Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-30

Being opposed to Porto Rican bills
and to annexation of Philippines, Sen
ator Wellington will not attend repub-
lican national convention.
New York merchants make a strong
appeal for the abolition of stamp taxes
on express, steamboat and railroad
shipments and kilograms.
Kenosha, Wis, is making elaborate
preparations for the dedication on
memorial day of monument to the
war heroes of Kenosha county.
Fierce forest fires rage in Manitoba,
the Dakotas and Minnesota. Lives of
many lumbermen are sacrificed and
there is great loss of property.
A majority of the ways and means
committee opposes requiring the COM
missioner of internal revenue to tell
the ingredients of oleomargarine.
Oscar Gardner, the Omaha kid"
and Joe Bernstein are matched to fight
in New York. The winer is promised
a match with Teddy McGovern.
Miss Marie Dinse of New York
leaped from the Brooklyn bridge into
the East river and escaped, it is
thought, without serious injuries.
Amelia Smith jumped from Penn
sylvania express train running a mile
minute, near Atlanta City. She
landed on soft earth and survived.
The United States supreme court de-
cided that Captain Oberlin NJ Carter
must undergo sentence of FIVE years
Imprisonment for peculation of mil
lions
Charles j. Bonaparte of Baltimore,
made an address at the celebration of
the one hundred and twenty an
niversary- of the battle at Concord
Mass.
Joseph Sibley of Pennsylvania, who
in 1896 favored free silver and Bryan
has been nominated for congress by
the republicans. He is now a Mckin-
ley man.
Senator Jones. chairman of the ma
tional democratic committee, is receiv-
ing numerous letters urging the nomi-
nation of Admiral Schley for vice
president.
In Chicago Rufus Wrights will be-
oneathed no part of his 100000 es-
tate to charity. The widow in whose
room Wright was found dying has
been held.
Warrants have been sworn out for
the thirty-one ringleaders of the Gro
ton dam New York strikers, but most
of the men accused have fed to the
mountains.
The Merchants association of New
York has petitioned for an abolition
of the stamp taxes on express, rail-
road and steamboat shipments and on
kilograms.
Riley Powell, colored, was hanged
at Cairo, ILL.,, for the murder of Elmo
Erie, City Marshal of Charleston, Mo.
The victims widow and child witness
ed the execution
The sultan of Turkey has been in
formed that unless the debts due
American citizens are paid the Turk
ish minister at Washington will re-
ceive his passports.
DR.. Hills declared doctrine of re-
probation is unscriptural, unevangeli-
cal, heretical, anti-Christian. Of 100
Presbyterian preachers interviewed
10 favored revision.
By running home and telling their
father that a railroad rail was loose,
Willie and WILDER Stonestreet, r.
year-old twins. prevented a passenger
wreck at Cedar, Ind
Package freight handlers, of whom
there are 1000 employed along the
lakes, have demanded an advance of
16 per cent. in wagons. They now re-
ceive 35 cents an hour.
Attorneys for six western land grant
railroads have decided to sue the
United States for nearly 100000 for
the transportation of soldiers from
Chicago to San Francisco
Napoleon Haines. one of the or
ganizers of the Dime Savings Bank
and the Fifth National Bank, and
founder of the piano firm of Haines
Brothers. died in New York.
The manufacturers of the east are
said to have sent $4,000 to Chicago
employers to defeat Chicago union
labor. New York unions are literally
subscribing for the strikers.
Ira Light was sentenced to life i'm
prlsonment for being an accessory to
the murder of Rufus Ross in Pike
county Ind. Frank Purcell, the mur-
derer, received a similar sentence.
Rumor the Carnegie company will
absorb American Steel and Wire and
that H. c.. Frick will succeed John w.
Gates. The latter's political friends
admitted being caught in the slump.
A resolution passed by the CONT
mental congress in 1879, providing for
a monument to Count Pulaski, has
been unearthed and Poles are to Pc
tition for 100000 to erect a statue.
The Emmanuel Holland Reformed
church of Muskegon, Mich, was de-
stroyed by fire. Nicholas Carey, a fire.
man, was killed by a falling wall and