Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-13

teds have combined to form the Amer
lean Wooden Company, with capital
stock of $5O,OO0,OO0.
Captain Isaac Walton, an old lake
captain we'll known in Chicago, Cleve-
land and along the lakes, died at Nor
walk, Ohio, aged SO.
Charleston, w. Va, is almost en-
tirely under water, the Elk river hav-
ing flooded the Kanawha valley.
Much distress prevails.
At Sandusky, O., a verdict Of muir
der in the second degree was returned
against Martha McFillin. She killed
her lover, George Koechell
A controlling interest in the Chicago
and Alton railroad was sold to a syn
dictate represented by John D. Rookie
teller and George Gould.
A fire at Charlotte, N. c., destroyed
1000 bales of cotton and other valua-
BILE property. Loss estimated at $780,
600; insurance unknown.
Miss Helen Gould testified at Albany
as a witness against Mrs. Margaret
E. Cody, accused Of trying to black
mail Jay Gould's heirs.
Chicago capitalists are said to be
largely interested in combine of
shelters, now being formed with a
capital stock of $46,000,000.
In Chicago, May wheat broke to
TN at 717s, rallied to 1914 at 725s,
and eased off to 727A cents-a net
loss for the day of 3b cents.
Very few applications have been
filed for grants, franchises or conces-
sions for the construction of public
works in Cuba and Porto Rico.
Millers want the interstate COM
MERGE commission to investigate
charges that the railroads are giving
too low rate on export flour.
The Hamline-Carleton college de-
bate on the expediency of an alliance
with Great Britain was won by Carrie
ton, which took the negative.
The United States is said to have
promised $10,OO0OOO more for the Gu
ban soldiers and that it will soon turn
the island over to the natives.
Three persons were killed and nine
injured by tornado that passed over
jacksonville, Tenn. At Decatur, Ala
four were killed by terrific storm.
At Tekamah, Neb., Calvin HiscoX
was acquitted of the murder of Fred
Sellers. Hiscox's sister was acquit-
ted of the same charge a year ago.
Boston minister, locked out of his
church by the standing committee,
conducted services on the steps and
sidewalks in front of the church.
President Mckinley will appoint
Senator George Gray judge of the third
circuit, including the states of Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
At San Jose, Cal, two bicycle rid
ers, David Aratio and Daniel Murphy,
ran into each other on the country
road. Aratio was killed instantly.
Steps were taken in Philadelphia to
interest trade organizations and bust
ness interests in the Philadelphia COM
mercial exposition, to be held next fall.
Mrs. Cornelia, or Connie" jack
son, a sister of Joseph Jefferson ana
herself we'll known actress, died
from cancer, aged sixty-three years.
Mayor Quincy of Boston has given
directions to the superintendent of
public grounds to begin the work of
exterminating the English sparrows
r. Hayden, editor of the Weekly
Underwater and publisher of the An
nual Encyclopedia of Insurance, died
at his home in East Hartford, Conn.
Physician writing in the Medical
Record says that appendicitis can be
cured by free calomel and soda purga-
ton, followed by a saline if action is
too slow.
Soldiers Of Fort Sheridan are COM
planning at the abolition of the beer
canteen, the profits from which have
furnished all the table luxuries for
their mess.
The condition Of Rudyard Kipling,
the we'll known author, continues to
improve. His eldest child, aged 6,
died of pneumonia, but Kipling does
not know this.
At Rochester, N. Y, Mrs Emma
M. Winslow, executive officer of the
Constellation is dead. She was chosen
by the navy department to christen
the Kearsarge.
The Ellington, fashionable apart
ment-house in Cleveland, with about
ESQ occupants, has been quarantined
because of smallpox, and ingress and
egress are prohibited.
There is going to be revival of
old-time river steamboat rivalry on
the upper Mississippi this season. The
Diamond 10 and the Davenport Bur
lington lines have parted company.
At GAINESVILLE, John Rider started
home with friend and next morning
his dead body was found on the bank
Of the river near his home. It is sup
posed that he died from exposure.
An old grudge between cowboys was
settled with pistols at Childress, in
the Texas panhandle. John Bailey
and Thomas Palmer were the princi-
pals in an Informal duel and both are