Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-22

in bankruptcy. His liabilities are
s19o 1874 of which only $31,854 are par
TALLY secured.
postmaster General Smith has issued
an order that postmasters at presiden-
tial Offices must not absent themselves
therefrom for a longer period than one
or two days without authority.
Ex-President Harrison has accepted
the place of honorable president OF the
general committee of the ecumenlcal
inference on foreign missions to De
held in New York next year
William T. Ross, in the Fergus FANS
Jail in connection with the Great
Northern train robbery, will be sur
rendered to a sheriff Of Missouri, be-
ing an escaped convict from that state
After experiments with wireless tel
eoranhv bv the United States signal
corps, General Greedy has concluded
that it will not supplant the present
svstem of wires but be very useful at
sea.
The Business Mems Republican
league of Pennsylvania issued publc
letter. daring Senator Quay to test the
feeling of the people toward MIN, py
accepting a nomination for state treas
urer this fall.
Governor Roosevelt has signed the
Atlantic avenue tunnel bill, which will
olive the Long Island railroad en-
trance to Manhattan island. The tun-
mel will cost S6,O00,000 and will require
21h years to build.
Gov. Smith of Montana notifies Gen
Merriam, in command OF the regulars
On dutv at Wardner, Idaho, that no
more arrests of suspected rioters IN
Montana will be allowed without
warrant from the state.
Lorenzo Snow, trustee of the Church
of Jesus Christ, has offered to donate
. 299-foot square, near the Mormon
temple, Salt Lake City, to the United
States for a public building, and the
offer is likely to be accepted
Superintendent of Schools E. BenJa-
min Andrews of Chicago, announced
he would not accept the offer made
him by the trustees Of the Colorado
Agricultural college to become the
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Rev. w. Allen Johnson, professor OF
church history at Berkeley divinity
! school. Middletown, Conn.,, for the past
quarter of century, has resigned
| His resignation has been accepted and
he has been made professor emeritus.
The Texas legislature passed the
antitrust bill 1t is more drastic than
the Arkansas law and debars any pool
or trust from doing business in the
| state, and specifies that where goods
are bought Of a trust they need not be
paid for.
Judge Kimball of the police court
here decided that the sale of liquors
on Sunday in Washington hotels was
| legal under the act of 1898, which he
holds was not repealed by the law
passed by the last congress, prohibit
ing such sale.
The United Confederate Veterans
adjourned at Charleston, IS. G.. 1t was
voted that the care of Confederate
graves in Maryland and the 'seceeding
states should be left to the women,
the general government to care for the
others if it wishes.
| Commissioner Hermann of the gen
| eral land Office has recommended to
Secretary Hitchcock that Bakers lake,
surrounding the shore line in the
Washington forest reserve, in Wash
ington, be set apart and used for a gov
eminent fish hatchery.
The democrats of the second Maine
congressional district nominated by
reclamation John Scott of Bath as a
candidate for the vacancy caused by
the death of Nelson Dingley. Mr.. Scott
delivered an address indOrslng Bryan
and the Chicago platform.
The trustees of the Southern Baptist
| seminary, LouisvIue, have accepted
| the resignation of President Whitsitt.
The trouble began with his statement
that Roger Williams and the Baptists
baptized in England in 1912 were
'sprinkled and not immersed.
Director of the Census Merriam, at
the request of President Mckinley, will
appoint Gen. M. v Rice of Lima, Ohio,
purchasing agent of the census bureau.
! Gen. Rice is a gold democrat, and for
four years was pension agent at Col
umbus, Ohio, retiring two years ago.
The report of the book committee of
the Methodist Episcopal church south,
regarding the war claim, is out, and
denies that agents tried to mislead or
| deceive United States senators. The
fee of 100000 paid to Major Stahman
for securing collection of the claim is
| held not to be excessive.
Representatives of over 25 mining
concerns, who control the output Of
soft coal in Illinois and Indiana, met
to consider an advance in the price Of
coal Higher rates of transportation
and an increase in the cost of labor are
given as the reasons which make the
contemplated change necessary.
DR.. Clifford Mitchell of the Chicago
| homeopathic Medical college staff,
has discovered that 81 per cent. of the
persons who committed suicide in Chi
cago in 1898 did so by drinking car