Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-17

ambassador to Italy.
Banker E. S. Dreyer's plea for re-
hearing was rejected by the Illinois
state supreme court.
The valuation of the Vanderbilt es
tate, shows that Alfred G.. Vanderbilt
will receive 100000
John McAuliffe, the aged painter OF
horses was killed by falling from
window in New York.
The government is to issue forty
regulation army overcoats to each
national guard company.
Archbishop Ireland in sermon al
Washington advocated temporal
sovereignty for the pope.
Governor Murphy Of Arizona is II
Washington urging the admission OF
his. territory to statehood.
Representative Norton Of Ohio in
troduced a bill in congress providing
for one-cent letter postage.
A Boston man who will bid for the
contract to raise the battleshiD Maine
purposes to use iackscrews.
Theodore Wallert pleaded guilty at
Henderson, Mimi, to killing his wife
and her four children.
John Osborn of Charlottesville, Ind.
was found guilty of manslaughter for
the killing of Howard Ellis.
The ST. Mary's German Catholic
church at Kankakee, ILL.,, was de-
stroyed by fire; loss, $4,000.
The international live stock expo
sition in Chicago proves a failure
financially, but not otherwise.
Captain Eustace Gibson, former con.
gresham and a confederate veteran
is dead at Huntington, W. Va.
The Cornelius Vanderbilt estate, per.
sonal, is valued at $7O,000,OO0 The
transfer tax will reach $4,000.
Congressman Shafroth Of Colorado
says the house is sure to pass the
shipping bill if the senate does.
The night clerk at the leading hotel
at Anderson, Ia, was held up and
robbed of SIS by masked man.
Edward Mason, Edward Matthews
and John Momant were run down by a
towboat and drowned at Industry, Pa.
Anthony Poor was sentenced to
sixty years in the penitentiary for the
killing of John Adams at Collins, Mo.
The Northwestern Congregation
alist, published at Minneapolis, was
sold to the Chicago Advance company
Mrs. A Byron Darby, wife of Sen
ator-elect DR.. Darby, died from eft
fects of an explosion at Waterloo, Ind
M. w. McAlarney, publisher of the
Harrisburg, Pa, Telegraph, died OF
Bright's disease. He was 60 years
old.
The annual review Of the lake mar
inc season shows shipment from
Chicago of 13O,818,232 bushels OF
grain
Employees on the Burlington's South
Dakota division were forbidden the use
of tobacco and liquor during working
hours.
Congressman Robert R. Hit is re
garded as an avowed candidate for
United States senator to succeed
Cullom.
Edmund Hanson, alias A. l.. Clark
supposed to be the head of a gang OF
counterfeiters, was arrested at Spo
kane.
One hundred thousand tons of coal
owned by the Calumet and Hecla com
pany are burning at Lake Linden
Mich.
John McDonough. an editor OF
Scranton, Pa, says his eyesight was
restored by prayer after oculists had
failed.
Edward Burnett was convicted OF
murder in the second degree for the
killing of Lawson Earwood at Cali
polls, o.
Iowa republicans are already in the
field for the gubernatioral campaign
of 1902. Hull and Cummins are in
the race.
At the funeral of ex-Cadet Booz at
Bristol, Pa, the minister said the
young man was prosecuted for reading
his Bible.
Vice President-elect Theodore Roose-
welt has given a parsonage to the
African Methodist church at Oyster
Bay, N. Y.
Thomas O'Hara, an old time jockey,
we'll known both in this country and
in England, was adjudged insane at
Chicago.
The Missouri Guarantee Savings
and Building association Of ST. Louis
made an assignment in the sum Of
100000.
Bios Aguirre, the second American
citizen to be extradited by Mexico
under the new treaty, was sentenced
to be shot.
Dow Lefever and John Moody lost
their eyesight by an explosion of dyna-
mite while trying to thaw it out at
Trimble, O.
George Westinghouse of Pittsburg
will erect a large smelter on T.
0O-acre tract recently purchased near
Nogales, Ariz.
The house military committee is to
report favorably on the resolution or
dering an inquiry into the death OF
Cadet Booz.
Rev. B. Fressenborg. Belleville, H.