Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-18

nap and the reunion will conclude with
the annual banquet.
Edward M. Newman, who forfeited
his bond in New York thirteen years
ago under indictments for forgery and
larceny, surrendered. He had &C
cumulated a fortune since his disap-
pearance.
At Wilmington, Del, Rev. Geo. o.
Hall, of st. Johns Episcopal church,
married a Philadelphia couple, receiv-
ing as a fee a check for $40. The
clergyman learned that the check was
worthless.
Professor Edward Charles Pickering
of Harvard sails for Rome, having
located the probable site of Harvard's
northern hemisphere observatory,
complimentary to the southern obser-
vatory in Peru.
Senator Clark of Montana has
bought for $145,O00 the home of Sen
ator Stewart in Washington, known as
Stewart castle" He will build mag
nificent structure on the site of the
present building.
Richard B. Leech of Brooklyn died
suddenly last night at the conclusion
forty-eighth New York volunteers,
held at Brighton Beach. Mr.. Leech
was "a years old.
M. Bernard, the Partisan architect,
has been awarded the first prize in the
competition sponsored by Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, who offered prizes for the best
plans for new buildings for the Uni
versity of California.
At Ottawa, ILL.,, st. Xavier's Academy
and the Sisters of Mercy convent was
destroyed by fire. The inmates so
sisters and pupils, escaped in their
night clothes. The loss amounts to
$751; 900; insurance, $4,000.
During a sham battle in the Paine
spectacle, The Battle of San Juan, at
the Ohio state fair grounds, three peo-
pie were shot, one being killed, by bull
let's from loaded shells, supposed to
have gotten mixed with the blank.
Samuel Ross Winans, Phi. D., the new
dean of Princeton university, who was
appointed last June to succeed the late
Dean Murray, has arrived from Nova
Scotia President Patton sailed from
England for Princeton September 10.
Within few weeks past, over $780,
900 has been taken from live stock
commission firms of Kansas City by
band of swindlers, seven men and two
women, who have operated from yari-
Gus points in Iowa, Nebraska and
Missouri.
Arthur Joy Draper of Hopedale,
Mass, third son of General William
F. Draper, United States ambassador
to Italy, and Miss Lily Duncan Vor-
heis, daughter of Charles H. Vorheis,
banker and capitalist of Lexington,
KY, were married.
After a protracted drought in Texas
of So days, in which the maximum tenn
perature has been over 100 degrees,
rain fell, but only enough to lay the
dust. The present drought is the
most severe in the history of the local
weather bureau.
Two persons were killed and two
others fatally injured by bolt of
lightning at Camargo III. The dead
are Spencer Bromfield Of Woodruff
and Robert Meyers of Champaign.
William Alder of Champaign and John
Griest of Urbana will die.
Samuel Moore Pe1ton, receiver of
the Queen & Crescent line, has been
elected to the presidency Of the Chi
cago & Alton road, vice E. H. Harri-
man, who resigned to become chair
man of the executive committee of the
syndicate owned property.
A consignment of 100000 worth of
Klondike gold for the United States
assay office arrived on the steamer
Cleveland from st. Michael. The con-
signors were the Canadian Bank of
Commerce, 100000, and the Bank of
British North America, 100000
Income-tax amendment to constitu
ton, popular election of senators and
curbing of trusts are issues urged by
W. J. Bryan upon Congressman DAILY
of New Jersey, who is trying to Sc
cure a Bryan delegation. Silver was
not mentioned in Bryan's letter.
Minister Sewall at Honolulu reports
the duties collected at the port upon
merchandise from the United States,
between Aug. II, 1898, and Aug. IL,
1899, amounted to $109,931. Value of
invoices from the United States re-
ported by the collector of customs was
So, 356,747.
The Service Men of the Spanish War
at meeting in Chicago elected Gen.
J. G. Wiley, of Pennsylvania, COM
mander to succeed Col Robert w.
Leonard, who resigned recently be-
cause of his appointment as lieu
tenant-colonel of the twenty eighth
regiment, United States volunteers.
John E. Mclean, the democratic
nominee for governor of Ohio selected
an executive committee to conduct his
campaign. The following were chosen:
Herman Groesbeck, Cincinnati; VIM. T.
Shine, Sidney; D. D. Donavin, Desh-
Ter; Frank Harper, Mount Vernon;
F. H. Southland, GAINESVILLE; o. S. Rock