Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-23
number of medical works, died, aged


the collision on the Lehigh Valley
railroad at West Dunellen, N. j., is
| found to have been 16.
| DR.. Chauncey M. Depew was I'M
animously nominated for United
States senator by the representatives
of the New York legislature.
Books of the United Miners, which
are being investigated by special
committee of the national convention,
were found to be mutilated.
Capt. William Norris of Harrisburg,
Pa, assistant adjutant general on the
staff OF Gen. S. 2. S. Goblin, died sud
oenly at the Harrisburg club.
Stockholders of Chicago Klondike
company headed by Frank B. Vroo-
man ask for receiver, charging that
he misused $4,000 of the funds.
John Kean, Jr., was selected by the
republican legislative caucus as United
States senator from New Jersey to
succeed Senator James smith, Jr.
United States Senator Joseph r.
Hawley was nominated by the repub-
lican caucus Of the Connecticut gen.
eral assembly to succeed himself.
Andrew Carnegie promises to give
$250,000 for a free library for residents
of Washington if congress will spend
an equal sum in purchasing site.
BILL Ryan, arrested for completely
in the recent train robbery at Macon,
Mo-, admits his identity as former
member of the Jesse James gang.
The senate appropriations commit
tee reports the Indian bill with a pro-
vision authorizing partial return to
| the Indian contract school system.
Arthur Henry DundOn, vice presi-
dent OF the normal college and one of
the best-known eduators in the coun-
try, died at New York, aged 81 years.
/. Sagasta denies that negotiations are
lines, remarking than the previous con-
sent Of the cortes would be necessary.
/ Howard E. Wright, speaker of the
California house OF representatives.,
says he received $3.50 cash to vote
for g. S. Grant for United States SEN
atOr.
AugliQue Ravel, the father Of the ia
/
mist, and the largest survivor of the
family, is dead in New York, aged 80
years.
Colonel Theodore Yates, at one time
commander OF the national soldiers
home at Milwaukee and a Well-knoWn
army officer, died of pneumonia, aged
68 years.
| iy1 hn Init
district court rendered a decision sus-
tanning the constitutionality Of the
| Iowa law taxing foreign insurance
companies.
In New York Miss Anna Mary
Haeke Schley, daughter OF William
| Schley, poet author and lawyer, and
second COUSIN of Admiral Schley, COM
mitted suicide.
| At Adrian, Mich, Gen. w. III. Hum
phrey died. He was auditor general
Of the state four terms and served
eight years as warden Of the state pri-
son at Jackson.
| Col. George P. Webster, well
known lawyer and a prominent mem
Der of Tammany hall, died. He was
went to Newport, KY.
The anti-Pingree senators secured
| the adoption of resolution increasing
the senate standing committees SO as
! to secure two-thirds vote against
all Pingree measures.
At Springfield Mo-, S. l., Hazeltone,
who was elected to the forty-seventh
/ hn
back ticket, is dead. He was born
at Andover, VT, in 1921.
| Arrangements have been completed
| for a congress Of railway employees 10
be held in Chicago, Feb. Is, under the
auspices of the Railway and Telegraph
Employees Political League.
At Baltimore Eugene Higgins, a
| democratic politician who never
missed a national or state convention
and was known all over the country
died of pneumonia, aged 81.
At Charleston, w. Va, ex-Secretary
Of States VIM E. Chiffon has paid
Attorney General Rucker about $4,000,
| the balance due from him to the state
on his shortage of over $4,000.
| Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court sailed for Liverpool.
His visit is in connection with meet
| ing of the Venezuelan boundary COM
mission, Of which he is member.
At Toledo, four children OF George
Laing have died from eating diseased
| chicken. The servant is also Ill, and
| her recovery is doubtful. It is sup
posed the chickens were affected with
cholera.
Three commissioners have arrived
in New York from Glasgow. They are
going to Washington to try to secure
the cooperation of the president In
the exposition proposed to be held in
their city in 1901.
At Vicksburg, Miss, Capt. Nc
Michael Carbine, of New Orleans, a
steamboat man, we'll known from ST.
Paul to New Orleans, died. Carbine
| was .58 wears of age, and had been on