Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-08

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A New York minister died IN the
presence of his congregation.
Yerkes' American syndicate buys
London underground railway.
Carl Schurz divorced a pro-F1lipino
speech at Cooper Union, New York.
All anthracite mine workers are
offered 10 per cent. advance IN wages.
Corbett has returned from Europe
to meet the charges made against
him.
The American Steel works secured
the contract for the rails for the
Mecca railway.
Returns of the assessors OF Okla
homa territory show the population
to be 396.5OO.
Senator Lodge declares that the
Victor riot was deliberately planned
by the Bryan leaders in Colorado.
Two thousand strikers in the coal
regions publicly signed temperance
pledge in Catholic churches.
Secretary Hay has returned to
Washington and denies the rumors of
differences in the administration.
1t is officially announced that Lord
Roberts has been appointed COM
mander-in-chief of the British army.
The crowds that greeted Roosevelt
| in Kansas were the greatest that ever
attended political meetings in that
state.
Archbishop Keane preached his f1rt
sermon at Dubuque denouncing saloon
| interest and declaring it should be
wiped out.
At Santa Fe, N. M, Steven r. Will
lard, a prominent attorney of Min
neapolis, Mimi, died.
| An American party, composed OF
Capt. Shields and fifty-one men OF the
Twenty-ninth regiment, are killed or
captured by Filipinos.
The motion for a new trial in the
case of James Howard was overruled
by Judge Cantrill, and Howard was
sentenced to be hanged Dec. Z.
Over 900 men of the twenty-fourth
and twenty-fifth infantry (colored)
sailed for Manila on the transport
Hancock from San Francisco.
Cardinal Gibbons states that he
has been approached by each side in
the miners strike and will act as ar
bitrator if his services are required
Judge Seaman of Milwaukee denied
the Chicago board of trades plea for
an injunction restraining commission
firms from using the boards quota
| tons.
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The main building of the Buffalo
garbage crematory known as the
Baynes Garbage works, just outside
of the city line, was burned. Loss,
| $4,000.
Gen. Cotton Green, prominent as a
confederate soldier and leader of a
brigade under Gen. Sterling Price Of
Missouri, died at Memphis, aged
sixty-eight.
John Sealy, chairman of the finance
committee of the Galveston relief
received from all sources $7S1,043 and
that Gov. Sayers has 100000 more.
Gen. Sternberg has written to the
war department that the canteen in
the army has reduced the amount of
drunkenness among the soldiers, and
for that reason he thinks it is a good
thing.
The 700 employees of the Reading
Iron company of Danville, Pa, de-
cided to accept the rs per cent. reduc-
ton in their wages which went into
effect on Sept. 16 and against which
they struck.
Philadelphia and Reading Coal
company posts notices that an adj
vance of 10 per cent. in wages will be
given at it's thirty-nine collieries.
Strike leaders warn the men to await
united action by their union,
The department of state has been
informed by the French embassy that
Rear Admiral Richard, in charge OF
the French naval division in the At
lantic, now at Sydney, G. B., contem-
plates visiting the coast of North
America.
The steamship City Of Topeka ar
rived at Seattle. 1t brought about
$50 passengers and 100000 in gold.
The steamship Senator arrived from
Cape Nome and st. Michael bringing
about a hundred passengers and
| $4,000 in treasure.
Dowieite Elders S. P. Fogwell and
John F. Richter of Chicago arrived in
Mansfield, o., and stopped at the Van
hoff Hotel. Shortly afterward they
were routed out of bed and sent
away, as rumors were current that a
mob was coming after them.
It is said that the Adams Express
company will reinstate all the en-
plOyes who were dismissed Immediate
ly following the murder of Express
Messenger Lane and the robbery of
an express safe by Rosslyn Terrell
for violation of the rules in carrying
friends with them in the express cars.
An order has been issued by the
president directing that the United
States military post at Valdes, Alaska,
be hereafter known as Fort Liscum,