Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-08-31

Intimation is given the state depart
ment that the constitution Of Colombia
may be changed To secure the ratifica-
ton Of the Panama canal treaty.
Incorporation articles were filed at
Guthrie o. T.. for a railway from Hud-
sons Bay 20 Buenos Ayres, 10000
miles long. The cost is $3.50, 900 600.
Former Alderman r. /. Rudolph was
arrested in Milwaukee on a charge of
accepting a $500 bride to secure IL
cense for SalOonkeeper Peter Setback.
Reports of hin aty-eight railroads for
the year ended June 80 show a large
increase in both operating expenses
and net earnings over the preceding
year.
At Brunswick Mo. a circus train
was wrecked. one man was scalded to
death and four seriously burned by
escaping steam. Six trick ponies were
killed.
4 A collision at a junction near Bloom
3 ingtCn. H.. resulted in the serious in
jury OF thirty. some OF whom may die,
while many others are slightly in
jured.
q The first guns in the mimic naval
warfare on the New England coast
were fired from Fort Grebel, Newport,
at a supposed torpedo boat trying TO
enter harbor.
At st. Louis Pat Burk, Ga years old,
a patient at the city hospital, was
given a bath by the attendants, his
first one in twenty years. He died
shortly after
AT attempt was made TO wreck two
passenger trains near Quindaro, Mo-,
Saturday. but without success. Dyna-
mite and an open switch were the
means used.
Nicaragua's ministers said his coun-
try would approach new canal nego-
tiations in a spirit of fairness, but
would not take the first step toward
reopening them.
At Philadelphia Mrs. R0der locked
herself and two young children in a
rCCm and then turned on the gas. Her
husband broke into the room, but the
children died.
L is believed that Secretary Hitch
cock. in view of developments in the
Indian scandals, viii recommend the
immediate abolition Of the Dawes
commission.
The weekly trade reviews of Dun
and Bradstreet indicate that business
was well maintained. although the
output is in a measure hampered by
labor troubles.
State Senator William p. Sullivan
was convicted at Jefferson City, Mo.
OF soliciting a bride for three votes
on the anti-alum bill and assessed a
fine Of 800
William A. Miller, foreman in the
government printing Office. denies
the charge of bigamy brought against
him. and says it is part of the con-
sQ.racy against him.
An alarming increase of undesirable
immigrants is shown o. July Hun
80 ians. Italians. and Russian Jews
numbered 60 per cent. of the total
60 53S for he month.
After entertaining a party of friends
al dinenr Mrs. Marie Kleeberg. wife of
Phillip Kleeberg. a wealthy New York
/ lac manufacturer. committed suicide
by drinking oarbolic acid.
After having given him up for dead.
re atives at Plainfield. y. J.. of Colonel
JC1n T. Bowden, who disappeared in
the Philippines two years ago. have
4 received word that he is alive.
The pleasure steamer Indiana was
sunk in indianapolis water company's
canal at Fairview park. A woman and
baby are reported rowned. Fifty
others were rescued after a panic.
( Miss Freda Van Horne. niece of Sir
William Van Horne of Canada, eloped
from her home at Joliet with Edward
, Il. Synold. a telegraph operator. and
was married to him in Milwaukee
The Morning Leader, thirteen years
old and the only morning paper in SUI
. pe.ior. Wis. has suspended publication
as a daily and will hereafter appear
semi-weekly as the Leader-Clarion.
/ Two Trunks containing $4,000 in
gold and bills were stolen from the
Chicago store of Jad Plagkis while
hundreds of people were passing and
! the store was crowded with customers.
Former Senator Butler of South
Carolina resents Secretary Wilson's
charge that managers of the cotton
corner are gamblers" saying no cry
was raised over western grain corners.
| New York marine machinists'
strike for higher pay was Endorsed by
the central federated union at
stormy session. A sympathetic strike
and the tie-up of all shipyards will re-
/ suit
! Bishop McFaul in a conservation
! sermon in New York says the public
schools as at present conducted are
/ detrimental 10 church and state, and
tells of the danger Of education with
, ont religion and morality.
! AT Kansas City Marcy X. Brown, a
prominent lawyer and democratic poll
tician. shot and seriously wounded