Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-04


army.
Fourth-class postmasters will organ
ize a lobby and urge congress to give
them a minimum compensation of 500
year, instead of the present rate of
pay. There are 10000 fourth-class
postmasters.
At the office of Barrow, Wade &
Guthrie in New York it was stated that
it was a fact that the firm had offered
to purchase all the print cloth and cot
ton bale mills of Fall River, as had
been reported.
Mayor Aiken and party left Evans
vile, Ind, on a tour of northern states
to invite the governors and President
Mckinley to attend the national reun-
ion of the Blue and Gray October 10
to IS, inclusive.
Lieutenant W. w. Wells. u. s. N,
was besieged in st. Louis with men
and boys anxious to enlist. He wants
to secure 100 landsmen and 80 appren-
tees and expects to be ready to leave
with them in few days.
Lieutenant Jarvis, of the revenue
cutter Bear reports that he found a
great deal. of sickness and restitution
among gold-seekers in camp at Kotze
bue Sound, Alaska. Eighty-three per-
sons were taken to st. Michael.
Commissioner General Peck received
word from William L. Elkins of Phil
adelphia, accepting his appointment as
member of the art commission, which
will supervise the decoration of the
national building at Paris.
J. H. Ladew Of New York is having a
yacht built according to designs sug-
gested by the navy department. In
case of war the yacht can be easily
converted into a fighting ship and car
ry an effective battery.
At Gainesville, Mo-, five miners were
killed by an explosion of dynamite at
the Margaret Mining companys mill,
among them David J. Sinclair of Du-
luth. He was examining the mine in
the interests of Boston syndicate.
The Pennsylvania republican conven-
ton at Harrisburg nominated J. Hay
Brown of Lancaster for supreme court
judge, Josiah R. Adams of Philadelphia
LIZ OuPO1 III OOuIC JuUSC, C1O I1lCuI.-
Col. Jas. E. Barrett for state treasurer.
Colonel Kennon Of the thirty fourth
infantry at Fort Logan, Colorado, has
reprted to the war department that
thirty-nine officers have reported and
more than the full quota of enlisted
men. The health conditions are excel
lent.
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were eXtinguished or under control
The fires have been mostly in waste
lands, no virgin forests being burned
The damage done to timber is SMALL
and no hotels were in danger at any
time.
A new series of notes will be issued
by the treasury department, and Sec
rotary Gage thinks they will simplify
the currency. There will be only eight
designs for greenbacks, treasury notes
and silver certificates, instead of "a as
at present.
In reply to cabled inquiry from
Surgeon General Wyman, Assistant
Surgeon Heiser at Naples has cabled
the marine hospital bureau that there
ID dUOOluICly 1lO IL uLn Ill CuC ICDO1G
that he plague has appeared at Naples
and Palermo.
The National Union Veterans Union
adopted resolutions denouncing Gov
Shaw of Iowa for appointing J. Rush
Lincoln an eX-confederate as brigadier
general Of Iowa troops when they were
called into service at the opening of
the Spanish war.
At Engle, N. NJ, w. j. Spraddling, a
wealthy cattleman, was killed by cow
boys in revenge for murderous assault
upon Miss Nellie McKinstry. Sprad-
ding quarreled with the woman while
they were horseback riding and shot
her in the neck She will recover.
An order of the war department. di-'
reefs that he state volunteer organiza-
tons under the act of April %, $685.
must be maintained while i'm the
United States service as originally ac-
cepted. Governors cannot appoint the
new officers since created by law.
Captain Francis w. Dickins, for
some time assistant chief and acting
chief of the bureau of navigation, is
W NC uSLdCu0u anu dIC0r d Or101 rest
take command of the pattIeship Indi-
ana, succeeding Captain H. G. Taylor
who has asked to be relieved.
Two negroes were killed, two seri-
ously burned and eighteen others Sc
verely shocked while engaged in re-
constructing the st. Charles avenue
street car line at New Orleans. The
men placed a rail against a pole
charged with 500 volts of electricity.
The Greek government has been
granted the courtesy of having an en-
sign of the Greek navy assigned to
duty on the north Atlantic squadron,
and Ensign Constantin Deligeorges has
been selected for this service. He will
go aboard Admiral SIMPSONS flagship.
It is said at the state department that
the report of the probable settlement
of the recent Italian lynching in Louis
lana on the basis of a $4,000 indenm-
nifty is incorrect, as no such proDOsi-