Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-09-28

Lillian Russell is i'll with tonsilitis in
New York.
Representative Williams Of Missis-
sippi has fully. recovered from illness.
Rev. D.. +. -. o@~z5'.1 O. Cmcagu
dedicated the First Baptist church at
Shelbyville. Ind.
Or. Robert Koch has secured further
leave OF absence to continue his work
in Bulawayo until January.
Grover Cleveland, wife and FIVE
children have returned from BuZz2rd's
Bay. Mass. 10 Princeton, y. j.
J. II. Hofmeyr. for mary years
leader Of the Dutch party in Cape
colony. has retired from political life.
DR.. Z. B. Wilson, professor of 20
olocy a. Columbia university. has been
elected a member of the Academia
Del Linoei. Rome.
Ralph Arnold. assistant in geology
at Stanford university. has been ap-
pointed assistant 10 Or. Dali OF the
United States geological survey.
Major. +. IT. Ellis of the British war
Office has been commissioned 10 exam
inc the military surveys in Canada tor
the purpose Of bringing them up TO
date.
Or. william J. Holland. director OF
the Carnegie museum ar Fittsburg. mas
returned rom Europe with the value
2'.le acknowledged collections OF
G7-ol Dc EIiet
George W. Crawford. who has been
appointed a clerk in the probate court
of New Haven. Conn. is the negro who
was graduated from Yale last June
and won the Townsend Grafton prize.
The condition of Senator n. b. Scott
of West Virginia, who has been alarm
ingly in in Denver. Col. continues TO
improve and his physician says he Will
soon be restored to health.
Elmira l. Shepard. who has been
acting for some time as professor of
mathematics in an Illinois state normal
school, has been appointed instructor
in mathematics at Williams college.
Professor Simon Newcomb of Johns
Hopkins university. who sailed Sept
10. for America. received over 100 aC-
ceptances of invitations sent to distin
guished European scientists to attend
the science congress to be held at the
St. Louis exposition.
Baron Iwasaki Hisya. the richest
young man in Japan. is visiting Gen
eral James II. Wilson at his home in
Wilmington, Del. He formerly attend
! ed college in Philadelphia and will
visit that city before leaving for Eng
! land.
Rev. G. r. Penny. for many years a
resident of Providence. R. l., who
recently returned to this country after
spending thirteen years in missionary
work in the West Indies. has decided
to take up work in the Hawaiian
! islands.
Spencer Lyttleton of London. a
, nephew of the late William Z. Glad
stone. whose secretary he was for
twenty-three years, with the exception
of a short period. when no was assist
ant secretary to Earl Granville, has ar
rived at San Francisco from England,
en- route to New Zealand.
For the first time in the history OF
Columbia university a woman has been
directly appointed to a professorship
by the board Of trustees. The new
professor is Miss Margaret z. Maltby,
Phi. d.. a graduate of Barnard. who
will be installed at the beginning OF
the academic year as adjunct profess
sor of physics.
Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders, a veteran
actress we'll known to theatergoers OF
decades gone by. is passing quietly
away ut her home in San Francisco
Col. Mrs. Saunders first appeared he
fore the nuhlic fifty years ago. Hel
name of the stage was Anderson and
she is a cousin of Joseph Jefferson and
of William Warren. the character