Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08

aged 50.
No alarm is felt in Washington over
the plague situation in Honolulu.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist,
was buried at Round Top. Mass.
Ex-President Cleveland is recovering
from a severe attack of rheumatism.
All the Independent telephone COM
panies of the country will consolidate.
President Hadley Of Yale and Mrs.
Hadley will visit st. Paul Jan. 4 and 5.
Kid Mccoy defeated Peter Maher in
five rounds. His victory was complete.
Governor Tanner has announced
that he is not a candidate for re-elec-
ton.
A fight between passengers and en-
ployes occurred on a Milwaukee street
car.
Senator Vest announces his retire
ment at the expiration of his present
term.
Eight lives were lost by the Christ
mas day earthquake in southern Cali
fornia.
The Lancaster county, Pa, treasurer
is missing, and IS $685. 900 short Of pub
lie funds.
A combination, of fire engine manu-
facturers has been formed; capital,
100000.
Republicans of the senate are deter
mined to push the financial bill to a
final vote.
All trade records in the history of
the country were broken in the year
just closing.
Congressman Boutelle's illness is
quite serious, and he has been taken
to sanitarium.
Captain W. r. Shufe1t, U. S. A., will
be court-martialed on charges of scan
da1ous conduct.
William B. Gale, well-known Grim
inal lawyer Of Boston, died at his home
in that city.
San Francisco citizens have voted to
bond the city in the sum Of $4,550, 600
for park purposes.
James A Cassidy, an old member of
the Chicago board of trade, is dead at
Phoenix, Arizona
Senator Clark of Montana expresses
confidence that he will win in the COM
ing investigation.
John E. Baldwin was pardoned after
a term of twenty-five years in Sing
Sing for murder.
At Binghamton, n. Y, the Jones
Scale Works have beeu badly damaged
by fire and water.<
w. J. Bryan and Governor Hogg of
Texas are said to be training two os-
triches for a race.
Havana celebrated new years by
midnight torchlight procession for
Mckinley and Wood.
James ]. Hill is in control of the
Sioux City and Northern and Sioux
City and Western roads.
The total import Of wool into the
United States for 1899 from all coun-
tries was 1878, 900 pounds.
Professor Elliott Coues of Washing
ton, D. c., ornithologist and scientist,
is dead at Baltimore, aged ST.
Bryan says that he will discuss cur
rency, trusts and imperialism in his
speeches to eastern democrats.
The grand jury failed to indict Sen
ator Gallinger of New Hampshire for
violating the civil service laws.
Walter McMachon, a well-known
variety actor of Chicago, died Dec %
at Butte, Mont, of typhoid fever.
At Trenton, Texas, in a street duel
William Littrell and Sydney Gray,
prominent citizens, were killed.
Experts continued to testify against
Molineux in his trial, now in progress
in New York, for alleged murder.
William Mason of Alpena, Mich,
formerly a member of the Chicago
board of trade, died in AIpena, aged
So.
Mrs. Florence Mansfield Worth,
wife of Brigadier General William S.
Worth, U. S. A., retired, died in New
York.
Most of S. D. Ford's estate of $780,
900, including the Youths Companion,
was bequeathed to the Baptist Social
Union.
In the matter of trade with other ma
lions the past year has been the most
prosperous in the history of the United
States.
An American company with $30,0O0,
900 capital has been incorporated in
New Jersey to complete the Panama
canal.
Mrs Lucy S. Scribner was named as
correspondent in suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. Ida NJ. Fraser, of Pas
adena, Cal.
At Greenland, Pa, Abram J. Lefevre,
a farmer, aged IS years, died from hy-
drophCbia. He was bitten on the
hand by a cat.
The Carnegie works resumed work,
advancing the wages of 10000 en-
ployes and increasing the payroll over
$1,000,000 year.
A terrible BLIZZARD the worst in
years, has been raging in northwestern
Pennsylvania About eighteen inches
of snow has fallen.
The defalcations of Assistant Cashier
Louis E. Goldsmith of the Port Jarvis
New York National bank, is SOL, 987.