Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-23

an address at Cincinnati. Some 9,541
members were reported.
Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt will
begu housekeeping in a six-room
New York fat renting at $4,000 year
IIy. They will dine in a restaurant
end breakfast in suite.
Topeka, Havana. and Bishop (lll)
citizens are hunting for Fred Strube,
believed TO have murdered Ella Hen
meyer fer refusing to marry him. Her
body was found buried.
The second trial of ID. V. Miller,
| former assistant attorney general,
and Joseph NJ. Johns for conspiracy
TO extCrt bride from John J. Ryan
was begun at Cincinnati.
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and her
friend. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish of New
York were not invited TO the Rox-
burghe-Goelet wedding, and social war
among the 400 is threatened.
Andrew II. Green, father of greater
/ New York" was shot TO death on the
steps of his house by Cornelius NJ.
williams, an insane negro, who be-
lieved Green slandered him.
Senator Clapp has introduced a bill
appropriating $4,000 for a suitable
monument in Washington to General
Frederick William Augustus Steuben
OF the revolutionary war.
Trouble in the Oelrichs family of
I New York is indicated by Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs and Mrs. w. X. Van
/ derblit Jr., revClling their power of
attorney to Herman Oelrichs.
William Ziegler, the New York mil
lionaire president of the baking
powder trust, was indicted at Jeffer-
son City, Mo-. for alleged conspiracy
in bribing state legislators.
At 81. Louis the arrest of Dr..
John c. Tebrecht. for attempting TO
break into the room of an attendant
at the female hospital, has revealed in
toleIable conditions at that institu-
ton.
A beauty contest for men and wo-
men. with a chief prize of $1,000,
will be held In New York. The con-
testants are to be clad in skin tight
stocllinet Similar contests are held
in Europe.
Henry Klein. aged &c years, and
Frank Gray, aged %, both Of Min
neapolis. were drowned in Lake Eddy,
near Anolla. Mimi. They had gone to
the lake to hunt and their boat over
turned.
Governor Pardee of California has
issued n warrant Of extradition against
David c. Nelson. held on the charge
of being accessory to a murder ccm-
mitted by his brother in Coffeyvine,
Kan.
Governor Mickey of Nebraska
denied that he would call an extra
session of the legislature in case of
an adverse ruling by the supreme
ccvrt against the revenue law enacted
year ago.
Senator Hoar's RecOllections of
Seventy Years. just published, shows
bitter dislike fer Benjamin F. Butler,
whom he calls vindictive and brutal.
Carl Schurz's politics is criticised and
Blane's honesty is upheld.
The yellow fever situation at
Laredo. Tex. shows twenty-five new
cases and two deaths. The total cases
10 date AT Laredo are SSS: deaths.
eighty-four. The fever has been al
most entirely stamped cut in Nueyo
Laredo.
William Stokes. a negro. shot and
seriously wounded Fred Smith. an oil
worker. at Marion. Ind. because the
latter bantered him over his failure
TO bag any game on a hunting trip
Smith called Stokes a poor shot
Stokes escaped
President Roosevelt received about
thirty delegates to the National So
Geological society, an organization Of
prominent colored men, who called
% pay their respects. Bishop Arnett
OF Ohio and former Representative
White Of South Carolina were at the
head Of the delegation.
1t is rumored that a large number
OF dismissals and reductions are
about to be made in the New York
pCstofiice as a result of the special
investigation in progress at that Of
fee. but Postmaster General Payne
and other officials deny knowledge OF
any immediate change.
One of the reforms in postofHces
that will be advocated by the postof-
fee departments is authority by which
all clerks below the designation of
foreman shall be classed in the future
| simply as clerks. This will abolish
the titles of stampers, mailing clerks
and a variety of other subordinate
places.
The postofice department an
lncunced that in the wreck of the
/ southern Pacific train near Tehama,
CAL Nov. 1, a large amount Of the
mail matter destroyed was destined
from Hawaii. Philippines. China and
japan to California, Oregon, Wash
lingtOn. Alaska, western Canadian
provinces. Idaho and Montana.
The department of Justice has for
warded to the interior department a
\ rp1nurau from the TTnifad States dis