Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-15

ington or are hiding in the mountains.
Don Passos and Mitchell yesterday
gave out the details regarding the pro-
posed federal sewer pipe company. 1t
will have a capitalization of $25, 000,
900, half of which is to be preferred
stock.
Vice President Hobart continues to
improve slowly, and hopes are enter
tanned by the members of the family
that he may be strong enough to be
moved to the seaside within a few
weeks.
DIR. W. W. Gooding, the superin-
tendent Of the government hospital
for the insane and one of the fore
most medical experts of the United
States, is critically i'll, with little hope
of his recovery. He is 68 years old.
Mail Carrier Brinal made a perilous
trip from Stickine river to urge the
government to send immediate relief
to over 200 men who are starving on
the Ashcroft trail, Alaska. Mules and
dogs have been the sole diet for weeks
before he left
The health officers of San Francisco
have ordered further detention of the
transports in quarantine for sixteen
days, on account of the development
of smallpox. This will render very
indefinite the departure of additional
troops to the Philippines.
Governor Stephens of Missouri has
signed a resolution submitting an
amendment to the constitution to the
vote of the people to allow st. Louis
to vote $5,O00,000 for bonds for the
Louisiana purchase centennial cele-
bration, to be held in st. Louis in 1908.
DR.. George T. Vaughan, of the ma
rine hospital service, has been detailed
to represent the service and the treas
ury department at the international
tuberculosis congress to be held IN
Berlin the latter part of this month.
He will sail on the 10th inst.
M. Taigny, of the French embassy,
who has returned from New York,
where he turned over to the National
City bank $5,O00,000 of the amount
Dd1u W Opd11l3 Wdo 4A1OA AACu Ny L l OoA
dent Stillman that the bank had al
ready paid to Spain $15,O00,0OO with
without waiting for the warrants from
this government, as it was felt these
would be forthcoming when wanted.
In New York Thomas McGrath, prl-
vate of Co. E, 22d regiment, mustered
out of service several months ago, shot
and killed Jennie Coyle, girl under
81, in the hallway of the house where
both lived and then sent bullet into
his head. He will die. McGrath,
who had made love to the girl, and
had been repulsed was angered be-
cause she had accepted attentions from
another man, and this was the motive
of the crime.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Association of American Physl-
clans came to an end. when the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Presi-
dent, DIR. E. G. Janeway, New York;
vice president, DR.. VIM. H. WEIGH,
Baltimore; recorder, DR.. I. Minis
Hays, Philadelphia; secretary, Dr.,
Henry Hun, Albany, N. Y; treasurer,
Dr.. J. P. Grocer Griffith, Philadel-'
phia; councillor, DR.. VIM. Council
man, Boston.
The will of the late Antonio Ensevio
Terry, who died in Paris, France, Dec.
IA, 1898, and who was the husband Of
Sibyl Sanderson, the singer, was filed
for probate in New York. The prin-
cipal legatees are Nine. Sibyl Sander
son, Swift Terry and Mr.. Terry's
daughter, Natividad Marta Mercedes
Terry. Several charitable institutions
are provided for. In case of the death
of Mrs. Terry, the estate is to be
equally divided among the children.
It is said the amount of the estate is
about 100000.