Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-29

between American and Canadian min
ers.
Prof VIM. Hale McEnroe died sud
denly of heart trouble after receiving
a tempting offer Of professionship in
Cornell.
A plan for uniform legislation in all
the states was discussed at the correc-
tons and charities conference in Gin
cinnati.
Irish parishioners of St. Patrick S
church, st. Louis, are guarding against
the entrance Of a newly appointed Ger
man priest.
The St. Paul letter carriers who de-
manded the removal of Acting Super
intendent Hadlich will be let off with
reprimand.
The restoration Of the whipping post
for wife-beaters was advocated at a
dinner of the Medico-Legal society in
New York.
The new treaty with Japan, so far
as the landing Of Japanese sailors ct
American ports is concerned, is already
in effect.
The reclaimed Spanish naval cruiser
and Reina Mercedes, in tow OF the
tugs Merritt and Rescue, passed in the
Virginia capes.
A vein of ore carryin ten thOus-
and dollars in free gold has been dis
covered on a ranch near Custer City,
South Dakota.
Witnesses testified before the Mazet
investigating committee that over 125
poolrooms are open for business in
New York city.
Noah H. Swayne, who was Endorsed by
for governor, declined to have his
name considered.
The Para. strike finally has been set
tied, the mine operators having agreed
to send away negro miners and employ
only union men.
The North Dakota supreme court de-
clares unconstitutional a law designed
as we'll as state taxes.
Charles H. Cramp, the shipbuilder,
says there was never greater activ-
ity in shipbuilding in this country than
at the present time.
Traffic in dead bodies was one OF
the ramifcations of Tammany opera
lions, according to testimony before
the Mazet committee.
An extra session Of the legislature
has been called by Governor ROOse-
welt to pass an amendment to the
Ford franchise bill.
William A. Jones, general agent Of
the Empire Fast Freight Line, COM
mitted suicide in the midst of his
clerks in New York.
John Wilmot died in New York, aged
81 years, on the same day his brother
| Samuel Wilmot, died in Newcastle,
Can, aged II years.
The three Great Northern train rob-
bers convicted at Fergus Falls were
sentenced to nineteen and one-half
years in the penitentiary
Robert Gillian, general manager of
the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf
railroad, died at Kansas City after a
brief attack of typhoid malaria.
Nelson, the Brookings county IS. d.
auditor accused of embezzlement, who
escaped from his custodian in Mime
apOlis, was arrested in Eau Claire.
Oxford and Cambridge challenged
Harvard and Yale to athletic contests.
Again does the strike on the Buffalo
docks seem on the eve of settlement.
Rev. DR.. R. F. Sample of New York
was elected moderator of the general
assembly of the northern Presbyterian
conference, which met at Minneapolis.
The American Bankers association
has decided upon September 5, and
as the dates for it's next annual con-
vention, which is to be held in Cleve-
land
A consolidation Of southern steel,
iron and railroad interests which will
be reorganized with a capital Of $15,-
10000, has been practically complet-
| ed.
1t is alleged that Police Captain
O'Keefe of New York was murdered
because he had learned of plot to as
sassinate John McCullagh, ex-chief of
police
William McGaughey. the oldest man
in Washington county, Iowa, died. He
was born at Gettysburg, Pa, July Fl,
1902, and had lived in Iowa over fifty
years.
John H. Englis, retired New York
banker, was stabbed by Christopher
DAILY, beggar, who was dissatisfied
with aims recently given him at the
home Of Englis.
Clarence w. GaylOr, Justice of the
peace and insurance agent at Scars
dale, Westchester county, N. Y, filed
a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities,
| $149, 1856; no assets.
About $50 weavers employed at the
cotton mills of the Cocheco Manu-
featuring Company, at Dover, N. H.,
where a strike was settled about
week ago, struck again.
The American Water Works Asso-
citation, in session at Columbus, Ohio
adjourned to meet next year in Rich