Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-18

Yellow FEVER is SAID 10 De spreading
at Key West, Fla, where three deaths
were reported and total Of 106 cases.
The Denver Smelling and Milling
company has let contracts for build
ing a smelter which will be outside the
trust.
The celebration of the York (Pa)-
sesquicentennial was marked by a
civic parade, in which about 1000 men
took part.
Official reports show that the mem
bership of the G. A. R. is decreasing.
The next encampment will be held in
Chicago.
President Mckinley was elected a
member of the Bricklayers' and Stone
masons' International union, No. Fl,
Of Chicago.
In a rear-end collision on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad at Connells-
vile, Pa, so persons were injured,
some seriously.
The amount of gold certificates with
drawn from the several subtreasuries
in exchange for gold since Aug. z last
is $44, 277, $3.50.
Rear Admiral Henry F. Picking,
commandant Of the Charlestown navy
yard, dropped dead at Boston He was
SO years old.
At the thirtieth annual convention of
the United States Bee-Keepers' Asso-
ciation E. I. Root of Media, Ohio, was
elected president.
James J. Daley of Philadelphia
died of apoplexy, aged SIS years. He
was foreman Of the mposing-room OF
the Public Ledger.
While digging a we'll on Lookout
mountain G. H. Jarnagin and others
discovered vein of gold quartz which
promises to be very rich.
The Union Cement Company, with a
capital of over $2,500,000, has been or
ganized in opposition to the recently
formed cement combine.
1t is estimated that the challenger
Shamrock will have cost Sir Thomas
Upton $1,O0O,O00 when she sails her
first race with Columbia.
General Tracy, before the Anglo
Venezuelan boundary arbitration COM
mission, made his argument in behalf
of the Venezuela case.
Henry Morganthau is on his way to
Europe to lay before William Waldorf
Astor proposition to incorporate his
estate into a stock company.
The Astronomical and Astrophysi-
cal Society Of America was organized
at Williams Bay, Wis, by members OF
the Astron omical conference.
The cruiser Detroit has been ordered
to La Guayra. to protect American in
terests, on account of the disturbed
condition of affairs in Venezuela.
Hugh Mclaughlin, the Brooklyn dem
ocratic leader, has been subpoenaed to
tell the Mazet committee what he
knows of the Ramapo water scandal.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York has
been subpoenaed to appear before the
Mazet committee and tell what he
knows about the Ramapo water job.
The American Pathological Society,
the Oldest association of fruit growers
in the United States held its twenty
fifth biennial meeting in Philadelphia.
The Charge d'Affaires of Venezuela
in Washington received a dispatch
from his government denying that a
revolution has broken out in Venezu-
Ella.
1t is believed that Consul Bedloe,
who was stationed at Canton, China,
will not return to his post, and that
the charges against him will be sus-
tanned
William c. Pape, general superin-
tendent of St. Louis parks, was shot
and instantly killed at his home by
| Henry Fry, huckster, whom he had
refused a license.
Newport witnessed a novel spectacle
| in the way of an automobile parade,
given by Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont. There
were II beautifully decorated auto
mobiles in line.
DR.. e. M. ROsenkranZ, owner of the
Melrose flats, in the burning of which
last December four people lost their
| lives, has been arrested in Chicago on
the charge of arson,
The thirtieth regiment of volunteers,
1909 men all told, Colonel Gardner
commanding, passed through Omaha
en- route for san Francisco, prepare
tory to sailing for Manila.
H. A. Haigh and S. S. Angus have
complete arrangements which will give
a new electric road from Toledo to
Buffalo, and it will be the longest road
of it's kind in the world.
At San Francisco William JenniEg s
Bryan stated that he did not favor the
withdrawal of the United States troops
from the Philippines before stable
government is established.
The Garden City Hotel, owned by
the A. T. Stewart estate in New York
was burned. The hotel was built in
1873, at a cost of $125,000, its furnish
ings having cost $4,000 more.
| Six French painters employed by
L. B. Wright's Iron Painting company
Chicago, we're discharged summarily
as soon as the verdict of the court
martial at Rennes was known.
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