Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-22
turn this fall is now practically aban-

turn this fall is now practically aban-
doned.
At Murphysboro, Ill.,, unique
strike is on. Every bartender con-
nected with the 80 saloons demands
pay for overtime and picnic days. 1t
is probable the strike will not be set
tied for some time, as the saloon
keepers refused to comply with the
demands Of the men.
Gertrude Barwind, daughter of the
millionaire Pennsylvania coal oper
ator, became the bride of Rupert
Baron Bocklin Won Bocklinsau. The
groom is lieutenant in the Fourth
guards, one of the kaiser's crack reg
iments. The ceremony was performed
in the Church of the Redeemer at
Bryn MaWr.
Mrs. Louisa Sontag, who left her
husband in Chicago and came to San
Francisco in the latter part of July, is
dead. Her husband followed her and
after he had secured possession of
their children she attempted to COM
nit suicide by shooting. A reconcil-
iation was effected, but the woman
failed to recover her health.
Prof. Hiram H. Stanley, librarian
at Lake Forest university, who was
reported to be dying, is in fair way
to recovery. Prof. Stanley is suf
fering from brain fever, said to have
been caused by brooding over love
n i,o Il ics o7e1vr To
has an international reputation as a
writer on psychological subjects.
The FIRST heavy shipment of gold
from the Transvaal since the war
ended will come to the United States.
The National City bank of New York
has purchased $2,50O,000 of the preci-
Gus metal and it is expected att it's
destination during the present month.
Gold from India and gold from Siam,
purchased by the same fiscal institu-
ton, is expected in the near future
The ninth annual convention of the
Master Horseshoers' National associa-
ton convened at the Plankinton
house, Milwaukee. Two hundred del
egates from 100 cities are in attend
ance. The total strength of the asso-
citation at the present time is 210 To-
cal or affiliated bodies. with a mem
bership of more than 10000 The con
ventionb will remain in session five
days.
Bishop Charles Galloway, president
of the general board of education of
the Methodist Episcopal church south,
has issued a call to the 100000
Methodists in the south to assemble
in their places of worship on the
night of the last day of the year to
hold an old-fashioned watch meeting,
as fitting climax to the twentieth
century fund movement. The fund
now amounts to $1,1O0,000.
Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff of
New York has been served
with the papers in the matter
of the requisition for directors and
officers Of the Standard Oil company,
made by Gov. Savers of Texas, and
has declined to honor them, basing
his declination upon a decision of
Former Governor Flower that unless
evidence was presented that the per-
sons named had been in the state of
Texas and there committed q crime it
could not be honored
Operators asked what are the pros
poets Of the anthracite strike being
settled, said the men can return to
work again as soon as they accept the
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their wages 10 per cent Officially,
they do not know of any overtures by
the strikers for a settlement on any
other basis. They have read of the
action of the convention at Scranton,
but it was convention of United
Mine Workers, and they do not and
will not recognize the union.
Arthur Bailey, who has Just com
pleted the official ILLUMINATION of the
boundary line in Mount Baker dis
trict, says that both Americans and
Canadians have been partly right and
partly wrong in their contentious as
to the whereabouts of the forty-ninth
parallel, but the Americans have the
best Of the argument, for all the min
ing properties CT any consequence
are south Of the forty-ninth parallel,
although mile Of territory hereto
fore supposed to be American terri
tory is without doubt Canadian soil.
This ground claimed for Canada is
without mineral and is an unpro-
ductive, rocky stretch of country.