Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-26

sue list of soldiers who won honor
able mention during the Spanish war.
Philadelphia has sent to Senator
Hanna the first $4,000 Of the 100000
promised for the republican conven-
ton
The central high school building,
West Bay City, Mich, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
So, 900
From advices received at the CAPT
tai France may prove a stumbling
block in building the Nicaragua
canal.
Postmaster Simmons of Seward,
Neb.. is accused of embezzlement. One
of his bondsmen dropped dead when
notified.
Joe Choynsh defeated Peter Maher
in a six-round bout. Matty Matthews
whipped Kid MCFARLAND in seventeen
rounds.
The Knickerbocker Telephone COM
pany began business in New York. The
rates are so per cent less than the Bell
charges.
At San Francisco the battleship Wis
consin, is fast nearing completion. She
will probably be ready for trial before
July I.
Andrew White, United States am
bassador to Berlin, after a partial re-
covery from the grip, suffered a severe
relapse.
Central passenger association lines
agree to give a rate of l cent mile
for the G. A. r. encampemnt in Chi
cago.
Mrs. Grace Brady, widow of the
Young stock broker who committed
suicide some months ago in New York,
killed herself.
The League Of American Wheelmen
voted to relinquish control of racing
and abolish the amateur clause OF
membership.
Pulsifer, Cook & Co., Boston paper
dealers, made an assignment, brought
about by the closing Of the Globe Ma
tional bank.
Kentucky prison authorities have
recognized W. J. C. Beckham as gov
ernor by releasing a convict whom he
had pardoned
Twenty-Five of the 20 steel sheet
mills in the country formed a COM
bination at Pittsburg. The capital will
be $52,000,0OO
Negotiations are now pending to
combine the National Starch and
United States Starch companies, with a
capital Of $25,000,00O.
At Cleveland the stable Of Gibbons
& Pinkett was destroyed by fire and
forty horses persisted. Loss, $4,000;
covered by insurance.
The board of general appraisers de-
cided that Porto Rico is not part of
the United States so far as the present
tariff laws are concerned.
New York combination Of the quick
lunch restaurant" of New York city
and other cities is being formed, with
a capitalization Of $7,000,000.
The owners of Madison Square Gar
den, New York, have offered~ to sell
the building to the government for It's
uptown postoffice for $2,500,000.
Ex-senator German and Richard
Croker are said to have entered into a
scheme which explains their great
show of friendliness for Bryan.
A school for the training of rough
riders and sharpshooters, it is said,
is to be established in Colorado on
government land in the Shenandoah
valley.
At Peekskill, N. Y, Mrs. Rachael B.
Crane has given $1,000. to the Home
Mission Board of the Presbyterian
church and $4,000 to it's Foreign Mis-
sion Board,
The will of wealthy woman was
set aside in Chicago. At one sitting
she had consumed three quarts of
whiskey and at another thirty-six
bottles of beer.
Provost Harrison of the University
Of Pennsylvania announces that gift
Of $25, 900 has been made to the univer-
sity by Mrs. Thomas Mexican of
Philadelphia.
Anne Dupont, one of the most cele-
brated photographers in the United
States, died at his home in New York
city. He was born in France fifty
one years dSO.
An offer of 1000 hotel and restau-
rant menus was made by young wo-
man to the New York public library
with the suggestion that they be kept
sealed until 1850.
In New York fire destroyed one Of
the buildings occupied by the Metro
politan Street Railway company. Three
cars were destroyed and forty dam
aged Loss, $4,000
A Jump of from So to S. per ton in
the price of black sheets, and an ad-
vance Of 5 per cent. in the price Of
galvanized sheets are reported as i'm
minent in Chicago.
A weekly paper to be known as the
American Antitrust Journal, the
launching of which was sanctioned at
the recent antitrust conference, ap-
peared in Chicago.
Insurance Superintendent Van
Cleave has revoked the license of the
Wisconsin Fire Insurance company OF