Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-07

robbers.
BARRIERS of Peoria, ILL.,, have demand
ed an increase in wages and have been
refused. Union leaders say that unless
the demand is granted strike will be
declared.
Clifton J. Baxter, twenty years old,
who made more than a quarter of a
million dollars in the Klondike, will
sail for Europe with his bride, who is
seventeen years old.
In Chicago Mrs. Anna Louise Lot
fridge was freed from custody and
death of Millionaire Rufus Wright, by
the coroner's jury.
United States Senator Lucian Baker
forgave and blessed his son and daugh-
ter-in-law, who married two years
ago without his knowledge, and re-
turned to Washington.
The strike of painters and decorators
of Boston and vicinity for an increase
of wages from $3.50 to $2.75 a day, is
considered as being practically over
Thomas J Hunter, formerly auditor
of the Alabama & Western Railway
company, has been adjudged guilty of
embezzlement and sentenced to the
penitentiary for five years.
At Kalamazoo, Mich, bald eagle
was shot. On one leg was a silver
tag engraved "P z. G., July 4, 1876 .
It is supposed the bird escaped from
the Philadelphia centennial.
Republican Governor Taylor re
turned to Kentucky from Washington
after conference with Mckinley
The brief in the contest case is now
before the supreme court.
At Washington, John J. Coughlin
died. He was born in Ireland and at
tanned notoriety there during the
Fenian uprising in 1867, being taken
prisoner and convicted of treason.
The amount of bonds so far ex-
changed at the treasury for the new z
per cents. is $256, 1O1, $50, of which $43,-
1872, $50 were from individuals and in
situations other than national banks.
Western Wisconsin Methodist min
listers have refused to join with the
brethren in the eastern part of the
state in demanding the revision Of
the discipline on questions OF amuse-
ments.
Servant girls of Marinette, Wis, are
taking steps to organize union Sew
eral hundred will be enrolled. The
motto of the organization will be
higher wages, shorter hours and better
treatment
Howard A. Saville, who disappeared
from Gloucester, Mass. sixteen years
ago, and who is now notified that a
fortune of $4,000 awaits him in his
native state. has been located at Lit
tie Rock.
Dun says that low rates for money,
with circulation in excess of demand,
are responsible for gold exports. The
tendency toward lower prices is
strengthened by a suspicion of over
production.
Wharton Barker, populist leader,
predicts that Bryan will not be nom
mated, although Mckinley would pre-
fer him for an opponent He believes
that the peoples party has a good
fighting chance.
Mr.. Grigson, in charge of United
States affairs at Constantinople cables
the state department that the sultan
has made pledges to redeem former
promises, and Mr.. Hay is greatly
pleased thereat.
The king of Sweden and Norway
has rendered to Assistant Secretary
Meiklejohn the decoration Chevalier
Of the Sword on account of courtesies
extended to Swedish officers during
the war with Spain.
A lodge of Elks was instituted in
Lincoln, Neb., and among the new
members was w. r. Bryan There
were a large number of members of
the order present from Omaha, Coun-
Gil Bluffs and other cities
Several million feet of logs, owned
by the Miller-Arnold company, con-
u 1CLO1O LII Ll16 AlSGI company
at Silver Greek, Mimi, caught fire and
about $4,000 worth were burned The
fire caught from forest fires.
J. w. Cardownie. a Scotch dancer,
leader of the European Premier Inter-
national Dancers, and Vivian Clerise.
one of the Clerise sisters, who did a
musical sketch act, were drowned in
Lake Whitney, near New Haven.
Large crops of winter wheat are ex-
pected in Illinois, Michigan, Kansas,
Missouri, and Nebraska from a de-
creased acreage. The Indiana crop
will be small, and Ohio farmers say
they will reap less than was sown.
Forest fires ragged in the eastern part
of Jackson county, Wisconsin, and
thousands of acres of blueberry lands
were burned over. Considerable dam
age to young timber occurred. The
area burned is over $4,000 acres.
Minnie M. Wray of Bedford, Ind,
stood in front of mirror at the Pal
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