Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-20
DOMESTIC.

| was destroyed by ire.
DR.. James H. Etheridge, the gyne-
cologist, is dead in Chicago.
Belmond, Iowa, had a fire which de-
stroyed S150OOO worth of property.
At Jackson, Miss, Governor Nc
Laurin is critically i'll of pneumonia.
War officials are looking for Lieut..
J. B. Everitt, Company A, 4th Wis
cOnsin.
Nearly all the large cereal factories
in the country are merged under one
management.
The department of agriculture
will have a beef investigation on it's
own account.
A. c. McClurg & Co., the Chicago
publishers, were burned out, the loss
being $65O,O0O.
George NJ Curtis of Iowa Is ap-
pointed a member of the colonial
board for Cuba.
Coal companies and dealers were
indicted in Cincinnati for violating
the antitrust law.
A Chippawa Fall (Wis.) man was
murdered in the Klondike after gain
ing a large fortune.
Captain James Bryant, who aided
Boss" Tweed to escape to Cuba, is
dead at New York.
Millionaire James L. Flood was
married in Kansas City to Miss Fritz,
sister of his first wife.
George Scarcliff, ST., a wealthy
pioneer resident of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
died at the age of Is.
The American commissioners refuse
to cede Skaguay, Alaska, or any other
| territory to Great Britain.
An epidemic of spotted fever or
cerebro spinal meningitis, is said to be
raging at Morgantown, KY.
Rev. DR.. Emil G. Hirsch, former
Baltimorean, was elected rabbi OF
Temple Emanuel, New York.
Maxey hall, at Brown university, was
Quilted by fire. Loss, $500 Fifty
three students lost their rooms.
Rev. James Monroe Taylor, presi-
dent of Vassar college, was elected
president of Brown university.
Samuel c. Meredith died at Indian
apolis, aged 92. He was the Oldest
Senator Hansbrough's Inter-Ocean
building and other structures at
Devils Lake, N. D., were burned.
Plans for gigantic silk trust, with
headquarters in Paterson, n. D., are
being discussed by the manufacturers.
It is estimated that so per cent. OF
the wheat acreage in central Illinois
has been killed by the severe weather.
George Searfes of Chicago found his
wife at Wichita, Kan, with the man
with whom she ran away in January,
1895.
Professionals are excluded from
membership in the L. A. W., but will
be allowed representation in the as
sembly.
The president and cabinet fully de-
cided upon an extra session if the
army reorganization bill is not passed
by March 4.
Judge Simon Baldwin, Of Con-
necticut, urged the restoration of the
whipping for the punishment of
wife-beaters.
Intensely cold weather prevailed
throughout the country The tenn
perature fell to twenty-six degrees in
parts of Florida.
A loving cup was presented to Ad-
miral Sam pson's wife by the COM
manders who served under the Ad~
miral at Santiago.
Mrs. L. z. Letter and her daughters
sailed for Europe, the daughters to
continue on to India to visit their
sister, Lady Curzon.
The Delaware legislature passeu
bill reducing the taxes of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad from $4,000
to $4,000 annually.
The American Steel and Wire com
pany will advance wages of ali mill
men 10 per cent. This affects sew
eral thousand men.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has offered to
give Atlanta, Ca, 100000 public Ii
brary if the city will furnish a site and
an annual appropriation.
John G. jerks, one of the first
settlers of GAINESVILLE, Wis, and for
many years leading business man,
passed away at the age Of 81.
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford ar
rived in San Francisco from Japan
and gave his views on the necessary
policy to be pursued in China.
In New York the engagement is an
nounced OF Lispenard Stewart and
Miss Romola Dahlghen, granddaugh-
ter of the late Admiral Dahlgren.
Bishop John Williams, Of the Pro-
testant Episcopal diocese of Connect
cut, senior bishop of the church, died
at his home in Middletown, Conn.
Mrs. Martha Cumback died at
Greensburg, Ind, Of heart failure,
aged sc years. She was the wife OF
former Governor Will Cumback.
Jesse H. Bunnell of Brooklyn, N. Y,
died of heart disease, aged 56. He was
in the United States military tele
graph service during the civil war.
At Denver, Henry P, Rhodes e~--as-
sistant United States district attorney,
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