Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-02-24

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lenses while in Office.
The National Civil Service Reform
league issued a circular urging old
soldiers to oppose the various veteran
preference bills before congress.
Bills establishing marine hospitals
at Pittsburg and at Savannah, Ca,
were ordered favorably reported by
| the house committee on commerce.
A new York court ordered George
J. and Helen Gould to pay $54 ,485
| Judgment obtained in the Paris courts
against the Countess de Castellane.
| Caleb Johnson attempted to explore
a mysterious cave at st. Geneyieve,
Mo-. and lost his way, wandering in
the depths of the earth for four days.
The diplomatic and consular appro-
priation bill, completed by the house
committee on foreign affairs, carries
$1,9O0,000, small increase over last
year.
In Philadelphia jury found Oscar
| Dunlap guilty Of conspiracy in the
abduction of Mabel Goodrich and he
| was sentenced to two years imprison-
| ment.
j. w. Cope, who has played the
part of Henry Candy in the Arizona
company, disappeared after matinee
at Sioux City, and has not been seen
| since.
The selection of Booker T. Wash
ington as commencement day orator
for the University of Nebraska next
June, was announced by Chancellor
Anrdews.
G.. A. Flavelle of Chicago and c..
M. Darlington reported to have sue
cumbed to hardships while exploring
the jungles in the unknown parts of
Venezuela.
! Officials of the Illinois Central are
said to have plan in mind whereby
it is expected that traffic between
Cuba and New Orleans can be great
/ ly increased.
The closing of the last gap between
the telephone systems of the eastern
and western states is promised by the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM
pany for 1903.
A lamp explosion in the house of
Wiley Taylor, negro caused fire
at South Mills, N. c., which swept
away 25 buildings. Loss $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
| Walter S. Brooks, aged 20, son OF a
rich New York man. was found dead
in hotel with bullet wound in
his head Florence w. Burns, aged
10, is held pending inquiry.
New York and Brooklyn were visit
ed by the worst snow-storm expert
enced there since the blizzard of 1888.
Streets were blockaded by snow
drifts and traffice was suspended
The San Francisco Call says j..
Pierpont Morgan's recent visit has re-
suited in plans for fine hotel and
many other buildings. The architect
has been selected to prepare designs.
Mrs. Catherine Voepel, a widow was
mysteriously murdered in her fiat in
New York The necktie of a man
was found in her hand Robbery
: was apparently not the motive of the
i crime.
Seven men were killed and fourteen
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf rail
road, near Little Rock, Ark. A huge
boWlder crashed down on the ca
boose.
Mrs. Charles H. Deere of Moline de-
feated Mrs. Wiles for Illinois regent
of the D. A. R. by vote of Is to IA.
Two of the members of the Chicago
chapter refused to obey instructions
for Mrs. Wiles.
John Jordan, with several aliases,
the king of green goods men, was ar
rested in New York by secret service
agents of the postoffice department.
He swindled victims out of thousands
by new method
/ Documents were received in New
York testifying that the pope had
!, honored Erwin Steinbeek, head in
New York of the firm of F. Pusted &
Co, with knighthood in Order of ST..
Gregory the Great.
No opposition has developed in the
probate court at New Haven Conn.
/ to the acceptance of the report Of
the executors of the will of the late
Henry B. Plant, whose estate is
valued at $16,000,000.
congressman LOuu SCu0u0 OIL sup
planting the rural free delivery serv-
ice by the contract star route sys
tenn will be defeated by the republi-
cans in the house, who fear recur-
renee of old scandals
Three serious railroad wrecks in
Illinois and Iowa cost six lives. Four
men were killed near Clifford, Ia, and
two were killed at Shop Greek Siding
Ill. Several persons were badly in
jured near Carbonate, III.
Peter Buschwah, a pioneer real es-
tate dealer of Chicago, was found
dead in his office. The body sat up
right in chair, with the feet rest
ing on a desk. Eight gas jets We're
found open indicating suicide.
Acting Secretary Darling of the
navy has ruled that an enlisted man
must submit under pain of court