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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
BADGER BRIEFS.

Otis Staples, the Saltwater lumber
man, has purchased the steamer Jessie
B, now at La Crosse.
The farm house of Samuel Noble
near Sparta burned with it's contents.
The family narrowly ESCAPED.
A petition to the common council is
being circulated in ManitowOc for the
passing of a curfeW ordinance.
A number of society women of Green
Bay are preparing to give lady min
strel performance in the near future.
Mrs. Mary Stephens of New. Rich
mond was fatally burned by skillet
of grease. She was about 70 years Of
age.
The steamer Arthur Orr at Superior
will be cut in two and heightened
from 287 to 335 feet, at cost of about
100000.
Capt. Buck, recruiting officer for the
regular army, sent twelve La Crosse
recruits to Fort Smelling. He has
opened a recruiting Office at Sparta.
Solomon Finch, at one time a prom
inent citizen of A.acine has just been
sentenced. to nine months in. state pri-
son on. conviction of failure to support
his family.
The Pabst Brewing company has Of
fered a gold medal to the best marks
man in the 4th regiment, Wisconsin
volunteers, the range work at Camp
Shipp being the basis of award.
Congressman BabcOck has recon-
mended N. T. Martin for postmaster at
Mineral Point, and Charles G.. Balm
bridge at Miff1in. E. Brazell has been
appointed postmaster at Jeffris, Lin
coin county.
Adam Small of the ShOshone agency,
Wyoming, who has been spending the
winter with his family at Fond du Lac,
has been ordered to report at his post
at once. He has charge of the govern
ment Touring and lumber mills at
ShOshOne.
A call is being circulated and gener-
ally signed requesting Judge James J.
Dick of Beaver Dam, judge of the 18th
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
EAGLE RIVER Villas CO., WISCONSIN, MONDAY, JANUARY

women who never could find any one
10 have them, have hopes. Let a
wioNw or an old maid who signs for
companionship answer my appeal. l
will keep enough stove wood in the
barn to keep the fires burning, and she
will have to look after what is to be
cooked. l have stock Of good stories,
and she will smile all day. am tired
OF being farm hand, and any one
with little money who wants to be-
come a Suydam has only to show me a
little money and come to the parson.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
WANTS Old MAID OR WIDOW.
Isaac Suydam Open to Offers of Mar
riage.

New York, Jan. 26.-With the ex-
perience gathered during forty years
OF life and in spending fortune, Isaac
Suydam Of Lake Grove, l.. l., offers
himself to the first olo maid or widow
who will have him, provided she has a
few dollars TO keep the pot a-boiling.
A descendant of the honored and aged
family OF Suydams Of New York, with
a family tree that would put the most
spreading of such things in it's own
shade, Isaac, now farm hand for J.
w. HaIlock of Lake Grove, wants to
settle down and live happily. Isaac
has advertised in Lake Grove paper
making known his wants for a wife.
He has received no answers, so he has
communicated with the correspondents
Of the great metropolitan newspapers
in hopes that some woman who has not
known married bliss will take him up
Yesterday Suydam said:
Il have had varied experience,
have spent my money-all of it-think-
ing not of the morrow, and now I am
anxious to end my troubles in matri-
mony. | have never found woman
who would have me- but as there are
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
MRS. ROsENBARGER GUILTY.

Princeton, Ind, Jan. 26.-Rebecca A.
Rosenbarger has been found guilty Of
poisoning her 18-year-old son with in
tent to kill, and her punishment fixed
at seven years in the state prison for
women at Indianapolis. The defend
ant received the verdict without any
outward signs of emotion and wore a
smile upon her coun tenance. The CON
yicted woman is 81 years of age ana
is member of the Methodist church.
On November she gave to her son3
Alya, bottle of medicine and in
structed him to take the drug. He was
the next day in a dying condition, but
was finally brought back to life. The
mother held an insurance policy on the
life Of her boy for $4,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
BOOM FOR MONDOV1.

