Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-05-11

at Concord. Mich. was dynamited.
All the funds in the bank, including
pOstOfice money and stamps, wa
. secured by the robbers.
( The United States Express com
pany says that the amount stolen by
robbers at Britt, Iowa, was $4,000.
. The belief is that some person in the
town committed the deed.
Rev. DR.. Charles +. Bacon of In
diauapolis, received notification from
Rev. f. H. Hughes of Maiden, Mass,
that the latter had accepted the
presidency OF De Paw university.
While on their way TO church at
Weisbach chapel, three miles east Of
Shoals, Ind. Ora Melvin and Edward
Ritchison, farmer boys, quarreled and
Ritchison fatally cut Melvin with
knife.
The ST. Louis exposition ceremonies
were marked by protests from state or
ficials over alleged neglect. Gov.
Odell. New York; Yates. Illinois. and
Nash. Ohio were among those ag-
grieved.
Rev. G. c. Richmond, in a sermon
at Syracuse. n. Y, declared President
Roosevelt gave up membership in the
Episcopal church because of belief
that its ceremonies savored of me-
dievalism.
A west-bound fast mail on the Bur
lington railway crashed into a switch
engine in the yards at Creston, Iowa.
Walter Noble, fireman, was pinned
against the boiler head and roasted
20 death.
William J. Peters, who will &C
company the Ziegler arctic expedition
as q scientific assistant, is noted for
taking ice water baths and wearing
summer clothing in winter as a prep
aration.
James =. Marcum, a prominent
Kentucky lawyer. was shot TO death.
from behind while standing in the
courthouse door at Jackson. He IS
the thirty-first victim of the Hargis-
Coclrili feud.
The St. Paul supreme court holds
that a verdict recovered by a shipper
for damages against an express COM
pany fer birds confscated from the
express company by the state game
warden is warranted.
DR.. Frederic Z. Bolton, professor OF
pedagogy at the Iowa state uni
versity at Iowa City, has cabled his
refusal to the presidency of the
Manila normal school because he dis
likes the Philippines.
The Deering harvester company
strike will be taken under the Chica-
90 Federation Of Labor and inter
national unions control unless
grievances are abolished or consent
20 arbitration is given.
The boiler of the municipal electric
light station at Normal. H., exploded.
wrecking the building and fatally
injuring Engineer John Butler of
Bloomington. The damage TO the
plant is estimated at $4,000.
The new regulations regarding the
sale of matches went into effect in
New York. No one. unless he has a
license. may give away or sell
matches. Retail dealers may not
sell matches with more than 1000 in
Postmaster General Payne was
notified by President Roosevelt.
through Senator Lodge. that prosecu-
lions must be started against guilty
officials as socn as evidence is
: secured. Whitewash will not be
tolerated.
Il IS learned that the refusal or
Mrs. Stanford 10 consent to the sub
stitution Of a paid quartet for the
Stanford university chapel led to the
resignation OF Rev. DR.. Heber New,
ton. Other differences stimulated the
friction between DR.. Newton and the
trustees.
Lewis Hubbard. who shot and
killed Constable Peter Heck at
Ridgely. H.. was arrested. Hubbard
Ssid Heck and four others insulted a
woman who was with him. Hubbard
resented their words, was assaulted
and he then shot Heck, he says. in
selfdefense.
! Except for two requests of $4,000
each 10 the Minnesota Historical so
ciety and the ST. Paul Relief society
the estate of Governor Alexander
Ramsey of Minnesota is divided
among his daughter, Mrs. Marion Il.
Furness. and her three children. The
estate is valued at S225,000
Harry NJ Clabaugh. several years
associate justice of the supreme court
of the District of Columbia, took the
oath of Office as chief justice of that
court, succeeding Z. f. Bingham.
Former United States Senator Peter
&c. Prichard of North Carolina was
sworn in as associate justice.
Having failed to file their oaths to
qualify as required by law, the re-
Gently elected socialist mayor and
other city officials of Anaconda,
Mont, will secure their Offices only
after a legal contest. The incum-
bents say they will refuse to surrea-
der their offices today when the new
men ask for them.
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