Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-29

Trading in puts and "calls" on
the Chicago board of trade was finally
and absolutely prohibited by the di-
rectors of the board.
At Shelbyville, Ind, an hour before
her intended marriage of Charles
Hume, Miss Anna Monroe suddenly
expired of heart trouble.
The Virginia house of delegates has
passed the Jim Crow car bill, a
measure requiring separate cars for
whites and blacks on railways.
Nicholas Hickman, letter-box pro-
prietor in New York, positively iden-
titled Molineux in the murder trial as
having gotten III. G. Barnet mail.
Julius J. Schriftigiesser, editor Of
Der Boston Telegraph and of the New
England Stats Zeitung, died in Bos-
| ton of consumption, aged "a years.
Warren D. Cottrell, Chicago, has
filed a bankruptcy petition, placing his
| liabilities at $118,233. The debts
were contracted in Sioux City, Iowa.
Judge James Phelps, for many years
prominent in state and national af-
fairs, died suddenly at his home in
Esser, Conn. He was Is years Of age.
Mrs. Eliza Fell Davis, Bloomington,
H., wife of William O. Davis, publish
err Of the Bloomington Paragraph,
died at San Antonio, Texas, aged So
| years.
At Lafayette, Ind, the buildings,
machinery and manufactured lumber
of the Taylor Lumber company were
burned. Loss SAT 900; insurance $751;
900.
DR. Abram H. Wilmer, first assist
ant physician at the government hos
pital for the insane, died of heart fail
ure at Washington, D. c., aged IS
years.
Martin Berger catcher for the Bos-
ton baseball club, murdered his wife
and two children and killed himself at
their home, near North Brookfeld,
| Mass.
The big passenger pooling scheme
struck snag, the Great Northern and
the Canadian Pacific standing in the
way of immediate consummation of
the plan.
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
| $4,000 to aid in building the new
home for the naval branch of the
Young Mems Christian association in
Brooklyn.
III Bridgeport at the Barnum and
Bailey winter quarters, fire destroyed
car barn, eleven cars and the quarters
of the italian laborers, causing a loss
Of 100000
| The bill to reimburse cOtton-grOw-
ers for product captured and sold
during the civil war seems near to an
adjustment. Eleven million dollars
is involved
At Jackson Tenn, Dr.. John I. Tay-
lor a leading physician, while suffer-
ing from temporary mental aberra-
ton, shot himself, dying shortly af-
terward.
A resolution denouncing the federal
courts was reported adversely by a
committee of the United Mine Work
ers to the convention in session III
| Indianapolis
Mary Emma Woolley, NJ. A, pro-
fessor of Biblical history and litera-
ture in Wellesley college, has been I'M
animously chosen president of Mount
Holyoke college.
A part of the Porto Rican delega-
ton reached the capital and called on
! Secretary Root to urge an extension of
time on mortgage payments now near
ly due in the island.
The courts of Florida will begin
hearing the suit of the railroad COM
mission to compel the railways of that
state to reduce passenger rates from
to cents a mile.
In the Clark bribery investigation,
which was resumed, additional testf-
mony was introduced by the prosecu-
ton to show that much money was
used during the contest.
Thomas Mcdowell, of South River,
N. j., who was the first mayor of
Sacramento, Cal, died in New York,
aged SO years. His son is Melbourne
Mcdowell, the >tor.
In Chicago, ',fford R. England,
alias James Hammond, is under ar
rest on a charge Of embezzling $4,000
from the Warren-Scharff Asphalt
Pavement company of Detroit.
For one week after March 13 Rev.
G. NJ. Sheldon, author of In His Steps,
will edit the Topeka Capital on What
Would Jesus Do? lines. There will
be no police or sporting news.
Mrs. Roswell P. Flower has present
ed 100000 to Flower hospital, New
York, and Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor,
daughter of Roswell P. Flower, also
gave the institution 100000.
At Philadelphia excessive use of
morphine was the cause of the death
in hospital of William J. Mcconnell
of Cleveland, Ohio, we'll known in the
west as a temperance lecturer.
A New Yorker has invented a sys-
tenn of automatic telephone pulsation
revivers, by which he claims a sub
scriber in New York may converse
easily with one in San Francisco.
Aloysius Frauenheim, president of
the Pittsburg Brewing Company and