Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-17


other buildings, was burned at Mem
phis, causing a loss of S450,000.
The ninth annual congress Of Amer
lean Whist league began in Chicago,
with some 400 enthusiasts present.
The Council Bluffs freight and ticket
agent of the Milwaukee road was ar
rested on a charge of enlightenment.
Edwin Jacoby, president and incor-
ator of the Toledo and Bowling Green
Railroad, died at Toledo, aged IS
years.
It is claimed that Atty.-Gen. Taylor
is sure of the republican nomination
for governor at the Kentucky state
convention.
Henrietta Crapp, daughter of an
Atlanta business man, has been miss
ing since Saturday, and it is feared she
has been kidnapped.
Having reached the age limit, Col.
Wagner of the fourth cavalry has been
retired. His successor is Maj. Hayes
of the seventh cavalry.
The League of Bimetallic Clubs OF
the Ohio valley will meet in Chicago
July 20 to devise plans for more
thorough organization.
Government aid has been granted to
help in the rescue of residents OF
Texas who are imperiled by floods,
and to carry them rations.
The sale of the Wisconsin Central
railway was confirmed and new Off
GERS were elected, General Manager
Whitcomb becoming president.
The governments of the United
States and Great Britain are said to
have entered upon an arrangement for
the destruction of ocean derelicts.
The National Congress of Mothers
will change it's name to National Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers, and
men are to be admitted to member
ship"
At a banquet speech at Columbus
Mr.. Bryan says the free silver plank
of the Chicago platform must not be
dropped, nor must any other plank
thereof
Steven A. Gardner, general superin-
tendent of the marine district of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad, died at Stanford, Conn, of
apoplexy.
At Cleveland free fight between the
Mclean and the anti-McLean factions
broke up the democratic county con-
Vention Contesting delegations
were chosen.
Thirteen persons are reported dead
and hundreds of others in peril from
the flood at Brookshire, Texas, where
the Brazos river is reported to be ten
miles wide
1t is said that by the discovery and
use of two pieces of land scrip, issued
by the government many years ago,
Cass lake, Mimi, will be retained by
the whites.
In Chicago the Ogden Gas company
will authorize an issue of $4,000, 900
bonds preparatory to invading the
territory Of the Peoples Gas company
and cutting prices.
The national house of representa-
tives will be asked to appoint a COM
mission to ascertain what effect the
opening Of the sanitary canal will have
upon the lake levels.
The senate finance committee is re-
ported to have agreed upon legislation
to convert greenbacks and treasury
notes into gold certificates and get
rid of the "endless chain"
At Columbus, Ohio, six members of
the family Of William Reinhard were
killed at a railroad crossing, the car
riage in which they were riding being
struck by passenger train.
Jacob Backus, an old American resi-
dent and head Of the Backus-Johnson
Brewing company and also of the
mines and smelling establishment at
Casapalca, died at Lima, Peru.
Chairman Mortimer G. Rankin of
the popuIist national committee says
his party will form no fusion with the
democrats in 1900, but will write it's
own platform and name it's own ticket
DR.. James I. Brownson, the vener-
able pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Washington and one of the
most noted divines and prominent edu-
Gators in the United States, died, aged
80 years.
In New York Roland B. Molneux
held for the death of Mrs. Kate j.
Adams, has issued card, stating that
he is being prosecuted and asking
only for fair play and suspension of
public opinion.
The civil service commission holds
that recent appointments of deputy
United States marshals are Illegal
and asks the controller Of the treas
ury to review his recent decision in
the premises.
At San Francisco the accidental
setting off Of a burglar alarm wrought
up the nerves Of Dr. Mary G. Edmonds
to such strain that she died from
fright She was a very talented and
successful physician.
At Santa Barbara, Cal, Mrs. Ada
Addish-Storke, a newspaper woman,
convicted of criminal libel attempted
to shoot Attorney Grant Jackson, her
prosecutor. She will now be held
for attempted murder.