Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

cago in the passage of an act prohibiting
| the wearing of bonnets or hats by ladies
| in theaters.
The third and last of the torpedo
| boats being built for the United States
at the Columbian Iron works was sue
cessfully launched Yesterday. Her total
cost will be 1913 She is $50 feet
long and sixteen feet broad.
Col. L. Severy fell on the ice II his
yard at Emporia, kas., and broke his
hip. He is SO badly injured that his re-
! cOyery is doubtful. He is one Of the
most prominent citizens of Kansas. Tor
years he was Il director of the Santa Fe
railroad.
The Indiana Supreme court spent the
! day in listening to arguments in the ap-
| peal from the decision of the lower court.
| refusing a new trial for Rev. w. e.
Hinshaw. who is now in the prison south
for the murder of his wife in Henricks
| county.
The annual celebration of the we'd
ding of George Washington was held
| at Sherry'S, New York city, by the New
York chapter of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution. Among the fea-
lures were an original poem by Ella
| Wheeler Wilcox.
The draft of the Pacific Cable com
mission was signed at London, on behalf
Of the British, Australian and Canadian
| governments. after many months Of in
vestigation. The result is an important
! step towards establishing British SUI
! premacy in the Pacific.
An order has gone into effect at the
] Union depot at Atchison, Kas., pro-
! hibiting persons from smoking cigarettes
| in the waiting room. The depot master
/ has orders to eject any person who re-
| fuses to obey the mandate. There will
be no objection to smoking cigars or
| pipes.
Frederick A. Gregory, private secre-
tary of Proprietor John Hold IT the
/ Tiff house, at Buffalo, and chief clerk
/ of that establishment. has disappeared.
| leaving behind numerous bad checks and
/ taking with him. it is alleged, several
| thousand dollars of his employers
money.
The important business in The con-
yention Of the League of American
Showmen at Cincinnati was the ~econcil-
| iation Of the International Bill Posters
association and the Associated Bill Post
ers, which have been bitter rivals. They
met, buried the Ratchet and decided to
fuse into a single association.
According to the members of "a
Parlor Match" company, now playing at
/ PhiladelDhia WinSome and captivating
Anna Held. the pretty French song
stress, who plays a star role, is to marry
her manager, F. Ziegfeld. News of the
engagement. it is said, was privately i'm
parted to the members of the company.
Eight Spanish and Italian Anar-
chists were arrested at Paris, and will
| be expelled from France, together with
| those members of the mob which made
a demonstration before the Spanish EN-
| bassy. The project of police has decided
to demand the expulsion from France of
all foreign Anarchists guilty of reyolu-
tionary agitation.
State Bank Commissioner John W.
/ Breidenthal predicts the number of Kan
sas banking institutions will decrease
materially within the next two years, if
not be cut III two.
1t appears that the ambassadors of
the powers, in addition to considering the
treatment of Christians in the Turkish
empire, are discussing measures to ameli-
crate the position of the Mussulmans.
The mill operatives and their fami-
lies are quitting the city of Bombay en-
masse, thus adding a quarter of mil
! lion unemployed to the county districts.
1t is now estimated that 325,0O0 persons
have fled from the city rs a result Of the
spread of the bubonic plague.
While hunting with the Maynell
hounds today Right Hon. Henry Chaplin,
formerly president of the board OF agrloo
/ culture, who was one of the Prince Of
Wales party at the Duke of Suther-
lands seat at Trentham hall, was thrown
from his horse and seriously injured.
In the matter of summer tourist
rates. the trans Missouri committee of
the Western Passenger association found
that the question could not be settled
until the committees had been presented
with a detailed plan of ticket which
shall reduce the Opportunities Of scalp,
ing to a minimum.
The Hartford Comm Post and the
/ New Haven News have joined the Asso-
ciated press.
"A new ocean-going yacht is to be built
for Queen Victoria in place of the Vic
| toria and Albert, the present royal yacht.
In the California Assembly, Belshaw
/ has introduced a resolution instructing
CALIFORNIA; delegation in Congress to
work against all Pacific railroad refund
ing bills.
The war of four world-famed work
ers against the world, the flesh and the
/ devil in Boston began in earnest when ID.
| l.. Moody, Archbishop Martinelli, Sam
crusade meetings.
The state hospital at Rock Springs,
| Wyo., was burned this morning. Twelve
| patients who were in the building were
rescued without much inconvenience.
! Most of the furniture was saved, al
though the building is total loss.
Sir Henry ST. John Halford, Bart,
| G. B.. is dead, aged Ga.
Horace Merriam. aged IS years. is
dead at Kansas City, Mo, of pneumonia
He was a Well-known insurance man.
| f. G.. Bailess, commission merchant,
! ITO East Front street, Cincinnati, as
| signed to G. w. Scott. Assets, 21,O00;
liabilities. $4,000.
! -SDecials from Red River valley points
| Indicate that the storm that has been in
progress there since Sunday morning is
more severe than that of Thanksgiving,
though little snow has fallen.
-Ottumwa, Ia, was in darkness last
night The telephone and telegraph sys-
TENS were completely demoralized on ac
| count of the storm. Damage was heavy
to the electric light and street car COM
| pany.
Judge Donovan of the circuit court
at Detroit sustained and made permanent
the injunction heretofore granted re-
straining the board of county supervisors
| from proceeding with the erection of a