Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-11

congress, has begun the practiceof law
in New York.
S. H. Strau.be, author and publisher
of religious and secular music, is dead
in Chicago.
All the docks at the head OF Lake
Superior broke the iron ore shipping
record in August
Henry G. Hilton said he will con-
test his fathers will unless the other
heirs share with him.
The government may get possession
of the pipestone reservation, contain
ing the valuable quarries.
Three men were killed and four
fatally hurt by the explosion OF
boiler at Manistee, Mich.
Policeman Strout of Minneapolis,
who killed the Dolan boy, was arrested
on a charge of manslaughter.
A. Allen Francis, aged So, capitalist
and land owner of Will county, died at
New Lenox, ILL.,, of typhoid fever.
Croker is said to have chosen Cor
poration Counsel Whalen as his lieu
tenant in place of John F. Carroll.
Five men were killed and seven
severely injured in a boiler explosion
in the republic iron works, Pittsburg.
F. M. Prescott, in a lawsuit, charged
that Thomas A. Edison and others con-
spired to take from him his business.
The big plant of the Jacob Dodd
packing compony at Kansas City was
damaged to the extent of $250,000 by
fire.
In Chicago August Jernberg, a real
estate dealer, confessed bankruptcy,
placing his liabilities at $1,443, 1877,
without assets.
An order has been issued by the war
department establishing a sanltarlum
at Fort Bayard, N. M, for consump-
tives of the army.
The last contract has been closed for
the machinery of the antitrust to-
bacco factory, which will be estab-
lished in st. Louis.
The Duluth and Minneapolis millers
argued in New York in favor of ade-
quate terminals in that city for the
storage of western flour.
DR.. w. B. Johnson of Savanna, ILL.,,
died of heart failure. He was Mason.
and for many years surgeon OF the st.
Paul and Burlington railway.
1t is said that if John r. Mclean is
elecNed goveror of Ohio he will be a
candidate for the democratic presiden-
tial nomination next year.
President Mckinley has promised to
attend the sesqui-centennial celebra-
ton of York, Pa, if other arrange
ments can be made to conform.
Exports from the United States to
Africa were in the fiscal year 1899
more than five times as great as in
1889. The total was 1854, 424.
Samuel Merrill, Ex-Governor of Iowa,
died at Los Angeles as the result of a
paralytic stroke which occurred sew
eral days ago. He was II years old.
The Pittsburg Rail Coal Mine COM
bination has ben formed with $4,000
900 capital. 1t controls 1O4 of LOT
companies in and about Pittsburg.
The bicycle trust was finally COM
pleted at New York by the election of
officers, with A. G. Spalding as presi-
dent. The capital stock is $30,000,00O.
The body of woman who died at
a Hastings, Neb., hotel has been ident1-
fed as that of Miss Laura Lee French,
formerly of Chicago Murder is sus-
pected.
Warren H. Corning, Cleveland, Ohio,
who for a number of years was direc-
tor of the American Distilling and
Cattle Breeders company, died aged
SO years.
A Washington dispatch states that
''red-hot' political campaigns are ex-
pected in Ohio and Kentucky. in the
latter state it is feared there may be
bloodshed.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has issued invi-
tations for the marriage of her niece,
Miss Julia Dent Grant, to Prince
PChantacuzene, Count Speransky,
Sept. %.
E. B. Nixon, general manager of the
Hudson Bay company, with headquar-
ters at Winnipeg, who is on his way
to Europe, was taken seriously i'll in
Chicago.
Two men, named Shippey and
Schuek have been arrested in Chicago
for running a fictitious storage-house
scheme to swindle people by getting
their goods.
The silk ribbon trust has perfected
it's organization and will be ready to
begin business ON or before Oct. L.
The capital stock of the new company
will be $3O,OO0,00O.
Comptroller Coler of New York, is
in favor of building the rapid transit
tunnel and increasing the water sup
ply at the same time, as the city will
have the money.
Daniel NJ. Henry, Cambridge, Md, is
dead. He was a prominent lawyer in
the eastern part of the state and a
democrtic leader. He served two
terms in congress.
In New York Policeman O'Keefe was
fatally shot by Michael Farrell, in
Farrelli's saloon, notorious dive. A
moh made q determined attemDt to