Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-22

Ferris wheel to collect 100000 paid
by the holders of 800 bonds of the
value of 81 900 each.
Judge w. B. Mcclure, of the probate
court of Lauderdale county, Ala, was
assassinated by an unknown person.
His body was found in the street rid
died with buckshot
At Topeka Rev. c. M. Sheldon says
the dramatiztion of his book, In His
Steps, which Francis Nelson is I'M
dertaking in England.
Frora New York the steamship
Auchenardcn sailed for Cape Town
with an immense cargo of provisions,
flour, grain, thirty troop horses and
fifty transport mules
Philip c. Swab president of the
Reliance Coal and Coke company and
one of the largest coal operators in
Kentucky, died suddenly of heart dis
ease at MIddlesboro, Ky.
Secretary of War Root, in a letter
to Henry C. Payne, republican ma
tional committeeman for Wisconsin,
says that he is not candidate for the
vice presidency and will not be.
Official reports have been made an
nouncing the feasibility of a cable
across the Pacific, connecting San
Francisco, Honolulu, Midway island,
Guam, Luzon and Yokohama.
From New York comes a story that
the senate republican caucus decided to
give the secretaryship to Benjamin F..
OdeI of New York and that Daniel M.
Ransdell would be sergeant-at-arms.
An expedition will soon leave Seat
tie to accomplish the difficult feat of
reaching Cape Nome by an overland
journey from Portage Bay, Cooks In
let, across the snoWcovered plains of
Alaska.
The testimony ia the Clark bribery
case is of most sensational charac-
ter. Thirty thousand dollars, said to
have been paid by the senator's man
ayers for votes promised, was ex-
hibited.
The resignation of Governor Smith
of Maryland was presented to the
house and it gave rise to considerable
discussion on the question of the
need of uniform plan for the filling
of vacancies.
At Port Jervis, N. Y, Lewis F.
Goldsmith, assistant cashier of the
National Bank, who pleaded guilty
to taking 100000 from the institution,
has been sentenced to eight years
in the penitentiary.
Colonel A. D. Hope died at his home
in Roselle, N. J., after lingering i'll
ness Colonel Hope, who was 83
years old, had charge of the first train
to carry troops during the civil war
| to Washington.
The house committee on interstate
and foreign commerce ordered a ia
vorable report on the Hepburn bill
for the construction of the Nicara-
qua canal. The bill carries an appro-
priation of $14O,00O,0 900.
Secretary Long has aroused much
criticism in naval personnel law. In
letter just made public he is said to
| lay himself open to the charge of at
tempting to evade the important
| questions involved.
James y. Hill, president of the
Great Northern Railroad company, in
speech at st. Paul, said that the
adoption of the HannaPayne ship
ping subsidy measure pending in con-
gress would be a scandal.
H. M. Flagler, the Standard Oil
magnate, filed an itemized report in
New York showing what it has cost
to care for his wife since she was
pronounced insane last August. More
than 81, 900 a year is paid for her care
in a sanitarium.
At Tompkinville, S. L., Mrs. Car
nina Tiotiello was stabbed to death
in her home by Joseppo Easello. The
man had been engaged to marry Mrs.
Tiotiello's daughter Carmelia, the
the match had been broken off at the
instance of Mrs. Tiotiello.
Miss Emma Miller, clerk of Hart
degen & Co., of Newark, who sold the
silver bottle-holder in which the
poison which killed Mrs. Adams was
sent to Cornish, testified in the Mol
ineux trial in New York that Molineux
did not buy the bottle-holder.
Secretary Gage sent to congress his
statement in answer to the resolutions
demanding an explanation if his deal
ings with the National City Bank
and Hanover National Bank of New
York. Mr.. Gage declares he has COM
mitted no act that is not sanctioned by
law and precedent.
At Ripley, Tenn, excitement over the
murder of Officers Turner and Dur
ham, and the double lynching which
followed, has abated. The last of the
residents, composing a posse in pur-
suit of the two remaining negroes,
rode into town and announced that
they could find no trace of the fugi-
tives
John D. Rockefeller, in sworn
statement addressed to the industrial
commission, declares the Standard Oil
company does not receive unlawful IA
vors from railroad companies. Mr..
r OcIznfoI1or saws that commercial