Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The sophomore medical class Of the
University of Michigan has adopted the
honor system of examination, and the
trials made have met with great success.
Without Il dissenting vote the New
York Senate passed Senator Mullins bill
providing that persons convicted OF plac-
ing Instructions on railroad tracks snail
be guilty of murder in the first degree.
The business of the year just closed
was the most remunerative experienced
by the SueZ canal, according to United
States General Pefeld at Cairo and the
traffic aggregated almost $16,0O0000 in
value.
C. G. Wells of San Francisco has
invented an appliance called a railway
joint bridge. The bridge, it is claimed,
entirely eradicates the pounding of the
ends of the rails when a car passes on
or off.
Mrs. Virginia Shepard Chopper has
been granted a divorce in the high court
of justice in London. Mrs. Chopper was
married in 1874 in San Francisco and
afterwards went to Seven Oaks, Eng, to
live. She charged her husband with de-
serting her for another woman.
Miss Carrie Jewell, Of recent years
belle in New York society and the
favorite niece of the late Frederick X
liberal bequest to her, abandoned So
ciety, and become a nun in the Sacred
Heart order at St. Louis.
Judge Parlange Of the United States
district court pronounced sentence at New
| Orleans on the Texas Pacific railroad of
icials, %. S. Sargent and L. S. Thorne.
! who a few days ago pleaded guilty of
| violating the interstate commerce law.
They were fined $4,000 each.
"A resolution was introduced in the
Missouri House calling upon the speaker
to appoint a special committee of five to
go to Nevada and witness the Corbett-
| Fitzsimmons fight so as to learn whether
it would be we'll for Missouri to follow
| Nevadas example in legalizing pugilistic
! encounters.
Butler, the Australian murderer has
been marine in her majesty's service
| in addition to his other occupations. He
has been identified by two of his former
! shipmates, John Conway and Thomas
| Collins, who were at one time sailors on
board her majesty's steamship Triumph.
james Chopper and John Romizer,
| his nephew, were sleeping off drunk
in the tailoring establishment of the
latter at Indianapolis, when Choppers
pretty young wife appeared upon the
scene with revolver and shot RomiZer,
| It was her way of illustrating a tenn
| perance lecture.
| Mrs. Helen NJ. Cougar, president of
the Indiana WOman's Suffrage associa ton
and member of the bar, will make the
oral argument in the Supreme court at
! indianapolis in the celebrated test vote
case in which it is held that under the
present law of the state women are en-
| titled to suffrage.
/ "A Portuguese schooner. which has
just arrived at Cape de Verd islands, re-
ports that vessel believed to be the Ger
man ship Baltimore, Capt. Hillmann, from
London December 10 for New York,
foundered on January "a. The schooner
had on board one survivor Of the Balti-
more, who was picked up at sea.
One of the passenger elevators in the
! ST. James hotel at San Antonio, Tex,
got beyond control of the conductor. It
went up at full speed, crashed through
the roof, turned over and fell down the
airsbaft a distance of five stories The
elevator conductor and a guest were in
! the machine at the time Both were IA
tally hurt.
AT meeting in Joliet, ILL., of the
/ directors of the Mckenna Steel Work
| ing company it was announced that the
! has been let for an $4,000 building to
be erected at once. The plant when
completed will employ 300 men, and al
ready orders have been placed to insure
six months steady work.
While Nine. Calve was singing Mar
/ guerite in Faust" at New York at the
Metropolitan Opera house, detectives
were guarding the entrance, waiting to
arrest a mysterious man who an hour
earlier had told the sopranos companion,
/ Nine WaleWska, that if Nine. Calve did
| not accord him an interview after the
performance he would shoot her.
Lillian Russell will not pay duty on
the wearing apparel and theatrical cos
tunes which she imported into this coun-
try in 1894, or, rather, she is to receive
back the duty she paid under protest.
She and the board of general appraisers
at New York have been at loggerheads
over the matter for more than q year,
but Judge Townsend decided in her
favor.
The fight in Kansas for resubmission
of the liquor question is apparently lost
in the state Legislature.
John .. Hart, owner of the steam
ship Laurada, has been placed on trial in
the United States District court at Phila-
delphia to answer the charge OF violat.
ing the neutrality laws.
The state of Washington is ON the
verge of wiping out all of her saloons
and wholesale liquor houses by adopting
a prohibitory law similar to that govern,
ing the sale of liquors in South Carolina
Chancellor Prince Hohenlohe and
wife. born Princess Zu Sayn-Wittgen.
stein, celebrated their golden wedding at
Berlin, surrounded by representatives OF
all families of the princely house Of Hob
enlohe
The golden jubilee of Mother Mary
Xavier, head of the Order of Sisters OF
Charity of the Catholic church. was held
in st. Elizabeth's academy, New York.
There are about 100 sisters in the order.
| Most of them were present.
Another victim of the Tausch gang in
trigues Editor Wegner of the Deutsche
Tages Zeitung, was convicted at Berlin
of libeling Secretary of State for For
eign Relations Marschall, and was SEN
fenced to two months imprisonment.
United States Consul Duffie at Win
nipeg reports to the state department
that the Dominion government has APP
propriated $4,000 for the Improvement
of navigation in the international waters
| of Rainy river, at a point named Long
Sault Rapids.
Lillian Russell has about completed
arrangements with A. III. Hummel of
New York, representing Mrs. Lilly Lang.
try, for the purchase of the palace car
La Lee built by the Pullman company
in 1883 and presented to Mrs. Langtry
nv the late George Abingdon Baird The