Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-08-21

enough now to go around, although he
believes their ultimate value will
prove $2O,000,000.
Colonel John Jacob Astor, at his
Hudson River home, said he took no
stock in his cousin, William Waldorf
Astor, and that in fact the Aston
family in America did not recognize
him.
Thirteen survivors of the Edmonton
trail arrived at Wrangel, Alaska, Aug.
6. Among them were the following
Chicagoians: M. Rand1eman NJ. Ostig,
w. Hinxman, M. W. Weisen and c.
Stiefel
Two million bushels of wheat are
estimated to have been lost in yester-
days hailstorm in North Dakota,
which partially destroyed the crop on
nearly 100000 acres of land in the
state.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed in New York by Donald
Fletcher, a general broker, with liza
bilities of $217, 480, all but $51 900 con-
assets.
1t is announced that Dr. Charles
Cuthbert Hall, president of Union
Theological seminary of New York
city, will succeed DR.. Fairburn in the
Haskell lectures at Oxford univer-
sity.
Between 500 and 600 cryptic Rite
Masons witnessed the exemplification
of the degree at the Broadway theater,
Denver 1t was the completion of the
ceremony begun on the summit of
Pixies Peak.
Last evening Mrs. Clara Baldwin of
Irving, Ind, poisoned her husband, her
son. Is years of age, and her daughter,
Is years old, by putting strychnine in
the food eaten at dinner. Their condi-
ton is critical.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Vanderlip has reduced the salaries of
several chiefs of divisions in the office
of the auditor for the war department
for not enforcing discipline among the
clerks in their divisions.
w. T. Coleman, an ensign on the
battleship Iowa, who was to have-been
courtmartialed on charge of having
been intoxicated while the vessel was
at Puget Sound naval station, at
tempted suicide by shooting.
Robert Mann, of st. Louis, supposed
to have been killed in an explosion,
created a sensation by appearing at
his own and his wife's funeral ser
vices. The explosion occurred in
laundry and was succeeded by fire.
The final meeting of the delegates to
the national convention Of the Catho
lie Total Abstinence Union of America
was held in Chicago. A discussion
as to the best methods of waging war
against saloons occupied the session.
The Society of the Army of the
Potomac will meet in Pittsburg Oct.
II and II, instead of Oct 4, in order
not to conflict with the reception to be
given to Admiral Dewey upon his ar
rival at New York Sept. 80 or Oct. 1.
At Lincoln, Neb., the fusion county
convention has nominated for county
Offices two soldiers now awaiting mus
ter out at San Francisco. They are
Colonel Eager and Captain Cosgrove,
who have won fame in the Philip
pines.
A feud has broken out between the
Robinson and Savage families in the
mountains of Union county, Tenn,
near the Kentucky line. William
Savage was shot and killed by "Jack
Robinson. Savage fatally wounded
Robinson.
The administration is urged by
American merchants trading in China
to make an agreement with foreign
countries having spheres of in
f1uence'' in China not to impose diff
controlled by them.
Attorney General Griggs left Wash
ington for Connecticut, where he will
remain for few days, and then, &C
companied by the members of his fam
lily, he will join the president at Lake
Champlain. He expects to return to
Washington September 1.
Two hundred thousand live chickens
will be shipped from Trenton, Mo-, to
the Hawaiian islands as fast as they
can be bought up. The first car of
500 has been shipped, and others will
soon follow. American poultry brings
a high price in Honolulu.
At the Ohio conference of the Metho-
dist Protestant church the proposition
to permit women to go as representa-
tives to the general conference was
favorably acted on. There was but
one negative vote. The matter was
warmly discussed, however.
In Cincinnati the case of ex-Secre-
tary Alger against T. B. Anderson for
the recovery of $108,228 was filed in the
United States court. Anderson sold
the secretary 14,8O4 acres of land in
Tennessee, falsely alleging, it is
claimed that it was coal bearing.
EX-Representative James H. Lewis,
of Washington, was at the state de-
partment preparing the case of the
American miners who were driven
out of the Atlin mining district Of