Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-31

The Frolic, a converted yacht known
as a torpedo boat destroyer, has been
assigned to the Illinois naval re-
serves as a practice vessel in place of
the Wasp and will be sent to Chi
cago at once.
Railroads centering in Chicago have
taken the understanding fight into
court by asking injunctions restrain
ing brokers from selling return cou-
pons of tickets sold cheap for the
peace jubilee.
Miss Anais O'Connor, daughter Of
the late Representative M. P. O'Con-
nor of South Carolina, was married in
New York to Edward Lawrence Pugh,
of Washington, son of ex-senator
Pugh of Alabama.
The postoffice department has Or
dered the establishment of a military
postoffice station in Cavite, Philippine
islands, near Manila. It will be
known as military station No. 2 of the
San Francisco postoffice.
A syndicate with $20,000,000 capital
has been formed in New York to pur-
chase agricultural estates in Mexico.
1t is the most extensive business of
the kind ever undertaken in that
country by foreign capital.
The National Association Of Traffic
Commissioners has started to advO-
cate legislation putting express com
panies under control of the inter
state commerce commission and es-
tablishing parcels post.
The First National bank of Neigh,
Neb, suspended payment It re-
ported Sept, 10: Capital stock $4,000;
surplus $3,037; due to depositors $685.
956; borrowed money $4,000; cir
culation $11, $50; total resources $685.
243.
Warrants for the arrest of T. G..
Loucks, president, and W. S. York,
secretary of the Chicago-Virden Coal
company, were issued. The charges
relate to the recent trouble at the
company's mines in which fifteen lives
were lost.
The will of the late Mrs. Joseph P.
Smith, wife of the late secretary Of
the bureau of American republics,
which has been filed in Urbana, Ohio,
names President Mckinley, Solicitor
General J. K. Richards and Edward
F. Hutches as executors of the estate.
Antonio Velez Alvarado, a native of
Porto Rico, who lives in New York,
appeared before the register of voters
in that city and claimed the right
to be registered under the annexation
Of Porto Rico to the United States.
The registers declined to decide the
point.
The fifth annual convention of the
National Association of Agricultural
Implement Manufacturers was held
in Philadelphia. The report of
Secretary o. D. Frary showed that
273 firms are now regular members
Of the association and that 125 mem
bers are associate members.
Coroner Brown has the bodies of
two men, apparently 80 and As years
DID, at McGillis, N. Y, Morgue, await
ing identification. The bodies were
found floating close to shore fourteen
miles down the river and are thought
in Galoup's Rapids last week
Miss Reubina Walworth died at New
York after five weeks illness, of
typhoid fever. Her mother is Mrs.
Ella Hardie Walworth, directress gen
eral of the Woman's National War
Relief Association. She was nurse
at Camp Montauk and worked so
zealously and -sacrificingly that
she broke down.
No freight trains are running on
the east division of the Colorado Mid
land railroad in consequence of a
strike. The trouble originated when
a crew was called upon to take out
a three engine train. The men
claimed that the company made an
agreement some time ago not to run
three-engine trains.
At Youngstown, o., William H.
BrantOn, a grocer, shot constable John
Jenkins and then sent bullet through
the brain of his wife and ended the
chapter of homicide by shooting him
self through the right temple, falling
dead at the feet of his Victims Eight
months ago Branton married Miss
Minnie Kennedy. Recently she
left him, complaining of his i'll treat
ment.