Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06

shall have charge of the United
States department of musical exnlDlIs
at the exposition.
At Lincoln, Neb., in the legislative
investigation on the charges OF nolu-
ing up insurance companies, maue
against State Auditor Cornell, some
letters we're introduced tending 10
show that Cornell had personally pro-
flied by excessive charges.
Professor Henry Rowland OF johns
uonkins university has invented new
telegraph machine by which an opera
tor playing on the keys can transmit
q message, which will be automatically
nrinted on a machine 1900 miles away
do;no away with the receiving opera
tor entirely.
Richard Croker admits that the
Manhattan Elevated Railway company
rejected his proposition to use It's
structure for pipe through which MS
Air Power company desired to trans
nit compressed air at pressure OF
1000 pounds to the square inch TOT
commercial purposes.
The American Iron and Steel AS
ISOLATION in it's bulletin of March l,
says that 6,609,O17 gross tons of Bes-
semer steel ingots were produced IN
the United States during 1898, over
20 per cent. more than in 1897. Penn
sylvania's share was 2,402,254; Ohio,
1,489,1 lis; illinois, 100000, and other
states, 612,608.
New York custom officials are au-
thority for the statement that the
seizure last week of some 1900 SWISS
watch movements and one-half that
number of gold cases in the office OF
A. w. Levy, points directly to the ex-
istence of an organized gang OF
smugglers which they are in hopes
of soon experimenting.
Frances Saville, the opera singer,
who states that she is citizen of Call
fornia, has brought suit against the
proprietor of the Madison Avenue no
tel in New York City to recover $40, 1000,
the value of casket Of jewels which
she alleges were stolen from her apart
ments in the hotel in December, 1893,
by an employee of the no
tel.
Edwin T. Earl, who is thoroughly
familiar with the California fruit
trade, says: The yield of oranges in
the southern part of the state this
season is about 100000 boxes. Of
this number about four-f1fths are be-
ing sent to eastern cities. The finan-
cial returns to the orange growers OF
the crop will be between 100000 and
100000
At Tyler, Tex, seven prisoners have
escaped from the jail. Among the fu-
gitives is Jim Mite, the surviving mem
Der of the Dalton gang which robbed
tn Longview bank in 1894, when two
and one robber were killed.
Mite was brought here from the pen1-
tertiary, where he was serving a
seven-year sentence. He had received
a change of venue to Rusk county.
In Chicago, confession of extensive
swindling practices begun in Europ-
can cities and carried on in the United
States, has been made by Nathan Lab
tman, who was arrested Saturday
on a charge of having attempted to
swindle Lowenthal Bros, junk deal
ars, out of $4,000 by trying to sell
brass behring's for gold dust. He said
he had made no less than 100000 by
operating the alleged gold dust swind-
ing scheme.
In the United States circuit court,
Chicago, the first step has been taken
in a legal battle which will probably
have a long existence in the supreme
court Of the United States. The case
was that of Shirley T. High, a daugh-
ter of the late Gen. w. w. Tredway
Of Madison, against Collector Of Inter
nal Revenue Coyne and the matter at
issue is the inheritance tax imposed
under the war revenue act. The
plaintiff seeks to have this tax de-
clared unconstitutional. No matter
what the decision may be, the cause
will be taken into the supreme court
for contest. The legacy which is made
the issue of the legal battle is that of
James L. High, former
Dane county man, who died last fall.
The tax falls only on the personal
which is worth 100000.