Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-05
TELFGRAMS IN BRIEF.
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Alfred H. Love has been reelected
president of he Universal Peace
Union.
Senator Plat and Gov. Black of
New York held conference In Wash
ington.
Senior sagasta says hostilities may
be resumed.
The Philippine insurgents have
ceased hostilities and begin working
in the fields.
Gen. Cassius Marcus Clay has begun
suit for divorce from his child wife,
Dora Clay.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of JEFF
ferson Davis, is seriously i'll at Mar
ragans EFT Pier.
The pantr:es at Windsor Castle
contain gold and silverplate valued
at $750O,O0O.
Martin Irons, the well-known labor
ag tator, is dying of malarial fever
at Little Rock, Ark.
The Wayne county republicans Of
New York are solid for Col. Roose-
velt for governor.
Charges of scandals in connection
with the sale Of vessels to the gov
eminent are freely circulated.
The president has accepted Gov.
Blacks proposition to send the sick
New York soldiers to Fire Island.
The New York Merchants associa-
tons app al for aid for Camp Wikoff
has been generously answered
Admiral Schley was overwhelmed
by the kisses of the women clerks in
the navy and treasury departments.
Private Of Marines O'Shea fired the
first shot at Cervera's fl ct on July
3, from the bridge OF the Oregon.
The Rialto mills at Petersburg, Va,
collapsed, and about $4,000 worth of
grain was dumped into Appomatox
river.
The attendance at the Trans-M ssis-
sippi exposition, Omaha, has shown
a large increase since the close of the
war.
Rev. DR.. Hamel of New York, an
swering a d1vcrce suit, says he is
living in tent for economical rea-
sons.
President Mckinley has ordered the
promotion of forty one army officers
who took part in the capture of Man
ia.
Aguinaldo, the insurgent chief at
Manila, will send delegates to Paris
to attend the meeting of the peace
commission
There is a boom in business at Ha-
vana. The insurgents in the province
of Pinar del Rio are reported to be
quite destitute
Earl Rowe, aged 20, driver for a
Stoughton, Wis, livery firm, was
killed in a runaway. His parents re-
side in England.
Secretary Alger was i'll at Was hing
ton after drinking and praising Mon
tauk water, about which there has
been much complaint.
The steamer Juniata struck and
sank the yacht Wahneta in Boston
harbor. Eleven persons who were On
the yacht were rescued.
Chicago BARRIERS have decided to ask
the legislature to pass laws for the
registration of tonscrial artists and
for antiseptic shaves.
Captain Clarke, formerly of the
battleship Oregon, has arrived at
Benton Harbor, Mich. He is to have
three months leave of absence.
The supreme lodge, K. of P, elected
Thomas Sample OF Pennsylvania SUI
preme chancellor and Ogden H. Feth-
ers of Wisconsin supreme vice chan
cellor.
= Rev. George letters, of Philadel-
phfa, is critically i'll and his wife and
daughter dead at Shippensburg, Pa,
from eating toadstools in mistake for
mushrooms.
BOvee D. Core, clerk in the Vir-
ginia state treasuref's Office. was
found in bed ait his residence The
coroner decided that death resulted
from brain trouble.
Dispatches from army camps state
that incompetence, jealousy and red
tape by officials are the principal
causes CT the terrible S. ate of affairs
in the hospitals there.
Tillie Rasor, Is years old, coasted
down the dock at Sister Bay, Wis,
On her bicycle and being unable to
turn the wheel plunged off into the
water, and was drowned.
News has been received confirming
the loss of the Alaskan steamer Silk
inc Chief. The crew and passengers.
numbering forty-three persons, are
believed to have persisted.
Thirty-two men belonging to the
End and 3rd Wisconsin regiments
have been sent home from Charles
ton, S. c.. where they have been in
hospitals for several weeks.
joseph Maruska, a private in Com
pany G, fourth Regular Infantry, is in
Jail in Chicago On a charge of steal
ing diamond ring from a wor.an
on the west side before the war.
j. T. Kean, the candidate of the
republicans of S nth Dakota for lieu