Mon0oyi, Wis, Jan. ga crew of
surveyors has been at work between
this place and Gilmington the past two
weeks, surveying the right-of-way for
the new branch OF the Omaha from
Mondovi to Gilmingjon, a distance Of
seven miles. A right-of-way was also
surveyed by the same crew for the
same company from Mondovi to
place known as Rockwell's Land Slide
distance of twelve miles south of this
place. The building of these two
branches is assured and opens up
territory that has been the objective
point of the Omaha for years. 1t will
greatly increase shipping facilities and
bring a great boom to Mondovi.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
SPENT MONEY ON A MODEL.
Miss Wenck Says Snure Entertained
Her When Wife Lay Sick.

New York, Jan. 26.-Louis j. Snure's
pititul story Oh theft to save a dying
wife has moistened many an eye, but
now there comes a young woman who
asserts that his affection for his wife
was hypocrisy. The man confessed 10
stealing $4,000 from his employers by
means of forged checks, and pleaded
guilty to Judge Newburger, with tear
full eyes and saddened cOuntenanc2.
So pitiful seemed the circumstances
that Judge Newburger remanded him
for sentence until tomorrow.
Miss Elizabeth Wenck, cloak
model, who says she began suit for
breach of promise against Snure, as
serts that the man spent some Of the
stolen money on her account, and pro-
posed to marry her under the pretensa
that he was a bachelor. She says that
during the wifes absence in Florida
she paid frequent visits to the man S
home, where she was known as a rel
ative, and that Snure, when she dis
covered he was married man, prom
Used to marry her upon the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
GOLD FOUND AT ROCKTON.
Little Town Thrown Into Excitement
Over Valuable Discovery.

Rockton, Wis, Jan. 26.-This
usually quiet little village has been
thrown into the widest kind of excite
ment by the discovery of what is
thought to be strata of gold bearing
sand About one year. ago, C. e. Coop
er sank a well 1870 feet deep on the
William Cooper farm, which is located
about one and one-half miles west Of
Rockton. Recently 80 feet of the pipe
was found to be filed with a blood-red
colored sand and several bushels of it
were removed from the we'll. A chem
ist reported considerable gold in it, but
that he would have to get some special
chemicals from Chicago before he
could give the exact analysis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
MONEY CAME TO LATE. ;
IS, 900 Check Reaches Man After He
StarVes to Death.

New York, Jan. ga sick and des-
titute man, SO years of age, was taken
from an east side tenement house three
weeks ago to the department for out
door poor. He gave the name of Law
renee Schrader and was dying from Tie
want Of nutritious food. Yesterday a
letter addressed to Schrader was
brought to the institution. 1t con-
tanned a check for $4,000 and had been
sent from England as Schrader's long
delayed share in his fathers estate.
Schrader, however, had died and the
money arrived just in time to prevent
his burial in the potter's field.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
SHOULD sUBSIDIZE SHIPS.
Advice of a Prominent Japanese Man
ufacturer to Americans.

Cincinnati, Jan. 26-At yesterdays
session of the annual convention of the
American Manufacturers association,
S. Kondo, president of the American
Japan Commercial association at To-
kio made an address favoring cooper
alton between America and Japan for
supremacy in the Pacific trade Of which
only per cent. is now carried rnder
the American flag. The Americans
should substitute their Pacific merchant
marine, he said. The election Of offic-
ers occurs Today: There is no oppo-
sition whatever to the reelection 81
Theodore C. Search of Philadelphia rs
president for a fourth term.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
SNOW HELPS LOGGERS.

Black River Falls, Wis, Jan. rs
The ten-inch fall of snow of Sunday in
the lumber region of Wisconsin insures
a full log crop. Over Is per cent. of
the winters cut is now banked, not
withstanding the lack of snow up to
Sunday. Lumbermen have sent all
the teams they can hire to the woods
and many of them will work IS hours
day in order to complete contracts.
Eighty million feet will be put in on
the Black river waters.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
KANSAS CITY BANK CLOSED,

Kansas City, Jan. 26.-rhe Planters
bank closed yesterday and the propri-
etOrs, Leonard M. Boden and S. F.,
Hancock, have been arrested pending
an investigation. The bank was char
tered January Is last, with a capital of
$4,000, paid up. 1t was to be a pri-
vate institution 1t is charged that a
report was made January 20 to the
state bank examiner which showed fic-
titious resources, chiefly exchange
which had no existence
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30

Appleton soldiers who were in Porto
war board to the effect that beef
served to them before their return was
rotten and had to be buried.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
YOUNG'S SUCCESSOR
FIGHT FOR LIBRARIAN OF CON-
GRESS ACTIVELY BEGINS.
COLONEL cAssoN's RIVALS

