Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

declines reelection.
Edison, Jr., invents a machine TIC
utilize the wave power of the sea.
Yale and Cornell will have no row.
ing contest. They cannot agree.
Tom Jackson accidentally shot and
killed Grover Norris at Louisville, Ill.
The first step toward building the
Duluth ship canal is taken.
Members of an Illinois coal trust
have been indicted.
The Pullman estate inventories
s7,6OO,OOO
James A. Berry, the millionaire
tramp, who broke his leg recently at
Paducah, is dead.
Elihu Root has been elected presi
dent of the Union League club of New
York.
President Dole of Hawaii is ON his
way to Washington to urge the ratifi-
cation of the annexation treaty.
A large number of bank checks have
been stolen from letter-boxes in north
.ern and western cities.
A jury at Camden, N. j., acquitted
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of numbering her husband.
Lamartine Hudspeth, the Lake City,
Mo-, farmer who killed j. w. Kesner,
has been released on $4,000 bail.
Edward Killfeather, an Oregon poll
tician, and l. H. Taffe have been con-
victed of jury bribing at Portland, Ore.
Jacob Gesel was killed by William
1.pJ al n
ton, o.
James S. Starr, aged Is years, resi-
dent of Richmond, Ind, fell into
cistern and was drowned.
r. T. Bowles, who was injured IN a
collision ON an electric road near Ra11
cine, Wis, has died.
"A disastrous fire visited Sharton'
Tex. entailing d loss of $65,OOO; COW
cred by insurance.
Seaton Perry, well known dry gooos
merchant of Washington, committed
suicide.
Colonel Edwin K. Meyers was founo
dead in the yard of his home near
Harrisburg, Pa.
The Midland Trust Company of Port
Hope, Ont, has assigned, the deposits
being S150,000.
Louis Alfeld fatally shot Minnie
Packner, his sweetheart, at Cincinnati
and then committed suicide.
Two unfinished houses in Baltimore
collapsed and eight workmen were in
jured, two being expected to die.
Saginaw county, Michigan, is enjoy
ing an excitement over the discovery
of a five-foot vein of coal.
Gilbert of Iowa defeated Elliott OF
Kansas City in a 100-bird match for
the Duport championship trophy.
The senate committee reports adj
versely to H. w. COrbett's claim tolA
seat from Oregon.
President Mckinley recommends an
appropriation of $473, ISL to pay the
Boring sea claims
Mrs Mack was sentenced to Il
years Imprisonment for the murder
of Guldensuppe.
The largest woman bicycle rider ir
the world, Miss Margaret Clare of
Cincinnati, is dangerously i'll at Fort
Scott, Kan. She weighs Az pounds.
An interesting feature of the pro-
posed gigantic bituminous coal trust
is a profit-sharing plan in which the
miners will be allowed to cooperate.
Sergeant F-redericks of the Greedy
arctic expedition ridicules many Of the
statements of Professor Nansen as
preposterous.
It is believed the United States
will shortly intervene in defense OF
Cuba and ultimately annex that is
land.
Chicago parties are buying large
tracts of Wisconsin swamp lands
which they will drain and place on
the market.
The chairman of the democratic
populist and silver republican national
committees strive to bring about fu-
sion of the three parties.
Gov. Shaw of Iowa was inaugurated
Or. c. B. Day, son of the late Dr.
avid Day of ST. Paul, committed
suicide at Glencoe.
Colonels Corbin, Cuching and Lud.
iugton, U. S. A., are to be made
brigadiers, the former to be adjutant
general.
The exports from the United States
during November last showed a
gain of nearly $7,0l 0,00O over Novem-
Der, 1896.
Twenty per cent. of the cadets at
the naval academy have to wear eye
glasses on account of the inadequate
lighting system.
Dr. Cornelius Herr claims 100000
Indemnity from France for an illegal
attempt to prosecute him in connec-
ton with the Panama canal.
The production of tin and terne
plates in the United States during the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1897, was
446,982,063 pounds.
Chief Justice Phillips of the Illinois
supreme court decided case testing
fhn civil cn1syripn cvStoYo II, fo1yo,, A.