Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-16


which SIG, 1SO,35O comes from individ-
uals or institutions other than natior-
al banks.
| At Atlanta, Ca, an 80-horse-power
boiler weighing several tons exploded
at the G. o. Williams Lumber COM
pany's brckyard, killing John M
| Smith and James Perkins and injuring
| six others.
In Chicago union men were dis
charged from the Merchants Loan and
Trust building, the only building
where they were being employed
Non-union artisans were put to work
in their place.
One of the largest coal deals in the
history Of the Connellsville coke re-
gion has just been closed. About TO-
900 acres of coal land was purchased
by eastern capitalists from the origi-
nal owners at $25 an acre.
At Macon, Ca, Allen Fuller, negro,
was hanged for the murder of Mrs. E..
H. Pottle, an aged woman Fuller
said that two men, whose names he
refused to TELL offered him and another
negro $3.50 each to kill Mrs. Pottle.
Yesterdays statement of the treas
l ury balances in the general fund, ex-
elusive of the $15O,O00,OOO gold re-
1 serve in the division of redemption,
| showed: Available cash balance
$156,216,313; gold, $97,13S.474
At Dover, Del, the union republi-
can convention, representing the Ad-
dicks faction, elected delegates to the
national republican convention. The
delegates were instructed to vote for
the denomination of Mckinley.
Secretary Gage took action with re-
gard to Jorge Cruz, the Porto Rican
brought to this country by the New
i York Herald. He ordered Cruz to be
set ashore, reserving the right to
bring suit for $1,000 against the Her
: aid.
! Governor Steunenberg declared his
knowledge of the existence of con-
spiracy to blow up the Bunker Hill
mill. He named A. B. Campbell as
his informant, who got his informa-
ton, the governor said, from James r.
i Sovereign.
i Arthur F. Marsh, late inspector
i general of the Michigan nationaI
guard and until recently chairman of
u the republican state central commit
! tee, was convicted of having felonious-
81 ly conspired with certain Of his official
| associates to defraud the state.
| rlY u
/, church, President Hathaway of the
} American Sabbath Union announced
that President Mckinley had informed
! him that the United States building
: at the Paris exposition would be
: closed on Sunday
At Toledo, Ohio, Judge Pangsley in
the common pleas court declared that
j provision in the Ohio statutes uncon-
stitutional which prohibits an en-
i ployer from discharging a workman
because the employe is a member of
a labor union.
An order was issued by the post
office department for the largest single
shipment of postage stamps ever made
was 53,304 200 stamps of the value of
$965,267 which will be sent to 1,306
postofices throughout the country.
The National Steel company, Amer
/ lean Tinplate company and the Amer
lean Steel Hoop company have award
ed to the Pittsburg Coal company Z
joint order for supplying most of the
coal in their various mills for year.
1t is said that the contract is worth in
the neighborhood of $10,OOO,000O
Commissioner General Peck has
suggested to Secretary Hay the advis-
; ability of excluding American de-
tendencies from participation in the
American exhibit at the Paris exposi-
tion MIR Peck bases his views on
the prospective delay in the installa-
ton of exhibits from these several
lands.
The grand jury at Frankfort, KY.
will inquire into the Goebel murder
and indict Gov. Taylor and all the
other republican state officials for
usurpation. The Kentucky court of
action of that legislature in unseating
Taylor was final and that the court is
without Jurisdiction
At the monthly meeting of the New
; York university senate the delegates
were appointed who are to select the
great Americans to be represented in
I the Hall Of Fame. President Eliot OF
;. Harvard and President James B.
Angel of the university of Michigan
have agreed to serve on the board.
Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Har-
rison were also selected.
Admiral Dewey is very much in ear
nest in his candidacy for the presi-
7 dency. In talk he declared his be-
; lief that the people favored him for
{ chief magistrate. Among senators and
representatives the announcement is
believed tO bo Of 1itt1o