Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-31

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with is brakeman.
William ). Bly4n declines to COM
ment on ex-President Cleveland's
views as to the democratic party's
! future until Mr.. Cleveland states what
he means by democratic principles" ~
Professors Robert A. Armstrong and
J. J. Hartigan, of the West Virginia
University, who are said to be mimi
cal to President j. H. Raymond, have
been removed by the board of regents
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris desires
the statement made that there is no
truth in the rumored engagement of
Miss Sartoris and Mr.. Nichols of New
York
A West Point cadet, in telling the
Military board Of inquiry of hazing he
had undergone, said he had been
made to eat IS primes and swallow a
bowl of molasses.
The committee on location of the Ma
tional Conference of the German
Baptist Brethren Ounkards) de-
cided to hold the next conference in
Lincoln, Neb., the last week in May,
| 1901.
Senator Jones of Arkansas, chair
man Of the democratic national COM
mittee, said yesterday that there is no
/ foundation for the report that he con
templates resigning from the chair
manship.
At Beaver Falls, Pa, three houses
were wrecked and seven persons in
! jured by two natural gas explosions. A
three-year-old son of Frank Barnes
was burned fatally and his one-year-
old daughter may die.
Richard Adams, aged 80 years, a
farmer at Chenango Forks, Pa, is "
ing at the point of death as the result
of being badly bitten by boar. The
shock was so severe to Mr.. Adams that
he has lost his mind.
The 15-year-o old son of E. A. Cudahy,
the millionaire packer Of Omaha, who
was kidnapped, was returned to his
home upon the payment by his father
of $4,000 in gold. The house where
he was kept has been locet ted
The Secretary of War has sent to
the house the report of the chief of
engineers on the proposition to re-
move Ohio reef at Narragansett bay.
The cost of the project is estimated at
$307 200, but the report is adverse.
The senate committee on finance
authorized a favorable reply on the
house bill giving the superintendent
of coinage at minis the right to ex-
change gold bars for gold coin free of
charge or with charge, at their discre-
ton.
Claude A. Swanson, who has an
nounced his candidacy for the demo
cratic nomination for governor of
Virginia, says he has the warm sup
port of Senators Daniel and Martin
and several of the Virginia congress-
men.
West Point cadets told the Military
court of inquiry, which is i1vestigat-
ing hazing, of the various forms of
hazing that has been employed there
but denied that religious beliefs
caused i'll treatment of under class
men.
Mrs. Mckinley was the guest of
honor at a box party given at the
Columbia theater by Comptroller and
Mrs. Dawes to witness the perform
ance of San Toy, the Chinese-Engl
musical comedy, produced by the
Augustin DAILY company
The supreme court of California has
decided that Mrs. Jane L. Stanford
cannot recover taxes paid under pro-
test upon bonds and stocks situated in
New York city. The courts decision
is that stocks are taxable in the state
where ownership lies.
At Philadelphia the big establish
ment of the Franklin-Baker company,
manufacturers of shredded cocoanut,
and one of the largest importers of
Brazilian cocoanuts on the Atlantic
seaboard, was badly damaged by fire. |