Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-09

at New York.
At Ambrose, Ozark county, Mo, VIM.
Barton shot and killed two men. He
was captured by a posse, but only
after killing one of his pursuers.
After a. period of enforced idleness
for more than five years, the Iron
River mine at Stambaugh, Mich, is TO
be placed in operation next spring.
Rev. Thomas Van Etten Sweet,
presiding elder of the Freeport dis
trict of the Rock river conference of
the Methodist church, is seriously i'll.
Secretary Hay disapproved the
concession made by the Hawaiian
government to the Pacific Cable COM
40any for an exclusive right to Alay
cable to Hawaii.
Thomas l.. Bunting, former rep
resentative in congress from the
thirty-third New York district is
dead. He was born in Eden, N. Y,
April "A, 1874.
James Gordon of Arcanum, O., be-
came acquainted with, wooed and won
q hello girl in the telephone Office at
Anderson, Ind. He first saw his bride
elect after her happy yes
Benjamin r. Willetts, aged %, was
hanged at the state prison, Wethers-
field, Conn, at 1920 for the murder
Of David S. Lambert, of Wilton, his
former teacher, Dec. II, 1897.
A westbound freight train collided
with the eastbound passenger train
near lockwood, Pa, and a serious
wreck resulted. Eleven persons were
injured, none of whom will die
At Trinidad, Col. the east-bound
California Limited, No. 4, on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, was
wrecked, presumably by spreading
rails. Twelve were injured.
Plans for the new navy may be
blocked by lack of facilities, big ship
builders having notified the navy de-
partment that their yards are now
being pushed to their capacity.
The New York police have dis
no clue as to the murderer of
Mrs. Kate J. Adams, who was killed
by taking cyanide of potassium.
which was in a bromo settler bottle.
In San Francisco Judge Coffey has
granted Mrs. Jane L. Stanford an or
der for the final distribution of the
estate Of her late husband, Senator
Leland Stanford. Legacies amounting
to $5,155, 900 have been paid.
Three hundred arrests were made
for drunkenness in Brooklyn new
years morning. Ninety men and one
woman-all of them battered wrecks
were before one magistrate in a bunch.
After months of negotiation the an
thracite coal roads have again decided
to renew the "coal trust" and advance
prices. This advance took effect Jan.
1, and will amount to rs cents a ton.
At Paulding, o., domestic dncom-
patability caused Charles A. Brewer,
ex-postmaster, to shoot and kill his
wife, and then blow out his own
brains
President Snow, Of the Mormon
church, asserts that polygamous mar
riages ceased in Utah in 1890 and that
the church is not interested In the
Roberts case.
Eight business houses we're de-
stroyed and six stores damaged by a
fire which started in Defrancis' mil
linery establishment at Oberlin. The
losses is $4,000.
Frank J. Gould, the youngest son
of Jay Gould, who reached his ma
jorty only few weeks age, has pur-
chased a seat in the New York stock
exchange for $4,000.
At Easton, Pa, Judge Howard B.
Reeder, son of Andrew H. Reeder,
noted governor of Kansas during the
anti-slayery controversy before the
civil war, is dead, aged IS.
Among the candidates for Senator
Morrill's seat are Ex-Governor William
P. Dillingham;, Ex-Governor G. S. Page,
G. S. Prouty, Judge Henry G. Ide and
Congressman w. w. Prouty.
Senator Hanna has received a letter
threatening him with death if he
pushed the disbarment proceedings
against Judge Dellenbaugh and State
Senator Burke Of Cleveland.
An army medical board has been
directed to consider the best method
of sterilizing water for troops in the
field and to report the result Of it's
Investigations on the subject as soon
as possible to the secretary of war.
At Kansas City James Brown, col
ored, was hanged for the murder ri
Henry Prather, also a negro. The
killing occurred in April, 1896, Brown
shooting Prather in quarrel over
9 woman.
The Nicaragua canal commission
favors the Lull route across the
isthumus in preference to the Mari
time company's route, and estimates
the cost of a canal on that line at
$125, 900, coo.
Commission General Peck has an
nounced the appointment Of Alexander
s. Capehart, of Ohio, as director of the
DEPARTMENT Of liberal arts and cheml-
cal industries in the American exhibit
at the Paris exposition.
Frank Weir, of Cincinnati, a SOL
der, struck his only son Frank, aged
IL, on the head with a hammer and