Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-20

year.
Secretary Hrger has directed that a
contract be made with Louis Gath
mann Of Chicago for an 18-inch gun.
The ordnance officers had reported
against it.
Mrs. Pamphilia Wolcott died at
Akron, Ohio, aged II years. She was
the widow of c. P Wolcottt and sister
Of Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war
in Lincoln's cabinet.
Miss Catherine Deering Nevins of
East Orange and Nicholas Boyle of
Wexford, Ireland, were married in
St. Johns Roman Catholic church, in
Orange, N. J.
Major J. G. Cravens, aged 81 years,
a curator Of the University Of Mis-
souri, and a prominent lawyer and
politician, died at Springfield, Mo-,
after brief illness.
R. F. Beecher died suddenly at
Wenona, Ill. He had been Identified
with the business interests of Wenona,
and was city treasurer and a member
Of the board of education.
Rev. Fl. L. Baugher, D. D., of Get
tysburg, died at Philadelphia, aged
So years. For twenty-five years he was
professor of Greek in the Pennsyl-
vania College, Gettysburg.
Mrs. Ethan Allen, wife of Colonel
Ethan Allen, grandson of the revolu-
tionary hero, died suddenly during a
performance Of Lohengrin at New
York, from heart failure.
Duke D'Arcos, formerly Spanish
minister to Mexico, may be sent to
Washington as diplomatic representa-
tive Of the Spanish government to ex-
change notifications of the treaty.
Don J. feathers, who managed the
famous AllertonNelson race for $10,-
900 in Grand Rapids in 1890, died in
Tallahassee, Fla, where he had gone
for the winter He was IS years old.
At Auburn, Cal, the buildings Of the
Big Dipper mine in the Iowa Hill dis
trict were carried away by the burst
ing of a reservoir. Five Chinese and
one white man were killed. Loss
10000
Mrs. William c. Whitney is to be
moved from her husbands country
home at Westport, L. l., to their city
mansion. It will be the fifth removal
since Mrs. Whitney's terrible accident
| a year ago.
An entire Italian colony was swept
out of existence yesterday at Silver
Plume, Colo, when a snOWslide de-
scended north of the town and carried
out six families. Nine persons per-
ished and fourteen are missing.
James H. Remington, veteran
lawyer, for many years head of the
United States Law association, COM
mited suicide at his home in Brooklyn.
He is supposed to have been mentally
unbalanced by an attack Of the grip.
Arrangements are under way and
partly completed for the amalgama-
ton Of interests of all the leading
wooden manufacturers in the United
States. The capital which will be
represented in this combination will
be at least $6O,00OOOO.
At ST. Louis, Boiler Inspector Price,
under investigation by the senate
Lexow committee testified yesterday,
admitting that he had made changes
in his records and had issued fifty or
sixty engineers licenses of which
there was no record.
The United States Varnish company
is being organized under the laws of
New Jersey with a capital of $18,000,
600 preferred and $18,000,000 common
stock. The new company will con-
solidate the varnish manufacturing
-
A letter from Guatemala states that
the government, in order to promote
the rubber industry, has issued a de-
cree offering caballeria of the public
equivalent to over 100 acres
to any person having 10000 rubber
trees over four years old.
There is a serious hitch in the work
of the Anglo-American commission
which may result in permanently end
ing the negotiations for new treaty.
The Canadian commissioners are said
to have demanded and the Americans
to have refused the cession of Skaguay,
Alaska
Beatty Baiestier, brother Of Mrs.
Rudyard Kipling, has gone to New
York from Vermont to sue Rudyard
Kipling for $4,000 for alleged mali
cious prosecution and false arrest in
1896. Kipling alleged that Balestier
threatened his life, but the case was
dropped.
At Akron, O., Nellie Howers brought
suit against the American Cereal Co.
to prevent the directors from turning
the company over to the prospective
combine. She sets forth, among other
things, that the conveyance would lie
illegal, as it is for the purpose of
forming a trust.
The National Steel company, which
is to control the rolling mills Of Ohio,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia, has
been incorporated in Jersey City. It is
not the $4000OO,000 trust which it
was rumored was about to absorb the
Federal Steel company, and Mr.. Car
negie is no. interested in it.
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