Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-26

residence at Washington with brick
bats. smashing doors and windows.
Argument was begun in the United
States supreme court in case in
which the constitutionality of the
stamp tax of the war revenue act is
attacked.
A Christmas display in the show
window of the department store OF
Eugene Hartsteine & Sons, Milwaukee.
caused a destructive fire. The loss is
$50, $50.
Gillett, the absconding cattle plin-
ger of Woodbine, Kan, and his attor-
ney have gone to the Argentine repub-
lie. Gillett says he will go into the cat
tie business.
Senator Turpie denounced the Mari
time Canal company, which has con-
cessions from the government of Mic
aragua, as a fraudulent and bank
rupt concern.
Gideon w. Marsh, fugitive president
of the keystone bank of Philadelphia,
who returned to plead guilty, was
sentenced to twelve and one-Quarter
years in prison.
Seven cattlemen who became in
toxicated on the steamer Tauric bound
for Liverpool and who tried to run
matters, have been brought back to
New York in irons.
Colonel William Louis Schley, a
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars,
died at Baltimore of Bright's disease.
He was born rs years ago and was a
first cousin of Rear Admiral Schley.
At the Atlanta peace jubilee, which
closed win impressive ceremonies,
President Mckinley said that he sees
Tie long-deferred contamination of
his hearts desire-'one country for
ever"
Edward Johnson, of GAINESVILLE, O.,
is dead. He patented process for
pearling the barley, which enabled him
to control the market in the United
States, and he became known as the
barley king.
C.I. w. J. Bryan has accepted an
invitation to speak at banquet to be
given in Washington by the Virginia
democratic association on Washing
toms birthday, Feb. IL. Altgeld will
be there
A successful test of wireless teleg
raphy has been made at San Fran
cisco, where Prof. Albert Van der
Nailen has invented an apparatus by
which messages can be sent through
solid brick walls without the use of
wires.
Colonel Isaac Clement, formerly
warden of the southern Illinois peni
tertiary, and recently governor of the
Soldiers Orphan Home in Normal, has
been appointed governor of the Dan
vile Soldiers Home for Disabled Vet
Grams.
An Official estimate made pubic
contemplates the expenditure of $40,
coo 900 Of extensive public improve
ments for greater New York during
the next year, including big amounts
for schools, municipal edifices, bridges
and parks.
Croker says the S5O,OOO,OOO tunnel
for rapid transit the full length of
Manhatten island will be built by
private capital with every encourage
ment from the city government and
Tammany hall, but not built by the
city itself.
Rev. P. F. Jernegan, the man who
pretended to extract gold from sea
water and fled to Europe, leaving his
company in the lurch, has sent $751;
900 to the company's directors as a
peace offering preliminary to his re-
turn to America
Witten Mcdonald, manager of the
Old Fruit Farm in Howell county, Mo-,
and formerly banker in Kansas City
and former owner of the Kansas City
Times, has filed a petition of bank
ruptcy. He alleges that most Of his
assets are worthless, and places his
liabilities at $168,158.
Preliminary plans have been laid at
Philadelphia for the formation of a
powerful combine to control the street
lighting business, now in the hands
of private companies, all over tnat
part of the United States east of the
Mississippi river. George w. Elikns is
to be president of the company, which
will have capital of $12,00O,000.