Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-03

! rest. Fights with Ryan and sharkey
are off.
The recent death in Quitman, Ca, of
| A. e. Roe, a German musician and a
man of high education and apparently
of means, has caused much speculation
as to his identity.
J. Sterling Morton OF Nebraska, ex-
secretary of agriculture, says that a
new party, advocating democratic
principles under another name, may
win the next national election.
The state department and the Brit
! ish embassy are unable to locate the
! spot on which the reported collision
| between Americans and Canadians
took place in the gold regions.
In the Fallon-Stuart district judge
ship contest in the Kansas senate, J.
P. Grinstead, editor of the Wathena
Star, acknowledged receiving money
from certain populists but denied that
it was for supporting Fallon.
1t is said an understanding was
reached between President Mckinley
and Speaker Reed at Jekyl island,
/ where republican politicians of ma
tional prominence were gathered.
Professor Charles Augustus Briggs,
D. D., of the faculty of the Union Theo-
logical seminary, will soon be ordained
to the priesthood in the Protestant
Episcopal church by Bishop Potter
Frank Ainsworth, who attempted
| To hold I'm p11r1jn Otnn ovproco
Whitehall, ILL.,, in June, and killed En-
gineer Fred Dempsey, has been SEN
fenced to 40 years in the penitentiary
The Compressed Gas Capsule COM
pany filed articles of incorporation in
Newark, N. J. The capital is $15,OOO,-
900. The company will manufacture
compressed and liquefed gases into
capsules.
Our minister to China is instructed
to protest against any encroachment
| upon the American possession at
Shanghai, and to demand for the
United States the same advantages
that may be accorded to any other ma
ton.
Our minister to China has been in
structed to protest against any en-
croachment upon the American pos
session at Shanghai, and to demand
for the United States the same advan-
tages that may be accorded to any
other nation.
An erroneous report was sent out
from New York stating that ex-Sec-
rotary Sherman was dead Later a
dispatch was received from Santiago
contradicting the first report and an
nOuncing that the condition of Mr..
Sherman was improving.
Ambassador Won Holleben of Ger
many had conference with Secretary
Hay in regard to the situation in Sa-
moa. The German government is dis
posed to stand by its representative
there, while Admiral Kautz sustains
Chief Justice Chambers.
Dr. Charles Corey shot and killed
his wife at Tacoma while the two
were asleep. Corey was i'll, and his
story of the affair is that he was Ia
boring under nightmare He awoke
with start to find himself sitting in
bed with a smoking revolver in his
hand his wife was dead.
In bunch of street sweepings in
front of the Auditorium hotel, Chicago
August Lipke, a sweeper, found a $400
diamond. He showed it to a park po-
liceman, and the officer remembered
that R. H. Southgate of the hotel had
| lost a gem. Mr.. Southgate identified
the stone and gave Lipke $780,
The bodies Of Lonnie Lane, aged 22
Well-known families, have been found
near Kingston, n. G. It is believed
Lane shot Miss Sauls and then killed
himself. His attentions to the young
girl were not acceptable to her parents
and he had been forbidden to visit her
George Bidwell, the elder of the
| two brothers who gained worldwide
notoriety by defrauding the Bank OF
England out of $5,00O,000 in 1872 by
| forged securities, died in a lodging
| house at Butte, Mont, of pneumonia
after two weeks illness. He was
! 81 years old. The other brother died
3 weeks before.
Joe Willard, the actor who eloped
with Miss Aiken, niece of ex-Congress-
man S. M. Stephenson, two years ago,
is again in Menominee at the head of
his own company. Mr.. Willard has
been an actor for ten years, and it was
in May and June of 1897 that he cap
tivated one of Menominee's prettiest
and most popular society girls. The
people are generally bitter over his re