Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-27
DOMESTIC.

the congressional librarianshlp.
The conference of American rabDls
at Cincinnati discussed Zionism.
John Sherman is critically i'll with
pneumonia at ST. Pierre, Martinique.
A measure for a new East River
bridge passed the legislature at Al
bany.
Mrs. Martha Place was electrocuted
in New York for numbering her step
daughter.
Lady William Beresford, formerly
Miss Lily Price of Troy, arrived from
England.
Rudyard Kipling continues to i'm
prove and will leave his room IN
few days.
Carter H. Harrison was unanimous
ly renominated for mayor by the dem
ocrats of Chicago.
Judge T. L. Davis, one of the best
known lawyers of southern Kansas,
died of heart failure.
A combination of decorated glass
and metal lamp manufacturers IS IN
process of formation.
A. G. Spaulding is at the head OF
a movement to form bicycle trust
with capital of $50,000,0O0.
The transfers of money at the New
York clearing house broke all records
S17,413,862 being exchanged.
Patrick Walsh, formerly United
States senator and mayor of Augusta
died of nervous prostration.
Mrs. Emily Marie Fish, wife OF
Hamilton Fish of New York, died at
Washington of heart disease.
At Pittsburg Mrs. Anna Hays Byers,
widow of Eben M. Beyers, the mil
lionaire manufacturer, is insane.
At Cleveland the lake carriers, as
ISOLATION has decided to advance
wages of boat crews SIS per month.
Oregon arrived in fit condition for
duty is the message which Admiral
Dewey sent to the navy department.
A large delegation Of Cinnamon
called on Mayor Van Wyck to protest
against the demolition of Chinatown.
The pope has made Monsignor
Stephen a protonotary apostolic, IN
recognition of his work among the In
dams.
John M. Downey is dead at Sugar
Lake, Me-, of brain fever, aged 6O
years. He was known as the apple
king.
No more fourth class pos+masters
will be appointed until the return OF
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow.
In a shooting affair over a political
quarrel in Little Rock, Ark, five men
we're killed and another seriously
wounded.
The Johns Hopkins university will
send two of it's most highly qualified
pathologists to Manila to study trop-
ical diseases.
A dispatch from Port au-Prince
saws can increase Of % per cent. in
the duties on all imports went into
effect yesterday"
At Laredo, Texas, the removal OF
smallpox patients to the pesthouse
was stopped by mob of Mexicans. A
bloody fight ensued.
In New York, DR.. Philip J. J. Vale
TIM, author of numerous papers on
ancient Mexican and Central Ameri-
can history, is dead, aged Il.
The seven passengers who had been
showed in at Iron Mountain, WyO., on
the Cheyenne and Northern Railroad
since Feb. "a, were rescued.
The deal by which the Banner To-
bacco company's plant and business
becomes part of the American Tobac-
co company, has been closed.
Manufacturers of mems wooden
goods have been approached by rep
resentatives of a proposed combina-
ton with S1O0,000,000 capital
The Hammond Packing company OF
Hammond, Ind, has signed contracts
for the construction of a large packing
plant in South st. Joseph, Mo.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has bought
some property at Madison, N. J., and
it is said he will become a resident of
that state to escape excessive taxa
ton.
Four negroes were killed and four