Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-14

oIic university at Washington, fol
the establishment of fellowship in the
department of divinity.
The state department has instructed
Minister Hunter to press the claim Of
R. H. May against the Guatemala gov
eminent for $150,OO0, alleged to be
due May on railroad contract.
The annual report of the treasurer
of the United States shows that up tC
October 81 the expenditures for the
army and navy on account of the wal
with Spain amounted to $164 1892 ,228.
Ex-Governor Roswell Farnham Of
Vermont was severely injured by fall
ing from a railway station platform
and lies in a critical condition with
conclusion of the brain at Bradford
VT.
Senior Quesada, secretary of the Gu
ban delegation in Washington, has re-
ceived a letter from Lieutenant-Col-
onel Carbonne stating that the Cuban
army in the field is dying from starva-
ton.
Members of Forrest Camp, Confed-
crate Veterans, at Chattanooga, be-
came involved in Wrangle over 6
resolution to ask the president not tC
appoint colored commissioned Of
ticers.
A German girl living in Chicago
found a man whom she had loved
years before by addressing letters tC
him to many different towns. One
hit the right address, and they were
married.
The Chinese minister in Washington
has received copies of edicts recently
issued by the dowager empress Of
China showing how the reform pro
gramme of the emperor has been re-
pudiated.
A movement to consolidate the
brewing interests of New York and
Philadelphia is under way. The trust
if organized, will control $30,0OOO0
of capital, and an annual output OF
100000 barrels of beer.
Instructions have been issued by the
navy department for the suspension
of work on the four new monitors
which will be re-designed and made
more formidable ships than was or
iginally contemplated.
1t is understood President Mckinley
will recommend to congress that the
civil-service rules be amended so that
preference be given to the soldiers
who served in the war with Spain as
well as to civil war veterans.
The Clyde Line steamer Croatan
bound from New York to Whining
ton, N. c., caught fire off Cape Charles
ana burned and sank. rive persons
were drowned and % others rescued
by the schooner Alice E. Clark.
Total grain shipments via Erie canal
for the season, 20,844, 1888 bushels, as
against 21,940,180 last year, and
32,146,385 in 1896. There has been no
shipment Of Hour, as against 5,414
barrels last year and 62,O50 in 1896.
The president has appointed Will
lam II. Lucas collector of customs for
the district Of st. Johns, Fla, and
William H. Adair adjutant general
with rank Of lieutenant colonel Of the
militia Of the District of Columbia.
a terrible experience. Their vessel
was wrecked in a hurricane and they
drifted for twenty-five days on a
remnant of the hull, and for eleven
days were without food or water,
when they were rescued by a passing
vessel.
General Graham was relieved OF the
command of Camp Meade, Pa, by
General Young, who has been divi-
sion commander there, and General
Graham became sick at the disappOint-
ment of not being able to take his
corps to Cuba.
A gas explosion and fire practically
destroyed the historic supreme court
chamber, the congressional law Ii
brary, containing $4,000 volumes, and
several rooms adjoining the court
chamber in the national capitol at
Washington The damage may amount
to $1,0O0,00O.
The right Of city or town to assess
an occupation tax on a railroad cor
poration was sustained by the Ne
braska supreme cOm =, which holds
that such levy is not in violation
of Interstate commerce act nor valid
because it taxes a business transacted
wholly within the city.
The New York chamber Of congress
has addressed a memorial to President
Mckinley asking that he call an in
ternational congress to endorse the &C
ton of the Paris convention of 1870,
abolishing privateering and protest
ing private property, except contra
band of war, afloat on the high seas.