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

health
The funeral of William Crownin-
shield Endicott, formerly secretary of
war, was held from his late home in
| Massachusetts. The body was taken to
Salem for burial.
In the national convention of the
| Ancient Order of Hibernians, the total
membership was shone to be 1O4,867.
The next convention will be held in
Denver. in July, 1902.
Rev. DR.. Latimer Whipple Balou. a
member of the forty-fourth, forty-fifth
and forty-sixth congress and a Dromi-
nent Universalist clergyman, died in
Rhode Island. aged SO.
DR.. Edwin M. Heath, a noted veter-
mary surgeon of Connecticut, died of
tuberculosis and distemper, diseases
which he is thought to have contract
ed from animals he treated.
1t is reported that Governor Roose-
welt has convinced President Mckinley
that he would be of more service as a
candidate for reelection than as cam
didate for the vice presidency.
After a conference with Chairman
Jones, Senator Pettigrew announced he
would issue a public statement regard
| ing the action of the Sioux Falls con-
vention in nominating Towne
The Lane bill is amended in COM
mittee to require St Louis first to
raise $10,000,000 by local subscription
before receiving government aid for
the Louisiana purchase exposition.
The state department will collect
data regarding the colonists that have
settled in Central and South American
countries. The step is the outcome of
recent speeches by Root, Lodge and
| Others
| At Austin, Texas, fire broke out in
furniture factory and threatened to
| destroy the whole block, owing to the
| disable waterpower, but was gotten
under control after causing a loss Of
| $4,000
| ToWerman Lamtell fell asleep on
duty, failed to set the warning soma
phore, and a fast freight plunged into
standing train in the Baltimore and
Ohio tunnel near Philadelphia, killing
seven men,
| The United States supreme court de-
cided the inheritance tax law constitu-
| tional, but that the tax is based on the
! size of the legacies and not of the es-
] tates, and that government bonds are
not exempt
General Wesley Merritt left Gov
ernOr island on a leave of absence to
make trip to Europe. General
Brooks has been assigned to succeed
Merritt as commander of the depart
ment of the east.
| At Pittsburg, the seventeenth annual
meeting of the American Mccall Miss
ion Association is in session with 100
delegates from seventy-four auxiliaries
from the principal cities of the eastern
| section of the country.
At Newport, r. l., Miss Cornelia Car
ter Stockton, daughter of Captain Chas
H. Stockton, president of the Naval
War college, was married to Lieuten-
ant Frank A. Traut, United States
navy, as Zabriski church.
Empire, Pa, is completely surround
ed by forest fires and it is impossible
for anyone to get in or out. Five
houses have been destroyed and three
children burned to DEATH The inhab-
itants are panic-stricken.
Rev. d. J. Brimm resigned his chair
in the Columbian Presbyterian Theo-
logical seminary. DR.. Brimm's action
was voluntary and the reason assigned
is that he differs from the majority Of
the church He believes in faith cure
Goldie Phillips, thirteen years old, Of
Aquebague, L. l., who sailed away from
home on the Flyaway, was married to
the skipper of the craft Vernon Moore
The bridegroom and two Of the crew
were arrested on the charge Of kidnap-
ping.
At Scranton, Pa, desperate attempt
to kill herself and two children was
made by Mrs. Mary Weathers. Using
sharp table knife she cut the throat
of her 5-year-old daughter, then gashed
her own throat, after which she tried
to kill her 10-months- baby.
Joseph Currier, aged Is years, who
worked in. Cramps shipyard, Philadel-
phia, under the name of John Frier,
was committed to prison on the charge
OF being partly responsible for the
death OF Christopher Donnegen, the 13-
year-old lad who was pumped full of
air.
The house committee on public lands
has reported favorably the Mondell bill
to provide that final proof in land
cases may be made anywhere in the
land district in which the entry is To-
Gated, and that entries in timber and
stone entries may be made before any
officers authorized to receive entries in
other cases.
Professor George Holley Gilbert reg
trar of the Chicago Theological semin-
airy and head of the department. of
New Testament literature and inter
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