Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-11-20

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running by April and will complete
his direct system, London to Hong
kong.
The republican leadership in the
next congress seems to rest between
Payne of New York and Cannon of
Illinois.
The New York Central Railroad has
ordered locomotives designed by Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, with f1reboxes of his
invention.
Edward triedlander, son of a New
York millionaire milliner, was disin-
herited for marrying against his faith
er's wish.
The senate committee on manufac-
lures heard that beer is adulterated
with salicylic acid, rice, and bisulphate
of lime.
In the past fiscal year 1864 post
masters were appointed, 1885 postof-
fees we're established and 1905 dis
continued.
| Henry W. Boardman, a well-knOwn
citizen Of Cleveland, died at the Hotel
Manhattan, New York, of heart
| trouble.
A meeting of the republican national
| committee will be held next month to
fix the place and date of the national
convention.
A 100000 gold brick, the largest
ever melted in a Canadian mine, is to
be sent down from the Kootenai dis
trict shortly.
Chicago contractors and architects
undertake to wipe out walking dele
gates and compel a reorganization of
trade unions.
w. L. Eaton will be Cummins' choice
for speaker of the Iowa legislature.
The Gear supporters have not yet chos-
en- a candidate.
The republican majority in New
York state, as indicated by the ag-
gregate majorities for assemblymen
elected, is 81, 279.
Relatives contesting the will of Prof.
Marsh charge that the Yale faculty
buncoed him out of his fortune and
made him an agnostic.
Cornelius Perrett, one of the oldest
railroad conductors in southern Wis
consin, died in Racine. He was
born in England in 1927.
Rev. Dewitt L. Pelton of the First
Presbyterian church of Bloomington
announces that he will enter the priest
hood of the Episcopal church.
The Standard Oil company, it is
stated, in testimony before the in
dustrial commission, has monopoly
of the refining business in Canada.
AS the official returns of the Ken
lucky election are being received the
prospects that Taylor, republican, is
elected governor are increasing.
Bryan said the elections indicate a
decreasing, confidence in the admin
istration majority in Ohio, and pre-
dicted democratic triumph in 1900.
Ransom C. Wiltse, an old soldier,
sentenced to life Imprisonment for
the murder by poison of Mrs Mary
Edgar, was found dead in the Milwau-
kee jail.
Six hundred employees of the tannery
at Lowell, Mass, which belongs to the
American Hide and Leather company,
struck on account of reduction in
wages.
The German steamer Batavia, Cap
tain Magin, outward bound from Ham
burg, for Baltimore, is aground in the
Elbe at Blankanese. Assistance is
with her.
Ex-Representative James Hamilton
Lewis of Washington, who has been
travelling abroad, says Europe is hos
tile to the United States because of the
latter's Philippine policy.
Isaac Cramer, senior member of the
firm of Cramer & Sons, wholesale
grocers and one of the oldest and
wealthiest residents of Laporte, Ind,
died of neuralgia of the heart.
Argument was begun in the United
States supreme court in case to de-
eide whether express companies shall
pay the war revenue tax or whether
the tax shall be paid by shippers.
Five Washington men, as the re-
suit of an investigation by an anti
Quay paper, were arrested in Phila
delphia on the charge of repeating
and other crimes at the ballot box.
Japan's new tariff has caused de-
crease of 81 per cent. in imports,
while exports have increased rs per
cent Imports from the United States
have been reduced about Is per cent.
At Philadelphia while rushing to get
a front seat at the Peoples theatre
Harry Wilson, 16 years old, plunged
headforemost into the auditorium be-
low fracturing his skull. He may re-
cover.
The Planters warehouse, the Woods
Chickasaw company's warehouse and
the plant of the Louisiana Molasses
company at Memphis were destroyed
by fire entailing loss of about $780,,
600.
A Chicago jury declared Harry H.
Hammond not guilty of shooting John
I. Shayne. Hammond says he will
try to secure the custody of his child