Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-10

reached the age limit Otis succeeds
him at Chicago.
George Gould and his brother 2aid
Count Castellanes debts, amounting to
$500, 900, to avert the sale of his castle
under the hammer.
It is admitted that the Indiana
elections will be close, although both
the democratic and republican leaders
claim the state.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has decided to
enter politics. He is the first member
of the family that ever took this STEP
He is a republican.
Mr. Bryans Labor Day speech was
devoted largely to the eight-hour day
and m1utarism. He will ~4scuss trusts
at ST. Louis Sept. Is.
The Knickerbocker Telephone and
Telegraph company at New York fled
a mortage for S5,000,000 in favor of the
City Trust company.
The exports of coal from this coun-
try for the first seven months of the
year 1900 aggregated 4.601,7oo tons,
valued at $12.137.161.
Adjutant- General Corbin, in letter
to Senator Sewell, member of the
senate military committee, argues in
favor of the army canteen.
Henry A. de Brueys, grand nephew
of the admiral who commanded the
French fleet in the battle of the Nile,
is tramp at Trenton, n. ].
The north Atlantic squadron of the
United States navy is at anchor off Bar
Harbor. The English squadron is also
there for naval celebration.
The city council of Atlanta has
ordered the impeachment proceedings
against Mayor Woodward. who is ac-
cused of gross neglect of duty.
A report is gaining Roadway in rail
way circles at Marinette, Wis, that the
500 line has acquired the Wisconsin,
Michigan and Northern railway.
Charges growing out Of the recent
investigation of immigration affairs It
New York have been preferred against
SO empoyes of the barge office.
Robert NJ. Morton, who embezzled
$50, 900, pledged himself to fellow-mem-
bers of Calvary Baptist church, Chi
cago, to devote his life to repayment.
The Florence iron mines, Florence,
Wis, employing 100 men, has closed
down; the Tilden, at Bessemer, lets cut
100 and the Pabst, at Ironwood, about
40.
Colgate Baker, a Milwaukee news
paper man. embraced Judaism to keep
a promise made his Hebrew wife. The
civil marriage occurred some months
ago.
North Carolina negroes are leaving
the state by the hundreds since the last
election. They resent the passing of
laws which practically disfranchise
them
George Fl. Ling, who saved the lives
of scores of persons at the time of the
Johnstown flood, fell from a Pennsyl-
vania train at South Chicago and was
killed.
At Lancaster, Ohio, Mrs. Mary e..
Reese, sister of Gen. William T. Sher-
man and ex-senator John Sherman,
died from the effect Of fall down
stairs.
Estimating from figures already in
hand, the Census Bureau officials be-
lieve the total population of the United
States will be shown to be about 75.-
100000.
Pittsburg democrats renOminated
republican state senator Chris" Magee
and urged that all Pennsylvania demo-
Gratis support him for Uuited States
senator.
The cabinet decided to send i'm
medately a transport to Cape Nome
to bring home stranded gold seekers
and also to send aid to the starving
Indians.
Hurtig & Seamon's music hall, Chi
cago, the high class house established
there on the lines of foreign and New
York music halls opened to a packed
audience.
Charles Turville rode a mile, motor
paced, on the Salt Palace eight-lap
track, at Salt Lake, Utah, in 1872, beat
ing the worlds record of 1888 3-5, made
by liver Lawson.
John Wanamaker is said to have
sold for 81 100000 the property former
ly occupied by Epiphany church,
Philadelphia, and for which he paid
100000 four years ago.
Col Cornelius Cable, secretary of the
Society of the Army Of the Tennessee,
announced that the thirty re-
union of that society will be held at
Detroit. September 1921.
Failures for August in the United
States were fewer than for any
previous month this year. The trade
outlook is bright, although activity has
not yet generally begun.
The big cigarmakers' strike, the most
important both in the number of
persons involved and in duration in
the history of organized labor in New
York, is drawing to a close.
A corps of engineers will leave
Kansas City Immediately for Old
Mexico and Orient railway between