Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-28
rescued from the Dutch bark Jahanna,

rescued from the Dutch bark Jahanna,
after trying experiences.
A local train on the Pennsylvania
railroad, near Jersey City, ran into a
gang of track workmen in smoke and
fog and killed twelve of them.
An employee of the Long Island
Railroad recovered a verdict of $13,500
against that company for injuries re-
ceived in a yard smash-up.
Robert Wilson, for many years
county Judge at Dodgeville, Wis, died
in his eighty-fifth year. He was a
soldier in the Black Hawk war.
DR.. Nancy Guilford, of Bridgeport,
accused of completely in the death of
Emma Gill, and who was arrested in
London, has been brought back.
Leaders of the white supremacy
party at Wilmington, N. c., have re-
ceived letters stating that they have
been marked out and will be killed.
George Chalmond of Marinette, Wis,
young negro wait, is in Chicago seek
ing Major General Miles, whose per-
sonal attendant he was in Porto Rico.
Governor elect Roosevelt is said to
be in favor of biennial instead of an
nua1 sessions of the legislature, and
Senator Plat is opposed to tAe change.
Professor Thomas A. Kennedy, of
London, England, died at the home of
his sister in Chicago of Bright's
disease. He was a well-known hypno-
fist.
Mayor Ziegenhein of ST. Louis
vetoed a curfew bill to keep children
off the streets at night on the ground
that it was an invasion of personal
rights.
Ex-President Cleveland, Captain
Robley D. Evans and E. G. Benedict
sailed on the latter's yacht for two
months trip about Cuba and Porto
Rico.
A national convention to devise
means of establishing a strict, but not
unfair, national quarantine against
yeIlow fever was begun at Memphis
Tenn.
Grand Master Workman Hicks, Of
the knights of Labor, in an address
at the annual convention at Chicago
declared in favor of territorial ex-
pansion.
Superintendent Pritchett,. of the
coast and geodetic survey, announces
the discovery in Alaska of $500 ad-
ditional square miles of United States
territory.
The United States minister to Mexico
has been instructed to demand the re-
lease of Temple, a railroad contractor,
confined in a Mexican jail on charge
of murder.
Representative Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania is of the opinion that the tariff
and currency questions will not be
taken up at the coming session of
congress.
g. w. Schmidt, wholesale liquor
dealer of Pittsburg, has filed a petition
in voluntary bankruptcy. The sched-
ule shows liabilities of S818,723 and
assets of $496,417.
Cornell university is in a state of
excitement over the elopement of E.
d. Mooers, sub-freshman, and the
pretty wife of E. B. Kay, an instructor
in the institution. -
1t is stated that Ex-Governor Flower
resigned from the New York demo-
cratic club at the demand of Judge Ed
ward f. O'Dwyer, one of Richard
Croker's lieutenants.
The Merritt Wrecking company an
nounces its intention to try to save the
N6ou;o Toroco ~, ite own hnoI Wrnolx-
ing vessels are to be sent out from
Norfolk at once.
Professor Henry Van Ingen, who
had been art instructor of Vassar col
lege since it's opening in 1865, died
suddenly of angina pectoris at Pough-
keepsie, aged 65 years.
A great strike of high grade ore is
reported near Snow Shoe Pass, on the
Warren trail, twenty miles south of
Florence, Idaho. A big stampede from
Florence is reported.
Dr. William F. Sensibaugh, dentist
of Fort Byron, H., is threatened with
paralysis as a result of the use Of an
electric battery as part of an initiation
into a local secret society.
In Milwaukee John Harvey Meyers,
who was arrested several months ago
on a complaint of having embezzled
$4,000, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced four years in prison.
41x-Mayor Frank Mcgowan of Tren-
ton, N. j., his wife and her sister were
inulcted in Cleveland for abducting
Mrs. Magowan's eight-year-old daugh-
ter by former husband.
Omaha has an Anti-Crowding Car
society. Last night members of the
organization intimidated conductor
and refused to allow him to stop for
passengers after his car was full.
The Missouri supreme court decided
that the Julian law, enacted by the
legislature in 1894, and providing for
the sale of public franchises to the
highest bidder, is unconstitutional.
John H. Keely, inventor of IA
NOUS motor, died at his home, in Phil
adelphia, where there also occurred the
deaths of Col Thomas G. Donaldson,