Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-16
Marble, is dead in his home at Austin,

Mrs. Mckinley, who has been con-
fined to her room for some time on &C
count of an attack of grip, is IN
proved
In New York Olga Nethersole was
! acquitted of the charge of maintaining
a public nuisance in presenting
Sapho.
i The courts probably will wait for a
Foraker bill to become a law before
passing on the status of the acquired
islands.
Adlai E. Stevenson and Samuel
Alschuler are much talked of as demo-
cratic gubernatorial possibilities in
Illinois.
New York republican senators in
caucus Endorsed the candidacy of Leu
: tenant Governor Woodruff for vice
president.
, President Hill of the Northern Pa
cific says he has ordered vessels of
10000 tons capacity for his trans
atlantic line.
President Angel threatens expul-
sion to prevent Michigan sophomores
and freshmen from cutting one an
others hair.
The war department. is completing
arrangements for the transportation
of troops and supplies to the military
posts of Alaska.
The department of justice decided
that the constitution does not extend
to the new possessions without con-
gressional action.
Congressman Levy introduced a res
olution to compel Commissioner Peck
to make a detailed statement of Paris
exposition expenditures.
Pennsylvania sixty-four demo-
cratic delegates were instructed for
Bryan. Silver was ignored, but
"bimetallism' was Endorsed.
: The Kentucky case was appealed tc
the United States supreme court. A
clash between the opposing militia al
Frankfort was narrowly averted.
Convention hall Kansas City, in
which building the democratic national
convention was to have been held July
next was destroyed by fire.
Diamonds, jewelry and money to the
value of $4,000 were stolen today
from the residence of Charles w.
Smith, at Germantown, Pa.
At San Francisco David J. Staples, q
pioneer of California and for thirty
three years president of the Firemen's
Fund Insurance company died.
The will of the late Sidney Kent
, who died in Sufield, Conn, recently
: was filed for probate in Chicago. He
. left an estate valued at So, 100000.
Governor Roosevelt will deliver an
address at Galena, III, April 81, at ex-
ercises to be held in honor of the an
niversary of the birth of Gen. Grant.
The Newport Compress company
plant at Newport, Ark, burned, en-
5 failing a loss of 100000 Seven
thousand bales of cotton were de-
9 stroyed.
A mortgage for loan of s20,0O0,O0C
was filed in New York by the Farmers
Loan and Trust company as trustee
against the Western Union Telegraph
company.
A Dutch heiress and a coachman
: with whom she eloped will live on
a farm at Appleton, Wis. Her name
: was Marie Aa1stz; his is Adrian
Shoemaker.
SECRETARY Hay has addressed a Wig
orous protest to the Turkish govern
ment against the proposed application
of an edict excluding American pork
from Turkey.
izer Of nearly the entire force which
Rhode Island sent into the civil war
died in Chicago at the home of his son
Henry G. Eddy
The Westinghouse Electric and Man
ufacturing company acquired posses
sion Of the plant Of the Walter Manu-
: featuring company of Cleveland. The
price was 100000.
The man to establish a wireless
telegraphy school for the navy has
been killed by the interminable
wrangle of the officers who pass upon
such propositions.
Iowa legislature adjourned after 6S
r days session, during which it pro-
! vided for biennial elections and vot-
ing machines, reformed building and
, loan and insurance laws.
5 The Standard Screw company has
been incorporated under the laws oil
e New Jersey, with a capital of $780,
' 00O It includes Worcester, Lockport
and Chicago concerns.
2 Edwin W. Alderman, president oil
the University of North Carolina, has
been elected president of the Tulane
! university to succeed Col. William
: Preston Jones, deceased.
The New York chamber of com
MERGE adopted resolutions yesterday
declaring the stamp taxes should be
abolished as soon as the revenues OIL
the government will permit.
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