Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-08-28
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DR.. w. H. w. Boyle of Colorado
Springs, Colo, has been called by the
Forty-first Street Presbyterian church
of Chicago. If he accepts he will begin
his duties about Sept. Is at salary Of
$4,000 year.
A serious break occurred in the Erie
canal at Syracuse, n. Y. The under
part of the partition between the two
sections of lock 40 was washed away,
and it will take three or four days to
make repairs.
Rev. J. H. Vandoren of Fond du Lac,
Wis, has issued a circular in which he
charges the Milwaukee presbytery
with making a pauper of him by re-
fusing to grant him transfer to the
Winnebag presbytery.
The Phoenix Bridge company of
Phoenixville, Pa, has received the con-
tract to build the great Kagashina via
duct in Japan. The viaduct is to be of
steel, of five spans, and about 1000 feet
in length and 100 feet high.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Allen
has invited Miss Florence Beckman
Bailey of New York, granddaughter OF
Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey, to
christen the new torpedoboat Bailey,
now building at Morris Heights.
William Robbins instructor of man
ual training in the schools of Passaic,
N. j., shot and instantly killed his
brother, Ralph Robbins, aged 16, while
hunting in the Adirondacks. He mis-
took the red sweater worn by Ralph for
a deer
A check for $158,282, signed by Nor
man B. Ream and Robert T. Lincoln,
as executors of the estate of George nj.
Pullman, was paid into the county
court at Chicago, to cancel the lien
against the estate under theinheritanc
tax law.
The Texas farmers alliance before
adiourning it's annual meeting at Bas-
set, Texas, unanimously adopted
resolution favoring the deportation to
Africa by the federal government at
public expense of every negro in the
United States.
The United States minister at Cara
cas- reports complete defeat for the
insurgents at Los Andes, Venezuela
in a battle that lasted eighteen hours
The loss to the insurgents was 800
killed and wounded, and that of the
government 300.
In Chicago Mrs. Henrikka Bratsch,
prominent in the Christian Catholic
church, otherwise known as "Zion"
church, of which DR.. John Alexander
Dowie is at the head, was fined $500
and costs for practicing medicine with
out license.
At Hermann, Mo-, the wine and dis
tilling plant of the Stonehill Wine
company, valued at S250,000 has been
seized by the government and the pres
ident of the company and his son are
under arrest, charged with evading
the revenue tax.
DR.. w. w. Burgin, a dentist of Rich
mond, KY, narrowly escaped death by
poisoning. He bought watermelon
which tasted bitter, and was found to
contain strychnine. The poison had
been placed in the melon 10y the grower
to catch thieves.
The State Department is advised
from Yokohama Of the frmation of an
American-Asiatic association there to
safeguard the interests OF American
citizens in Japan and to cooperate
with similar associations in New York
and throughout the orient.
General Charles w. Blair of Kansas
City, Mo-, attorney for the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad, died
at Coronado Beach, Cal, after linger-
ing illness. He was 70 years DID, and
for SO years had been a prominent
figure in politics in Ohio and Kansas.
Mrs. Frank WitIock, who died at her
home in Batavia, township, Michigan,
was reputed to be the heaviest woman
in the country. Her weight was $40
pounds. Her coffin was forty inches
wide and twenty-seven inches deep.
Mr.. Whitlock was formerly a Chicago
policeman.
The Newport, Ohio, police authori-
ties are securing that city for some
trace of mysterious "Jack the slash
err For no apparent reason, a
strange man last Tuesday evening at
tackled Matte Block, domestic, and
slashed her with a knife, inf1icting four
CHASTITY wounds.
The general conference of Christian
workers closed it's seventeenth annual
session at Mortified after what is adj
mitted to be the most successful series
of meetings in the Northfeld move
ment At the closing service D. l..
Moody asked for an Offering to- help
the prison fund.
Two hundred and fifty tons of copper
coins have just been unloaded at New
Haven, Conn, from ship which made
a trip to Bombay India, to purchase
them for manufacturing purposes in
this country The market price of
these coins was about two-thirds of
that of American copper.
The first legal execution in the Klon-
dixie took place at Dawson Aug. 4. The
victims hanged were two Indians