Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-26
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At Keene, N. H., Gen. James Jensen
Dana is dead.
DR.. John Hall, the famous New
York preacher, died in Ireland.
Star Pointer trotted a mile in
1:O59%, breaking the track record.
Captain Allyn Capron, LIST artillery,
died at his home near Fort Myer, Va.
The total receipts from internal rev.
enue during July amounted to $27, 8O4,-
573.
Richard Busted, once noted law
yer and politician of New York, is
dead
DR.. Samuel Eliot, former president
of Trinity College, Connecticut, is
dead.
DR.. Abraham M. Owen died of heart
disease at Evansville, Ind, at the age
of 40 years.
! Secretary Day and Assistant Secre-
| tary Moore of the state department
resigned.
Jacob Worth has joined hands with
Platt and will aid the campaign for
Roosevelt.
At Evansville, Ind, DR.. Abraham M.
Owen, leading physician and sur
j geon, is dead.
Gas and gasoline stove manufacture
ers have taken preliminary steps to-
ward forming a combine.
President Mckinley will visit In
dianapolis on his way to Omaha and
make a short political address.
The wife of Senator Davis used a re-
volver on robber and compelled him
to jump from a moving train.
Secretary of the Navy Long an
nounced that the battleships Iowa and
| Oregon would be sent to Manila.
! Congressman R. R. Hit of Illinois
is talked of for ambassador to Great
Britain to succeed Colonel Hay.
The entire debt of the Omaha expo
sition has been lifted and there re-
mains in the treasury about $4,000.
Officials of the Union County bank
at Railway, N. j., were frightened by
demented man who demanded
Sis, 900.
/ Work on the Cristobal Colon is to
| be abandoned, as the officer in charge
says that it is not possible to save the
vessel.
The postmaster general issued an
order which practically makes all
money order offices postal savings
banks.
The LIST republican congressional
district of Colorado nominated
Charles Hartzell of Denver for con-
gress.
| Winnie Davis, daughter of Jefferson
Davis, is dead at Narragansett Pier.
She was "a years old. The burial was
at Richmond.
Col William J. Bryan will resign
his commission, as the war depart
ment declines to muster his regiment
out of service.
Theodore Roosevelt met Senator
Plat and was officially announced as
of New York.
A solemn requiem mass for the re-
pose of the soul of the dead Empress
Elizabeth of Austria was celebrated in
ST. Patricks cathedral.
Passed Assistant Engineer Bennett
has been selected as representative OF
the United States navy on the Paris
exposition commission.
The secretary of the navy issued an
order recognizing the north Atlantic
squadron. The feet is reduced from
about 100 vessels to 80.
Henry E. Wolcott was nominated
for governor of Colorado by the repub-
licans. He is a brother of United
States Senator Wolcott.
Three men held up a Manawa train
near Council Bluffs and secured sew
eral hundred dollars from the con-
ductor and passengers
Lewis L. Haupt, president of the
North American Life Assurance COM
pany of Philadelphia, died at Philadel-
phia. He was u years old.
Governor Ellerbe is believed to have
won a denomination for governor of
South Carolina in the democratic pri-
maries, but the vote is close.
Col. John S. Cooper of Chicago will
organize a movement for national
park-game preserve and health re-
sort-on the upper Mississippi
Miss Perkins, the young woman
thought to have been murdered and
dissected at Bridgeport, Conn, reap
peared, alive, we'll and married
It is expected that a new effort will
be made to have Mrs. Cordelia Botkin
removed from California to Delaware
for trial on the charge of murder.
Two indictments against George W.
Holt, a millionaire fire insurance
broker of Brooklyn, charging him
with arson, have been dismissed.
J. Addison Porter, the presidents
secretary, was defeated for the nomi-
nation of Connecticut republicans for
governor by George E. Lounsbury.
The Union Veteran Legion, which
has been holding it's annual encamp-
ment at Williamsport, Pa, selected
Do 20 TO Of