Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-29

! BANQUET at Newark, n. j., 6X-GOV.
William A. McCorkie of West Vir-
ginia advocated the retention of the
Philippines as a base for developing
Chinese trade.
It is believed that some kind of I'M
Outstanding exists between Great
Britain and the United States which
will permit the construction Of the
Nicaragua ca2al to proceed without
opposition.
The United States minister at The
Hague has informed the department of
state that a royal order has been is
sued exempting from duty sulphuric
ether required in the preparation of
albumen from milk.
Rev. J. M Atwater died at Cleve-
land, Ohio, aged g. years. He was at
one time president of Hiram College,
then professor in Eureka college,
Illinois, and later president of Central
Christian college at Albany, Mo.
The big bonspiel of the Northwest
ern Curling association that was to be
held in Milwaukee, beginning Jan.
o. has been postponed, and will begin
Jan. 81. The postponement was neces-
sary because of the mild weather.
Trustee Jacob Schwab of the Chi
cagO board of education, will offer a
resolution at the next meeting to pro-
vide separate school buildings for boys
and girls. He says: "The girls learn
too much roughness from the boys"
Mrs Anna Ellsworth Smith, widow
of Roswell Smith, founder of the Cen
fury company, died at New York,
aged 73. She sent the famous first
Geographic message, what God hath
wrought" from Washington to Balti-
more.
The passenger steamer Lexington,
owned by the Carr Line, of Charleston,
w. Va, while racing with the opposi-
ton packet Argand, struck the lock
wall near Scary, broke in two and
sunk. The passengers and crew were
rescued.
At Burlington, N. J., all the works
of the A. H. McNeal Pipe and Foun-
try Company, except the machine
shops, were shut down. Between 600
and 800 men were thrown out Of en-
ployment Inability to get iron
was the cause.
Father Adolph Ebel C. S. S. R., who
has been engaged in German mission
airy work in the United States since
1875, died in Chicago. He was 70 years
old and was born in Germany. He
was stationed at Kansas City, Detroit
and Chicago.
The rod mill strike is practically
ended as far as the Pittsburg district
plants of the American Steel and
Wire company are concerned The
management of the company claim all
the plants in that district are being
operated.
The Chickamauga and Chattanooga
park commission has requested the
attendance at Chattanooga on the
9th, 10th and 18th of October of all
veterans interested in the historical
accuracy of the work thus far COM
pleted at the park.
At Frankfort, KY, Governor Taylor
and Lieutenant Governor Marshall
have filed their counter notice of con-
test against Mr.. Goebel and Mr.. Beck
man. The document is lengthy and
goes into details regarding democratic
frauds all over the state
A subcommittee of the ways and
means committee is wrestling with
the question of What Does U. S. Mean?
! 1t is declared to be most important
one as affecting free trade with new
possessions and the free passage of the
inhabitants Of such territory.
After lying idle for half a century,
the Ancient Schuyler copper mine, on
the Passaic river, opposite Belleville,
N. j., is to be operated by the Rookie
| fellers. The mine is the old
est in the country, having been operat-
ed in 1910 by the Schuylers.
At Houston, Tex, Charles Haupt-
man and G. w. Chaffee, brother of
General Chaffee, United States army,
became involved in a fight in which
Hauptman was fatally stabbed with a
pocket-knife after he had fractured
Chaffee's skull with hammer.
The steamer Doric, which arrived
from the orient, landed 700 Japanese
1000 inside of four days. The records
of the immigration bureau at Homo
lulu show that since June Is last, IT,
5000 Japanese have bean landed there
In the craw of a turkey, Alexander
Bjorkland of Denver, recently pur-
chased for $115, his wife found a gold
nugget valued at $1.18. Now Bjorkland
is making every effort to find where
the fowl came from, judging that if
the place can be located it must be
rich placer ground.
At Greenwich, Conn, William
Rockefeller's automobile frightened
the horse that Mrs. Herbert Smith
was driving and he ran away, throw
ing the woman and a companion from
the carriage, and both were severely
injured. Mr.. Rockefeller promptly
paid all damages.
Mrs. Susan G. Tevis, San Francisco,
has received nearly all of the estate