Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-29

debility, aged rs years.
| The Colombian minister has re-
oeiyed a cable dispatch from Bogota
saying that the govern nent authorities
have the situation completely in hand,
quiet and peace being restored at all
| important points.
| Mrs. Hannah Kjoren, widow, and
/ her two boys, aged and 10, were
! burned to death in their home near
Galesburg, S. D. The dead woman
was found clasping the younger
child in her arms.
At jackson, Mich, David H. Creech,
capitalist, 70 years old, fired four bull
i let's into his wifes head, neck and
mouth, while he held her fast with
his left arm about the waist. They
lived unhappily.
Emma F. Rinker of Chesterfield,
Ind, who since the death Of a child
ten days ago has been demented, at
tempted to kill her parents and
brother with Ratchet, but was dis
armed and is in custody.
Rev. j. Herman Randall, pastor OF
the First Baptist church Of Grand
/ RAPIDS. Mich, announced to his con-
gregation that he had acceded to its re-
Iouesf withdrawn his resignation and
declined the $4,000 call to the church
at Yonkers, N. Y.
IF the plans that are being matufed
i do not miscarry. Mayor Taggart of In
i dianapolis will be made chairman OF
the democratic national committee be-
fore the end Of the present year, in the
| interest Of Hills candidacy for presi-
/ dent
Secretary Long has recommended to
the president the reappointment OF
Admiral O'Neill as chief of the bureau
! of naval ordnance the important post
he has held for four years past. This
recommendation is equivalent to a re-
appointment.
Queen Wilhelmina Of the Neither
lands was toasted and Joseph Cham
berlain of England denounced at the
sixth annual banquet of the Holland
society of Chicago. About 100 mem
bers of the society were present, with
a number Of invited guests.
The hotel and lighthouses at the
historic Steamboat Springs in Nevada,
which in the palmy days Of the Com
stock mines was watering place
where more money was squandered II
night than at most any other resort
on the coast, have been destroyed by
fire.
Argument was heard in the United
States circuit court Of appeals at New
York in the action brought by the
government against Mrs. Phyllis F..
Dodge for the forfeiture of jewel.y
valued at $4,000, which she is alleged
to have struggled into this country
in July, 1899. Decision was reserved.
The national academy of science at
Washington eletced arnold Hague Of
that city home secretary, and also the
following new members: E. Fl. Moore
of Chicago, Edward Fl. Nichols OF
Corner university. George F. Becker
of Washington, Joseph Mex. Cattell
and T. M Prudden of New York.
Prof. Cyrus Northrop, president Of
the university Of Minnesota, having
declined the appointment as a dele
gate to the Pan-American exposition,
to be held in the city of Mexico next
October, the president offered the
position to John Barrett, ex-minister
to Siam.
Joseph Johnston and John Potter,
of the Reynolds feudists deserted from
the barricade of their fellows in the
mountains near Mayking, KY, and sur
rendered. They We're taken to Whites
burg jail. A posse is being organized
to capture the others.
A trestle over the Carolina and
Georgia excursion railroad, near
Blacksburg, S. c., was undermined by
high water, and a combination freight
and passenger train ran into wash
out Fireman Hyne was seriously in
jured. j. D. Metcalfe, the engineer,
I is missing.
Surgeon General Sternberg has
given his approval without reservation
to the report of the special medical
board composed Of Surgeons Reed,
] Carroll and .Agramonte. upon the "eti-
molgy Of yellow fever" in which the
conclusion was reached that the mos
quito is responsible for the transmits
sion of this disease.
The congressional reapportionment
bill, prepared by the republican
caucus, passed the Illinois senate by
party vote, 81 to 49, The bill divides
the state into 25 congressional dis
tricts a large proportion Of which
have normal republican majorities
It has not yet been passed by the
house.
Consul General Guenther, at Frank
fort, Germany, in a report to the state
department, says that a commission
has been designated for the purpose
of studying the custom of preventing
river waters from becoming dan
gerous to health of the people and the
animals in that country, and effective
regulations along this line will be put
in operation.
A high wind loosened a huge iron
water tank from the fastenings on the