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

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Dartmouth College will have
school of administration and finance.
The Virginia Society of Atlanta cele-
brated the birthday of Robert E. Lee.
A witness testified that he was Of
fered $4,000 to vote for Senator Clark.
A colored congressman framed
bill making ly1chers guilty of treason
Illinois women issue an address Civ
ing reasons why women should not
vote.
Professor A. G. Warner died sud
denly at La Cruces, N. NJ, aged 40
years.
Bank clearings of the country show
material increase outside of New
York
Senator Plat proposes commits
sion to examine water boundaries with
Canada.
Samuel Lovejoy a veteran hotel
proprietor, died at Belvidere, Ill, aged
"A years.
Government inspectors condemned
155, SOP animals examined at abattoirs
last year.
Hospital surgeons successfully used
egg membrane to graft wounds of a
patient.
Sixty-three Michigan cities eXpend-
ed s., 452,505 in public improvements
in 1899.
Assistant Secretary of State Hill
was chosen president Of Columbian
university.
Live stock men elected officers and
adjourned to meet in Salt Lake City
next year.
A travelling man robbed of an over
coat in Chicago found it on a man in
Pittsburg.
The resolutions of sympathy with
beers were laid on the table in the
Iowa house.
Statue of Webster was unveiled in
Washington in the presence of a dis
tinguished gathering.
Large eastern roads have formed a
passenger committee at New York to
prevent rate-cutting.
The house committee fav0rably re-
ported the bill for the election of
senators by direct vote.
In New York T. L. Byrnes is fight
ing the ice trust for the right to drive
wagon at $40 a week.
No Goulds met the Castellanes on
their arrival at New York. The
count said he never gambled.
Iowa's amended inheritance law was
upheld by the courts. The tax is 5
per cent. on collateral heirs.
Tt is said that Senator Clark of
Montana will resign if the committee
reports adversely in his case.
At Des Moines, James H. Gear was
formally reelected in the legislature
to the United States senate.
Secretary Gage has asked congress
to appropriate $17, 800 to equip a new
marine hospital in Chicago.
Congressman Caldwell favors a
canal across the United States con-
Meeting Atlantic and Pacific.
Mrs. Mary Blanchard, widow of
Francis Blanchard a Chicago pioneer
is dead at Brooklyn, aged IS.
President John Mitchell and Secre-
tary Pearce were reelected by the
United Mine Workers of America.
The Chinese Six Companies has
agreed to help the San Francisco
police suppress highlander murders.
McLaurin was elected senator for
the long term and Sullivan for the
short, by the Mississippi legislature.
John Findley Wallace of Chicago
has been elected president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Cincinnati politicians say that the
democratic organization in Ohio is
now in favor Of the gold standard.
Congressman J. w. Bailey says that
the statement that he will abandon
the senatorial race in Texas is untrue.
At Cleveland Rev. J. M. Atwater
died at the age of 62 years. He was
at one time president of Hiram col
lege.
New York states, valuation for 1899
shows 1898, 860,825 gain in real estate
and $18,192,591 loss in personal prop
erty.
A. R. Kilgore's store, in the lower
end of York county, Pa, together with
Slab postoffice, was burned. Loss
100000
At West Plains, Mo, Ben Richard
son and Ed Grady, prisoners at the
county jail, killed Jailer Henry and
escaped.
Captain Charles L. Steele, eight
zenith infantry, died at Fort Bayard,
n Mex. He was born in Mississippi
in 1856
In Chicago Patrick O'Donnell, a
window-washer, has fallen heir to
81, 800, COO from the Ball estate of Phil
adelphia.
The Lockport dam of the Chicago
drainage canal was lowered, allowing
Chicago sewage to flow into the Miss
issippi river.
J. C. S. Blackburn was formally de-
clared elected United States senator
at the joint session of the Kentucky
legislature.
At st. Louis Mrs. Rose Maar, for
tune-teller, richly dressed in satin