Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19

mail of any newspaper containing
Ipugilistic news.
President Lincoln's remains were re-
moved to a temporary vault, pending
the reconstruction of the monument at
ISpringield, I'll.
Ten gamblers were indicted in New
York and many places were ralued,
due to a newspaper crusade against
the carnival of vice.
Mrs Gabrielle Bethestina, who as
Collona was one of the most popular
prima donnas in Italy thirty years ago,
is dead in New York.
General Henry Harnden department
commander of the Grand Army of the
Republic in Wisconsin, is critically i'll
at his home in Madison.
! University of Iowa students found a
Minnesota man taking notes at a pre-
liminary debate in preparation for an
inter-university contest.
The Carnegie Steel company's an
sWer in the Frick suit asserts that the
total assets are SIS, 610,104, but admit
ted profits in 1899 of 81, OO0,0 900.
| The funeral of Archbishop Hennessy
occurred at Dubuque. Archbishop
Keane may be successor of Hennessy
as head of the Dubuque diocese.
/ The senate committee on relations
of Cuba authorized the chairman, Sem
ator Plat Comm to appoint sub
committee of three to visit Cuba.
AS a result of the death of Repre-
sentative Harmer of Pennsylvania,
Representative McCleary will become
chairman of the committee on library.
The president sent to the senate
the nomination of George P. VANITY of
Michigan to be United States district
judge of the west Michigan district
| Mrs j. B. Angel, wife of the presi-
dent Of the University of Michigan and
ex-minister Of Turkey, is seriously i'll.
Mrs Angel suffered a stroke of apo
plexy.
| At Omaha as a result of Jealousy,
Frank Steele shot and mortally
wounded his wife and then killed him
self, at the residence of Rev. A. F.
Nelson.
Ex-Congressman John Davis of the
fifth Kansas district has gone totally
blind. He was one of the founders Of
the populist party and served two
terms in congress.
Captain Silas w. Terry, late in
command of the Iowa. has been as
signed to succeed Admiral McCor-
mack as commandment of the Wash
ington navy yard.
A clerk in the state auditors Office
in Frankfort, KY, was arrested on a
charge of completely in the murder Of
William Goebel. Secretary of State
Powers was also arrested.
Admiral Dewey, on the authority of
Mrs Dewey, would accept a presi-
Dental nomination if rendered him.
All talk of ex-President Harrison's
candidacy is declared to be silly.
Joseph F. Ryan, of the National
Federation Of America, is dead. He
was the originator of the defense fund,
which was the means of raising thou
sands of dollars for the Irish cause.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations has reported an amendment to
the Hay-Pauncefore treaty giving the
United States the right to defend, but
not to fortify the Nicaragua canal
The first decision in the Kentucky
goyernorship case was against the re-
publicans who will appeal Demo-
Gratis organized a company of guards
to protect Gov Beckham from arrest
The lighthouse board will ask an APP
preparation to introduce the Marconi
system Of wireless telegraphy into the
department. It is proposed to first
make the test on the South Shoal light
ship.
Arrangements are making by the
subsistence and quartermaster's de-
partments to forward 500 tons Of food
supplies, including rice and Goldfish, to
the destitute people in the interior of
Porto Rico
The remains of sixty-six soldiers
who died in Cuba were buried at Ar
lington cemetery with military hon
ors. The bodies of about 500 soldiers
who died in Cuba now rest in this
historic spot.
President Mckinley has decided that
the American exhibit at the Paris ex-
position will be closed Sunday This
will come as a great surprise to the
Parisians, for Sundays are reckoned as
the biggest days.
George F. NUM-, the gun expert of
the geological survey, reports an in
creased output of sapphires in Mon
tana and the discovery Of a fine blue
stone that affords gems up to three
carets in weight
From evidence collected it is be-
lieyed that the destruction by fire of
the Second Presbyterian church and
the burning of the Trinity Methodist
church in Chicago were the work of an
incendiary crank.
n. L. Michael, who was vice presi-
dent of the American National Bank of