Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17

Moses w. Dodd, founder of the pub
fishing house of Dodd, Mead & Co..
died at New York. He was Sc years
old.
Candidates for the West Point mill
tary academy had hard battle with
boys of the village of Highland Falls
N. Y.
Astonishing revelations are prom
ised in New York city as result Of
the work of the Mazet investigating
committee.
The Pallium, the insignia of his Of
flee as archbishop, was conferred upon
Mgr. Chapelle at the New Orleans Ca
| thedral.
The executive committee of the In
dianapolis monetary convention adopt
| ed a gold standard resolution for the
benefit of congress.
The cruiser Detroit has been ordered
to Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Port Ii
mon, Costa Rico, to protect the inter
ests of Americans.
William j. Bryan will publish book
entitled Republic or Empire-The
Philippine Question, in which he ar
CUES against imperialism.
The trouble among the Christian
Brothers has caused the transfer OF
Brother Bernard from Manhattan Col
lege to Cairo, Egypt.
S. S. Benedict of Sioux City, Iowa
died, aged IS years. During the civil
war he had charge of consular cores
pondence for Secretary Seward.
Rev. Richad Osborne of Saratoga, N
Y, a retired Presbyterian clergyman
writer and poet, for many years resi-
dent of Chicago, died, aged Is years.
The cement syndicate, which claims
backing of $50,OO0,000, states that it
will erect the largest cement works
in the United States in northern In
diana.
Members of the fourth New Jersey
regiment, which was mustered out al
Greenville, S. c., terrorized towns
through which they passed by riotous
conduct.
/ A jury was secured at Canton, Ohio
to try Mrs. Annie George on the
charge of shooting and killing George
Saxton, President McKinley's brother
in-law.
Formal announcement has been
made of the engagement Of Richard
Harding Davis and Miss Cecile, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs John NJ Clark of
Chicago.
Frederic Emory of the state depart
ment has resumed the dictatorship Of
the bureau of American republics, Gen
eral Russell Hastings having declined
the position.
Mrs. Althouse, an important witness
in the Mrs. George murder trial at
Canton, Ohio, who is in Perryopolis,
Pa, declares in letter that she will
not return to testify.
Ex-senator Faulkner, a member OF
the Anglo-American commission,
thinks a settlement Of all commercial
differences between the United States
and Canada will be made. 4,
A gigantic rolling mill combine is
expected to begin operations in few
days in Chicago, absorbing 29 plants,
besides ore and furnace properties, and
having $55,O0O,000 capital
1t is stated that Archbishop Ireland
was appointed a representative Of the
United States at the disarmament con-
gress, but withdrew because Great
Britain and Italy objected.
Rajah, the big elephant at the win
ter quarters of circus in Argentine,
Kan, killed his keeper, Frank Fisher.
Fisher had been drinking, and angered
the elephant by striking him.
The United States grand jury at
Charleston, S. c., returned true bill
of Indictment against thirteen white
men who are charged with lynching
the colored postmaster of Lake City.
A sad domestic tragedy is said 70
have been revealed in New York by the
will of Mrs Marie V. Hunt, leaving
S., 900 to her unmarried sister provided
she is mot living with John w. Hunt. "
Thirteen lives were lost in a fire
which broke out in the residences of
Wallace c. Andrews, 2 East Sixty-sev-
enth street, and Albert J. Adams,
East Sixty-ninth street, New York city.
Private advices from upper Marlin
county, KY, state that Henry Masser
and his young son John were shot and
killed from ambush. 1t is thought
that Masser's neighbors did the kill
ing.
John Stockly Cary, chemist of ma
tional reputation, died in Evansville,
Ind For years he had laboratory in
Chicago, and during the worlds fair
he was chief chemist in the department
of mines and mining.
The president named the twelve war
ships authorized at the last session of
congress. The battleships will be the
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Geor-
gia; the armored cruisers the West
Virginia, Nebraska and California.
The Indianapolis council passed the
franchise ordinance by vote of 20
to l. The mayor will sign the ordi-
nance. 1t gives the street railroad
company the use of the streets for 81