Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08

committee has selected PeOfla as lne
place and April 10 next as the date for
holding the state convention.
Mr.. Rockefeller extended till April 1
the time for the University of Chicago
to raise 100000 and thus make
effective his offer of a like sum.
The trustees of the Mortified semi
nary have issued an appeal to the
world for $3,0OO,0000 to carry on the
institutions founded by Moody.
Judge Morris of the Toledo common
pleas court has decided that strikers
have a right to place pickets and urge
workmen not to take their places.
The negotiations between China and
Mexico for a general treaty Of trade,
navigation and immigration, have been
brought to a successful conclusion.
Elliot Danforth in an interview in
New York says a recent tour in the
south has convinced him that silver
will not be leading issue in 1900
At Worcester, Mass, A manufacturer
of cartridge belts has received an order
from the British government for
As, 900 double bandelier cartridge belts.
DR.. Wickliff, surgeon of the 165th
Indiana regiment, was killed together
with his Cuban boy, Francisco Zousa,
near Delphi, Ind, by Wabash train.
Chicago real estate transfers for
1899, in transactions of $1,000 and over,
show a gain in number of 978 sales
and in amount of SIS, 109,8 over 1898
In New York Richard Croker War
rem, nephew of Richard Croker, mar
ried Mrs Sadie L. Corse, who had been
married twice before and divorced
once.
At Kansas City the grand jury re-
turned indictments against IL leading
retail druggists for selling liquor lille
ga1ly without the requisite county Ii
cense.
1t may be decided to increase the
number of troops in Alaska on the
ground that the constantly increasing
population demands additional protec-
ton.
The program Of the presidents New
York reception settles the question of
precedence at official receptions. The
army is given precedence over the
navy.
The navy department has decided to
open a recruiting rendezvous at Cleve-
land in accordance with it's policy of
enlisting men from the interior as far
as possible.
DR.. Henry J. Van Dyke has resigned
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Presbyterian church in New York, to
take the chair of literature in Prince
ton university.
The American Economic association
elected Richard T. Ely of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, president. The next
meeting will be held at Detroit, in De-
cember, 1900.
At Cairo, ILL., William Martin was
hanged for the murder of Joseph Lam
drum last October On the scaffold,
Martin talked briefly, expressing his
willingness to die.
At Baltimore Franklin B. Living
stone a blind man, aged So years,
choked his wife, Rosie Livingstone, to
death, and then gave himself up. He
pleaded self-defense.
Rev. Sylvester Malone, pastor of the
Roman Catholic church of Saints Peter
and Paul, Brooklyn, and a member of
the board of regents of the University
of New York, died.
Aaron Wolfsohn, on the finding Of
whose supposed body the New York
Life Insurance company paid the pub
lie administration of his estate 900,
is alive in Chicago.
At Omaha the Greater American
Exposition company has been declared
bankrupt by the courts. The decision
releases about 100000 which has been
tied up in banks.
Arrangements have been> completed
by Frederick Leyland & Co. of Liver
pool for the establishment Of a weekly
passenger steamship service between
New York and Liverpool.
The board of visitors to the naval
observatory has made a report criti-
cising the management of the institu-
ton and recommending several changes
in methods that now obtain.
Capt. G. A. Armes, a retired army
officer, is preparing to publish book
in which he denounces a number Of Of
fcers of the regular army. 1t is
thought he may be court-martialed.
At Augusta, Ca, the sawmill of the
Perkings Manufacturing company and
the Georgia Iron Works, owned by the
Perkings Manufacturing company,
were destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Julius H. McAfee, page in the house
of representatives has been arrested
charged with larceny of $500 from Con-
gresham Stevens and another mem
Der of congress. He admits the theft
The report of Naval Constructor
Bowles that the English-built cruiser
New Orleans was unstable has been
proved unfounded, and the navy de-
partment is greatly embarrassed there
by.
Clyde H. Wallace, a clerk in the
United States subtreasury, at Chica-
go, was arrested yesterday on the