Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

out OF town on train.
The republican campaign in New
York City was opened with numerous
parades and four large mass meetings.
Jacob HeeDs. of Brooklyn, was ar
rested on a charge of collecting a kiss,
besides rent, from Mrs. Florence Hart
ley.
An operation was performed on Sec
rotary of War Root to remove a car
buncle in his chest. He is at South
ampton
Candidate Stanchfeld and Lieut-Gov.
Woodruff opened the New York guber-
Material campaign in a joint debate at
Lyons.
Erastus c. Knight of Buffalo was
named by the republican state COM
mittee as the candidate for comp
troller.
In saving the life of Mayor Dillons
little son in runaway Miss Mary
Havey was instantly killed at Round
Hill, Conn.
Republican leaders have arranged to
nominate Cornelius Vanderbilt for
assembly in the twenty-ninth New
York district.
Solomon Solowitz committed suicide
IN New York because his large mus
tache, of which he was proud, was torn
out during fight.
Chicago retail coal dealers increased
anthracite rates to 81, owing to the
mir ctJ.iIy IL he
reached by thanksgiving.
The postoffice department has issued
orders CHASING all card chains or end
iess-chain system as lotteries and e1-
Guiding them from the mails.
Frank Mccarthy of Canaan, Conn,
married Miss Honora Britt, who re-
covered 1884 damages from him fifteen
years ago for breach of promise.
All the members of McKinley's
cabinet, except Secretaries Root and
Wilson, have signified their desire to
retire next March, whoever is elected.
Or. Henry Abbott of Sank Center,
Mimi, is under arrest at Troy, N. Y,
charged with hypnotizing a pretty
Democratic campaign managers de-
cided to make an aggressive fight in
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Delaware, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia.
Watches, silverware, trophies and
even sails, aggregating in value $4,000
have been stolen from the craft of the
Harlem Yacht club at the City Island
anchorage.
Governor Roosevelt issued his let
ter Of acceptance of the republican
nomination for vice president. 1t
closely follows the lines of Mckinley S
acceptance letter
Rear-Admiral Bradford, chief of the
naval bureau of equipment, will ask for
an appropriation to begin the equip
ment of war vessels with wireless
telegraph system.
The price Of wheat advanced lie a
bushel. Serious damage is reported to
the grain from the recent rainy
weather in the northwest. Pork took
a Jump of 60c barrel
Former Representative VIM M
Springer has prepared statement in
which he argues that the United States
supreme court will declare the Porto
Rican act unconstitutional.
Claims aggregating $2,300,000 or
more have arisen in connection with
the destruction of foreign property,
principally in Hawaii, to check the
spread of the bubonic plague.
In the verdict of the coroner's jury
which investigated the Hoboken pier
fire tugboat men were formally &C
cused of having permitted people to
drown while they raced for salvage.
John McMackin, labor commissioner
of New York, told the industrial COM
mission that labor unions generally
are keeping pace with trusts, thus OBJ
tanning fair terms. AS a rule, he
thought state boards of arbitration a
failure.
The locomotive engineers are in
session at Binghamton, N. Y, con-
sidering whether they will strike in
sympathy with the coal miners. It is
almost certain they will refuse to haul
the coal in storage. Their action will
be Endorsed by the trainmen.
In Richmond Miss Jewett, the Bos-
ton agitator, created a sensation by
speaking from the gallery OF a church
in which a negro convention was in
session. She denounced lynching and
was followed by a large part of the
congregation into the street, where she
concluded her speech.
Henry Grosvenor Barbour, son Of a
clergyman, was found dead from a
bullet wound in a Brooklyn hotel A
young woman who'ehad accompanied
him is now in a hospital with bullet
in her breast. She is Miss Helen
Southgate Forbes, beautiful, talented,
cultured. It was a case of attempted
double suicide.
Detectives in the employ of the coal
mine operators are pouring into the
strike district. It is reported that the