Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-08-28

Ex-Judge Henry Hilton is in an eX-
tremely critical condition, and it is
believed his end is approaching.
The postoffice department has order
ed a general weighing of mail matter
in all the postofices of the country.
The first national encampment of
Spanish-American war volunteers will
be held in Washington next month.
John Young Brown was nominated
for governor at a convention of anti
Goebel democrats at Lexington, Ky.
It has been proposed to send 200
boys and girls to Paris to assist in the
unwilling of the Lafayette Monument.
The MAGNIFICENT San Filipe hotel, at
Albuquerque, N. NJ, built in 1884 at a
cost of $103, 900, was burned to the
ground
Mrs. George A. Kingsbury, who has
sued her husband, the theatrical man
ager, for a separation, has been denied
alimony.
= Five hundred feet of trolley wire Of
the Egypt Electric Street Railway com
pany of Cairo, ILL.,, was cut down and
carried away.
Five women we're attacked within
"a hours at Little Rock, Ark, and it is
believed one negro was guilty of all
the crimes.
William Goebel, democratic candl-
date for governor of Kentucky, was
overcome by heat while making his
initial speech.
Friends of Senator Jones of Arkan-
sas say that he will not retire from the
craftsmanship of the democratic ma
tiOnal committee.
Conditions at the soldiers home at
Hampton remain favorable, but the
quarantine against the town of Phoebus
will not yet be removed.
DR.. Hiram W. Thomas, pastor of the
Peoples church Chicago, and Miss
Vandelia Varnum, the Well-knoWn
lecturer were married.
The Toledo centennial commission
has elected ex-Secretary of State Dan
iel J. Ryan of Columbus director gen
eral OF the Ohio centennial.
Forest fires in Jefferson county, New
York, are raging, and more than LOCO
acres of timber land and pasture have
been devastated since Sunday.
A hailstorm passed two miles east OF
Oaks, N. D., destroying all the standing
grain in a strip about two miles wide
and extending east to Forman.
Argo won the decisive race for
twenty-foot yachts at Oshkosh. Night
ingale, of Minnetonka, defeats Flying
Fox in the seventeen-foot class.
A. B. Mcintyre of Michigan is organ
izing antitrust leagues in counties IN
Indiana, he being one of a score or
more farmers who are working on this
line.
The commissioner of pensions re-
ports that the civil war pension rolls
are decreasing. A small balance re-
mains from the appropriation of $14O,--
$1,000.
Consul Foster, at Chefoo, reports
that American trade with China is in
creasing rapidly. Japan is the most
formidable competitor of the United
States
Two Denver policemen were killed
by a soldier from Fort Logan. They
were pursuing the soldier and two
boisterous companions. The murderer
| got away.
Albert Myers of New Philadelphia,
Ohio, shot his wife through the heart,
shot and wounded Miss Lib Cordrey,
aunt of the dead woman, and then COM
mitted suicide.
Richard Croker on his return from
Europe gave out an interview favoring
Bryan for denomination. His change
of attitude has caused much surprise
among democrats.
The Iowa democratic convention
adopted an anti-imperalist and anti
trust platform. The Chicago plat
form was Endorsed, but there was no
mention of silver.
At Bridgeport, Conn, the jury of in
quest into the cause Of the recent troll
! ley accident by which thirty people
were killed, indicted the motorman for
criminal carelessness.
Minister Hunter advises the state de-
partment from Guatemala of the ex-
tension of the time for presenting the
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til October 81 next.
The democrats of Iowa, in their state
convention, adopted resolutions indoors
ing Bryan and the Chicago platform,
and coming out against imperialism,
English alliance and trusts.
At Little Rock, Ark, five brutal as
saults by a negro on white women oc-
Cured. Three suspects have been ar
rested and, if the right man is identi-
! fed, a lynching is extremely probable.
Elder Jensen of the Mormon church
spoke for two hours on the common Of
Boston and later declared that it was
none of the business of the country or
of congress how many wives Mormon
had.
Anti-imperialists in the republican
party are discussing the ACCESSIBILITY
of putting an independent presidential
ticket in the field next year in opposi-