Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-09-12
'CELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC TICKS


has been sold for S75O,OOO.
Secretary Alger has ordered an H.
vestigation at Camp Wlkon.
A big bridge al Hoganstown, N. "
collapsed, killing 80 workmen.
Emile Zola, the French novelist, is
to lecture in the United states.
The fire which swept Owosso, Mich,
destroyed property valued at S2lS,ooo'
General Shafter has succeeded Cen
oral Wheeler in command of Camp
Wikoff.
Two children were murdered near
Charleston, w. Va, and thrown INTO
a deep pool of water
The damage from the recent storm
which swept Savannah, Ca, is now
estimated at 100000
The latest estimate is that the wheat
crop while the largest on record, will
not equal the expectations
A special invitation is sent to Lady
Henry Somerset for the W. c. L. U.
convention at st. Paul.
A heavy windstorm struck Ierre
Haute. Ind, doing great damage TO
property, No one was hurt.
Thomas F. Bayard is critically Ill
at Dedham, Mass, his condition nav
ing changed for the worse.
Capt. c. D. Sigsbee has been de-
tached from the St. Paul and assigned
to the command of the Texas.
Chaplain Mcintyre, of the battl9shlp
Oregon, is to be courtmartialed Tor
Admiral Gannc0n
Miss Winnie Davis, who is crltl-
cally i'll at Narragansett Pier, r. l.,
shows no marked Improvement.
The Society OF the Army OF the
Potomac, in session at Niagara Falls,
elected Gen. Orland Smith president.
A passenger train struck trolley
car near Cohoes, N. Y, killing eighteen
people and fatally injuring ten others.
Mr. James S. T. Stranahan, long
known as the first citizen of Brook
Ign, died at Saratoga, aged ninety
years.
1t is again reported that syndi-
cate is being formed to control the
oyster beds and fisheries of the United
States.
Assistant Naval Constructor Hobson
will return to Annapolis and take
charge of the course in naval archi-
lecture.
In Mingo county, West Virginia,
James Spaulding, constable, shot
and killed his brother-in-law, William
Maynard.
Three persons in New York were
poisoned by whisky which was sent
to them through the mails. One will
probably die.
A loss of $4,000 was occasioned by
the burning of the plant of the Hamp-
ton Manufacturing company near Bay
City, Mich
Frank George and Mabel Ferguson
of Brooklyn were drowned by the up
setting of a row boat near Norton's
Island, Conn.
The people of Brooklyn will give
reception to the men of the cruiser
Brooklyn, and each man will be pre-
sented with medal.
Major Russell Thorpe, one OF the
d. prominent figures of the western
country, was killed near Lush, Wyo.,
in a runaway accident.
Ex-Secretary Sherman has made it
known that if the republicans of Ohio
should nominate him for governor he
would stand by the party.
The democrats elected their state
ticket in Arkansas with the usual ma
jority and the republicans carried Yer
mont by decreased majority.
Unless his regiment can go to Cuba
William J. Bryan has signified his in
tention of resigning his command to
take part in the fall campaign.
Secretary Alger is pleased over the
result of the presidents visit to Camp
Wikoff. He says the conditions of
the place were found to be all right.
Rev. DR.. Peyton H. HOge of Will
mington, N. c., will probably be the
successor of DR. John Hall as pastor
of the Fifth avenue church, New
York.
Three persons were killed in the
wreck of the Chicago Limited train,
on the New York, Ontario and West
ern Railroad, at ingalls, Crossing, New
York
While fishing in Rock river William
CARMEL fell into the fume, was car
ried over the dam at Indianford, Wis,
and drowned. He was 40 yeals of age
and leaves a family.
The midroad populists at their con-
vention at Cincinnati nominated
Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania for
president and Ignatius Donnelly Of
Minnesota for vice president.
Miss Margaret Chandler, the wealthy
New York girl who went to Porto
Rico to nurse the sick, is herself in
a critical condition in the hospital
which she established there.
The National Dental association, in
session at Omaha, elected DR.. H. J.
Burkhard, of Batavia, ~ Y, president,
and DR.. B. Holly Smith, of Baltimore,
one Of the vice presidents.
Six men were killed and two were
wounded On a government steamboat