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

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September II.
Miss Ellen, daughter of Capt Sigs-
bee, was secretly married to Balfour
Kerr, an artist.
At Marion, Va. Thomas Martin and
his three children persisted in a fire at
his residence.
James R. Keepe says stocks must
drop and that the era Of prosperity is
coming to an end.
Bears were driven to cover in the
cotton market, an advance of 20 points
being made at one time.
Southern democrats at Saratoga de-
clared that Croker must have nothing
to do with the Van Wyck boom.
w. J. Bryan says that his candidacy
for president depends upon the terms
of the democratic platform.
Col. Peter G. Hams, Admiral Walker
and other members of the Isthmus
canal commission started for Paris.
Republican leaders are planning an
early national convention to denounce
trusts in advance of the democrats.
Mrs. May Wright Sewal1, the new
president of the International Council
of Women, returned from England.
w B. Cleveland & Co., wholesale
grocers at Houston, Texas, have failed.
The liabilities are $441,971; assets,
$753,199.
The government report shows the
condition of Minnesota spring wheat
to be higher than that of any other
state.
A special canal commission will rec
ommend the expenditure of $20,O00,000
in improving the New York water
ways.
At San Francisco five boxes sold for
$1,000 in the sale of seats for the fund
for a welcome to the California regi-
ment
800 telegraphers of the New York
| New Haven and Hartford road will
strike if their demands are not
granted
A communication from Leadville,
Colo, says ''Dan" Coughlin, who was
reported in the city, again has dis
appeared.
Congressman Berry of Kentucky de-
clares that Bryan would be in danger
of being shot if he undertook to stump
that state.
Western Bankers, it is said, propose
to agitate a general system OF charges
for collecting checks to offset New
York's plan.
In Pittsburg DR.. J. A. Doyle, at the
point of pistol, forced forty people
| a
ton was opposed.
At Newport News, Va, the yellow
fever is under control, and all of the
| patients in the hospital and soldiers
home are convalescent.
The contributions of school children
of this country toward the erection
of a Lafayette monument in Paris in
| 1900 amount to $45,694.
The late Robert Ingersoll, it tran
spires, had in contemplation a start
ling scientific experiment to test the
question of Immortality.
Rev. James H. Cook, bishop of the
African Methodist Episcopal church.
with headquarters at Wilmington, Del,
died from appendicitis.
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men on the United States transport
Victoria was only prevented by the
ships officers with drawn pistols
At Jackson, La, five negro children
were burned to death on a planta-
ton. The parents locked them up in
their house and went to church
The exports of manufactures from
the United States in the fiscal year
which ended June 80, 1892 were the
largest in the history of this country
The policy of England with regard
to the Indian minis is regarded by Mr..
Robert, director of the mint, as set
tied. The mint, he thinks, will not be
opened.
The Japanese government has con-
Guided arrangements for the purchase
of tobacco through agents and will OBJ
tain supplies generally from the United
| States.
At Bowling Green, O., the jury in
the case of John Zeltner, on trial for
the murder of Attorney Westenhaver,
brought in verdict of guilty of man
slaughter.
The Minnesota National Park and
Forestry association was organized
in Chicago, with President Northrop,
of the university of Minnesota, as
president.
Mrs. Emma Fechner, who is charged
with kidnapping in New York is said
to have lost six of her own children
by death and to be a monomaniac on
this subject.
Consul Skinner, at Marseilles, re-
ports that. a westward advance of the
plague is steady and constant, it's
latest point of attack being in Alex
andria, Egypt.
Advices from the north state that a
party of Canadian surveyors are at
Bennett to locate the boundary be-
tween British Columbia and the North
west Territory.
Col. w. G. Johnson, acting COM
mander-in-chief of the G. A. R., is a