Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-19

wife accused of shoplifting, pleaded
guilty and was released.
Miss Helen Gould is the donor
of the new library of the University
of the City of New York.
A New York woman's hair turned
gray from an electric shock received
from the radiator of a trolley car.
Henry Watterson favors expansion
He says: What England has done
America may with safety attempt"
No action toward building an 18TH
milan canal will be taken while the
house is under present leadership,
Texas was visited by the earliest
blizzard for a number of years, and
unpicked cotton will probably suffer
The Danish steamer Nordkap, which
passed out of Cape Henry a month ago,
has not since been spoken or sighted
A two-cent postage rate to and
from Porto Rico was recommended by
Postmaster-G General Smiths commits
sion.
Taxes have become so high in New
York that many. manufactures are
gradually being moved into New Jer-
sey.
The Missouri Pacific railroad COM
pany, it is announced today, has paid
its floating debt of 81, 3O0,000 to Russell
Sage.
The 500 road has caused a sensa-
ton in railway circles by cutting it's
rates east by one-half for the holiday
trade.
d. t. H. Huzza, prominent
physician of Atlanta, died in New
York from an operation for appendi-
citis.
Men and women are fleeing from
Dawson City, striving to reach civiliz-
alton for fear of the winters priva-
tons.
AT the hanging of John Anderson at
Norfolk, Va, the first rope broke and
the murderer had to be hung second
time
Sailors from the steamship Veda-
more rescued 45 men from the sinking
i, 41son- Furness-L eyland liner Lon
DOMAIN.
Hanna, Elkins and others have a
plan to get a river and harbor bill
through that will boom Cleveland and
hurt Chicago.
Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance, says
his advice as to purchases of arms
had been overruled and rejected by
Secretary A1ger
The canal concession the Morgan bill
provides the government shall buy IS
not transferable to any government,
nor is it in perpetuity.
Grant Gillett, the fugitive Kansas
cattleman, who had been located in
Chihuahua, Mex, escaped before Of
fcers1 arrived there.
Senator Platt is opposed to White
law Reid as ambassador to England
and to the selection of Judge DAILY for
a supreme court bench post.
Senator Vest introduced resolution
against the appointment on a govern
ment commission of any person hold
ing a judicial or legislative office.
The Board of Trade of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
has drafted a bill to cut telephone
rates in New York City to $50 year.
Chairman Walker, of the house
banking and currency committee, be-
lieves that congress will not enact cur
rency reform legislation for some
time
A company headed by Thomas Kelly
has been organized to develop vein
of gold discovered in Auburndale,
Ohio, by workman who was digging
a sewer.
The president will bestow the ca
detships at large to the military and
naval academies upon the sons of
sailors and soldiers who fought in the
war with Spain.
In Philadelphia-Ha hall, the
headquarters of a number of German
singing societies, was Quilted by fire
The loss, estimated at $4,000, is partly
covered by insurance.
In his annual report Inspector-Gen-
eral Breckenridge recommends that
national guard troops be provided with
modern rifles of the same calibre as
those used by the regular army.
Gideon Marsh, former president OF
the looted keystone National Bank
of Philadelphia, who recently sur
rendered, after being a fugitive from
justice for seven years, pleaded guilty
Owing to the failure of Bedford, Pa,
physicions to correctly diagnose the
disease, over 200, persons suffering with
smallpox have been walking the
streets and spreading contagion broad
cast
Chicago lis greatly excited over the
proposal to grant practical control of
it's main thoroughfares for so years to
the street-railroad syndicate, and
threats of lynching aldermen are
made.
Kark Becker, known ali over the
country as the prince Of forgers, was
sentenced to serve seven years in
prison in California for defrauding
the Nevada bank of Frisco out of over
$4,000.
Representative Theodore E. Burton
of Ohio was elected chairman of the