Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-12-04

$1,363 worth of precious stones in Chi
cago.
Higher coal freight rates took eff
feet in the west
General Grants widow has written
a story of her life.
Creditors of the Plankinton bank
demand a new assignee.
American exports of iron and steel
for 1899 exceed $100,000,000.
A Springfield Qll.) street car was
blown up with dynamite.
Col. R. H. Brooks of Virginia was
paralyzed in Washington.
Burglars broke into the Milton, Wis,
bank and robbed it of $4,000.
Union miners will try to shut off the
coal supply of the Gould roads.
John Taylor, leading citizen of
Bethany, ILL.,, died, aged IS years.
dramatic teacher in st. Louis was
killed by the husband Of pupil.
Republican congressional caucus
will act on Roberts case Saturday.
Rev. E. A. Schell has resigned the
.secretaryship of the Epworth League.
Waste of natural gas will lead 10
early exhaustion of the Indiana fields.
Ex-Alderman J. J. McGrath dropped
dead at a restaurant table in Chicago.
President Had1ey was the first presi-
dent of Yale to attend football game.
The Chicago & Northwestern road
added 298 miles to it's lines during 1899.
The treaties for the final partition of
the Samoan Islands have been drawn
up.
A cotton yarn and thread mill with
100000 spindles will be built in Fall
River
Rear-Admiral Hichborn was called
to Boston by the sudden death of his
brother.
The Central State Bank of Lebanon,
Ind. was placed in the hands of re-
ceiver.
An Indiana congressman expressed
the opinion that Roberts of Utah will
be seated.
Cigar-box makers are organizing a
union to be affiliated with the cigar
makers.
A British syndicate has an option on
$40, 100000 worth of sheep and land in
Montana.
Harvard alone is unbeaten of the big
football teams. It may play Chicago
next year.
An electric fan trust has been
formed. There are IA firms, with
$25, 900 capital.
Dun finds no indication that the vol
use of currency has not been ample for
business needs.
The United States battleship Texas,
Captain Sigsbee, from Hampton Roads,
arrived at Boston.
A boy stood on a track at Knights
vile, Ind, waved his hat, and pre-
vented wreck.
New York's export trade, experts
say depends on the improvements OF
the Erie canal.
Colonel Henry Casson of Wis
consin is a candidate for sergeant-at-
arms of the house.
Charles O'Neil was killed and seven
men were injured by the bursting of a
gas main at New York.
Rear-Admiral Schley has been or
dered to sail from New York for the
south Atlantic station.
Brooms have doubled in price in the
last month. Another advance is ex-
pected before Jan. 1.
Sad and exciting scenes were wit
messed at Vice President Hobart's
bier in Patterson, N. J.
A company has been organized to
control cafes, restaurants, and hotels
all over the United States.
Mayor Harrison's order to close all
vaudeville entertainments in Chicago
saloons takes effect Dec. |.
An Injunction was issued RESTRAINING
the typographical union from interfer-
ing with the New York Sun.
Two Alabama youths left North Man
chester (Tnd.) college because it re-
fused to expel two negroes.
The father Of Marion Taylor, lynched
by an Indiana mob, was awarded IS
damages against the sheriff.
Complaint is made that many con
gressmen act as attorneys to press
claims against the United States
General Funston says that two Fill
ipino prisoners were killed at Caloocan
by enlisted men, and not by officers.
The official trial of the new battle
ship Kentucky will take place off the
Massachusetts coast Friday.
James McManes, who voluntarily
paid the 100000 Of debts Of the Peo-
pies bank of Philadelphia, is dead.
Mr.. Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., son of Gov
ernor Lowndes, married Miss May
Campbell Quinn at Chillicothe, Ohio.
Mrs Russell Sage says poor young
men should not allow false pride to
prevent their marriage to rich girls.
An anti-Bryan movement was started
by Maryland democrats who hope to
prevent the Nebraskan's nomination.
Samuel May, the famous abolitionist,
died at his home in leicester, Mass.
He would have been 80 years old next