Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-17
DOMESTIC.

Chicago October wheat, 63Ac.
Ex-Mayor A. Oakley Hall is dead
in New York.
Mrs. Phoebe Clark Crilley, aged 102,
is dead at New York.
The late Thomas F. Bayard left an
estate valued at $4,000.
John Jacob Astor declined to run
for congress in New York.
The New York Times has reduced
it's prace from to 1 cent a copy.
New York city will build big
ocean bath-house at Coney island.
Nearly $5,OOO,OOO will be spent on
New York city streets next year.
A man in Milwaukee is credited
with from a dozen to twenty wives.
Ex-Congressman Sherman Hoar
died of typhoid fever in Massachu-
sets.
Blanche Willis Howard, the Ameri-
can actress, is dead at Munich, Ger
many.
Most of the Georgia populists seem
to have gone back to the democratic
ranks.
Joseph Simon, republican, was
elected senator by the Oregon legis-
lature.
The Rev. John L. Scudder of Jer-
sey City has started a dancing class
in his church.
The liabilities of the ruined Trades
mems bank of New York are now
put at $4,O00,000.
Hiram S. Maxim was arraigned in
New York charged with bigamy and
abandonment.
Julius Newton, once a power in
Wall street, in New York, was crazed
by financial ruin.
The steamer Amur has arrived at
Victoria from Skaguay with about
300 pounds of gold dust.
H. Sidney Everett, son of Edward
Everett, died Tuesday at Brighton,
England, aged 60 years.
Jacob Ulman has been arrested in
Troy on the charge of stealing dia-
monds valued at $450,0O0.
At Fort Collins, Col, Joseph Muir
ray, United States agent in charge OF
the Pribyloff islands, is dead.
The sugar trust and the Arbuckle
combination began cutting prices.
Sugar fell to five cents a pound.
The collections of internal revenue
in August, 1898, show an increase
over August, 1897, of $11,OO6,235.
Senator Foraker in campaign
speech at Wooster, Ohio advocated
the retention of all the Philippines.
Baltimore and Ohio receivers de-
clare they never will be able to dis
charge the company's obligations.
Governor Tanner has ordered the
sheriff to command the strikers to
leave Virden and to disarm them.
Oxford, Miss, reports fourteen cases
and six deaths from yellow fever. Aid
is asked to feed 900 negroes there.
Commissioner Jones, in his annual
report, says there are 1882 pupils
being educated in Indian schools.
Dore Richardson, the divorced wife
of Gen. Cassius M. Clay, was mar
ried to Riley Brock, day laborer.
Joseph Corcoran killed himself at
Carlyle, ILL.,, because he accidentally
shot Leila Shade, his sweetheart.
the Troy Yacht Club and three friends
were drowned in the Hudson river.
Rev. DR.. Cunningham Geikie, the
wellknown religious commentator and
historian, is dead. He was Is years
old.
Two boys were burned to death
near Sanborn, N. D., and two men
L. fo4o o4o1 81 r do
Iowa.
1t is stated that the majority of
Allen D. Gambler, democratic nomi-
nee for governor of Georgia, was
about $4,000.
Mrs. Margaret J. Evans of Min
nesota has been elected the first wo-
man member of the American board
of foreign missions.
Ralph Johnston, aged II, the only
son of w. K. Johnston, architect, of
Chicago, was killed in a bicycle acct
dent at Whitby, Ont.
1t is announced that ex-senator
David B. Hill will stump New York
state for Judge Van Wyck and the
democratic state ticket.
Gen. 4. II. Coils has sent letter to
Mayor Van Wyck warning him
against casting inuendoes upon the
generals conduct in office.
Chicago railroad men and mer-
chants have formed a national anti
Understanding committee to secure
congressional legislation.
1t is reported that the number OF
lives lost on the Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina coast during the re-
cent hurricane was fully 100.
The republicans of Massachusetts
renominated Gov. Roger Wolcott and
adopted resolutions favoring the
retention of all the Philippines.
The court of appeals of Kentucky
has declared constitutional statute
requiring railroads to provide sep
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