Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-10-30
He will join a Washington

service commission to take action to
protect government employees.
Captain J. B. Ross of Union City has
been appointed receiver of the First
National bank of Newport, KY.
The body of an Iowa young woman
was found in the river at Des Moines,
her death being mystery.
Mrs. Robert Farson OF Chicago has
been reelected president of the Illinois
Federation of Women's Clubs.
At Kansas City the lombard
italian Grand Opera company has dis
banded because of poor business.
Sixteen members of the republican
national committee are said to be OPP
posed to McKinley's denomination.
Of $1,000 farmers polled throughout
the United States nearly two-thirds ia
vored independence for the F'ilipinos.
Senator Depew positively denies the
report that there would be contest OF
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt's will.
Mormon leaders are said to be trying
to induce Brigham H. Roberts, con-
gressman-elect from Utah, to resign.
The modus vivendi on the Alaskan
boundary is agreed upon and signed by
the United States and Great Britain.
Northern Montana has three feet OF
snow. Twenty people are said to have
lost their lives in Teton county alone.
A Mississippi negro was burned at
the stake for tying a woman and four
children together and burning them to
death.
Albert Jester has been held to the
grand jury at Paris, Mo-, on the charge
of having murdered Gilbert Gates OF
Chicago.
CAPTAIN Oberlin M. Carter will ap-
peal from the decision of Judge La
combe in dismissing the writ of habeas
corpus.
At Cape Nome, Alaska, typhoid fe-
yer of virulent form has broken out.
The hospital is crowded with 25O pa
TENTS.
Mrs. Thomas R. MERCER is dead at
Milwaukee. She was prominent in the
Society of Colonial Danes and wom-
ems clubs.
Football: Yale 6, Wisconsin O..
O'Dea of Wisconsin did the most mar
velous kicking ever witnessed on the
Yale field.
Montgomery, Ala, labor unions have
boycotted the street fair there because
colored laborers were refused a place
in the parade.
At the Texas industrial convention
Former Minister to Siam John Barrett
of Portland, Oregon, made a strong ex-
pansion speech.
A $1O0, 900 fire occurred in a five
story brick building, No. 1893 Broad
way, New York. 1t was occupied by
commission men.
At Miami, Fla, five cases Of yellow
fever have been discovered. There are
two new cases at New Orleans and one
at jackson, Miss.
Two of the men alleged to be con-
cerned in the holdup Of the Union Pa
cific train at Wilcox, Wyo., on June 2,
have been captured.
The Chicago branch of the Compton
National D'Escompte de Paris, the
Bank of France, has been discontinued
because of local taxes.
William Eugene Dougherty, former
ly a Chicago newspaper man, died at
New York, aged 81. He was the father
Of Mrs. Stuart Robson.
w. J. Bryan will make the most
elaborate canvass he has ever made in
Nebraska, not excepting the year he
ran for the presidency.
1t is proposed to create a woman's
committee, with Helen Gould as chair
man, to aid the permanent Dewey arch
movement in New York.
Ephriam D. Sayre, president of the
Kentucky Bankers association, and
one of Kentucky's leading 1nanciers,
died at Lexington, aged 70 years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Deering of
Chicago, who had been lost in the snow
in northern Colorado for a week. have
safely reached a ranch on Williams
river.
Harry Elkes, the professional BIZ
cyclist, had an arm broken and leg
badly lacerated by being thrown from
his wheel. He was endeavOring to
lower the worlds hour record.
The people of Marion, S. c., the home
of Lieutenant Victor Blue, presented
the gallant young officer with a silver
loving cup. Lieutenant Blue is now at
Marion on his honeymoon.
Talk of jury fixing enlivens the
opening Of the trial of ex-State Treas
urer Booker of North Dakota on the
charge of making false returns while
president of Grand Forks bank.
Through the efforts of Mrs. w. N.
Mitchell of Atlanta a portrait of the
late Robert E. Lee will be hung at
West Point among those of other SUI
perintendents of the academy.
At Naco, Ariz., war broke out again
between Americans and Mexicans.
Four Mexican guards and one Ameri
can were killed. The fight resulted
from a row on the Mexican side.
The United States court of appeals
decided that insurance companies must
pay policies held by suicides unless
they prove that suicide was cOntem-
n1atnd when the nO1icv was subscribed