Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-10-26

confirmed. He was killed in a Skin
mish on Oct. u.
A proclamation for special session
of congress on Nov. 8 was issued by
President Roosevelt to act on the
Cuban treaty.
Senator POirier. in address to the
Canadian parliament at Ottawa, urged
calling halt" on the cession of land
to the United States.
At Rasley. n. c., two gills, Willie
Russell and Armie Rountree, tried to
hasten a fire in the kitchen range with
kerosene. Both are dead.
Z. l. Wentz of Philadelphia, 2S
years old. a millionaire coal operator.
is missing and is supposed to have
been murdered in Virginia.
Nineteen University of Chicago pro
fessors. tired of living in flats, will
break ground for two rows of model
houses. all in colonial style.
Eight men were killed by the
collapse of crane on the new
Wabash railroad bridge over the
MOnOngahela river at Pittsburg.
Newburg, Ore, was in possession
of bandits for two hours, and a bank
building was wrecked in a vain at.
tempt to dynamite the money vault
The body of Miss Frances Hickman,
the woman physician of the Royal
Free hospital, London. was found in
Richmond park with her throat cut.
An appropriation of S25O,OOO for a
naval training station on Lake
Michigan will again be urged by Sec
rotary Moody in his yearly estimates.
The steamer South Portland, from
Portland (Ore.l to San Francisco, was
wrecked on Cape Blanco and fourteen
of the thirty-six persons On board were
lost
Careful estimates of the amount OF
oil in storage in the Beaumont, Sour
Lake ana Saratoga fields show 13,5OO,-
600 barrels in these and intervening
sections.
Arbitration treaties between France
and Italy. Holland. and Norway and
Sweden, are now being negotiated,
according to Baron d. Estournelles de
Constant
n. o. KamOroy. who was the Rus
sian representative in the seal arbitra-
ton at The Hague. has been ap-
pointed a delegate to the November
seal conference.
the Iowa anti-insurance compact
law was declared unconstitutional by
the federal court at Des Moines.
general reorganization of rates PROB
ably will follow.
Three youths, all under 81. sons of
prominent Toledo families. who were
convicted of burglary under assumed
Names have been pardoned by Cover
nor Nash of Ohio.
Senior Aiciniegas, special envoy OF
Colombia on Panama canal matters,
arrived and announced he will make
no new proposal The old treaty is
under consideration.
President Palma has paTdoned the
only two American soldiers remaining
in Cuban prisons, so they may be
enabled to accompany their COM
paniOns who embarked for home.
Baltimore is threatened with a
financial panic through the failure of
the Maryland Trust company, with
S5,77S,317 deposits. and the Union
Trust company. with 100000.
w. j. Bryan authorizes a denial of
the report which quoted him as saying
that he believed free silver would not
be considered at the democratic
national convention in 1904.
The Ohio gubernatorial campaign is
likened to a triangular duel, Senator
Hanna is fighting Tom Johnson. The
latter is fighting John r. Mclean;
and neither is opposing Herrick.
w. L. White, Jesse o. Wells. z. H
Hunter, F. A. Marion. and Michael
brady. leading Des Moines Qa)
politicians, were held guilty of con-
tempt influencing juries.
Ferdinand Allen. 80 years old, was