was driven out Of Whining
ton for printing scandalous charges
against white women. Manly is said
to be in Asbury Park, N. J.
The report of serious trouble at
Okmulgee, capital Of the Creek Indian
nation, on election day has been con-
firmed. The trouble arose between
the full bloods and the mixed breeds.
Clubs, pistols, knives and chairs were
brandished and used freely in the row.
One man was killed and eight others
had been wounded, one of them seri-
ously. Their names are not given.
The steamer Dove arrived from
Cooks inlet, Alaska, with twenty pas
sengers. Among them was Lieuten-
ant Spur, who with a party of three
had been surveying the territory be-
tween the Kuskokawile and Sushal
rivers. Lieutenant Spur discovered
new range of mountains, several
hundred miles in length, running from
Lake Clark to the headwater of the
Tanana The average altitude of the
range is from 1000 to 5000 feet.