Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-24

III O441A1CAG law clAO republican
politician, we'll known throughout
Ohio, died, after an illness of several
months. He was As years old.
At Cincinnati the jury in the case of
Joseph Depew, charged with the muir
der Of James Patterson, noted local
politician and prize fighter, disagreed
Depew was remanded to Jail
Louis w Holiday, son of Jesse w.
Holiday, the Chicago millionaire, was
shot by his wife at ST. Louis and prob
ably fatally wounded. She says that
she did the shooting in self-defense.
The average price per bushel Of
wheat exported in the fiscal year just
ended was TAFT cents, against 9S.3
cents in the preceding year. There
was also a reduction in the price Of
| cotton.
Henry Cornwell, the last of the ia
nous Cornwell brothers who were the
establishers of the vast paper mill in
terests in Ann Arbor, Geddes, Fosters,
Ypsilanti and Jackson, Mich, died,
aged 76.
Unless the Illinois supreme court in
terposes the George M. Pullman and
Arthur NJ Billings heirs will pay an
| inheritance tax amounting to about
! 5000, 600, the lower court having so
decided.
Commissioner Wilson of the inter
nal revenue office has issued a circular
prohibiting banks from aff1xing stamps
to checks unstamped when presented,
and requiring them to return the same
to the drawers.
The new geyser which recently
broke out before the Fountain hotel
in the Yellowstone national park has
been named Dewey. 1t plays IA
hours at time and throws a stream
$50 feet high.
The retail Clerks National Pro-
tective Association, in annual conven-
ton here, has voted to admit girls
over 16 years of age to membership.
The convention decided upon Buffalo,
as the next meeting place.
Major John Calhoun Courtney, presi-
dent of the Virginia Society of Atlanta
secretary of the Capital City club and
manager of the Western Union Tele-
graph company, died at his home in
Atlanta, at the age of IS.
At the meeting of the democratic ma
tional committee in Chicago on July
20 Mr.. Bryans friends will undertake
! to show that there is a general de-
mand for his denomination. Senator
Jones will not resign the craftsmanship
of the committee.
Oscar F. Lackey of Baltimore, who
was brought to New York last week
on board the United States transport
Mcclellan from Santiago, suffering
from yellow fever, is reported to be
convalescent Mr. Lackey was given
the serum treatment.
The Indianapolis News was sold at
receivers sale for S936000 to Delavan
Smith of Chicago and Charles R.
| Williams, who held the controlling in
terest before Major w. J. Richards,
the other partner threw the paper into
a receivers hands.
Bishop Thoburn of the M. E. church,
who has spent some time in Manila,
says the proper policy of the United
States is to enlist the men of the other
islands, who are the natural enemies
of the inha bitants of Luzon, to fight
Aguinaldo's army.
Mrs. George R. Bullen, formerly
Miss Blanche Opel of st. Louis, filed
suit for divorce, alleging desertion and
failure to support. Her husband is
resident of Chicago. They were
married JAN 8, 1895, and separated,
the petition states, July 6, 1898.
| First Assistant Postmaster-G General
Heath decided that under the civil
service law a reduction in grade is
not a removal. He also holds that
the appointing officer is not required
to explain to an employee who has been
removed the cause of his removal.
| At Grayson, KY, 12-year-o ld
daughter of David Criswell, a farmer
at Leon, KY, died, and all the mem
bers of the family are in a danger
Gus condition from poison put into the
bread There is no clew to the man
ner by which the bread was poisoned.
Robert Schilling, chairman of the
Wisconsin central committee of the
peoples party, says there will be fu-
sion with the democrats in 1900 if
Bryan is nominated. If he fails Of a
nomination, Mr.. Schilling says the
populists will insist on separate
ticket.
A fatal fight with rifles occurred at
New Boston, Tex, the county seat of
Bowie county, during which G. W.
Smith was killed and Will Hayes,
w. H. Hart, merchant, and Joseph
Manning, a lawyer, were fatally in
| jured The trouble is said to have
over a barbed wire fence.
At ST. Michaels, Alaska, J. Homer
Bird of New Orleans is a prisoner in
the military barracks charged with the
murder of J. H. Herring and r. H.
Patterson Chas. Scheff1er and a wo-
wan named Mona Strong are held
under $4,000 bonds as witnesses. The
entire party came from New Orleans.
English capitalists are trying to buy
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