Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-12-25

be supplied with implements to play
baseball.
The American Federation OF Labor
adopted a resolution favoring indie
pendent political action of its mem
bers hereafter.
At Wheeler, Mich, Theodore Nelson,
aged 60, shot and killed his wife, aged
So, and then attempted to kill himself,
but was prevented.
Although under Indictment on a
bribery charge Speaker Adams will
preside at the special session of the
Michigan legislature.
Congressman Lacey thinks Secre-
tary Root May be nominated for vice
president Lands suggests Serene E.
Payne of New York.
The Civil Service Reform League, at
meeting in Indianapolis, criticised
President Mckinley for his civil SER
vice order of last May.
The troubles of the Globe National
Bank of Boston are said to be due to
the Standard Oils attacks on Montana
stocks it sought to control.
At Fremont, Neb., Charles Tawney,
aged % years, a nephew of Congress-
man Tawney, hanged himself to the
rafters Of his fathers barn.
Miss Amante Electa Semmes,
granddaughter of Admiral Raphael
Semmes, was married to Perry Finlay,
a. young lawyer of Memphis.
A Philadelphia firm is negotiating
with the Russian government for the
construction of large locomotive fac
tory and rail mill to cost S5,000,000.
The Inter-Island Telegraph company,
which intends to use the Marconi wire
less telegraph between Hawaiian is
lands, has incorporated for 100000.
The American Federation of Labor,
in session at Detroit, adopted a reso-
luton in favor of reducing the United
States standing army to $4,000 men.
The appellate division of the New
York supreme court decided it was just
as libelous to charge immortality
against man as against woman.
Edward Bates, who was appointed Ii
brarian Of the treasury department at
Washington, died at the home of his
father, DR.. Julian Bates of ST. Louis.
Fire at the Nebraska penitentiary
caused loss to buildings and contents
amounting to between $4,000 and
100000. The prisoners escaped in
jury.
Josiah Browne, secretary and treas
urer of the American Tobacco COM
pany, died at his home in Paterson, N.
j., from typhoid fever. He was 45
years old.
The two great whisky interests Of
the country, the trust and the indie
pendent association, are about to unite,
it is said, to gain a reduction of taxes
on whisky.
Stephen P. Anderson, a wealthy
builder and architect of New York,
committed suicide by shooting himself,
There is no known cause for the act.
He was AZ years old.
Capt. Geo. w. Shell died at his farm
near Laurens, S. c., in his sixty-eighth
year. He served in Kershaw's brigade
uuI1uS LlS civil Wal dlu w DIS COuSI
man for two terms after 1890.
At Tacoma Odam Crist shot his wife
fatally, killed his S-year-old son, seri-
ously wounded a second, aged 5 years,
and then ended the tragedy by putting
a bullet through his own brain.
At Perry, Okla, Matt Williams, pros
ecuting attorney of Pawnee county,
Oklahoma, former well-known poll
tician and lawyer of Iowa, fell dead
while making a speech to a jury.
Masons from all parts of the coun-
try gathered at Mount Vernon, Va,
the one hundredth
Of the death of Washing
ton.
Representative Roberts of Utah filed
a brief with the special house COM
mittee, asserting his right to his seat
in the house, and attacking the method
of procedure adopted by the COM
mittee.
A committee appointed by the gen
eral conference of the Methodist Prot
estant church at Kansas City in 1896 to
make a thorough examination of the
discipline of the church, has begun it's
work.
Six witnesses are expected to arrive
from Utah to testify against Mr.. Rob
erts of Utah, namely, Della Miles, Mrs.
McDougall, Thomas J. Brandon, Ray
Brandon, DR.. Wishard, and J. r.
DetcheF.
T. w. Leary Of Chattanooga has been
appointed general manager of the
Southern Express Company to sue
coed M. J. O'Brien, who was promoted
to the presidency upon the death of Fl.
B. Plant.
At a meeting of the Boston Clearing
House association, it was voted to issue
S3,500,000 in special clearing house GER
tificates to enable the Globe Nationa1
Bank to tide over the difficulties in it's
finances.
Mrs Nettie F. Craven, who claims
to he the widow of ex-senator James