Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12
Heart failure is attributed as

the cause.
At Geneva, N. Y, already about one
tenth of the wheat crop has been de-
stroyed by the work of the Hessian n.y.
1t is thought that within a week S
time much larger part will be en-
tirely laid waste.
AT Missouri, Mont, in head-end
collision between an east-bound pas
senger train and fast freight on the
Northern Pacific, an unknown man
was killed and fireman named Eng
lish badly injured.
While temporarily insane, Mrs. S.
Jewett of West Toronto Junction,
Ont, murdered her 6-months old babe
and committed suicide. She crushed
the childs head with an ak, and
drowned herself in a creek.
At ST. Louis as the result of family
quarrel Charles Herzog, a teamster,
aged 80, last evening shot his young
wife and her mother, Mrs. Mary Sopp.
and then killed himself. Mrs Sopp
is dead and her daughter cannot live.
The United States will not cede
Pyramid harbor to Canada The state
department does not approve the
British governmc nt's proposition to de-
clare neutral the strip of country
from the Lynn canal to the Canadian
| line.
Miss Eva Shontz, president of the
Young Peoples Christian Temple
Union, has started out to tour the
country preparatory to calling a con-
vention to perfect national organ
ization which will convene in Chi
cago, Sept. 26.
Three treaties respecting CONNER
cial relations with Jamaica, Barbados
and British Guiana are in the hands
of the secretary of state. Sir Caven-
dish Boyle, government secretary of
British Guiana, is here to negotiate
treaty of reciprocity
An officer of the Woman's Temple,
Chicago, says that 100000 of the $780,
900 necessary to secure legal control
of the building has been provided for
Mrs. Carse will put into operation a
new plan for raising the necessary
funds to pay the debt
The time of holding the national
conference of reformers who favor the
abolition or suppression of the drink
traffic, etc., has been changed to Dec.
%. The reason for the change is hope
fulness for union of all reformers
for the national campaign in 1900
Miss Nella Bergen, as she is known
on the comic opera stage, has secured
divorce in Fargo, N. D., from her
husband, James D. Bergen, a glass
manufacturer Of Meriden, Conn. Miss
Bergen was member of De Wolf
Hopper's company, and will now wed
Hopper.
Sir Cavendish Boyle, government
secretary Of British Guiana, was pre-
sented to the secretary of state by the
British charge d'affaires, Mr. Tower.
Cavendish has just arrived from Lon
don and his special mission is to as
sist in negotiating a treaty of reel
procity for British Guiana.
The San Francisco bank to which
was shipped on the steamship Ala
media the 100000 sovereigns from
which the 5000 sovereigns were stolen
has refused to receipt for the balance
of the money unless they are assumed
that the shortage will be made good
by the steamship company.
At Dubuque, Peter Callaghan, night
Waterman at the Hotel Julien, was
killed by being caught in the elevator.
His face was torn off and caught be-
tween the car and wall, and the up
per part of his head was thrown on
Tor Of hn hn Hu linn hy-t 10
neck between the wall and the car.
The Louisiana state board of health
telegraphed the boards Of health of
adjoining states that representatives
OF the board, accompanied by Sur
geon Murray, of the United States
marine hospital service, had inspected
all hospitals and hospital records in
New Orleans and found nothing sus-
picious.
It has been decided to allow the
company of Filipino actors now de-
tanned at San Francisco to enter the
United States for the purpose of CIV
ing exhibitions. They will be re-
quired, however, to furnish a bond
that they will return to their homes
dllGI I1lS SAp11 cIClOI VI GlC11 CA5oSO-
ment.
S. F. Loeb, president Of the Stan
ford university trustees, is quoted as
saying that the property decided to that
institution by Mrs. Stanford is worth
$38,00O,OOO, and could be converted
into $15,0OO,OOO cash. The gift to the
trustees of 100000 shares of Southern
Pacific stock will not affect the man
agement of the railroad.
1t is learned that the ne
gotiations that are in pro-
gress at London between Am
bassador Choate and Lord Salisbury
relate entirely to the arrangement of
a modus vivendi to avert the danger
of a hostile collision on the Alaskan
border during the present season at
least.
The complete ticket nominated by
the Ohio republican convention is as