Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-02
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

The American National bank OF
Lima. o., was robbed of $18,162.
Ira Sexton was hanged at Princeton,
Mo. for killing Nathan Stark, young
farmer, a year ago.
In New York odds are offered of 3
to / against the reelection OF Senator
Quay.
A New York railroad will prohibit
card playing on it's suburban trains af-
ter Jan. /.
The peace treaty will be reported
unanimously by the senate foreign re-
lations committee.
Charleston, ILL.,, boys think they had
a lovely Christmas gift. The school
building burned down.
A girl bride of fifteen applied for a
divorce from Der husband, who is nine
teen in New York city.
Troops in the Philippines and West
Indies will be among the $4,000 volun-
teers to be mustered out
Little Tom Tit" a six-year-old boy
degenerate of New Jersey, was sem
fenced to a reform school.
Chicago has fewer poor than ever
this year, if the attendance at the free
Christmas dinners is criterion.
A number of hydraulic elevators in
Baltimore have recently been stopped
by cells getting into the water pipes.
State Senator Timothy d. Sullivan Of
New York city gave a dinner to 5000
men at Tammany club on the Bowery.
The steamboat Teche, plying in the
La Fourche trade, so miles above New
Orleans, La, burned. No lives We're
lost.
In New York Frank Nulty, youth,
killed his former sweetheart Mamie
Remley, and shot himself. He will
die.
At Alliance, O., PARTIES shoe store
and the Cassiday Drug and Chemical
company suffered a loss of 100000 by
fire.
Gen. Brooke, military governor of
Cuba, has arrived at Havana and en-
tered upon the duties of his new Of
fee
A whole family was poisoned in
Patterson, N. j., Adolph Naef dying
Arsenic may have been put in the
milk.
Miss Atkinson, daughter of the gov
ernor of West Virginia, was married to
Mr.. Charles C. Beury, at Charleston,
w Va.
Some Nashville, ILL.,, people think
three meals day are too many, so
they have ordered an anti-breakfast
society.
Michael Farley received a medal for
being champion beef-steak eater in
New York city. He got rid of In
pounds.
Harry Cornish, who was with the
Chicago Athletic association for sew
eral years, may be Yale's next athletic
instructor.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
vanderlip, who has been seriously sick
at Tampa, is reported to be conval-
escing.
Montreal and New York capitalists
have purchased the Havana Street
Railway and all it franchises for ST.
100000
Mrs. Isabelle Mallon, best known by
the nom-de plume of ''Bab" and Ruth
Ashmore," died at her home in New
York city.
Naval Constructor Hanscom was SEN
fenced by the court martial to six
months suspension from duty on wait
ing orders pay.
Scene Painter Fraser, who over
worked painting the scenery for The
Sorrows of Satan production in New
York, collapsed.
Judge Day intimated that the COM
pensation of the peace commissioners
would be about $4,000 each and rea-
sonable expenses.
Senator Gray, member of the peace
commission, when asked if he favored
the conditions of the treaty, said:
Well, signed it"
General Wheeler ascribes his hardi-
hood to regular hours. He goes to bed
every night at 10 o'clock and rises at
7:3O in the morning.
Robert Fellows, one of the prominent
citizens of Ottumwa, Ia, dropped dead
while celebrating the fiftieth anniver-
sary of his wedding.
Bishop Potter's daughter was accused
of having stolen book which she had
taken into the place.
Col. Roosevelt has notified Senator
Plat that he is opposed to metropol-
itan police system with bipartisan
board for New York city.
Warren G. Wood, retired capitalist
of Kewanee, Ill, who was we'll known
in Mississippi river steamboat affairs,
dropped dead of heart disease.
Commissioner General Peck of the
Paris exposition has announced the ap-
pOintment of Charles Richards Dodge
as director of agriculture.
The Richmond Tobacco exchange OPP
poses the appointment of @rancis
Hirsch of New York as representative
of this trade at the Paris exposition.
Gov. Pingree of Michigan, at his own
expense, secured Rev. Samuel Fuller OF
Boston to talk against expansion at the