Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16

in bankruptcy, giving his liabilities as
S728.O4O and his assets as nothing.
Total liabilities of $1,166,536 and
assets Of $50 are the figures given oy
Thomas Fl. Brush, New York builder,
who fled petition in bankruptcy.
Every graduate from West Point IS
sure of a commission next spring, as
there are more vacancies in the army
than cadets in the graduating class.
A $4,000, 900 gas company was in
corporated at Trenton, n. j., in con-
nection with companies to combine
electric and oil lighting companies.
Silas Anderson, colored, who shot
and killed his wife on the 18th of
last March, was hanged. at Pittsburg.
Jealousy was the cause of the crime.
The American milk trust has been
organized at GAINESVILLE, O. The nom
inal capital stock is $4,000. Chicago
capitalists are back of the enterprise.
Henry Sherry, of Neenah, denies
the charges Of irregularity made
against him by those seeking to pre-
vent his discharges from bankruptcy.
| Purdue Agricultural college has is
sued a bulletin to the effect that the
| loss by hog cholera in Indiana has
been 100000 animals valued at $1,000
600.
The Amundson Printing company,
Chicago, which employs rs men, has
begun suit for SEE, 1000 damages against
Franklin Union No. 4, for ordering
strike.
Minnie French Evans, wife Of
Charley Evans, the player and man
ager, and herself an actress of some
note. died suddenly of apoplexy in
New York.
Senator Davis opposition prevented
Ex-Governor Merriam Of Minnesota
from receiving the appointment Of am
bassador to Russia, to succeed Mr..
! Hitchcock.
According to a Chinese report, Sc
cret treaty exists between Great
| Britain and the United States to pre-
vent any further alienation of Chinese
territory.
The heirs of Mary Ball Blown,
claiming $25,000,00O worth of Phila
delphia property, held third meeting
at Springfield, o. They claim to be
sanguine of success.
Miss Sophia Dallas of Philadelphia
| died, aged 76 She was the daughter
of George M. Dallas, who was vice
president OF the United States unuer
President Polk.
An attorney for the Standard Oil
company stated in court at Columbus,
| Ohio, that the books of the company
! were not burned, but they will not be
produced in court.
Young B. Clark died at Clarksdale,
ILL.,, aged IT, He was a resident Of
Christian county fifty-four years and
was one of the most widely known
men in that section.
Telephone and telegraph are sue
cessfully used simultaneously on sin
gle wire 10y Great Northern officials
and the plan will be adopted for all
the lines of the company. -
Mrs. Jennie Kinsman of Decatur, Ill,
died Jan. in the Bermuda Tslanus.
She was the wife of George G. Kins
man, superintendent of telegraph for
the Wabash Railroad Co.
1t is reported that Joseph Letter,
the Chicago ex-wheat speculator, has
purchased and will transform the
Rhode Island locomotive works into
| compressed air motor works.
George A. Armour has given $4,000
to found a classical alcove in the uni
versity library in Princeton, and a
yearly endowment for three years of
$2,700 toward it's support.
1t is reported that the eight Akron
sewer pipe factories have gone to
New York to participate in the or
ganization of a company to control
the manufacture of sewer pipe.
misunderstanding of orders resulted
in collision between a mixed train
and double-header freight at Elk
Valley, Tenn. Four trainmen were
caught in the debris, which took fire.
Otis Kendall, former president of
mathematics and astronomy at the
University of Pennsylvania, and for
many years one of the foremost edu-
Gators of the country, died at Philade1-
phia, aged 80 years.
The Kieckhefer Brothers manufac-
turing plant of Milwaukee passed into
the hands of the granite ware trust.
Checks for little more than S1,OO0,000,
transferring controlling interest,
were passed.
United States minister Conger, at
Pekin, has again protested against
| the extension of French concessions
at Shanghai, but he urged the extern
sion of the existing settlement on in
| ternational basis.
At Middlesboro, KY, the Henry M.
Ashby bivouac of the confederate vet
Grams adopted resolutions in praise
of President McKinley's Atlanta
speech and expressive OF it's approval
throughout the country.
| The Electric company of America
mas been incorporated in New Jersey,
with a capital stock of $25,000,000.
George w. Elkins will be its presi-