Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15

be the ACCESSIBILITY OF converting a gen
eral council of the Catholic church in
this country at an early date. The last
plenary council was held in Novem-
Der, 1884.
A beer famine in Chicago is pre-
dicted as possible result of plans
now being perfected by the Chicago
Federation of Labor for a close I'M
derstanding between all labor ele-
ments engaged in the local breweries
the coopers. brewers and masters,
engineers, fremen, woodWorkers, coal
teamsters and horseshoers.
Ishane Dart, a wealthy colored
stock raiser, was murdered at his
ranch on Cold Spring mountain, sixty
miles south of Rock Springs, Wyo.
He was killed in the same manner
and evidently by the same man or set
of men that murdered Matt Rash and
other rich cattlemen of the Browns
park country this summer.
For the past few months thousands
of Roumanian Jews have been coming
to New York, being driven out of their
own country by the prosecutions OF
the government, and the Jews in all
the large cities of the United States
have been raising money to care for
them until they can be established in
situations and become Independent.
Miss Clara Barton, president Of the
National Red Cross society, has is
sued a statement to the manufacture
ers and business men of the country
in which she appeals to them for aid
in the way Of material to be used in
the building of homes for those who
lost their all in the recent storm at
Galveston. Everything required to
build and furnish 1000 dwellings is
needed.
The war department made public
a statement showing the revenues in
the Philippine islands for the first
seven months of 1900 to have been
| $4,782 ,080, an increase over the cor
responding period of 1899 of $685.
| 335. The customs receipts for the
period named in 1900 were $3,362,2
and the internal revenue receipts
$336,01O The postal receipts begin
ming July 1 were deposited in the
! treasury and for that month amount
ed to $110,845.
An accredited representative of an
| English syndicate has contracted for
! 100000 tons of Alabama coal, to be
| delivered at some point on the Gulf
of Mexico The deliveries are to ex-
| tend over a period of two years. At
what point the coal is to be delivered
is not stated, but the parties inter
ested are said to own valuable ter
i nlinalg below New Orleans, and it is
therefore presumed that this Alabama
coal will go to New Orleans for ship
ment to Europe.
! A bill is to be introduced in the In
diana legislature creating the Office
| of state fire marshal. The duties of
the officer would be to Investigate the
cause of fires and Ak the responsible
| ity. 1t is believed he would be able to
discover danger from spontaneous
| combustion in large manufacturing
concerns in season to save heavy
losses, thus saving the insurance com
panies large sums and thereby aid in
reducing rates. The experiment has
been successful in several states.
Three English coal operators have
purchased about $4,000 acres Of Goa
land in Green county, Pennsylvania
and Wetsel county, West Virginia, al
a figure close to $45 an acre. One OF
the agents who handled the deal says:
"The purchase was made by three
brokers who represent the same mum
Der of wealthy English coal opera
tors. They purpose to haul fuel tc
tide water and then ship it abroad.
The same operators are negotiating
for $4,000 additional acres in the same
locality.
Rev. Ella Groenendyke, as sister Of
Rev. Montgomery Groenendyke oil
Hartford City, Ind, has gone to the
west coast of Africa as a missionary
under the auspices of the woman's
board Of missions of the United
Brethren church. She is sent to the
Sierra Leone country, where the ter
rible massacre occurred two years
ago. Rev. Miss Groenendyke has
spent four years of her life as a mis-
sionary in Africa, and will superintend
the reconstruction of the buildings
which were destroyed at the time OF
| the massacre.
The comptroller of the treasury
has rendered decision to the effect
that the government is not liable for
the expenses of a wake" held prior
to the interment of a pensioner who
leaves no estate. In this case the
pensloner was a woman living in
County Kerry, Ireland. She was the
mother of a deceased United States
soldier and drew pension of SIP per
month. The total bill rendered was
for 98 and 9 shillings, the cost of the
wake being over half of this amount
| While the law permits a liberal al
lowance for the funerals of INDECENT
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