John Hyde and o. P. Austin Each
Seeking to Be Appointed Superin-
tendent of the Next Census-Presi-
dent Will Fill the Position as
Soon as the Bill Is Signed,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-30
HOLDING UP TREATY
GORMAN HAS THE DOCUMENT BY
THE THROAT.
ITS GFRlENDS pOWERLESS


Extra Session of Congress May Be
Necessary Unless Conditional APP
preparation Is Made to Pay Spain
$4,000, 000-Friends of Treaty Will
not Act Until Sure of Ratification.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
SENSATION AT CAPETOWN.
Reported Seizure of Coal by the Free
 State.

London, October 6.-The Capetown cor respondent of the Daily Mail says: "A sen- sation has been caused here by the report that the Free State government has con- tiscated 800 tons of coal belonging to the Cape government, which was traversing the Free State. Such seizure would nat urally be regarded as an act of war. J. w. Sauer, the commissioner of public works, suIpIeSs1 6Iqmssss eul uI psuoIlssnb usqA the matter, professed ignorance; but l learn that the report was telegraphed to the Cape ministry early in the day.
 q learn that the Transvaal treaty to put subjects over the border would necessitate the withdrawal of Conyngham Greene.
 'Some surprise is manifested over the re- port that a large number of British troops are to be landed here instead of Audurban. This is taken to signify that the Transvaal will be invaded from the west and not from Natal"
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
BIRMINGHAM WILL
 HAVE NEW ROAD Chattanooga Southern to Run a = Branch Line Here. IS NOW AN ASSURED FACT General Manager Bonzano Says the Proposed Extensions Will Cost
 o,oOo-Will Tap Black
 Creek Coal Fields
IS NOW AN ASSURED FACT

Chattanooga, October 6-(Special.) The extension of the Chattanooga Southern Is now an assured fact. The road will be extended from Gadsden to Montgomery and a branch line will be built into Bir- mingham
 The Chattanooga Southern extends from this city to Gadsden, and the mileage ex- tension will be over 125 miles. Running south from Gadsden, it will tap the Black creek coal felds some of the most valuable property in the state, and the route to Montgomery will pierce a section of good country.
 The branch line from Birmingham will tap the main line about forty-five miles south of Gadsden.
 General Manager Bonzano, in an inter- view here today, states that the extensions will cost s1,50O,O00.
 The Chattanooga Southern is now owned by c. P. Huntington and Russell Sage.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
FARMERS AT BOSTON
National Congress Elects Officers and
 Listens to Papers

Boston, October 6.-The Farmers Na- tional congress today elected the following officers: President, H. P. Hoard, Fort Att kinson, Wis; first vice-president, P. G. F. Candage, Brookline, Mass; second vice. president, Colonel John s. Cunningham, North Carolina; secretary. John M. Stahl, Chicago; assistant secretary, R. L. Kolp. Iowa Park, Tex; treasurer, L. Van Nor rIson, Pennsylvania. T. c. Slaughter, of Prospect, Tex, and B. F. Wheetstein, of Kentucky, were elected members of the executive committee.
 Improved Farming in the South." was the subject of A paper by T. c. Slaughter. H. S. Hilton, of Topeka, Kas., read paper on '"The Western Tenant and His Eastern Landlord"
 H. c. Adams, dairy commissioner of Wis., consin, delivered an address on the neces- sity of pure food legislation.
 resolution was adopted providing for a committee to extend the beet sugar indus- try among farmers. The resolution conn., mittee reported in detail on legislation which it is desired that congress should enact in the interest of farmers. !.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
WILL SEND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Navy Department Determined to up-
 hold It's End of Conflict

