Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-05

obtained a divorce last week, had the
body sent to her at Juda, Wis, for in
torment.
Major Parker, appointed by Gen.
Breckenridge to investigate Camp
Thomas, has reported that the number
of sick is incre asing rs per cent. a
week and that the camp ought to be
abandoned Immediately.
M. R. Todd, cashier of the wrecked
bank at Preston, Mimi, has con-
fessed that he stole all the deposits
and sent the money to an accomplice
in La Crosse. His defalcations are
now sad to amount $4,000.
! A Washington dispatch states that
in ense feeling is exhibited over the
manner in which the southern officers
and troops have been ignored in the
war with Spain, and the matter will
be brought up in congress.
Wanda Won Speno Bodenback, al
legged to be an Austrian baroness and
heiress. died in New York of starva-
ton and disapp intment in conse-
quence OF the desertion OF her lover.
with whom she had eloped.
Mrs. Harriet Scott of Muncie, Ind.
sued fer a divorce from James Scott,
demanding $4,000 alimony. The cou-
pc have been married three times
and divorced twice, Mrs. Scott secur-
ing big alimony both times.
James l.. Stewart, tobacco dealer
of Edgerton, who was ruined by the
failure of the bank of Edgerton, died
from the effects of an overdose of
laudanum, taken with suicidal intent.
He leaves a wife and six children.
The carriage of Gen. A. w. Greedy,
occupied by the family nurse, Mary
N. Lambert of Washington, D. c.,
and the generals two children, Adolf
plus and Gertrude, figure in an ex-
citing runaway at Amesburg, Mass.
John Cation, a civil war veteran of
Rutland, VT, enlisted under the call
for troops fer the present war, and
soon after his p: nsion of $6 month
was stopped. Some of his friends are
now raising a great row about this.
Mrs. W. W. Woodwcrth, a rich but
eccentric old lady of Beaver Dam,
Wis, was found unconscious amid
filth and squalor at her home. She
had been without food fer days and
was nearly starved. She is sc years
old.
The descendants of Samuel Packard
have just celebrated the two hundred
End sixt;eth anniversary of his i'm
migration to this country. He settled
in bingham, Mass, in 1888, and there
are now 1000 descendants in his
family.
It is not yet definitely and abso-
lutely known whether Justice White
will accept a position ON the peace
commission, and it may be necessary
to select another man. In that con-
tingency, the name Of Senator Lodge
is suggested.
Admiral Dewey has informed the
navy department that he has an
abundance of supplies FIR present
needs of his squadron at Manila. He
announces the arrival Of the Austria
liam refrigerator ship with fresh meas
and other provisions.
Frederick T. Day, who was presi-
dent of the Plankinton Bank at Mil
wauAee, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy, asking for a discharge from
his debts. He owes $503, 889.31, and
there is, according to the petition, not
one cent for the creditors.
The 125 convalescent list Illinois
soldiers who arrived at Montauk Point
no oof1xr ho 41~or 10
have been transferred from the troop
ship to the Hospitals. They say that
the sail rs treated them shamefully,
r-bbing them even of their rations.
Senator Wellington thinks the
United States will have to keep an
army in Cuba several years to main
tain order. He believes that the Gu
bans are incapable of self-govern-
ment, and the experiment of az, in
dependent government will prove a
failure.
During a heavy gale of wind fire
broke out in D. B. Buffers large
saw-mill at Frankfort, Mich, spread
ing to the Frankfort Hardwood Man
ufacturing company's broom-hand' e,
factory, which stood near by, COM
p1etely burning both to the ground.
The total loss is 100000.
Ex-Governor William J. Stone, of
Missouri, who is in New York. de-
clares that unless the New York
dem ocratc state conventi~n at SYRIA
cuse inoorses the Chicago platform
the state will lose it's standing in the
next national democratic convention.
The declaration has caused considera-
BILE agitation.
Yellow fever in the south is being
stamped out. At Franl1ling, La, the
cases which made their appearance
there are getting we'll. and at Gal
weston. Tex, where the fevcr is said
to have made it's apps arance among
the soldiers and conc rning which
doctors have disagreed as to it's grn
uineness, the patients are recovering.
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