Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-20

Albert H. Polhamus, road foreman
of engines of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne Chicago Railroad, died at Fort
Wayne of pneumonia. He had been
with the company 4 years.
The war department has issued al
order embodying the plans for the in
crease and reorganization Of the army
ALI recruiting stations will be opened
at once and men enlisted as fast az
possible.
Ranchmen have carried provisions
to the passengers and crew Of the
Cheyenne and Northern Railway train
that is showed in at Iron Mountain
Wyo., and danger of their starvation
is averted.
The 1000 employees in all of the fac
tories of the Masses Harris company
at Toronto, manufacturers of agricul-
ture machinery, have been notified
that their wages will be increased Il
per cent.
The census bureau, of which ex-Gov-
ernor Merriam is director, will have 9
Vast duOuul VI pau OncIS0 W uloPO0N
of. 1t is said most of the appoint
ments will be made subject to political
considerations.
Harry Hutchinson, Is, has been ar
rested at Corinth, KY, charged with
wrecking an express train on the Gin
cinnati Southern railway. He was
held in $4,000 bail. Other arrests
will be made.
In Chicago fire wall of the eight
story structure at 207211 Jackson
boulevard which was partially burned
fell, demolishing the adjoining build
ing and setting the ruins on fire. Loss
S125,000, fully insured.
John Rex Guelph Norman, the
'Asiatic Healer" who came to New
York to try to cure millionaire Charles
Broadway Rouss of blindness, has
been expelled from the English
Philosophical Brotherhood.
There is danger of collision be-
tween American and Canadian miners.
1t is alleged that Canadians are en-
croaching upon American territory,
and Secretary of State Hay has sent
protest to the British government
At the last session of congress the
pension law was amended SO as to pre-
vent young women from marrying
aged pensioners, DESERVING them and
setting up claims for widows pensions
after the death of the pensioners.
Edward S. Taber, president and
treasurer of the Morse Twist Drill and
Machine Company, president of tne
First National Bank of New Bedford,
Mass, and one of the leading business
men of that city, is dead from pneu-
monia.
The New York Verdict prints let
ter written in 1897 by VIM. j. Bryan
to a Chicago editor, in which he ia
vored the initiative and referendum as
a state issue, but believed old issues
should be settled first in national
politics.
George Young, founder of the we'll
known hotel in Boston which Dears
his name, is dead at his home in that
city as the result of a stroke of par
alysis. He was 81 years of age. he
had retired from business some twenty
years ago.
Dr. Wales, secretary of the state
board of health, says small poX is
steadily increasing in North Caronna.
He reports the disease prevalent in
seventeen counties and letter from
Burlington, forty miles from here,
+114 O1o
there
At Fresno, Cal, the differences be-
tween the raisin growers associa-
ton and the packers have been finally
adjusted. The association will make
the sales and the packers will receive
a liberal commission. The packers
will form a new organization with a
capital of 100000, of which 100000 is
to be in cash.
Samuel Hudnut of Philadelphia, con-
ductor of the Blue Line express from
Philadelphia for CommunicapaW, was
beheaded at Bayonne. The conduc-
tor was on the platform of the first
car and as the train approached Leon
ard street railroad bridge, Hudnut
leaned outside to look at a hOtbox. He
was struck by a bridge support.
A train of three cars belonging to
the New York Susquehanna Western
railroad ran into three unoccupied
cars of the Pennsylvania railroad in
Jersey City. No one was hurt The
Susquehanna cars caught fire and
were burned, and one Pennsylvania car
was destroyed. The loss was $4,000.
An open switch caused the wreck.
The deposition of Edmond Rostand
in the plagiarism suit of S. E. Gross
against A. M. Palmer and Richard
Mansfield was opened by the clerk of
the United States circuit court, Chi
cago. In it are set forth the replies
of the author of Cyrano de Bergerac to
t,le questions put him in Paris by the
American commissioners, 0. E. Bod
ington and Fl. A. Alexander.
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