Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-23

from PreSDy JGflanlSm, is TO nave TWO
reading classes at the University Of
Chicago.
The March statement of collections
Of internal revenue shows that the
total receipts for the month were S24,-
326.677
Fred Morse, a non-union employe at
the Merchants Loan and Trust build
ing, Chicago, was beaten by union
tickets.
March exports broke the record. The
increase in exports during the last
nine months was chiefly in manufac-
lures.
Congressman Sherman of New York
is mentioned as a possible candidate
for vice president on the republican
ticket.
George Dewey, Jr., accepted member
ship with other Chicagoans in the re-
ception committee that will entertain
his father.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Sylvan Lang,
wholesale liquor merchant, who has
been French vice consul for twelve
years, is dead.
Messenger Boy Smith sailed on the
st. Louis bound for south Africa with
an album of schoolboy greetings for
President Kruger.
The republicans of Maine, in a
state convention in Lewiston, adopted
a platform approving President
McKinley's policy.
At Denver Mrs. S. j. Sinington, col
ored, and her twin babies were burned
to DEATH The fire was caused by the
explosion of lamp.
II quit cigarettes when | became
mayor said Harrison of Chicago.
81 had some appreciation of the dig
nifty Of the position
Alphonse Daudets Sapho can be cir
culated through the United States
mails with the full approval of Post
master General Smith.
Mrs. Henrietta Mckay Arms,
southern woman who for years was
the companion of Harriet Beecher
Stowe, died near Hartford
In New York Mrs. Matilda Quitman
wept until she lost her eyesight
through grief at the death of her hus-
band and little daughter.
An English syndicate has closed
deal for eighty acres of zinc and lead
mineral lands at Galena, Kan, the
consideration being 100000.
The Wilmington and Brandywine
Springs Railway company, of Dele
ware, has been shut out of Whining
ton by decision of the courts.
Thus far in 1900 % cotton and knit
ting mills have been chartered in
North Carolina, with an aggregate
subscribed capital of $2,565, 900.
If Long is the republican candidate
for vice president the democrats may
nominate Schley, throwing the Samp-
son controversy into the campaign.
Oregon democrats and populists, in
session at Portland, decided upon
fusion. Delegates to the national
convention were instructed for Bryan.
John Addison Porter, secretary to
the president, resigned by reason of
ill-health, and his assistant, George B.
Cortelyou, was promoted to the place.
Richard Croker said that Dewey in
politics was not to be considered seri-
ously, and that he had made mistake
in becoming a candidate for president.
Faltha Gillen. in the Office of the
chief of police at Cincinnati, accused
Charles o. Winold, recently arrested
in Baltimore, with poisoning his fam
lily.
Thomas Blaney was arrested in
New York with $4,000 in beer stamps
in his possession. 1t is alleged that
the stamps were stolen from the gov
eminent.
The Baltimore and Ohio and the
Pennsylvania railroad companies, it is
reported, will absorb the Philadelphia
and Reading and Jersey Central sys-
TENS
Five hundred Americans compris-
ing Clark's Oriental excursion party
were left in Naples and Rome by the
ship, which sailed for Liverpool with
out them.
In New York George M. Mccarthy,
whose business is to see that dumb
animals are treated well, is being
sued for separation by his wife on the
ground of cruelty.
Rev. Walter Delafeld, rector of the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION and for
many years a prominent figure in the
Episcopal church, died in Chicago Of
heart disease, aged 81 years.
The indications are that congress
will act favorably on the proposition
pending to give Gen. Miles the rank of
lieutenant general and General Corbin
the rank of major general.
The mine managers and examiners
of Illinois have ordered work to stop
in every coal mine. Trouble is due to
the mems demand for recognition of
their union and increased wages.
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