Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-23
persistent wooing that Prentice won

persistent WOOluS CndG lOACACO WIN
his f1aneee.
General James F. Wade, command
er of the department of the lakes and
the Dakotas, has accepted the position
of chief marshal Of the parade to be
given in honor Of Admiral Dewey May
1 in Chicago.
Thomas Mccoy, a well-known Bow
cry man, died in Bellevue hospital
from cancer of the throat caused by
smoking from fifty to one hundred
cigars daily for years. He smoked
himself poor.
Osborne Deignan, who was one of
the crew of the Merrimac when it was
sunk in the harbor of Santiago, has
been appointed an acting boaUswain in
the navy and assigned to duty on the
gunboat Marietta.
Governor Roosevelt has signed the
Marshall-Hill bill, which appropriates
100000 for preliminary survey Of
the state canals preparatory to the
construction of a barge canal to cost
some $6O,OO0,0OO.
Fire destroyed the transportation
building of the Trans-Mississippi
exposition grounds. in Omaha. It
was the largest structure of the expo
sition, and the only one which had
been left standing.
In Chicago Judge Dunno refused a
writ Of habeas corpus in the case of
former banker e. S. Dreyer, who is
under a states prison sentence for the
enlightenment of $316,000 of West
Park board funds.
At Belleville, ILL.,, a skipping-rope
contest caused the death of 11-year-old
Freda Pergnee and occasioned the Sc
rious illness of two other children.
She jumped the rope 230 times and
died Of heart disease.
Bryan men in New York are
alarmed by what appear to be we'll
founded reports that the Tammany
and Kings county machines are
opposed to sending an instructed dele
cation to Kansas City.
At Shamakin, Pa, Stephen 'Monog
han, who since the civil war lived in
an old shop, where he also cobbled
shoes, died, and when his papers were
examined he was found to have left
an estate of over 100000.
The Cherokee delegation has just
made and signed a new treaty with
the Dawes commission, by which each
al is ~ oil Of
land in fee simple, the average value
of an allotment being $500
A free set of plates Of Messages and
Papers of the Presidents was given by
congress to J. d. Richardson, house
democratic leader. and his agents are
selling the books as if the government
was putting out the work.
Lieut.-Gov. Woodruff is still in the
race for the vice presidential nominal
ton, although Senator Hanna in
formed him in a thirteen-hour con-
ference that the administration de-
sired Cornelius N Bliss.
Albert G. Roberts and William Dun
can, Jr., in the criminal court at Kan
sas City, Mo-, pleaded guilty to steal
ing $4,000 from the Barr Live Stock
company, and were each sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary
A senate bill which will permit the
dependent mothers of soldiers or sail
ors Of the Spanish war, even though
they married confederate soldiers, to
receive the benefit of the general pen
sion law was passed by the house
Chicago contractors, with aggregate
wealth of $10000,000, volunteered to
go to work with hammer and saw and
construct the big grand stand for the
Dewey day celebration from which the
admiral is to review the parade.
President Mckinley has directed
that there be mo canal legislation at
this session of congress. The COM
mittee amendment to the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty is not satisfactory either to
the United States or Great Britain.
The North Carolina democratic state
convention has named as a ticket:
For governor, Charles B. Aycock; lieu
IoudHC SOF01uol, W. T. III A0A o0eA0
tary Of state, J. B. Grimes; treasurer,
B. R. Lacey; auditor, DR.. B. F. Dixon.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections unanimously agreed to
report to unseat Senator Clark of Mon
tana It is estimated the senator has
expended 81, 100000 in trying to secure
a seat in the upper house of congress.
DR.. Parkhurst wants arevision OF the
Westminster confession, declaring it
an incubus that prevents Presbyterian
progress. But there is a belief
that any revision of the confession
would split the Presbyterian church
north.