Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-19

| Senator Clark or Montana says Iu0Ie
is no copper trust.
Anthony Kelly, the Minneapolis
grocer, died suddenly.
The Mississippi congress open
ed at Wichita, Kan.
The fourth immunes were mustered
out at Camp Meade, Pa.
There will be no advance in the price
of window glass at present.
A pie trust has been formed in New
Jersey, with $3,O0O,00O capital.
| Frederick o. Prince, the Massachu-
setts democratic politician, is dead.
Secretary Gage defended President
McKinley's recent civil service order.
The Wisconsin national guard was
reorganized on the regular army basis
Senator Hanna does not want tC
manage the next presidential cam
paign.
J. P. Burton, one of the largest Goa
operators in the Massillon, Ohio, field
died.
Augustin Daily, the we'll known
theatrical manager, died suddenly II
Paris.
The whereabouts of Bellamy Storer
American minister to Spain, are I'M
known.
Senator M. A. Hanna narrowly es-
capped being struck by a Cleveland ca
BILE car.
Steel companies refuse to bid for
armor plate contracts, so the vessels
must wait.
Deaths from heat in New York
Thursday were &c. The total for the
week is 81.
A monument to Frederick Douglass,
former slave, was dedicated at Roches-
ter, N. Y.
At Louisville the German Insurance
bank was swindled out of $4,000 by a
bogus check.
Byron Douglas, the actor, is said to
have deserted his wife, who is niece
of Edwin Booth.
At Austin, Tex, 25 people were
drowned in a cloudburst. The property
loss is 100000
Fireworks dealers say they are
getting big orders this year, especially
from the south.
Chief Devery said he did not stop the
Jeffries- F'itzsimmons fight because it
"was not brutal
A statue of ex-President Arthur is
to be unveiled next week in Madison
Square, New York.
The United States Brewers Asso-
citation adopted resolutions opposing
the war tax on beer.
Attorney General Griggs' ruling IN
favor of the army canteen is to he
tested in the courts.
Nineteen naval officers have made
application for retirement. Only
eleven can be retired.
Secretary Long will purchase Har-
veyized armor plates for four monitors
and three battleships.
F'ifty-three graduates received their
degrees at the annual commencement
Of Bryn Mawr college.
The war in sugar between Have
meyer and Arbuckle is said to be but
a play to manipulate stocks.
Marcus r. Mayer. the manager, was
horsewhipped on ana ocean steamship
pier by Ida Orma, AL actress.
Hadley, on trial at Augusta, Ca, for
the murder Of O'Connell, the Mime
sofa soldier, was acquitted.
A serious wreck occurred on the
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf rail
road. Many people we're injured.
The Michigan congressional dele
cation decided TO cast its twelve votes
for Colonel Henderson for speaker.
A general strike of the employees OF
the American Smelling and Refining
company in Colorado is threatened.
Fire caused about a quarter of a
million dollars damage in the heart
of the business vectiun of Augusta, Ga.
A representative of the new fstiC
champion said that Fitzsimmons, the
loser, got the larger share of the spoils
The large coal pocket of Kahrs &
Co., at East Chester, borough of the
Bronx, New York, was destroyed by
fire.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company met in Philadelphia
and elected Alexander J. Cassatt presi-
dent.
Carrie Jones' offered to turn states
evidence in the Clarke kidnapping
case. Barrow will be tried Wednes-
day.
Four steamers carrying 700 passen-
gers and large amount of freight
sailed for Cape Nome and st. Michaels
| Alaska.
Twenty-eight men were buried in {
landslide at Ross Hollow, Ark, while
grading on the Choctaw & Memphis
railroad.
Governor Pingree Of Michigan, &C
cording to a statement of one Of his
friends, will not be candidate for re-
election.
The Northwestern Plow and Imple
ment association has ordered an ad
vance in price of 20 per cent. in farm
implements.
Wage scales are agreed upon where
by the $4,000 iron and steel work