Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-02

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sword duel with his employees hus-
band.
Signor Marconi, the promoter of the
wireless telegraphy, arrived in New
York.
Minneapolis judges took stand
against the divorce-while-youw wait
business.
Peace is restored in Cleveland and
the street railway strike is virtually
over.
Work on the New York rapid-transit
road, it is announced, may begin be-
fore Jan. 1.
The German Methodist conference at
La Crosse selected Chicago for next
years meeting.
The republicans of Nebraska met in
convention at Omaha and nominated a
state ticket.
Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter OF
Gen. IT. S. Grant, married a Russian
rince in Newport.
The Milwaukee road held it's annual
meeting. A. j. Earring of Chicago was
elected president.
Electricity in any quantity can be
stored in capsules by new invention,
| it is claimed.
The governors antitrust conference
in st. Louis adopted resolutions and
adjourned sine die.
Two little boys, brothers, were
drowned at Mankato, one giving his
| life to save the other.
An Illinois man is reported cured OF
apparently hopeless insanity by the
use of lymph from goats.
The United States consented to pro
tect German subjects in Venezuela dur
in. the revolution there.
Clarence B. Britton was arrested IN
New York charged by the Chicago po-
lice with arson and homicide.
At Los Angeles, G. z. Hall, a rough
rider, was arrested charged with rob-
bling the post office at Las Vegas.
A young woman temporarily de-
ranged, disrobed and tried to battle in
Union Square fountain, New York.
Pension Commissioner III. Clay
Evans is being doomed for vice-presi-
dent by Tennessee republican clubs.
DR.. Luke D. Broughton, New York
astrologer, died early on the day that
he predicted years ago that he would
die
At Missouri the Culpepper-Shannon
college building which was built at a
cost of $4,000, burned from a defective
fue.
w. A. Franz, professor of English
and literature in Oxford, Ca, univer-
sity, killed himself, using a pick and a
knife.
The state board of health declared
that New York City should at once
build a hospital for durable consump-
tives.
The Steger & Singer Piano Company
of Chicago has taken it's $50 employees
into partnership on the cooperative
plan.
The general land commissioner fixes
| Oct. Is as the date for the sale OF the
land on which Cass Lake, Mimi, is
situated.
The Phillips-J udson excursion from
the east was in a railway accident in
Colorado, six passengers being killed
and five hurt.
William G. Morse of Minneapolis
was appointed immigration inspector
of the ST. Paul district to succeed Sam
uel Lowenstein.,
A. G.. Bondurant, a leading citizen OF
Polk county and founder of the town
of Bondurant, iowa, died. He was 81
years of age.
The Association of Iron and Steel
Manufacturers has advanced the price
of sheet from 1910 to 1925 ton, to
take effect at once.
Patrick S. Triggs, an American just
back from Johannesburg, denounced
the English agitation as a scheme 70
grab the Transvaal.
George Gould returned from Europe.
He said there was a large demand for
American securities, due to the proser-
| ity of this country.
At Vinton, Iowa, Judge John Shane,
former colonel of the thirteenth Iowa
regiment, and formerly state senator,
died after a long illness.
The Grand Army of the Republic, or
Chicago, has offered to get for the new
postoff1ce at that place a cornerstone
prepared by union labor.
Mrs. Horace Chenery, niece of Chief
Justice Fuller, committed suicide by
throwing herself from a window of the
Hotel Majestic ir. New York.
At Ridgeway, Pa, the Ridgeway tan
merry was destroyed by fire originating
from an explosion Of tanbark dust.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
The government has taken steps to
secure possession of Mission rock, San
Francisco, which has been held by the
California Dry Dock company since
1870
The state department issued extradi-
| ton papers for the return to Bremen
of Barthoemans Coast, a German, who
murdered his wife and fled to the
| United States