Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-27
DOMESTIC.
2ioting continues in Paris.

Rioting continues in Paris.
A hot wave prevails in California.
A riot occurred in a Chicago theater.
Lewis Miller, of Akron, Ohio, father
in-law of Thomas A. Edison, died IN
New York.
President Kleeberger, Of the st.
Cloud normal school, was stricken
with paralysis.
President Mckinley made three
more speeches in Boston and returned
to Washington.
New baseball rules are promulgated
bv the revision committee of the Ma
u4onal league.
Richard Mansfield has been COM
PEELED to cancel his Boston engagement
because of illness.
The Great Northern flyer was
dMched near Spokane, Wash, and
three men were injured.
There was a full vote on the United
States senatorship in the Delaware
legislature, but no choice was made.
The marriage Of Thomas A. Edison,
Jr., to Marie Louise TuOhy, an &C
tress, in November last was made pub
lic
A snowslide near Ophir, Colo,
destroyed the Caribou concentrating
mill and killed J. G. Vardel, the fore
man.
The senate committee on commerce
agreed to report the Nicaragua canal
bill as an amendment to the river and
harbOr bill.
Annie Peterson, a pretty girl Nor
mon, arrived from Denmark on he1
way to Utah ana was allowed to land
in New York.
Three firemen were killed while
working in the ruins of the big fire
which ragged on Market and Thirteenth
streets, Philadelphia.
New York wholesale and retail whis-
ky dealers are organizing a company
with S1,OOO,OO0 stock and $1,500,000
bonds, to fight two liquor trusts.
The New York park board has mott
fed the Manhattan Elevated Railway
company to remove the railroad struct-
ure and terminal from Battery park.
The president has given assurances
to republican leaders in congress that
an extra session will be called if the
army reorganization bill is not passed.
Fire destroyed the machine shop in
the Brooklyn hayward, including
plans of the destroyed battleship
Maine, and caused a loss Of million
dollars.
II, ich 10 n &
sion to testify again in the Adams poi
soning case inquest, New York, as he
has a clue which he believes will clear
the mystery.
The negotiations between the Anglo
American joint commission in re.
gard to differences between the United
States and Canada have been broken
off till summer.
Directors of the Pillsbury- Washburn
company issued a circular to share
holders saying that the company
property will never go into the M
Intyre -four trust.
Compressed air as a motive power
for street cars has received an impetus
in New York because Of the alleged
failure of the underground electric
trolley system during the storm.
Judge Advocate Ierrance of the G.
A. R., says a new commander-ln-
chief must be elected and that the vice
commander does not succeed to the
office vacated by the death of Col.
Sexton.
The New York state chemist has
found that counterfeit coffee beans are
made of dough, that plaster of paris
and white clay are used to adulterate
flour, and paraffine is a component
part of mixture sold for butter.
Fire did damage estimated at $780,
900 in the buildings in Broadway Oc-
cupied by the spool silk manufacture
ing firm of Delding Bros. & Co., Ham
burger & Holman, cigars; the Postal
Telegraph company, and Blum's rail-
road ticket office and Gumeinger & Co.,
silk manufacturers.