Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-21

for congress in the second Illinois dis
trict.
Members of the house believe that
June l.
An organized gang of card sharpers
are doing big business on Atlantic
liners.
Alfred Vanderbilt's engagement to
Miss French has been formally an
nounced.
The navy department cannot get
enough seamen to place ships in COM
mission.
Dun says the country lis recovering
ly high prices.
The steamer Quito sailed for Bonn
bay with 100000 bushels of corn for
the famine district.
Albertina Kliensmith of Illinois
claims that her husband tried to kill
her with a kiss.
Illinois democrats will ask Mayor
Harrison formally to become candi-
date for governor.
The senate committee favorably re-
ported the Nicaraguan canal bill, but
it may be shelved.
The condition of Judge Jesse J.
Phillips of the Illinois supreme court
is deemed critical
The police fired into crowed that
attempted to interfere with the runn-
ing Of cars in ST. Louis.
Nelson J.. Bozarth of Valparaiso, Ind !,
is a candidate for the democratic gu
bernatorial nomination.
Governor Tanner, who is in Chicago
to consult physicians. denied that he
is candidate for senator.
The trial of Andrew Gilligan in Vir-
ginia for the murder of Merchant Tur-
ner promises to be sensational.
Mrs. Emma Keep. widow of Henry
Keep, a former president of the New
York Central railroad. is dead.
Rev. George G. Lorimer of fremont
temple, Boston, may become the presi-
dent of the Columbian university
Bird S. Coler, comptroller of the city
L
cratic candidate for vice president.
Fitzsimmons, Rubin and Corbett
want to fight Jeffries, who recently
whipped Corbett again in % rounds.
An heiress to millions in New York
eloped with a coadhman. Her grand
father threatens to disinherit her.
The Presbyterian general assembly
opened in ST. Louis. The chief topic Of
discussion will be the proposed revision
Of the creed.
The superintendent of the military
academy believes the pay of CADETS
should be increased and favors harder
examinations.
Marie Rosalie Dinse. the New York
woman bridgejumper, has become
hopelessly insane through brooding
over her leap.
Hundreds Of Kansans are chasing
two bank robbers who broke Jail at
Marysville and have killed two of their
pursuers.
Barcus, the Messages and Papers of
the Presidents man, is likely to be
nominated for congress in the fifth In
diana district
ExPresident Cole Of the Globe Ma
tional bank of Boston was sentenced to
eight years Imprisonment for misap-
plying 1918, 917.
Charles A. Towne expects the in
dorsement of many democratic state
conventions Hoo do,,on.+o ,,a ! ! -
ed in Chicago
Appropriations at this session of
congress will be $500, 200, 900 less than
two years ago, largely due to military
and naval decreases.
The minority report on the subsidy
bill asserts that $9,OOO.OOO annually
will go to few favored concerns
without helping shipping.
At Los Angeles, Cal, Major General
4. G. Otis, editor of the Times, was
acquitted CT the charge of assulting
". r. Ream, a reporter.
At Camden N. j., Francisco Abbatto
was hanged in the Hamden county jail
for the murder of Genaro de Fec, his
friend and fellow countryman.
The mysterious armor-piercing shell
OF which Senator Tillman spoke is said
really to be solid steel shot, effective
under certain conditions only.
James Howard, who was named by
Culton and other witnesses as the man
who probably fired the shot which
killed Goebel. surrendered.
At Norwalk. Conn Miss Van Doren,
a faith cure lecturer and relative of
DR.. Talmage, is going 5000 miles to
marry her lover in the Klondike.
George Alfred Lamb, the complain
ant against John w. Gates, says he
will renew his prosecution under an
other section of the penal code.
Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania
and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota
were nominated for president and vice
president by the midroad populists.
Charges of prison abuse at Raleigh,
N. c., of rather sensational character
are being investigated by a special