Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-09

accounts Of steps taken to have native
Judges try cases between natives and
native officials to solemnize marriages
and keep tax records of property
owned by Samoans.
At Cincinnati, the Big Four ware
house was destroyed by fire. The new
passenger station across the street was
badly damaged, and the approaches to
the adjacent railway bridges burned.
The loss is estimated at over a million.
A special invitation has been sent
by the federal committee to Sir
Thomas Upton, owner of the yacht
Shamrock, asking him to be Chicago's
guest at the laying of the cornerstone
of the new federal building, on Oct 8.
At South McAlester, I. T., T. F. Neil
was arrested charged with murder
committed in Cleburne county, Arkan-
sas, nineteen years ago. An alleged
accomplice of Neil's has served fifteen
years in the penitentiary for the crime.
The Chicago bicycle plants of Cor
mally & Jeffrey and of A. G. Spalding
have been transferred to the American
Bicycle company. The former was
sold for 100000 and the latter for $45,-
600, subject to an incumbrance of $40,-
900.
Sentence of Capt. Oberlin NJ. Carter
by court-martial has been approved
by the president, and the disgraced Off
Ger will serve five years in the penlten-
tiary at Fort Leavenworth and pay 3d.
900 fine. He is now imprisoned on Gov
ernor's island.
At Muncie, Ind, Miss Goldie Coch-
ran, aged IA, struck a burglar in her
room with a silver-backed hair brush,
and the unknown man will die as tie
result. The robber was detected by
the girl carrying valuable clock from
the room.
The Indiana yearly meeting of the
Friends, voted unanimously in favor
of establishing a central bureau of all
yearly meetings of the Uruiteu States
and Canada and to extend their lis
sion work into the new territory re-
Gently acquired by the United States.
The Cleveland Electrical Workers
Union has issued notice stating that
the strike inaugurated throughout the
state on July 20 last of the employees of
the Cuyahoga Telephone company, the
Reserve Construction company and the
United States Long Distance Telephone
company has been satisfactorily set
tied and declared off.
Saturday closed the fiscal veal in the
office of the secretary of state for New
Jersey. The records of the office for
the year show that 1915 companies
were incorporated and that $728,O23
was paid to the state IN fees. This rs
nearly 100000 in excess of the fees re-
ceived from the same source last year.
It has been discovered that the Rt.
Rev. George F. Seymour, bishop of
Springfield of the Episcopal church,
has in his possession, hung in the par
lor of the Episcopal residence, the orig
inal painting by Gail Gutierrez, one Of
the greatest of European artists of the
day, Of Ecce Homo, valued at 100000.
In Chicago a coal famine is threat
ened. The dealers are far behind in
their orders and see no way in which
to get coal into Chicago to supply the
big demands made upon them every
day. The scarcity of cars and vessels
and strikes of miners in various coal
districts are the causes of the shortage.
Mrs Elizabeth Crane, Boston, Mass,
died aged "a years. She was the wild
ow of Rev. James L. Crane, who was
General Grants .regimental chaplain in
the civil war, former postmaster OF
Springfield, ILL.,, and for many years
presiding elder in the Illinois confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
The annual convention of the Rail
ton reelected the officers for the en-
suing vars. It was decided not to
increase the rate of insurance, and it
was voted to have an extra or sinking
fund assessment every month when
there is no necessity for regular as
sessment.
Mastodon remains, nearly enough for
an entire skeleton, have been found
near OMvet, Mich. The complement of
leg bones was complete, the largest
being 80 inches long and rs inches in
circumference. The longest rib was 45
inches long. The vertebrae were
nearly a foot across and inches thick.
The teeth are several inches across
and have upon them three rows of
conical projections.