Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-13
III. She was 80 years

expected to be in working order short
ly.
Two companies of the Seventh regi-
ment will be sent away from Fort
Smelling.
Daniel Scotch, aged 80, wealthy
retired tobacco manufacturer, died al
Detroit.
David Dannanberg, well known
brewer and a native of Norfolk, is
dead.
A Zulu chief was ordained as min
lister in a Brooklyn Congregational
church.
No result was attained in the ballot
yer, Del.
Boston has begun a crusade against
microbes in public telephone trans
mitters.
Senator Quay lost three votes in the
Pennsylvania senatorial fight and may
pull out.
Captain Herbert Smith Chadwick,
of Charlotte, N. c., committed suicide
in Boston.
w. P. Sprague, ex-congressman, is
dead from blood-poisoning at McCon-
nelsville, Ohio.
A banquet was given in New York
to Carl Schurz in honor of his seven
tieth birthday.
A new political party, to be known
as the union reform party, is being
formed in Cincinnati
Albert Becker, Chicago butcher,
acknowledged that he had thrown his
wife into Lake Michigan.
Samuel P Wormley, the Oldest ex-
pressman in the country, died at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dr. Anonio Fanoni, who has tested
the pneumonia serum in New York,
declared it cures.
M. M. Stephens of East st. Louis
was elected president Of the League of
Illinois Municipalities.
Trade in the United States was
heavier in February than it had ever
been before in that month.
At Waukesha, King Bartell was
arrested on the charge of practicing
medicine without diploma.
Spinal meningitis is epidemic at
Russellville, KY. Eighteen deaths
occurred there in "a hours.
Austin Methodists are to have a
new church edifce. About $4,000
was raised at Sundays services.
Ambrose A. Ranney, former con-
gresham from the third Massachu
sets district is dead, aged n.
The Buttery whirlpool rapids eleva-
tor, landmark of Niagara, was hurled
into the gorge by hurricane.
The Japanese government is report
ed to have seized a steamer with arms
and ammunition for the Filipinos.
Senator Gray announces that he is
in Delaware's senatorial fight as long
as his friends care to support him.
Several plants in various parts of
the country have voluntarily given
their employees an increase of wages.
Lawrence Townsend, now United
States minister to Portugal, will prob
ably be appointed minister to Spain.
Roland B. MoMneux was indicted in
New York by the grand jury for the
murder of Mrs Katherine J. Adams.
st. Louis had a dry Sunday, the po-
lice strictly enforcing the law calling
for the closing of all saloons Sunday.
Senator Wolcott of Colorado is sued
for divorce, the ground being incom-
patibility He married a rich widow.
Ex-Gov. Merriam of Minnesota was
nominated and confirmed director Of
the census. The pay is $4,000 year.
Captain William Waters, who sailed
Lake Michigan for forty years, died
at St. Joseph, Mich. He was 83 years
old.
At Lucknow, Tenn, Mrs. Mollie
Clark, a widow, while in religious fer
vor, poisoned her three children and
herself.
A grandniece of Aaron Burr has
been discovered living in restitution
ment.
Cotton mills throughout Maine have
announced the restoration on April
g of the wages prevailing before Jan
uary, 1898.
The senate committee reported I'M
favorably the nomination of ex-Con-
gresham Barrows to be librarian If
congress.
1t is said that the Britton tin plate
mill at Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the
tin plate trust, will be permanently
closed.
Some unknown person has sent poi
son to Miss Marie Ethel TVmpany, a
Brooklyn girl, and published a notice
of her death.
John H. Rooney, former elector
on the Bryan ticket, got the solid vote
of the democrats in Delaware's sena-
torial fight.
Weather Forecaster Cox at Chicago
has been advanced one number and
will receive an increase of $500 a year
in his pay.