Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20

Negro leaders returned from Haytl
favor the plan Of negro emigration
to that island and permanent COLOMBIA
ton.
A man believed to be r. N. Pollock
missing bank president of Cleveland
Ohio, committed suicide in Seattle
Wash
Three girls smashed a Wichita
saloon and were knocked down
thrown into the street, and lodged in
jail.
Two cases of yellow fever have
been reported in Havana and quaran
tine regulations have been put into
effect.
S. c.. Fletcher, civilian employe
I of Manila commissary department
was convicted of selling government
stores.
The Knights of Columbus are said
to be about to enforce regulation
| to drop liquor dealers from member
ship.
Mrs. Ethel Costello, a trained nurse
of Kalamazoo, Mich, is unexpectedly
left 100000 by her late husbands
uncle.
The steamer Dolphin, arrived al
Tacoma, brought news of another
Dawson fire with an estimated loss OF
5000.
Mr.. Henri Francis Charles de Yer
Mao, vice president of the French
senate, is dead He was born May Is
1871.
Joseph Chamberlain admitted IN
parliament that General De Vets
house had been burned by British
troops.
Ex-Judge John E. Cass, one of the
leading democratic attorneys of north
ern Indiana, died at Valparaiso, aged
| so years.
Merritt Chism, a rich farmer OF
White Oak, H., murdered his wife as
she was about to attend church al
Normal, H. .
Russia has submitted to The Hague
arbitration court her brief i'll the
Boring sea dispute withe the Unite
States.
An attempt was made to as
sassinate Thomas B. Brown, privat%
secretary of Mayor Ames of Min
neapolis.
Mr.. Schwab states that the United
States steel corporation controls sc
per cent. of the iron ore lands O. the
northwest.
Bishop Lawrence told the Massa
chusetts diocesan convention that two
great national dangers are gambling
and impurity
Samuel Flower, paying teller OF
Hibernia National bank, New Orleans
is charged with shortage Of $4,000:
arrested.
William Winter Jefferson, son OF
Joe, and Christie Mcdonald, actress
were married at Crows Nest, Buz
Yards Bay.
Holders of the notes give1 by
Prince Henry. husband of Queel
Wilhelmina, have thrown them On tie
open market,
A director of the American Waltham
Watch company says his firm and
others have refused to enter the pro
jected combine.
Second Lieutenant William Ridgley
Hay of the Porto Rican regiment, U
S. V. L., and a nephew of Secretary
Hay, has resigned.
1t is announced that Eugene Zim
norman has offered to pay ter
shillings on the pound of the duke u
Manchester's debts.
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland
charged that tax auditors of northern
Ohio counties have been bribed by
free railroad passes.
A trolley car containing 115 passen
gers jumped the track at the bottom
of a hill at Englewood, N. J. Three
were seriously hurt.
French republicans fear the effect
of the projected marriage between
Prince Louis Bonaparte and Grams
Duchess Marie Pavloona.
President Mckinley reviewed a
floral parade at Los Angeles. The
city was beautifully decorated IN
honor Of the visitors.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
arrived in San Francisco two days
ahead of time because of the sudden
illness of Mrs. Mckinley.
H. w. Williams of South Haven,
Mich, the head of the Williams Trans
portation company, died in Baltimore,
Md. He was IS years of age.
Attention was called in the house Ct
comomns OF the fact that the govern
lnent-owned telegraph service IN ing
land is conducted at a loss.
At Carrollton, Mass, in the case of
Sallie B. Admire, charged with the
murder of her husband, the jury re
turned verdict of not guilty
At Greencastle, Ind, Tucker Wood
son Taylor, aged 46, poet and former
secretary of John Clark Ridpath, the
historian, committed suicide.
The steamer City of Paducah went
to the bottom near Grand Tower, Ill,
after striking a .snag. Two are known
to be dead and several missing.
T. S. McClindy, in fit of insanity
shot and killed Howard Rakar then