Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-18

at her summer home in South Rox-
bury, Mass.
The international Society of
Christian Endeavor continued it's con-
vention at Nashville.
j Halton and Shoemaker's fve-story
brick factory building in Philadelphia
was destroyed by fire.
Prince Victor Emanuel of Italy, ac-
companied by Count Carpenette, have
arrived at Saratoga.
/ Fourteen persons were killed and
much property destroyed by a cloud
burst at Steelville, Mo.
Victor F. Maidhof, former consul to
Saxony, is reported to have persisted
in a snowstorm in Alaska.
The big Hotel st. Joseph, on the
beach at St. Joseph, Mich, was de-
stroyed by fire. One man lost his life.
Fire in Pittsburg destroyed the
Worlds theater and several small
structures. The loss is estimated at
SITE, O0O
| Mrs. Martha w. Place was found
| guilty of murder in the first degree
in killing her stepdaughter in Brook
Ign.
| August Benzinger, of New York, an
artist. was married to- Miss Gertrude
Lytton of Chicago, whose portrait he
painted.
Napoleon B. Heater is dead, aged
II. He was one of the wealthiest
and most prominent men of Bloom
1ngton.
The National City Bank Of New
York is drawing checks on it's foreign
exchange. But the tax can not be
avoided in this way.
| Miss Mollfe, daughter of Christie
pher Moller of New York, was mar
ried in London to Capt. Ewart of the
Cameron Highlanders.
Insurance Commissioner McNall
has revoked the license of the Con-
Inecticut Fire Insurance company of
Hartford to do business in Kansas
The appropriations at this session
of congress aggregated 1892 1881 of
which 1851, 788,O95 was exclusively for
the purposes of the war with Spain.
The president nominated Brigadier
Generals Hawkins, Lawton, Chaffee
and Bates to be maj or-generals. The
nominations were confirmed by the
senate.
Perry Belmont5s chances for the
democratic nomination for governor
in New York are said to have been
improved by his commission as
major in the army.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup of Chicago
was named by the President as one
of the members of the commission to
revise and amend the patent laws
of the United States.
Leo D. Well, the young Chicagoan
who achieved prominence through his
inventions in art photography, COM
mitted suicide He had been in poor
health and respondent
Tt is announced that James j.
Corbett and Kid Mccoy have agreed
upon terms for a twenty-fve-round
match to come off at Buffalo, Aug.
27. The purse will be $4,000.
A sensation has been caused in
Camp Barrett by the refusal of Com
pany M of Woodland, eighth reg1-
ment of California volunteers, to
accept the officers appointed by Gov
e1nor Budd.
/ A strong protest against raffies and
chances at church fairs and against
stock speculation was made IN
committee report to the triennial Con-
gregational Council in session at
Portland, Ore.
While the Schmid brothers, jewelers.
of Newcastle, Pa, were watching the
parade Of the Buffalo Bill show thieves
entered their store from the rear and
escaped with 100000 worth of dia-
monds and jewelry.
The dry season has so seriously in
! jured the vineyards of the Livermore
valley, Cal, that it is estimated that
the yield will only be about one-third
| of last year. In some localities the
crop will practically be total loss.
Twenty Klondikers laden with gold
arrived in San Francisco on the
Hattie I. Phillips. These men, among
whom is J. H. Ellis of Chicago, have
with them over $4,000 in gold dust
and drafts for nearly 100000 more.
A meeting of distillers was held
at Cincinnati at which was declined
the proposition of J. B. Greenhut of
the Standard Distilling company to
| have the distributors of Chicago.
St. Louis, Cincinnati and other places
meet him in New York.
Fire destroyed the works of the
Western Starch Association at West
Hammond, Ind One man was slightly
scorched. Seven of the nine build
| ings comprising it's plants were burned
! to the ground. The loss is estimated
at $4,000 covered by Insurance.
| Miss Harriet S. Chandler, whose
home is in Milwaukee, applied in
the New York police court for a,
| warrant for the arrest Of her brother,
Samuel J. Chandler, whom she charges
with kidnapping and illegally detain-
ing her in a sanitarium for two
months.
While purchasing some medicine IL
a drug store in Chattanooga Albert