Washington, October 6.-Notification was sent by cable today to both General Ous and Admiral Watson at Manila of the intention of the navy department to rein force the navy in the Philippines to con- siderable extent and stating that the Brook lyn and several other vessels would be dis patched at the earliest possible moment to the islands.
 So far the only orders issued are to the Brooklyn, the Nashville, the New Orleans and the Badger, but in the course of a few weeks others will be added to the list in the shape of some of the smaller gum boats. The navy department is not aware of the use to which Admiral Watson and General Otis will put this force, but un- doubtedly 1t is the purpose to make su- preme effort to crush the instruction at an early day.
 Admiral Dewey regarded 1t as essential that the insurgents should be cut off from the bountiful supplies they have been re- ceiving through the ports which have not yet been closed, and he expressed tho greatest satisfaction at the information contained in the latest Manila advices to the effect that the insurgents were in straits to secure food, pointing out that this presaged an early collapse of their resistance if the avenues were kept closed against further supplies.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
HAS DECIDED TO
 ACCEPT THE HOME
Dewey Considers It a Gift from
 the People.
WILL BE GIVEN CHOICE
May Select Residence from List of Available Locations Which the Committee Will Present.
 Expresses Desires Fully

Washington, October 6.-Admiral Dewey has elected to accept a house in Washing ton already constructed instead of having one built for his occupation. In accordance with the invitation of the committee which has In charge the Dewey home work, he called at the office of Acting Secretary AL len dn the navy department at Il o'clock today to indicate his preference in the mat ter of residence.
 There were present besides MT. Allen, Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, Assistant Postmaster Heath and Adjutant General Corbin. The admiral was officially in- formed of the purpose of the people of the United States to present him with a home in Washington. He frankly expressed his qualification at the tender, which he imme- dhately accepted. He said had the proposed home been the gift of a wealthy man he should feel indisposed to accept 1t; but he noted that the fund had over 5000 subscrib- CTS, indicating that the home was really the gift of the American people, and as such le would accept it with as much pleas ure as he had the sword bestowed upon him by congress.
 He then talked upon the location of the t preference for the section in which he had made his home during his former details of duty in Washington. He wished the house to be located in the northwest section of the city, somewhere west of Sixteenth street, and not too far north, thus indicat- ing the neighborhood of his former resi- dence, and the clubs where he had spent a good deal of his leisure time. First of all, he wanted the house at the earliest possible moment, so that he might go in and hang up his hat lat once," as he put it. Of course that precluded the idea of erecting a house to meet his special needs. He ex- pressed his ideas as to the character of the home he desired, and asked that the house be modern enough in appointments and cost to permit of he retention of a sufficient sum of money from the purchase fund to defray the expense of furnishing it.
 The committee listened attentively to all of these wishes, and saw no reason why each and all could not be gratifed. The admiral is going to New York tonight or tomorrow, and will stop over if he can see the yacht race on his way to Shelbourne Farms, Vt. He expects to return to Wash ington in the course of a week. Mean while the committee having invited written proposals of properties will go through the list carefully and hope to be able to present to the admiral on his return as many as half a dozen available residences from which he may make personal selection. The fund at the disposal of the committee now amounts to about $50,00e ana it is earnestly desired that this sum may be substantially increased during the time re- maining before the purchase.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
An English Army Corps Will be
 Mobilized Today.
NATIVES INVADING JOHANNESBURG
Kaffirs Raiding in Search of Liquor = Reported That Free State Has Confscated Goal Belonging
 to Cape Government

London, October 6.-There has been a complete deatrh of news from South Africa today. The few despatches received record ing military movements at various points all tend to confirm the belief that President Kruger will restrain any forward move ment by the Boers unless they are fired upon or war is actually declared. It is now practically certain that parliament will meet October IT.
 Reserves will be summoned tomorrow in sufficient number to bring up to a war strength the regiments warned to hold themselves in readiness for service in South Africa or about one-sixteenth of the total reserve.
 The Daily News aserts that an army corps will be moTblized tomorrow.
 A dispatch from Mafeking announces that Commandant Cronje, of the Boer forces, has been promoted to the rank of general, and is massing six thousand Boers, with artillery near Ramathlabama, north of Mfeking. The dispatch adds that General Cronje has sent message to the camp of the imperial troops that he will cross the border at the first shot fired in Natal.
 It is stated that Rt Hon. Henry Escombe, formerly premier of Natal, is going to Pretoria in the interest of peace. H. M. s. Phiomel suddenly left Durban today for Delagoa bay. The Daily Chronicles Rome correspondent says that the British have applied to Signor Marconi with a view of employing his system of wireless telegraphy in the Transvaal campaign.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
Dr. Vaughn Has an Encounter With
 Savages

