Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-08

Y, succeeded o. V. Sage as warden
of Sing-Sing prison.
New important evidence is said to
have been found against Roland B..
Molineux in New York.
Lewis Baker, editor of the ST. Paul
Globe and eX-minister to Nicaragua,
died at Washington, aged 81.
Latest reports from the cyclone dis
aster around Kirksville, Mo-, show
that 60 people were killed.
A Guthrie, Okla, minister was
killed by lightning just as he con-
Guided marriage ceremony.
Sheridan Shook, formerly widely
known as a theatrical manager and
politician, is dead in New York.
At Yarmouth, N. S., the Barrett
Johnson Iron company has closed
it's plant for an indefinite period.
Dewey Day was celebrated in the
public schools in New York, Boston
and elsewhere by special exercises.
Bishop Turner (colored) says the
only solution of the negro question is
for the negroes to return to Africa.
Edward F. Croker, nephew of
Richard Croker, has been appointed
chief of the New York fire depart
| ment.
A colored man was lynched in
Georgia by his own race because of
his activity in searching out former
culprits.
1Five men were killed and one fatally
I,o of q nOW6nT'
press at Dupont's powder works in Del
aware.
At Terra Haute, Ind, six distinct
earthquake shocks were felt. They
were also felt in portions of Kentucky
and California.
William Waldorf Astor, by declar-
ing himself resident of England,
has escaped 100000 taxes on New
York property.
Messages were flashed by wireless
telegraphy from the war department.
building in Washington to Fort Myer,
three miles away.
The Texas legislature has under
consideration an even more drastic
antitrust law than the famous enact
ment Of Arkansas.
The Rockefeller copper trust. it is
said, will include all important mines
of the country, with a capital Of per-
haps 100000.
Exports of American manufactured
goods during March amounted to
$685. 025, 533, an average of 100000 for
each working day.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Vanderlip handed to Secretary Hay
the drafts for $4,000, 900 to be turned
over to the Spanish government.
A hearing was begun in Philadelphia
of the case of former United States Dis
trict Attorney e. P. Ingham, accused
of conspiracy with counterfeiters.
A prairie fire, swept by a cyclone,
devastated farms in path twenty-five
miles long and mile wide near
Coleridge, .Neb. Two lives were lost.
The trial of the Mccormick con-
spiracy case growing out of the Phoe-
nix election riots last year ended in
verdict of not guilty at Greenvlle, S.
C.
Mrs. Annie George, who was ac-
cused of the murder of George Saxton,
brother-in-law of President Nc
KinIey, was acquitted by Canton
(OhiO) jury.
President Mckinley, several mem
bers of his cabinet and Mrs. U. S.
Grant attended the unwilling at Phil
adeIphia of an equestrian statue Of
Gen. U. S. Grant.
In a fight with two desperadoes who
held up several persons near Brigham
City, Utah, Captain Brown of the Og-
den police force was killed, after he
had shot one Of the robbers dead.
Lieutenant o. E. Lasher, United
States navy, thrown from his trap
while out driving at Monterey, Cal,
April q, is dead of his injuries. He
was a native Of New York, aged 70.
The United States supreme court is
hearing argument in the case of the
government against the cast iron pipe
trust, the most important case ever
brought under the Sherman antitrust
law.
Prof. Carl A Myer, 80 years old,
professor of German language at the
Albany, N. Y, High school, and as
sistant teacher Of that study at the AL
bany Female academy, committed sui
eide
In New York fire badly damaged the
former convent Of st. Francis Xavier,
a large stone building on St. Catharin
street, now occupied by about dozen
small manufacturing concerns. Loss
$4,000.
The friends of Mr.. Quay claim that
he polled the senate before adjourn
ment of congress and secured pledges
from sixty-seven senators voted for
his admission to the senate if he was
appointed by the governor.
Henry 7. Sloane, the wealthy New
York society man, was granted an
absolute divorce with the custody of
the children. Mrs. Sloane was, i'm
me- diately after the decree, married to