Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-28
Joseph Flory of st. Louis for COVER

Hiram w. LlLLlo OF cleveland, class
of 1900, died at Cornell infirmary of
| typhoid fever, aged % years.
/ Presbyterians commend President
Mckinley for recommending Sunday
closing at the Paris exposition
Swift & Co. bought the Chicago
plant of the Chicago Packing and
Provision company for $25O,O0O.
All railroads agreed to charge one
| fare for round trip to Philadelphia
during the republican convention.
Kentucky's four delegates-at-larg to
the republican national convention in
clude Gov Taylor and two negroes.
The administration is said to favor
Long for vice president. The demo-
Gratis may oppose him with Schley.
sCommissioner-Gene Powderly
will establish a system of immigrant
| inspection in the Hawaiian islands.
The National Metal Trades associa-
ton and the International Association
of Machinists reached. an agreement.
John O'Grady, under sentence at
Toledo, for larceny, is believed to be
Sir Ralph Vermilye, an English noble
man.
Chairman Jones wants to remove
the democratic headquarters from
Chicago, alleging that the press is
! hostile.
| Several Shamokin, Pa, councilmen
have been found guilty of conspiracy
| in connection with street paving con-
tracts.
| Richard Croker and his principal
Tammany assistants are said to be
largely interested in the New York ice
| trust.
An Iowa man after journeying
| through many states and territories
found his son in the Kansas City pest
house.
The contest over the revision of the
Presbyterian creed began in the COM
mittee of the Presbyterian general as
sembly
The Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany is said to be now negotiating
for the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy.
Captain Charles E. Clark of At
lantic City was presented with a
medal for saving 654 persons from
drowning.
Representatives of English wheat
buyers are. contracting with Kansas
farmers for the entire crop at so cents
a bushel.
A robber held up the clerks of the
Coates house, Kansas City, and took
$3.50, checks for $500 and jewelry
worth $1,000.
C. G. Augur of Evanston, H., and
P. K Hoy of Nutley, n. J., students
at Princeton, were drowned in Mill
stone creek.
A new fast train between New York
and Chicago, with a twenty-five hour
time schedule, is planned for the Penn
sylvania road.
Prominent members of the Clan-na-
Gael scott at the report of the organi-
zation's connection with the Welland
canal plot.
ton denounced the GoebeI election
law and Endorsed the course of Taylor
and Marshall
Sister Alphonsa mother provincial
Of the Sisterhood of st. Francis for
for the United States, is dead at
Lafayette, Ind
The house passed bill to pay Lees
men for the loss of horses taken in
violation of the terms of surrender
at Appomattox.
Clark of Montana hired six detect
ives to prevent reporters from wit
Messing or getting details of his
daughters wedding.
The Johns Hopkins University
party, which will observe the eclipse
of the sun May % has arrived at
Pinehurst, N. C.
The New York supreme court sus-
tanned an injunction issued to restrain
the keeping of hens that annoyed a
neighbor by cackling.
Charles Fl. Dietz, in his suit against
the Philadelphia Commercial Museum,
says that institution has become the
tool of the sugar trust.
Gardiner S. Williams, emeritus
professor of science and art of teach
ing in Cornell University, died Of
| paralysis, aged u years.
Congressman Hepburn believes that
the Louisiana exposition should also
celebrate the commencement of work
on the Nicaragua canal
Professor Roy Wilson White, an
instructor in the University of Penn
| sylvania, was murdered in Philadel-
phia, supposedly by robbers.
A crisis in the Chicago labor war is
| expected. There is a persistent rumor
that the bricklayers' union will leave
the building trades council
| A street car conductor in ST. Louis
killed boy, who was about to hurl a
stone A girl and three men were in
| jured in other disturbances.
The general assembly of the South
| ern Presbyterian church met at At
lanta, and that of the northern Pres
| byterian church at ST. Louis