Vancouver, B. C., October 6-Dr. Vaughn, an American, who has worked up large trade among the people of New Guinea, narrowly escaped being caught by the na- tives few weeks ago. The news of his experience has been brought here by the steamer Aorangi.
 Early in September Vaughn, with several men, went on trading and scientific trip up the Musa river and inadvertently came into an unfriendly territory and were compelled to retreat hastily to their launch. In the middle of the river the ma chinery broke down and the boat drifted heplessly with the current. The natives ran along the shore hurling spears at those in the craft, while others followed in war canoes.
 Several of the men were wounded, but a sail was rigged up and the launch got out of reach of the savages.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07

and for the extraordinary service he has rendered his country no honor that can be shown him in return in too great. He has aroused the admiration of the whole world by the gallantry of his conduct, and he would be small man indeed who could not recognize his merit and give free expression to his admiration for Dewey's valor."
 The minister was emphatic in expressing the opinion that the very best of feeling existed between the United States and Spain. '"There are absolutely mo differences between the two countries on any point" he said.
 Certainly" he continued 'it is tine hope of all true Spaniards that this condition should exist, and as for myself, as the official representative of the queen regent, it Is the ambition of my life to be doing for bringing about the very utmost of good feeling and good will.'
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
To Oppose Carter's Arplcstion

New York, October 6.-General Henry L. Burnett, United States district attorney, has received instructions from Washing ton to cooperate with the army's counsel in opposing the application for the release of former Captain Oberlin M. Carter, and today MT. Burnett was granted permission by Judge Lacomb to file brief in answer to the arguments of Abraham L. Ross. Carters counsel. This will take several days, and it is considered probable that the decision of the court will be delayed until next week.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
GRANT ATTACKS
 THE INSURGENTS FiIIpInOs Driven Back by the
 American TrOOps' TEN REBELS IRE KILLED Navy Oep' 5 2 'nt Will Send Re-
 inf ; 7 's"ts at 0"''' lMPORTan z: OF THE FOOD SUPPLY If This Avenue of Support Gan Be Kept Closed It Will Necessarily Force an Early Collapse the Present War.
IMPOR1Anc z: OF THE FOOD SUPPLY

Manila, October 6-5:50 p. m-Genera1 Fred Grant, with three companies of the Fourth infantry, two companies of the Fourteenth infantry and a band of scouts attached to the former regiment, advanced from linus this morning, driving the insur- gents from the entire west bank of the linus river Three Americans were wound- ed. It is estimated that ten of the Filipinos were killed.
 Companies c and H, with the scouts, crossed the river at Big Bend and ad- vanced westward in the direction of the Binnacyan road, the insurgents firing vol- leys but retiring Twenty Filipinos were discovered in trenches at the Binnacyan church, about midway between Baccor and Cayite Viejo. These were routed, six being killed Rileys battery of the Fifth arta- lery made an effective sortie about mile south of Bacoor and shelled the west bank of the river at close range. That bank IS now held by the Americans.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
CRIMINAL ASSAULT
Made on Rosa Powell Early This
 Morning

At o'clock this morning little Rosa Pow ell, Il years old, was the victim of an at tempted criminal assault, in a grove near avenue B and Sixteenth street.
 She succeeded in breaking away from the man, whom she called Charley" and ran to the home of Mrs. Whitney, at 1701 Avenue B. The child was considerably bruised from the rough treatment she had received and sobbed pitifully.
 Mrs. Whitney telephoned the police and Mounted Officer Brown went in search of the man. He found that Rosa, who is an adopted child of the Powels, had been sent home from the celebration at Behren's park and that man named Charley" had been asked to go with her. He carried the child in a different direction from home and when in a safe place committed the henious deed.
The age-herald., 1899-10-07
INVADING JOHANNESBURG.
Thousands of Natives Are Raiding in
 Search of Liquor.

Johannesburg, October 6.-Thousands of natives have invaded the town, and today the authorities decided to march them un- der escort out of the country. Last night two natives entered clothing store kept by Jew and stabbed the proprietor in the neck, severing his windpipe.
 Two Jewish storekeepers in the East Rand have been murdered by natives and the Kaffirs are raiding all the places where they think liquor is stored.
 The war commission, acting under the governments instruction, will today issue advice to shopkeepers to remove the bar- rlcades they have created on the ground that the governments guarantee of pro- tection ought to be sufficient.