Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-26
DOMESTIC.

Chicago February wheat, 6(Ac.
Increased prosperity in the south.
An early adjournment Of congress
is expected.
Archbishop Hennessy's illness is
likely to be fatal
Yale will play no football games
with western elevens.
Admiral Watson may be recalled by
the navy department.
In eight months $4,000 Japanese have
emigrated to Hawaii.
Mccoy posted $1,000 forfeit for a
fight with Sharkey.
Judge Hilton's art collection sold for
1875, 478 in New York.
Captain A. J. Langworthy is dead at
Muskegon, Mich, aged "a.
Senator Davis says the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty will be ratified.
Kentucky democrats returned to
Frankfort with their legislature.
Plague conditions in Hawaii are re-
ported to be greatly improved.
Frank lessen, Joliet, ILL.,, died from
wounds received while hunting.
Ddu IT, I1ounO, OO1A VI C4AC SCAAGO1
married Mrs. Daisy Gordon Maud.
Northwestern representatives decid-
ed to formulate a new subsidy bill.
Fire destroyed the Gallaudet home
for deaf mutes in Poughkeepise, n. Y.
John L. Pennington, a Well-knOWn
newspaper man, is dead in California.
G. H. Heafford has plans for all-rail
hn;5 ho Or
sea.
Dismissal of students at Kenyon Mil
itary academy caused revolt of many
others.
Masked train robbers were routed by
an express messenger at Fairbanks,
Arizona.
Thomas A Edison, Jr., says he has
constructed a safety electric miners
lamp.
Floods did considerable damage in
the southern and in the New England
states.
Dun says that important branches of
business are hindered by labor
troubles.
Mrs. Francis Mcdowell, pioneer
resident of Fairbury, ILL.,, died at the
age of 80.
William Scott Belknap, formerly a
well-known minstrel, is dead at Louis
vile, Ky.
The republican senators tacitly
agreed to postpone the Quay case in
definitely
Leslie Eastburn of Bloomfield, Iowa,
killed Jasper N. Sutton, father of his
bethrothed.
The society of psychica1 research
asks $4,000 to spend in Investigating
phenomena.
Gen. e. C. Williams, veteran of
the Mexican and civil wars, died at
Chapman, Pa.
Five boats each way each day will
ply between Benton Harbor and Chi
cago this season.
The exchange Of notifications Of the
London and Berlin.
The Michigan court refused to quash
the indictments of the men involved
in the military scandal.
A sophomore at Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity was shot while burning the
freshman class in effigy.
Rear Admiral Sampson declined the
presidency of the Massachusetts In
stitute Of Technology.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait was
elected president of the National Wo-
man-Suffrage association.
Professor w. G. Sumner told his
class at Yale that 80 per cent. Of all
marriages are unhappy.
University of Pennsylvania track
team sails in June to compete with
Oxford and Cambridge.
Woman suffragists in Washington
formally celebrated Susan B. Anth-
ony's eightieth birthday.
The Illinois supreme court held that
baby could not sue for damages on
account Of a prenatal injury.
Joliet business men have Endorsed
the deep water way ship canal plan
via the drainage channel.
Harper & Bros, the New York pub
fishing house, has been reorganized
with $5,5O0,000 capitalization.
To man all vessels now built or
authorized would require 3,048 more
officers and 1887 more men.
At the annual meeting Of the Paper
and Pulp association an advance in the
price of paper was announced.
| The national buttermakers' con-
vention opened at Lincoln, Neb. st.
Paul is after the next convention.
Miss Porter, head of the famous
Pennington School and sister of Noah
Porter, died at Hartford from old age.
The Baird prize for oratory at
Princeton university was awarded to
D. L. Chambers, of Washington, D. c.
Opposition to the Nicaragua canal
iii is so strong in the senate that it