Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-15

In New Ork MIS-. ITuul0F Was given
verdict for $4,000 against Mrs. Ash,
i who was alleged to have alienated her
husbands affections.
The refusal of Mayor Harrison
leaves Ladd of Kewanee the only can
didate for the democratic nomination
for governor in Illinois.
At Frankfort, Tenn, General O. E.
Drentzor, ex-consul of the United
States to Norway during Grants ad-
ministration, died, aged "a.
Steamship rates to Paris during the
exposition will be high. So much
business is assured that the companies
do not want eXcursiOnists.
The American Sugar Beet company
will establish a $1,500,000 plant at
Rocky Ford, Col, with capacity of
$4,000 tons of refined sugar.
Charles, Thomas and Allen Stoll,
sons of William StoH, were cremated
in their home at Coal Run, Pa, and
the residence destroyed.
Nearly half mile of copper cable,
weighing ton, was stolen from the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Elec-
trio railway in Chicago.
w. D. Hoard of Wisconsin, president
of the National Dairy union, thinks
congress will pass laws to prevent sale
Of oleomargarine as butter.
All the factories controlled by the
American window Glass company
were started up. The company will
operate at present 1920 pots.
Employees of the American Steel
and Wire company have had their
wages advanced IL per cent The adj
vance affects 10000 employees.
At Summersworth, n. H., Charles M.
Door, national bank examiner for the
state under President Harrison, died
of pneumonia, aged Sc years.
Julia Morrison, the actress, is on
trial in Chattanooga, charged with
] the murder of Frank Leiden, her
stage manager and leading man.
The Mississippi legislature nomi-
mated w. V. Sullivan as the United
States senator to fill the short term of
enc year ending March 4, 1901.
Mrs. Ellen Spaulding, widow of
Judge Spaulding of New York, was
killed by a fall in the Reading Rail
way station at Philadelphia.
At Philadelphia second operation
was performed on Roland Reed, the
actor, for intestinal cancer. Little
hope is held out for his recovery.
Roberts indirectly admitted polyg-
amy, but told the committee that mar
riages contracted before the admission
of Utah were not to be broken.
Dr. Franklin Fish, president of the
Chicago Theological seminary, has re-
signed He is 80 years old and has
served The institution 40 years.
The whisky trust has mortgaged its
twenty-eight distilleries in Kentucky
for $5,000,00u at per cent. to run for
twenty years and to be gold bearing.
General Andrade, late president of
Venezuela, who fed on warship
when the Castro revolution proved sue
cessful, is living quietly in Porto Rico.
John d. Rockefeller has subscribed
$4,000 to the fund for the perpetuation
of the Dewey arch. The subscriptions,
pledges and cash now amount to $780,
900.
William Goebel has secured an
overwhelming majority Of the legis-
lative committee which will hear his
contest for the governorship of Ken
lucky.
Julia Marlowe Tabor has been
granted a divorce from her husband,
Robert Tabor, for cruelty and intoler-
able severity She receives $4,000 ali
mony.
The secretary of the interior has
sent to congress an estimate of $641,-
los for the expenses, surveys, etc, of
the commission to the five civilized
tribes.
The Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean
railroad of France has placed an order
with the Pressed Steel Car company of
Pittsburg for 500 steel gondola cars of
special design.
Joel G. Tyler, late teller of the
Safety National bank of Fitchburg
Mass, was sentenced to serve five
years in jail for embezzling the funds
Of the bank
Charles Fl. Cole, former president of
the Globe National bank, Boston, has
been released on $50, 900 BAIL to appear
for trial Jan. is, on the charge of en-
| bezzlement.
At Lexington, KY, Mrs. Mary War
field Clay, who several years ago Sc
cured a divorce from her husband,
General Cassius M. Clay, the Sage of
Whitehall,' is i'll.
Miss Eta Thomas, niece of General
"Joe'' Wheeler, has begun suit in Chi
cago against William Fl. Fahrney, ask
ing $40 900 m ge3 for all g breach
of promise to marry.
Traffic on the White Pass and Yukon
railway has been indefinitely suspend
ed on account of snow and slides,
which are from fifty to two hundred
feet deep on the rails.
Andrew Carnegie gave $4,000 to the
General Society of Mechanics and
Tradesmen George r. Sheldon and
his brother gave $4,000 to st. Paurs