Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-09
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bribing.
James A. Hawley, aged sc, is dead
at Dixon, III.
The jury in the Streator Doodle
cases failed to agree.
Duke Cyril, cousin Of the czar Of
Russia, is in Chicago.
Gov. Tanners Office at Springfield,
ILL.,, was entered and $3.50 stolen.
Another Minneapolis elevator was
burned, with 100000 loss.
Marcus P. Hayne, president of the
Minneapolis baseball club, is dead.
Government receipts for the last half
of 1898 were the largest for 80 years.
Letter postage from Canada to the
United States is now 2 cents an ounce
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., is re-
ported to be engaged to Miss Virginia
Fair
Rabbi Joseph Schachne dropped
dead in a synagogue while holding
services.
For the first time in the history Of
the city, the pool rooms at Louisville
were closed.
Major-General f. V. Greene has
resigned his commission in the vol
unteer army.
Charles t. Mitchell, a pioneer bust
ness man of Hillsdale, Mich, died at
the age of 80.
New state officers in Wisconsin,
New York and other states were in
augurated Monday.
George Ingram Barnett, one of the
pioneer architects of st. Louis, is
dead, aged "a years.
The populist railroad bill has been
passed by the lower house of the
Kansas legislature.
Owing to a landslide, part of a
mountain fell on the Swiss village of
Airolo, creating havoc
Coroner Saml. H. Ashbridge was
nominated by the republicans as
mayor of Philadelphia.
The local office Of the Wells-Fargo
Express company at San Antonio,
Tex, was robbed of 100000.
At Princeton, Mo-, Ira Sexton was
hanged for the killing of Nathan
Stark, farmer, Oct %, 1897
OllFSl IL bS1lI1O4C uGO Will
drawn from the firm of August Bel
mont & Co., bankers of New York.
Richard Harding Davis is rumored
to be engaged to marry Cecile Clark,
daughter of Chicago millionaire.
Serious charges are preferred
against the Grand Forks IN. d. land
officers and they may be removed.
T,,1 al ic sr,
trouble, being accused of violating a
contract. Her property is attached.
At Cincinnati Chauncey W. Young,
of Dayton, filed petition in Bank
ruptcy Liabilities, 100000; no assets.
Senator Hanna filled out a check for
$4,000 for the Ohio building of the
new American University at Washing
ton.
A w. Peters, president of the
borough of Manhattan and formerly a
well-known stock broker, died sud-
denly.
DR.. William r. Rothwell, professor
Of theology and moral philosophy in
William Jewell college, died at Lib
erty, Mo.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of the late Senator Morrill,, Of
Vermont were held Saturday at Wash
ington.
The widow of Lawrence r. Jerome,
who died in New York, in her will
disinherits son who is her husbands
namesake.
At Springfield, Mass, Dominique
Krathofsky was hanged for the
murder of his step-daughter, Vic
toria Pinkus.
Fire in the dry kiln of the North
Side yards of the John Schroeder Lum-
Der company, Of Milwaukee, caused a
loss of $4,000
A bill will be introduced in con-
gress providing for modern equip
ment for the national guard, and
reorganization.
Fl. Clay Montgomery, a prominent
merchant of Decatur, Ill, and ex
treasurer of Macon county, shot and
killed himself.
A magnificent memorial hall in
honor of the veterans of the civil war
was dedicated in the new pubic IL
brary, Chicago.
Opponents of Senator Quay of
Pennsylvania say it will be impos-
sible to form a combination to pre-
vent his reelection.
AT Pittsburg the Third United Pres
byterian church was almost completely
| destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000, COW
cred by insurance.
Petitions favoring arbitration from
over 100000 Christians of all
parts Of the world were presented to
President Mckinley.
Senior Romero, Mexican ambassador
to the United States, died from shock
after undergoing an operation for
| appendicitis.
The price of Montana cattle this sea-
son has averaged 5 per cent. higher
than during any season previously in
the history Of the state.
Judge Scott rendered a decision in
New York that the names Of women