Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24
M at Milwaukee Saturday.

The national organization committee
of the populist party met in st. Louis
and decided to take a referendum vote
as to the time for holding the party's
next national convention.
The Michigan Republican Editors
association has decided to send a rep
resentative to Mexico to study the
practical workings of the unlimited
coinage of silver.
Bishop McFaul of Trenton, acting as
arbitrator, has decided that the COM
ing convention of the Reunited Ancient
Order of Hibernians shall be held at
Trenton, June 81.
Apparently trustworthy information
from the Indian Territory is to the ef-
feet that there has been no uprising
of the Seminoles and that no massacre
has occurred.
Minnesota officials have reached
Fort Worth, Tex, with Sam Copeland,
who is wanted at Saltwater, Mimi,
for robbing a bank of $4,000 two years
ago.
netition protesting against the an
nexation of Hawaii signed by lOU sugar
beet raisers of Ven ura county, Gail
| fo,nia has been forwarded to wash
| ingtOn.
president Mckinley has pardoneo
Clvde Mattox, twice convicted OF LIE
murder in Oklahoma, Ok, IN DeceM-
hor 1890 of John Mullins, negro, ana
sentenced to hang.
The senate committee on judiciary
made a favorable report ON the nolnl-
nation of Acknowledgement Mchenna
tn he an associate justice OF the united
States supreme court.
Edwin H. Conger of Iowa, Unlteo
States minister to Brazil, mas peen
| nominated as minister to emma a'l'
q. p. Bryan Of Illinois has been NOM
mated as minister to Brazil.
Mrs. Shafter, wife of General Will
lam R. Shafter, United States army
is at the point of death at her home at
Fort Mason, Cal.
| .Joseph C. johnson, who was ar
rested in Montana, will be brought
back to Missouri to stand trial ON
charge of abducting a white girl.
Charles Marsh, who was arrested IN
Kansas City ON a charge of swindl1ng,
Turns out to be Boston Charley one
of the cleverest confidence men IN
the country.
Robert Caldwell, Smith Hellon, John
Williams and Tom Wilson, colored,
were killed in drunken fight near
Barboursville, KY, and William Bur-
gas mortally wounded.
In the trial of the suit OF Charles M.
| Despeaux against the Pennsylvania,
Railroad company in Philadelphia,
| William Rockefeller testified that the
Standard Oil company got rebate on
oil shipped over that road.
The approximate earnings of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company
for December, 1897, were $2,312, 544,
/ which is an increase of $134, 739 over
the actual earnings for December,
1896.
| A syndicate of New York capitalists
has secured an option on 80 per cent.
of the general ware potteries in Tren-
ton, N. j., and East Liverpool, O., the
two principal potteries of the coun-
try.
The secret marriage in Cleveland, o.,
of Vernon Van Norman to Miss Maude
Theme on Jan. 1, has just been
brought to light, the home of both be-
ing at San Diego, Cal, where they
are well known.
"a 1on1o Whitman fOrnnnrIv noavOr
of Duluth and a state senator of
Minnesota, has compromised his suit
with the Columbia National bank of
New York for 100000 damages for
false Imprisonment. He got 81, 500.
Secretary of State Sherman has is
sued another appeal for aid for the
destitute and suffering Cubans. Presi-
/ dent Mckinley has appointed central
relief committee, with headquarters at
| New York.
Richard Thomas and Richard Muir
ray were killed and Louis Rich badly
injured by am explosion Of 100 pounds
of dynamite in the Eureka and Excel
sior mine near Bourne, Baker county,
Ore.
Robert Pithie, bridge contractor.
has discovered a deposit of natural
cement near ST. Helena, Cal, which he
says is mitch superior to the imported
article, and which can be procured at
much smaller cost.
Ignatius Donnelly is at work on ia
new Baconian cryptogram. He now
claims that Bacon not only wrote the
Shakespeare plays and sonnets, but
that he was probably the author of
Don Quixote.
Elijah Davis, aged 65, and Miss Fan
ME Spaulding, aged 67, were married
at Webster City, Iowa. Davis saved
his bride from drowning in 1851 and
they would have been married at that
time but for the objections of her par
ents.
Miss Elizabeth Van Wyck Anderson,