Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-10
the West Virginia legislature.

/ be appointed auX11ary bishop VI Onl-
cago to assist Archbishop Feehan.
| r. H. Mcbride of Mitchell, S. D.,
was awarded $500 for the destruction
of his newspaper plant by citizens.
John Nicholas Brown of Newport,
r. l., with $7,000,000, is now believed
to be the richest baby in the world.
A Kenosha ex-alderman stopped the
! erection telephone poles in front OF
his property by displaying a revolver.
The immigration bureau allowed
contract laborers from Porto Rico to
land in the United States as citizens.
Birmingham (Ala.) business men
hope to secure the removal OF the
Roberts locomotive works to that city
President Mckinley told party lead
ers to agree on an army reorgan1za-
ton bill and to rush it through con-
gress.
The Minnesota law of 1895 increas-
ing the tax on railroads was held in
valid by the United States supreme
court.
State Superintendent Bayliss will
introduce in Illinois the Ohio plan OF
consolidating SHINY attended country
schools.
Brewers are making a fight for re
duction of the war tax and have de-
layed action by the ways and means
committee.
The Moweaqua coal mine at
Mowaequa, H., Was shut down because
of trouble between miners and super
intendent
The committee to perpetuate the
! Dewey arch in New York abandoned
the project and will return the money
subscribed.
Chauncey Pelton, well known lum-
herman, who had lived in Grand
Rapids, Mich, fifty years, was found
dead in bed.
Halcyon Skinner, who had an inter
national reputation as an inventor,
was struck by train at Yonkers and
was killed.
Edward G. Lynjon, secretary of
Milwaukee park board, is being in
vestigated on the charge of attempt to
extort bribe.
Senator Cullom is still confident he
will be reelected. Representatives
Cannon and Hit, candidates for his
job, had a conference.
George E. Vincent, professor of so
GEOLOGY, University of Chicago, is
mentioned for presidency of North
western university.
The taking of testimony began in
the trial of Jessie Morrison at Fl
Dorado, Kas., for the alleged murder
of Mrs. G. DIN Castle
General William L. White pleaded
guilty at Lansing to military frauds
in Michigan and was sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment.
Professor Frederick Starr of the
University fChicago was dragged
fifty feet by a cable car and injured
about the head and legs.
An injunction was issued in New
York restraining the trustees of the
Gould estate from paying any money
to Countess Castellane.
Miss Clara Barton says no author
ization is necessary for the twentieth
century watch meetings being organ
lied under her guidance.
/ Former Commissary-Gen of Sub
sistence Eagan called upon the presi-
dent with view to having his sus-
pension from duty RENTED.
S. K. Reed, Champaign, ILL.,, 81
years old, began voting in 1924 and
cast his twentieth presidential bal
lot for Mckinley last month
An organization for the employ
ment of all idle labor is being formed
in Boston under the title of the work
ers' cooperative association.
Owen Squire, aged nineteen, was
found guilty of manslaughter in Long
Island City for shooting Elizabeth
Heirgersell, fourteen years old.
| Naval Constructor Francis T..
Bowles will succeed Rear-Admiral
Hichborn as chief constructor of the
navy upon his retirement March 4.
The Northern Pacific company has
purchased ffty-six acres more of land
in the central portion of the Tacoma
tidelands, adjacent to deep water.
Eighteen persons were killed and
! so injured at San Francisco by the
collapse of a roof from which they
were watching a game Of football.
The historic blue mound in Wiscon-
consin one of the peaks between the
! AlIeghenies and Rockies, has been
sold and will be denuded of timber.
Officials of the Chicago-New York
lines ridicule report that the Pennsyl-
vania company will run a seventeen
hour train between the two cities.
A man giving the name of DR.. Ferg-
uson arrested in New York as a con-
fdence man is supposed to be ex-
! Governor Moses of South Carolina.
| Judge Cox at Wabash, Ind, dismiss
| ed the criminal case against Lessel
Long of Andrews, who used $4,000 of
town bonds, paying the interest him
self
Mrs. Emma A. Van Lew, wife of the
| Van Vert CO., banker, pleaded guilty
| to numbering Alice Hammill and was
I sentenced to ten years in the peniten-