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

negie has agreed to give $4,000 toward
the payment for the construction of a
new engineering laboratory, as an ad-
junet to the institute in Hoboken, N. J..
The new building will be begun at
once.
! The state council of Pennsylvania
and the national council Junior Order
United American Mechanics have been
enjoined from levying and collecting
the per capita tax Of 71a per cent. for
the support of the national council.
The defendants are given fifteen days
to answer.
Mrs. Anna NJ Murdoch of Hagers-
town, Md, has begun suit for $1,000
damages against Charles A. Morrill,,
tea merchant of Chicago, charging him
with alternating her husbands affec-
tiOns and inducing him to withdraw a
life insurance policy which had been
made in her favor
In a rear-end collision near Bards-
town, KY, between a freight train and
the Springfield accommodation on the
Louisville e Nashville, Mrs. J. M.
Carothers Of Bardstown was caught
between two seats and crushed to
death. About a dozen other passen-
gers were slightly injured
Republican members of the house
committee on census propose to re-
port a bill to reduce the representation
of those states in which citizens are
disfranchised for any other cause ex-
cept participation in rebellion or other
crime. This is expected to affect the
southern states especially.
| The two biggest winners in the re-
cent New York stock furry were James
r. Keene, $2,5O0,O0O, and Mrs James
R. Keene, $2,50O,0OO Mr.. Keene won
the whole 100000, but one-half of
his winnings go to his wife by virtue
of an agreement Mr. Keene is now
believed to be worth S20,0O0,000
Governor Stunenberg and Represent
alive Wilson of Idaho of the house
committee on military affairs, had a
conference with the president as to
the reimbursement of states which had
paid the expenses of rejected volun-
teers for the Spanish war. 1t is likely
that bill covering the question will
be introduced in congress.
Peter Nicholl, a well-to-do colored
farmer of Palmra, ~ Y, was re-
turning home in wagon when train
struck and demolished the vehicle at
a railroad crossing, killing the old
man, one of his daughters and grand
child. Another daughter was badly
injured and a second grandchild has
since died from it's injuries.
A dispatch from Dawson, in the
Klondike, gives brief information re-
garding two fatalities near Ogilvie.
Mrs. j. Rumban, Mrs. Dumbottom.
Henry Kelly and two MacNamara
brothers persisted in an ice jam. Near
White House T. Smith, Fred Batty
and John Mcintosh, while in small
boat, salvaging a cargo, were struck
by heavy swell and carried under the
ice.
Congressman Corliss' bill, having in
view the construction of dam at the
lower end of Lake Erie, so that the
lake levels will be raised two feet, does
not meet much favor in Ontario es
pecially among the Canadians who re-
side on the border Of Lake Erie and on
the Detroit river and Lake st. Clair.
In order to carry the engineering to Sc
cure the consent of the dominion gov
eminent.
Willis Clark, AZ years of age, a
variety actor, tried to kill his wife and
little child and committed suicide in
Broadway, New York, in front of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. He fired four
shots, one at his little girl and two at
his wife, missing them. He then
placed the muzzle of the revolver in his
mouth and fired. The street was
crowded at the time.
The president has granted full
pardon to James H. Bacon, convicted
in 1896 of making false report to the
comptroller of the currency of the con-
dition of the National bank of Salt
Lake, Utah, of which he was president.
Comptroller Dawes and his predeces-
sor stated that they believed Bacon
was innocent of any moral wrong and
that he ought not to have been con-
victed.
The new twin-screw steamer, Rhein,
the last addition to the North German
Lloyd fleet of steamers, arrived at her
pier from Bremen, with thirty-seven
cabin and 532 steerage passengers and
a full cargo of general merchandise.
The Rhein was built by Blohm & Vose
of Hamburg. She is 10,058 tons gross
and 6,398 tons registered, and has &C
commodations for $50 cabin and over
1000 Storage passengers.
The seminary for female ministers.
which Rev. A. H. NJ. Harvuot of the
Central Christian church Of Cincinnati
succeeded in having favorably con-
sidered by the jubilee convention OF
the Christian Missionary societies, held
last October, and which it was thought
would be located in Cincinnati will
probably be established in Chicago
This is because the Church of the
Disciples has no large college in this
vicinity.
The Ohio supreme court has dis
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