Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-03-30

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Michigan. and for the eastern shore OF
Lake Michigan.
At Spokane. the danger of a general
strike. involving union wOrkmen on &C
count OF trouble with the gas com
pauy. has passed the Trades and La
Dor council having voted down the
plan
William J. Bryan, Senator Hoar and
others viii speak al the celebration Of
the I59th birthday anniversary of
Thomas Jefferson on April Is by the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Associa-
ton in Washington.
At Nashville, Tenn, three men
charged with murder, made their es-
cape By saving through iron walls,
locks and bars and succeeded in get
ting to the river, by which they es-
capped.
Twelve students of Ohio Wesleyan
university, six young women and six
young men, were suspended from col
lege for the remainder of the term
upon their admission that they had
danced.
Bishop MacLaren, of the Chicago
diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
church, is seriously III of angina poe
toris at Sycamore. H., where he is visit
ing; and Mrs. MacLaren, who is with
him, is also IN.
George Willard, sought by the police
Of two continents for years for a dar-
ing $4,000 robbery committed in
Paris, was arrested in a revolver fight
with two detectives on a crowded
street car in Chicago.
The Armour. Cudahy. Swift, Ham
mOnd, and Swartzschild beef packing
companies were declared by the Mis-
souri, supreme court TO be guilty of
combining to fix prices and fined
$4,000 each.
The steamer Plymouth, of the Fall
River line. was in collision with the
City OF Taunton of Gull island in a
fog. Six persons were killed and six
injured, while both vessels were badly
damaged.
Deaths in Chicago from consump-
ton since Jan. / increased sc per
cent. over 1902. according to a health
department bulletin. Deaths from
pneumonia were 32S per cent.
greater
Captain +. tombstone reports locat-
ing the remains of the gold-laden ship
Golden Gate. which burned and sank
of the Mexican coast in 1862. He
has returned for apparatus to recover
the treasure.
Jose Estrada Palma, a son of
Thomas Estrada Palma, president of
Cuba, and Miss Mabel Jacobs. a stu
dent at a normal college and the
daughter Of David b. Jacobs. a wealthy
New York tobacco importer, were
privately married Feb. IL.
The cakewalk has been taken up by
New York society under a young
negTess as teacher. Glasses are meet.
ing for instruction at the Waldorf
hotel. Henry Watterson declared that
several society devotees mentioned
have negro blood in their veins.
H. A. Griswold of Manson. Ia, was
shot to death on a Los Angeles
Pacific electric car by three robbers.
Three other passengers were wound
ed. c. W. Henderson. a passenger.
opened fire when told to throw his
hands up, and the robbers responded.
4 voluntary answer to Major f. J..
Rathbone's charges was fled by Brig.
Gen. Leonard 4. Wood. The bishop
CT Havana is declared to have been
present with him ut the "Jai Allah"
dedication. A gift of silver service
was also accepted from Spaniards.
The New York assembly committee
or insurance has decided favorably
the bin providing that fire insurance
ccC,. aries that combine TO regulate
rates shall forfeit their charters and
he liable to punishment for INSIDE
meanOr.
Near Jamestown. Pa, the breaking
Of a coupling followed by a runaway
Of a string of loaded coal cars in the
Sunshine mine at South Fork. caused
the death of three men, the fatal in.
jury OF one and serious injuries 10
nine others.
AT Battle Creek. Mich. Joseph
Brady. farm hand. of unsOund mind,
shot and killed Mrs. +. Z. Bowerman.
dangerously wounded her 14-year-old
daughter and attempted to kill her
son. aged IL. He then committed
suicide.
A. Purdie Lord. student of Cornell
university. who had typhoid fever. Is
dead i'm the Masonic home in Utica.
The young man was a Mason's orphan
and last June won a state scholar
ship at Cornell. He was trying
TO work his way through college.
Charles l.. Roller, of New York,
who forged notes and checks in New
Jersey To the amount of 100000 and
was parOled. was arrested on COM
plant o. his wife. who said he
threatened to kill her. His sanity
will be inquired into.
All men in the Roman Catholic
church are advised by Archbishop