Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-11

post treaty. The British government,
likewise, has taken steps looking to a
treaty on the same lines as Germany.
President Mckinley has directed the
summary dismissal from West Point
academy of Philip S. Smith, the Ne
braska cadet who was caught two days
ago in the act of haZing Ulysses S.
Grant III.
Judge Bookstaver of New York re-
fused to restrain the Colonial Danes
of the State Of New York and the Ma
tional Society of Colonial DANES of
America from using the words Colo
NAL Danes.
Negro rioters concerned in the Del
agel affair at Darien, Ca, are surrend-
ering daily in small squads. The mill
| try posses are still searching the
swamps for them and have come across
several small parties.
Commissioner Woodward. at Paris,
in the name of FERDINAND w. Peck,
sends an open letter to- the French
papers stating there will be no gold
statue at the united States exhibit at
the exposition next year.
Commissioner Peck of the Paris
exposition has arranged with Cripple
Creek mine owners for the shipment
of 81, 600, 900 in bullion to the exposi-
ton. 1t will be in the shape of a pyr-
amid and will be taken across the
ocean in a war vessel.
The largest month for customs re-
ceipts that the New York custom house
had under the Dingley tariff law closed
Aug. 81. The cashier announced $13,-
78O,471 as the total receipts for the
month. The receipts for the month
of August were greater by $4,000 than
any previous month under the pres
ent tariff law, last March being the
record month before.
The only woman president of a rail-
way company in the United States was
formally committed to the San Fran
cisco county Jail for five days for con-
tempt of court by Judge Trout. The
woman in question is Mrs. Annie
Kline Rikert, and the railway corpora
tion of which she is the head is the
Stockton e Toluomne. She failed to
obey an order of the court.
The following army officers have
been detailed to college duty: Major
William A. Thompson, Grove City col
lege, Pennsylvania; Captain billiard,
Clark university, of Illinois; First
Lieutenant Charles A. Curtis, Univer-
sity of Wisconsin; First Lieutenant
Warren R. Dunton, Kemper school,
Bonneville, Mo-; First Lieutenant Sam
Mcclure, University, of Idaho.
The secret service has discovered
new counterfeit 81 treasury note of the
series of 1891, check letter D; Bruce,
register; Roberts, treasurer; portrait,
Mcpherson. The seal is dark red, in
stead of pink, and the parallel ruling
is poor, as is most of the lathe work.
1t is a fairly deceptive photo-etching
production, and the silk fiber distrib-
uted through the genuine paper has
been closely initiated.
The Pittsburg rail-coal mine COM
bination has been formed and a meet
ing will be held within two weeks to
elect officers. The new corporation is
the Pittsburg Coal company and it's
capital stock is $64,000,000 1t owns
the coal properties of 104 of the 10Y
individuals and firms in the business,
has practically absolute control of the
docks and coal-loading plants on the
great lakes, and has monopoly on all
the outlets to- the coal markets of the
East, West and Northwest.
The jury in the case of former Chi
cago banker Edward S. Dreyer, on trial
for the second time in the charge of
embezzlement of $4,000 of the funds
of the West Park board, of which he
was treasurer, was compile led yester-
day. Assistant States Attorney
Barnes at once made his opening
statement of the case to the jury, ex-
planning the case at some length. The
defense waived it's opening statement
for the present. The Indictment
charges that Dreyer "feloniously"
Withheld the $4,000 from the West
Park board, and that word will figure
considerably in the trial.