Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-10

/ opera MUSE were EQUALLY u0SIIOyGu ny
fire. The loss is $4,000; insurance,
$35, 800.
The Indiana supreme court held that
if man marries a woman who is in
.debted to him, the marriage discharges
the debt.
Miss Leah Maud Decker, the Long
! Island schoolmarm who was in love
with a boy pupil, is not to be removed
from her position.
While en- route from Texarkan,
Ark, Mrs. w. D. Owen, wife of the
secretary of state of Indiana, dropped
dead III the aisle of the car.
Rev. Father J. F. Shannahan, rector
of the Church of Our Mother Of Sor-
rows of Philadelphia, has accepted the
Roman Catholic bishopric of Harris
burg.
At Boston the Badger block, five
story structure on Wareham street, i'll
the heart of the wood planning district
Of the South end, was Quilted by fire.
Loss $4,000.
! The great Sierra de Mercedi noun
tain of iron, adjoining Durango, Mex,
has been purchased by G. P. Hunt
ington. The purchase price is placed
at 100000 in gold.
Ex-senator David B. Hill does not
expect to attend the democratic club
dinner in New York on the evening OF
Jeffersons birthday, he having de-
cIined the invitation.
The trial will commence in Charles
ton, S. c., next week of fifteen white
men who are charged with lynching
the colored postmaster at Lake City
more than year ago.
| With view to establishing mer-
chant marine for Cuba, President Nc
Kinley has directed that all registry
fees for documenting foreign vessels
in Cuba be abolished.
James F. Haley, Wheaton, ILL.,,
died. He engaged in the grocery
business in Chicago directly after the
fire of 1871, but retired several years
| ago. He was 73 years old.
| John D. Rockefeller has notified the
| trustees of Dennison university at
Granville, Ohio, that if within the en-
suing year they will raise $150,000, he
will present the institution with $780,
! 900.
James LIE Blanche, a young French
| Canadian, killed his sweetheart, an
Indian girl, named Olga Posamie. He
stabbed her, and threw her from
Lovers Rock" on the lake shore at
Point Pelee, Ont.
A number of Pennsylvania legisla
tors testified before an investigating
committee that they had received Of
| fers of money or position for their
votes in the senatorial contest and on
the McCarrell jury BILL
The Detroit common council by a
vote of 81 to II, appointed a commits
sion, headed by Governor Pingree, to
negotiate, purchase and operate all
the street railways of Detroit under
municipal ownership.
Miss Catherine Tuttle of Columbus,
| O., has given to Hobart college $20,-
900 to found scholarships for worthy
scholars in memory of her uncles, Jo-
seph Medbery of Rochester, N. Y, ano
Sylvester Medbery of Columbus, o.
In New York Dr. Kennedy and Ed
ward Wise were both sentenced to be
electrocuted and were taken to Sing
Sing. Wise told a story which may
lead to his being freed, as he says he
suffered conviction to shield a friend.
Nine persons were severely wounded
and it is feared that two were drowned
| in a collision between an ocean going
tug and one of the Brooklyn ferry
boats. The ferry boat Pierrepont
was struck in mid-stream by the tug
Argus.
Israel Lawton, superintendent
of the San Francisco mint, and for
merly judge of the probate court Of
Albany, N. Y, is dead of heart failure
and brain trouble. He was born on
Aug. 2, 1852, in Albany county, New
York.
The Florida general assembly will
| choose a successor to Senator Samuel
Pasco, whose term expired March 4
last 1t is believed Senator Pasco will
succeed himself In case he is not
reelected the place will be given to
Governor Bloxham.
| During the first three quarters of
the fiscal year, ending April /, 632
| merchant vessels were built by the
bureau of navigation, compared with
SAL during the same time in 1898. The
gross tonnage was 1924. Half the
construction for the March quarter
was in steel.
Every German social, business, reli-
| gious and political organization in Chi
cago has been asked to send delegates
to meeting to be held there April
II. The meeting will have as it's OBJ
ject the formation of a permanent or
ganization to protest against an Anglo
/ American alliance. n.
At San Francisco the contest of the
trust clause in the will Of the late
William Dunphy, instituted by his
daughter Mrs. Flood, is nearing an
end. The millionaire left his entire
estate, valued at $1,OOO,OO0, in trust I'M
til the death of all his children. Mrs