Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-02-23
NUMBER 40.

Because of a snowstorm very little
coal was brought down from the
Pennsylvania mines
The condition of Prince Christian
OF SaXony, second son of the crown
prince, who has been ill for some time
has become serious.
James r. Keene is reported to be
improving. Mr.. Keene has been laid
up with an injured knee in his rooms
at the Waldorf-Astoria
Prince KOmatsu, uncle of the japan
csc emperor, died. According to court
etiquette he is still alive and his death
Will not be officially proclaimed yet.
The union republicans at confer
ence in Delaware rejected the propo-
sltlon OF the regular republicans to
give and take United States senator.
AT Bremen about 1900 dock labor
ers employed by one of the contract
ors OF the North German Lloyd com
pany struck owing to the dismissal of
a cOmrade
Persons in various parts of the ISL
and OF Jamaica are being imprisoned
Tor nonpayment of taxes. There is a
strong feeling against the authorities.
as their course is unprecedented.
Nine. Therese Humbert, who, with
other members Of her family, has been
on trial for several days in the cor
regional chamber at Paris, is ill in
bed, Her condition is reported as
very serious.
Albert Pfaff, who decorated and fur
nished most of the great trans-Atlan-
tic liners of the Hamburg-American
and North German Lloyd companies,
died.
A message from San Salvador an
nounces that the relations between
San Salvador and Guatemala, which
nearly ended in war, are now com
pletely changed, the presidents hav-
ing arranged their differences.
SusanB. Anthony has sent to the con-
gressional library at Washington a
large number of valuable books, auto
graph letters and scrapbooks which
she accumulated. Miss Anthony cele-
brated at Rochester her eighty-third
birthday.
The cOurt-martia1 of Lieutenant
Commander Carter as the result of the
grounding of the United States steamer
Piscataqua at Manila ended. The YER
dict was not announced, but Carter
has been ordered to return to Wash
ington under arrest.
George G. Hall, private secretary to
Perry Belmont, was locked up at DO
lice headquarters on the charge Of
forgery preferred against him by Mr..
Belmont. 1t is asserted that from
$1,000 to $4,000 was got from Bel
mont by raising checks.
New York detectives are securing
the city in search of "get rich quick
firms. They are making a canvass in
ali big office buildings on lower
Broadway and Wall street. Wherever
they see the word investment" on
an Office door they make inquiries.
At Manila Gen. Davis has approved
the finding of the courtmartial in
the case of Major Edwin f. Glenn.
who was acquitted of the charge of
unlawfully killing prisoners of war,
with the qualification that he disap-
proves of the orders is ed by Glenn.
The stockholders Of the Chicago
Great Western Railway voted to in
crease the capital stock from $30,OOO,-
600 to $50,0OO,00, a portion of which
will be used in paying for the Mason
City & Fort Dodge road. The re-
mainder will be used for the extern
sion to Omaha and Sioux City.
Barcelona newspapers publish an
account of an anarchist meeting re-
Gently held there at which a German
engineer, who had been in Barcelona
for a fortnight and who has started
for England, declared that he had
pledged himself to make an attempt
on the life of Emperor William.
At New York, Rev. Thomas Yer
non Robinson is dead in the Paulist
house. Father Robinson was born on
July 16, 1910, in Richmond, Va. He
belonged to a well-known southern
family. In the civil war he was in a
battery Of artillery in General Lees
army. Father Robinson was 6 feet 3
inches in height.
At Toledo announcement is made
that Frank Burt and Stair and Hay
lin have completed a circuit of high
price theatres which will compete
with syndicate theatres in eight OF
the principal cities and are promised
cooperation from the Harrison Grey
Fiske, James E. Hackett and Henri
cite CrOssman management.
An Edinburgh court has awarded
Spain $337,500 in an action by the
Spanish minister of marine to recov-
er damages from the Clyde ShipbuiId-
ing company because of the com
pany's failure to deliver in contract
time four torpedo boat destroyers
which had been intended for use dur
ing the Spanish-American war.