Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-02-09

7 exchangeable at money order poStoI-
fees and banks.
A constitutional convention likely
will be called as result of favorable
action by the Kansas house. The pro-
hibitory amendment will be resubmit-
ted to vote of the people if the plans
of the promoters Of the convention
can be carried out.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, Ger
man minister plenipOtentiary, reached
New York from Berlin and declared
in an interview that rumors OF plot
to seize Venezuelan territory are alb
surd. The Monroe doctrine is estab-
lished beyond dispute.
A bill has been introduced in the
Colorado house by Representative
Samuel Belford providing for the sub
mission Of an amendment to the con-
stitutiOn which will give the state
control Of smelter and ore reduction
mills and enable it to fix their charges.
Chief of Police Kiely Of st. Louis has
been requested by Sheriff William
Ebers Of Randolph county, Illinois, to
AANhNi q VI AlAOAlI1IlSy SI uON Ill CllSIOuy
suspected Of being one of the men who
blew open the vault of the bank of
Steeleville and took therefrOm So ,000
Anxiety is felt for the safety of
Captain w. S. Overton, who left
Washington for San Francisco the
first of the week. Nothing has been
heard from him. 1t is thought DOS
siply he was on the train which was
wrecked on the Southern Pacific road
near Tucson, Ariz.
Detectives have discovered that an
organized gang Of thieves has been at
work for the past three years stealing
Gre from the Columbia, North Pole.
Red Boy, Golconda, Bonanza, Physic
and other mines in Oregon The low
est estimate placed on the amount
taken is 100000.
Justice Clabaugh of the district SUI
preme court decided that Antonio M.
Opisso De Yeaza, the young Filipino,
IS still an. alien and entitled to be-
come citizen of the United States.
His declaration was ordered to be re-
ceiyed, but an appeal was taken to
the district court Of appeals.
Infatuated, it is said, with the
'mournfuP' eyes of DR.. Nellie V. For
rests husband Mrs. Mary H. McKflIip
of Chicago, is accused of having won
his affections and led him to the mar
riage altar before the formalities of
divorce were completed. Forrest was
arrested on charge of bigamy.
At Salt Lake City a sudden sinking
OF ground on one Of the slopes Of the
Telegraph inc at Bingha split the
house Of James Johnson. Half of the
house, in which two children were
playing, was swallowed up. Johnson
his wife and three other children
were in the other half and escaped.
In New York announcement is made
OF the formation Of new trust com
pany, the Bankers Trust company,
which has in it's directorate represen-
tatiVes Of ten local banks. one Jersey
City bank and two important banking
firms. The company will have cap
ital OF $1,000,000 and surplus of
100000.
TO show that the New York police
were not responsible for the many rob-
berries, Captain Lantry sent seven de-
tectlYes to fifty-siX houses of wealthy
people to see if they were guarded.
The detectives entered every one of
them, and in many instances got on
the second floor before they were dis
covered
The senate committee on military
affairs quietly added the bill for the
reOrg anization Of the staff to the army
apprC priation bill retained the house
provision relating to transports. so
that they shall be retained in the serv-
ice, and restored an appropriation of
$7OO0,OOO for coast defenses which
had formerly been stricken from the
bill
The magnificent sideboard which
the young women of Cincinnati had
made and presented to Mrs. Lucy
WEBB Hayes when she was the mis-
tTess Of the white house as token. of
their approval Of her action in barring
wine from the presidential dinners
was put up at an auction sale Of dis
carded white house furniture and
knocked down to the proprietor Of
beer garden for $85, which is much
less than the material cost