Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-03
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spirits are swarming around her.
The war department was deceived
by forged documents purp0rting to be
the discharge papers of volunteer.
The United States transports Scan
dia and Arizona have been named the
Warren and the Hancock, respectively.
John T. Shayne, the Chicago mer-
chant who was shot by Harry Ham
mond, the tailor, is improving rapidly.
The trial Of DR.. Nancy A. Guilford
was commenced at Bridgeport, Conn,
on the charge of numbering Emma
Gill.
Southern railroads won case at
New Orleans brought against them
by the interstate commerce commits
sion
Another body was taken from the
ruins of the Hotel Windsor in New
York, making the total dead now num-
Der 49,
Charles Reuss and Burt Frey, en-
tombed alive two weeks ago in the
Bon Air shaft, at Leadville, were
rescued.
Rev. James A. Sturgeon, brother of
the late Rev. Charles H. Sturgeon,
was found dead in a railway carriage
at London.
The free admission of binding Irvine
from Canada is now allowed, that
country having removed the tariff on
the article.
At Topeka John Henry Collins re-
ceived the death sentence for the muir
der of his father. He made a sensa
tional speech.
Edward J. Kinnahan, known to the
Chicago police as a confidence man,
was shot to death in a street duel with
two of his pals.
Trusts, it is generally believed, by
republicans in Washington, will be
prominent issue in the next presiden-
tial campaign.
Admiral Hichborn, chief constructor
of the navy, has been elected an hon
orary member of the Institute of Ma
val Architects.
Robert J. Burdett, the humorist,
married Mrs Clara B. Baker, formerly
the wife of a Wisconsin clergyman, at
Pasadena, Cal.
Three men were killed and num-
Der injured by an explosion of smoke
less powder at the Dupont works, Car
ney Point, N. j.
William L. Rietz of Chicago alb
Quoted his 2-year-old chilu from
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where he was in the
care Of his mother.
Seven or more negroes were lynched
in Arkansas as the result Of race
war Three negroes also were lynch
ed in Mississippi.
Griswold College, Iowa, was ordered
by a supreme court decision to return
gift of $4,000 because it's terms had
not been complied with.
Oliver H. P Belmont, in letter
published states that he will support
the democratic platform in 1900
whether silver or gold.
S. B. Armour of the Armour Pack
ing Company of Kansas City is re-
ported dangerously i'll with pneumo-
MIA. He is years old.
Charles Bernhamer died at Shelby
vile, Ind, aged 78 years. He was the
father of Attorney William E. Bern
hamer, now of Chicago.
1t is believed in Washington that
Geneal Clarkson of Iowa will be given
the position of secretary of the senate
by the republican caucus.
Kitty Wannemacher, aged Is, was
accidentally shot and fatally wounded
at San Francisco by her foster brother,
Joseph Miller, 10 years old.
The Woodmen of the World have
passed a resolution for a home for the
sovereign camp to cost 100000. Ten
cities will bid for the location.
Upon the statements Of a released
convict, James Billings, colored, was
arrested, charged with killing little
Susie Martin in 1894 at Brooklyn.
A coroner's jury found that the ne
groes who were lynched in Arkansas
came to their death from natural
causes or were frozen to death.
At recruiting Offices many men re-
fuse to enlist in the regular army I'M
less assured that they will be assigned
to home stations and not sent to Cuba.
John and Paul Zeltner, the Bowl
ing Green, Ohio, murderers, who were
threatened with lynching, surrendered
to the militia and we're lodged in Jail.
Congressman James S. Sherman,
who was appointed and confirmed as
United States general appraiser, still
wavers over the acceptance of the
Office.
A special from Salvador says: ''ThG
volcano Izalo has been in eruption for
the last three weeks and that earth
quakes have been frequent in that vi
entity
At Pana, ILL.,, negro miners cele
brated the departure of the troops
ending in a fight in which one man
was killed and another seriously in
jured.
The Pennsylvania house of repre-
sentatives adopted resolution direct
ing that all of it's members be ques
toned as to the pending charges of