Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-15
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the officers and men of the cruiser Ra-
leigh at Wilmington, N. c..
Almost the entire business portion of
Moody, Texas, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
Many land boomers joined in
rush for locations in the Ute lands
which were opened for settlement
George Elder, former manager OF
the Duluth Trust company, has been
found guilty of embezzling $4,000.
The general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church south will be
held in Dallas, Texas, in May, 1902.
In New York the death of Mrs.
Charlotte M. Barguet is said to have
been due to Christian Science beliefs.
Insanity will be the plea of James
Neale Plumb, who murdered Million
aire Alexander Masterton in New
York.
During a strike dispute at Buffalo
two men we're shot by drunken out
slider. The governor has sent arbitra-
tors.
Archbishop Ireland is attacked and
defended by the Paris press, being the
most talked-about man in the French
capital.
John Moore, at Hutchinson, Kan,
has been convicted of murder in the
first degree for killing his five children
March 80.
Senator Hanna is one of the largest
owners of stock in the American Ship
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building company, which, consolidated
lake shipyards.
The italian government has extend
ed for three months the time in which
the last of the Gerruti claims shall be
paid by Colombia.
Coal shovelers on the lake wharves
to the number of 1900 are on strike;
over $500 longshoremen threaten to
go out with them.
The grain shovelers at Buffalo re-
fused a proposition of the Lake Car
riers association and O1ners to COM
promise the strike.
Minnesota and Michigan were tied
in the college oratorical contest at
Oberlin, Wisconsin was fourth. Ober-
lin won first place.
The Portuguese bark Atlantico has
reached New Orleans from Brazil
with a Cargo Of 1000 snakes, bound
for the Paris exposition.
Our government receives assurances
that United States interests in China
will not suffer in consequence of the
Anglo-Russian agreement.
Carnegie company filed incorpora-
ton papers in Trenton. This is
thought to be the first move to incOr-
porate the big steel trust
Lieutenant w. H. James, U. S. A.,
died of pneumonia in San Francisco,
and his remains have been forwarded
to his former home in Kentucky.
The english are worried because
American machinery is supplanting
theirs, because made with more de-
ference to the wants of customers.
The Georgia monument to soldiers
of that state who fought at Chicka-
manga was dedicated, Governor Cand-
Ter making an eloquent address.
DR.. Hans Hogelsberg, former presi-
dent of the Guarantee Trust company
of New York, is under arrest at Los
Angeles, charged with grand larceny.
Fred Titus goes abroad to seek di-
vorce from Edna May, the actress. He
accuses as correspondent Lord Victor
Cavendish, heir of the duke of Devon
shire.
Mrs. Styles of Chicago, aged "a, shot
her mother dead because the latter
revealed to Mrs. Styles 16-year-old
daughter that she was an illegitimate.
child.
Charles P. Eagan, ex-commissary
general of the United States army,
sailed for Honolulu. He and his fam
lily will spend several months on the
islands.
The Equitable Building and Loan
Association of Bloomington, ILL.,, has
passed into the hands of a receiver.
The assets of the Equitable amount to
$650,00O.
The Phoenix Bridge Works COM
pany of Phoenixville, Pa, has secured
another contract to build large
bridge. for the Imperial railway of
Japan. - n#.. ~rF
The Japanese, custom of liberatlng
pigeons was substituted for breaking
a champagne bottle at the launch in
New York of the floating hospital
Helen c.. Juilliard.
An examination of the books of J.
e. Wiscoskie,- ex-city treasurer of Ar
gentine, Kansas, shows a shortage Of
between $4,000 and $4,000. Wiscos-
kie disappeared e6- Do anJ9eu ~ ! =
4 The currency bill drafted by the re-
publican caucus committee embodies
only the recommendations submitted
by President Mckinley lin his last
message to congress.
MARY Vlacht the 16=year7old1 daugh-'
ter of a Nebraska farmer, committed:
suicide while Respondent, over the
death Of her soldier sweetheart,
George Hoar, who was killed in the
Philippines. yves s9#at= Ge4.a,I adr Il
The federal authorities of the west
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