Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
spanish-American Islands.

A noll tax will be imposed on all
Philippine males over Is years old.
Munoz Rivera resigned the presi-
dency of the federal party in Porto
Rico
The Cuban constitutional convention
voted down a proposition to reject the
Platt amendment.
One hundred Filipinos from various
islands of the archipelago are 10 De
feature of the Buffalo Exposition.
The insular department is swamped
with applications from school TEACHERS
who want to go to the Philippines.
The former Spanish cruiser Reina
Mecedes will soon be ready for use
as training ship for enlisted men IN
the navy.
Aguinaldo thinks a visit to the
United States would better fit him to
advise his countrymen in the new af-
fairs Of the islands.
General Macarthur, in a report on
the Manila commissary frauds, says
the army was extensively robbed by
means of a conspiracy.
Lieutenant Sweet, formerly New
York policeman, is to be made CHIEF
of Manila secret service. Admiral
Rodgers arrived at Manila to succeed
Kempff
The Philippine commission decided
native jurists are unsatisfactory and
that the places on the bench shall be
filled by appointment from the United
States. Manila lawyers protest.
The negotiations looking to the sur
render of General Malvar have failed
and that General Malvar has proclaim
ed himself dictator in succession to
Aguinaldo He will reorganize the
rebel forces.
Justus Lyman of Chicago, a private
in the I'd United States artillery, who
was sentenced to fourteen years i'm
prisonment by the Cuban courts for
killing a policeman, escaped from the
guardhouse.
Supreme Court of the United States
decided Porto Rico and the Philip
pines became integral parts of the
United States upon the ratification of
the treaty Of Paris, but congress may
enact special tariff law for the islands.
The trial of Harold Crowley Of
Lockport, N. Y, son of ex-Congress-
man Crowley, and former employe of
the postal department, on a charge of
misrepresentation Of postal funds, was
concluded at Ponce, He was sentenced
to four years hard labor.
1t is alleged that, as the outcome OF
a drunken quarrel in the officers quar-
tiers at Camp Stotsenburg, Lieut.
James f. Howell, of the 9Th artillery
shot Second Lieutenant Charles R.
Lloyd of the same regiment the bull
let grazing the left side of Lloyd's
head and inf1icting a slight wound.
E. G. Lawrence, formerly private
in the 33d volunteer infantry, and
afterwards employed as civilian
clerk in the adjutant generals Office at
Manila, has been accused of forging
the signature Of Captain Slavens, the
insular disbursing officer, to certain
checks purporting to be payable to
General Macarthur.
Theodore Fernandez, Franciscan
friar, was arraigned in court at Manila
charged with the embezzlement of
100000. The state conducted the
prosecution. Fernandez was one of
the five administrators of the Fran
ciscan order, but undertook to carry
on the financial affairs himself claim
ing that he was the sole administrator
of the order.
An unhappy situation has developed
at the headquarters of marines in Ca
vite. Colonel Henry G. Cochrane was
recently ordered home and Colonel
Mancil G. Goodrell was ordered to re
lieve him. When Colonel Goodrell ar
rived, the two officers had an alterca-
ton, which resulted in Colonel Good
relPs denouncing alleged acts of Col
onel Cochrane and Colonel Cochrane
arrested Goodrich on a charge of drum
kenness. Colonel Goodrich is in GUS
tody, and Lieutenant Allen KeIton has
been placed in command at Cavite, re
lieving Colonel Cochrane.