Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-22

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Whipple.
The death of ex-Gov Flower caused
a heavy break in his specialties in
Wall street.
Alger may be compelled by political
complications\ in Michigan to leave
the cabinet.
Eighty millions is the capital Of the
new bicycle trust incorporated at
Trenton, n J.
Bank robbers at Webster City, Iowa,
secured 1865; they took all but the
small change.
Professor Langley made the first
test of his new flying machine. 1t was
not satisfactory.
Donald McLeon, a prominent rail
way promoter was killed by fall in
a Chicago hotel.
Valuable Washington relicts have
been presented to the Ladies' Mount
Vernon association.
Chicago May wheat, G93sc
Ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower of New
York died suddenly.
American and English literary
agents formed a syndicate to control
the Kipling output.
Last reports from the tornado near
Eagle Pass, Tex, say that p were
killed and 100 wounded.
R. w. Henry of Dubuque, one Of the
leading lawyers of Iowa, dropped dead
while trying a case.
The Louisiana purchase exposition
| to be held in ST. Louis in 1908 will
rival the worlds fair.
A fourteen-year schoolgirl at Center
vile, Wis, beat her lady school teach
er with serious results.
The Burlington contemplates the
purchase of several lines which it is
operating under leases.
Citizens of Minneapolis held a mass
meeting in support of the govern
ment's Philippine policy.
Grain elevators and the Minneapolis
and ST. Louis stock yards at Lake
Mills, Iowa, were burned
The radiophone, the new wireless
telephone, was shown at Madison
square garden, New York.
Poultry and egg dealers west of
Chicago have combined into stock
company to control prices.
A New York syndicate has demon
strated the advantages of petroleum
as motive power for automobiles.
Charles G. Judson builder, filed a pc
tition in bankruptcy at New York.
Liabilities, $229,262 No assets.
The steamer Thomas Davidson went
ashore at Cana island. She is loaded
with iron and bound for Milwaukee.
Junius Howe, a theatrical manager,
! filed a petition in bankruptcy at New
York Liabilities, $31,9 No assets.
An excursion train on the Philadel-
| phia & Reading railway was wrecked,
| 25 people being killed and so injured.
Experts told the senate pure food
committee of the prevalence of the
use of "embalming fluids" in food and
drink.
Mrs. w. A. Haines of Detroit COM
mitted suicide by jumping from the
f1fth-foor veranda of the Battle Creek
sanitarium.
After over ten years of controversy
women have been admitted to member
ship in the order of Catholic Knights
Of America.
A general carriage company recently
incorporated is found to have sweep
| ing powers to run cabs on every street
in New York.
A member of the cabinet states that
President Mckinley has practically de-
cided to call an extra session of con-
gress in October.
Three thousand persons attended
reception and banquet in Washington
in honor of the National Society of Me-
chanical Engineers.
Trafford N. Jayne, a prominent
young man of Minneapolis, confessed
embezzlement and left the city,
| threatening suicide.
Elijah G.. Harvey, an educated mu-
latto, is charged with robbing the New
York home of Charles T. Yerkes, the
Chicago millionaire.
Hosea M. Knowlton Of New Bedford,
attorney general of Massachusetts, yes
ter6ay announced his withdrawal as a
candidate for governor.
The. assistant attorney general of
the United States decided that "punts"
are not taxable under the war revenue
law, but calls are.
The Catholic knights of America
defeated the proposition to increase
the age limit of men eligible to ad-
mission from IS to so years.
Recorder Golf severely condemned
the district attorneys Office of New
York for prosecuting bartenders and
letting off saloon proprietors.
The fourth annual convention Of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union was held
in Louisville, Ky, preliminary to the
| Southern Baptist convention.
A woman, who says she was the
! commonlaw wife of the late Thomas
J. Havemeyer, has claimed dover
rights in the milliOnaire's estate.
At the closing session Of the annual
encampment of the Connecticut G. A.
r. Henry r. Jones of Hartford was
| elected department commander