Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-11-13

miral Dewey has been requested to fix
the date.
Rolla J. Guerin, a Kansas City, Mo-,
huckster, was shot and killed by Will
liam Lamphere, a boy aged Is years,
who had worked for Guerin. The mo-
tive was robbery.
E.P. Fox of Chicago died at Al
buquerque, N. M. After his death it
was discovered that over $500 in cash,
a watch and diamonds valued at $500
had disappeared.
The Pine Ridge Indians have been
started on their way back to the res
ervation. These Indians were exhlo-
tied at the Omaha exposition and then
left stranded.
Milwaukee granted a street railway
franchise, with right to purchase in
1884. Immediate four-cent fare in
busiest hours and universal after 1905
is the condition.
Victor H. Olmstead, asst director
of the census, has inspected all the
provinces on the island of Cuba and
reports that all incapable enumerators
have been discharged.
The following census supervisors in
Texas were appointed: Ninth district,
D. R. Emerson of Marlin; Eleventh,
Hart Settle of Galveston; Twelfth, L.
H. Dyer of Burnham.
Andrew Anderson, a railroad detec-
tive in the employ of the Illinois Cen
trail, shot and killed his wife and then
shot and killed himself. Jealousy was
the cause of the tragedy.
In his annual report Admiral Crown
inshield, chief of the bureau Of nav1-
cation, lectures congress for having
failed to promote naval officers who
distinguished themselves in Cuban
waters.
Football: Minnesota 5, Northwest
ern II; Harvard Is, Pennsylvania 0;
Yale "a, West Point 0; Princeton Is,
Brown 6; Michigan SO, Virginia 0.
riot attended the Harvard-Pennsyl-
vania game.
General Funston has directed his at
torneys to sue Archbishop Ireland and
a San Francisco Catholic paper for
criminal libel in connection with the
charge that he looted church property
in the Philippines.
Edward D. Shultz of New York, a
well-known theatrical manager, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head. He had forged the
name of Joe Jefferson and son to
checks to the value of 1886.
Major H. L. Higginson, IS, who gave
Soldiers field to Harvard university,
has given $15O,OO0 for the erection and
equipment of building suitable to the
uses of the University Club, as
memorial to Harvard men who fell in
the war with Spain.
Officials of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies deny that
those corporations are in any way in
terested in the Telephone, Telegraph
and Gable company, which will soon be
launched with a capital Of $25,0OO,O0O
to fight the Bell company.
During the past six weeks the matri-
monial business in the ChoctaW Ma
ton, Indian Territory, has been at it's
highest All along the borders of that
country there have been hundreds of
tents pitched and occupied by white
men, hunting squaw wives.
The will of John Black, disposing of
an estate estimated at $1,Jv0,000, has
been filed for probate at Milwaukee.
Mrs. J. V. Clarke of Chicago and
Elizabeth Black, his daughters, are to
have an equal share in the estate after
L. - Forr hnOt nStc
A certificate of incorporation has
been filed in Delaware by the Anglo
American Rapid Vehicle company of
New York with capital stock of $75,-
100000, all of which is common stock.
The purpose is to combine English
and American automobile companies.
The committee on federal relations
Of the American Brewers association
had a conference with Commissioner
Wilson of the internal revenue bureau
in support of their proposition to do
away with all beer packages of a less
capacity than one-fourth of barrel.
In Cleveland a street car, carrying 40
railing of a bridge, over a ravine, and
the front trucks went over the side of
the structure, after which the car
stopped, overhanging the gully, sew
enty-five feet below. No one was in
jured.
Women of Chicago have started a
movement toward a systematic effort
to show in some substantial way to
Generals Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph
Wheeler their appreciation by the
American people of their bravery and
patriotism in the recent war with
Spain.
In the report to the state depart
ment, Consul McCook, at Dawson, I'M
der the date of Sept IA last, says that
the gold shipments for the season ag-
gregated $9,247,745. Prices of living,
he says, have been slowly declining.
Typhoid was decreasing and the death
rate had also decreased.
The chief signal officer says there
will be no practical demonstration of
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