Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-02

papers.
Champion Cyclist Miller will train
for the coming Frisco six-day race in
Chicago. He is resting now and will
not go west until after the first of the
| year.
Returned prospectors report an am
pie food supply at Dawson City. The
cost of living there has greatly de-
creased, good meals costing but u
dollar.
When Mrs. Carpenter of Scarsdale,
N. Y, goes into the village of Glen
Eyre, Pa, she can say she owns the
town She bought it at auction the
other day.
An attempt will be made to repeal
the Massachusetts contempt law I'M
der which Editor Wardner, of the Bos-
ton Traveller, was sentenced to 80 days
in jail.
John Holloway, who murdered julie
Boillot Dec. "a, was encountered by the
sheriffs party at Freedom, Mo-, and Sc
riously wounded, after which he gave
himself up.
Railroad mileage in the United
States increased 2,867 miles in 1898,
the greatest annual increase since 1892.
Minnesota is the banner state, with 253
miles added.
The Anglo-American commission
will probably be able to complete a
treaty providing for the adjustment of
differences between the United States
and Canada.
The entire family of Rev Mr.. Skin
ner of Arcola, H., is serving in the
army. The father is a chaplain, the
mother is nurse and their son is serv-
ing in the ranks.
United States Senator George Hoar
Of Massachusetts, was the leading
speaker at the seventy-ninth annual
banquet of the New England society of
Charleston, S. G.
Albert Popp, 80 years old, janitor at
the Skinner school in Chicago, was in
stantly killed by falling from the third
story of the school, where he was
washing window.
Captain Frederic Marcy Lynde, y. S.
A., retired, died suddenly at Washing
ton. He was a native of Michigan and
during the civil war was captain in
the Wisconsin cavalry.
Tom Sharkey's principal training
dish is corn beef and cabbage. Christ
mas kid" Mccoy sent the following
telegram to Sharkey: Hope you have
shifted from corned beef to turkey to-
day."
The American evacuation commits
sioners for Cuba have issued a procla-
nation advising moderation and self
restraint in the critical period accom-
panying the transfer of authority in
the island.
Thomas @. S. Seabrooke, ACTOR, filed
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in
New York city. Seabrooke states his
liabilities are $39,075; to offset this he
states that the only property he has is
one scarf pin.
Senator Frye, one of the American
peace commissioners, declares Inc gov
eminent will not be committed to any
policy regarding the disposition of the
Philippine Islands by the ratification
of the peace treaty.
Mrs Cordelia Botkin, who is being
tried in San Francisco on the charge of
numbering Mrs. John P. Cunning of
Dover, Del, went on the stand in her
own behalf and denied much that had
been testified against her.
Students of the California Medical
College gave their anatomical lecturer.
DR.. w o. Wilcox, a startling, though
al, n ro o+orict.o rhri ctr,ooc c,1,,nYico hxy
erecting a Christmas tree in his Office
and decorating it with skulls and
bones.
Edison is a man of moods He does
everything by fits and starts. Full of
enthusiasm for a new scheme on one
day, he will collapse the next, and,
once tired of a subject, nothing on
earth will induce him to take it up
again.
The North Cornwall iron furnace at
Cornwall, Pa, operated by the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Steel company of
Scranton, was badly wrecked by an ex-
plosion. Several men had narrow es-
capes. The damage is estimated at
$4,000.
D61OI6 OpSdhO1 ILG6u Wd6 6FGl nCdLu
of there had already been two distin-
guished men of his name. Thomas B.
Reed represented Mississippi in the
United States early in the century and
another Thomas B. Reed did similar
service for Kentucky about the same
time.
Suit has been begun at st. Louis to
forfeit the franchise recently granted
to the Lindell Street Railway company.
The franchise is claimed to conflict
with the parallel law" which prohi-
bits the construction of a street rail
way within three blocks of an existing
line.
Colonel F. w. Blees, the well-known
north Missouri millionaire, who owns
half the town of Macon and a fancy
farm near by, on which 100000 is to
| be expended the coming season, was
admitted to the bar the other day af-
ter having passed a most creditable
| examination