Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10

July 20 in Chicago, has been passed.
Seventy=three foreign fire insurance
companies are ordered out Of St.
Joseph, Mo-, under the antitrust law.
Charles NJ Murphy, paced by a loco
motive, made a mile on bicycle in
| less than So seconds, on Long Island.
| Arguments before the Colorado
supreme court on the constitutionality
of the eight-hour law were concluded.
At Kalamazoo, Mich, Jessie Ores
sor, aged 10, eloped with joan Jones,
aged 76. The groom is worth $300,000.
Gov. Roosevelt says he will not be
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation next year. He is for Mckinley.
The school board of Lyons, Neb., re-
signed because the graduating class
appeared in overalls at commence
ment
Non-union negro miners in Illinois
| burned a village and had battle with
union men Troops were sent to Car
| bOndale.
There are reports of deal for the
combination of all surface and
elevated roads in New York and
Brooklyn.
A trainload of negro miners was
fired on near Carterville, ILL.,, one wo-
man being killed and 20 other persons
wounded.
The government deficit for the fiscal
year is $88,S75, 989. The expenditures
of the government for the year were
$6O5 ,O92,734.
Plans are nearly completed for a
gigantic combine of all traction roads
in greater New York. The capital
will be SAT, 100000.
Michael Rollinger, the Chicago
butcher accused of numbering his wife
and burning her body TO conceal his
crime was found guilty.
It is said in Kentucky that Cover
nor Bradley will probably not call a
special meeting of the legislature to
consider Clay county affairs.
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual meeting and election
of the International Acetylene asso-
citation, in Chicago, July II.
Mrs. Harry J. Ramsay of New York
has confessed that she murdered her
husband, giving as her sole reason
the fact that he snored in his sleep.
Rev DR.. E. Y. Mullins of Newton
Centre Baptist church, Boston, was
elected president of the Southern Bap-
fist Theological seminary at Louis
vile, Ky.
The chief of the La Crosse fire de-
partment was turned out of office He
sold old machinery of the department
and contributed the proceeds to a
campaign fund.
In an interview, Ex-Governor Patti
son of Pennsylvania insisted that the
Filipinos should be promptly sup
pressed eff it took 100000 or 100000
men to do it,
The Pacific Short Line is to be trans
ferred. 1t will be known as the
Sioux City & Eastern. James J. Hill
and other Great Northern men are
elected directors.
Secretary Alger approves the find
ings of the court of inquiry in the case
of Col. Leonhaeuser, of the fifteenth
Minnesota regiment. That officer is
entirely exonerated.
DuI1uS LuS Usual Cdl WA1CA
June 80, 1,429 vessels of 320,876 ton
mage were built in American ship
yards. Most of them are intended for
the coastwise trade.
The International Trust Company Of
Baltimore has arranged coal and iron
deal in Alabama to purchase 10000
acres of land, four furnaces and sew
eral hundred coke ovens.
Nebraksa's new female labor law
went into effect It limits the hours
for labor of grown women in mercan-
tile pursuits, hotels and restaurants to
so hours week and 10 a day.
At Pittsburg in street car collision
two persons were killed, five seriously
injured and ten others more or less
hurt. The accident happened on a
steep grade near High bridge.
President Mckinley presents French
Ambassador Cambon magnificent
loving cup in recognition of the am
bassador's services in the negotia-
tons which closed the war with Spain.
Mrs. Grosscup, wife of Judge Gross
cup of Chicago, who has been taking
care of her sick husband at Ashland,
Ohio, has fallen i'll of typhoid fever,
the result Of overwork and overtaxa-.
ton.
Gen. Horatio G. Wright, retired chief
of engineers of United States Army
from 1879 to 1884, is dead. He COM
manded the sixth corps in the civil
war and made a fine record. He was
70 years old.
Two Japanese, who were drowned
while trying to escape from the
quarantine steamer, Nippon Maru at
San Francisco, are found to have been
suffering from the bubonic plague.
Their bodies have been cremated.
At a reception given him by the
Cuban Orphan Fund in the New York
Chamber of Commerce, General Wood
said many Cuban children were dying
of neglect, and that there was no bet
ter plan of relief than the orphanages.