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

nome III THAI CITY,
The steamship Lain arrived with
nearly 100000 in gold from Europe
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
has absorbed the Ohio Central system
Electricity is making bid against
gas for lighting private houses in New
York.
Senator Hill claims to control the
New York democratic state commit
tee.
DIR. Nancy Guilford, suspected Of the
Bridgeport murder, was arrested IN
London.
! Bertha Beilstein, Pittsburg girl in
fit of insanity, shot and killed he1
mother.
The Forepaugh circus train is re-
ported wrecked and two men killed
in w. Va.
Thomas Collins, aged Is, we'll
known railroad constructor, is dead at
Bellefonte, Pa.
! Refrigerator manufacturers are
planning to organize a combine with
Sc 1000, 900 capital.
| Governor Walcott of Massachusetts
is now under consideration as ambas-
sador to Great Britain.
! DR.. Nancy Guilford, accused of COM
plicity in the murder of Emma Gill, is
arrested in London.
{ Caroline M. Hoyt, the actress and
wife of the playwright, Charles H.
Hoyt, died in New York.
+, The New York wool exchange was
closed owing to lack of interest and
dullness of the wool trade.
Ex-State Senator J. G. Richardson
of Cincinnati, who was recently shot
by his brother-in-law, died.
The president is not expected to
issue his order modifying the civil
service rules after the election.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt is arrang-
ing a brief and vigorous campaign for
the governorship of New York.
In a serious railroad wreck near
Hillsboro, Ind, five persons were
killed and many others injured.
Joe Butler who knocked out Payne,
McCoy's sparring partner, has been
arrested and held in $1,000 bail.
James r. Keene is reported to have
made $1,5O0,O00 during the last few
days specializing in tobacco stock.
The New York police have notified
proprietors of music halls that liquor
must not be sold in the audiences.
Bishop Potter, in his address to the
New York Episcopal convention, OPP
posed extemporaneous sermons.
Sutherland Law, the noted cricket
player, jumped from the fourth story
Of a Philadelphia hotel and uled
Further reports from the Wisconsin
forest fires tell of more loss of life
and place the total loss at $1,500,000.
N. o. & J. Sawyer, wooden manu-
facturers at Dover, N. H., have failed,
with liabilities estimated at $1,000,000.
Farmers are largely responsible for
the forest fires in northern Wisconsin.
They started them to make clearing
easier.
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Ser
ras, has built funeral pyre for his
own cremation on the hills back of
Fruitvale, Cal.
All cable lines in Kansas City are
tc be changed into electric lines. The
change will involve about 100 miles of
cable track.
New Jersey democrats voted down
an Endorsement of the Chicago plat
form. E. w. Crane was nominated
for governor.
The Delaware tribe Of Indians are
said to have bought lands in Mexico.
to which they will remove from In
dian Territory.
T,1or who dis
missed from Miss Julia Arthurs COM
pany because of a debauch, suicided
in New York.
/ The civil engineers who have been
in Nicaragua examining the proposed
canal route have returned to their
homes in the United States.
The body of missing President D.
O. Eshbaugh, of the New England
! Loan and Trust company, New York,
was found in the North river.
DR.. John f. Isom, one of the best
known physicians of Cleveland, is
dead. Death was due to heart trou-
! be. DR.. Isom was 81 years of age.
The loss by the burning of the
Bradley Fertilizer Company's works
at Weymouth, Mass, was about $780,
600; insurance, $245,000.
Former Ambassador to Great Brl-
tain Hay took the oath of office as
secretary of state today and entered
upon the discharge of his duties.
Elbridge T. Gerry and Robert Goe,
let, two New YORK millionaires, have
become citizens of Newport, r. l., in
order to escape taxation in New York
city.
Savannah, Ca, was visited by g
severe wind storm. Loss to shipping
is reported heavy. Much loss of life
is feared on the South Caroline IS
lar DIS.
Relatives of three of the passen
gers lost in La Bourgogne disaster
have instituted suits against the
French line. They demand $4,000
in each case.
The body of former Ambassador
Thomas F. Bayard left Dedham, Mass.