Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-01-26

! COnstabulary Inspector Fletcher
while travelling along in the province
of Albay, Luzon, was attacked by
thirty bolomen. Fletcher killed five
of his opponents, Tut was himself
wounded. He escaped, however. and
formed party which pursued the
bolomen, overlook them and killed six
more.
Benumbed from cold, almost to the
point OF freezing, and frightened into
a nervous state bordering on prosta
ton, Miss Pearl Smith, a country
school teacher, escaped at Trenton
Neb., from George Franklin, who had
boldly kidnapped the woman and
driven twenty miles in a fruitless
erdeavor to force her to become his
b.ide.
The state department has been in
! formed Of shreWd move on the part
Of President Castro to Circumvent the
blockade Of the powers. 1t is an
nOunced that the Venezuelan govern.
ment will open to commerce without
restrictions the whole Colombian
frontier, thus permitting the shipment
of supplies into Venezuela from Co.
| lombia.
AS a result Of the negotiations be-
| tween the grievance committee of the
Louisville and Nashville locomotive
engineers and General Manager Evans
an agreement has been reached
whereby the engineers will receive an
increase in wages in proportion to the
added duties which have fallen upon
each division on the various sections
of the system.
Mrs. Florence J. Maybrick and her
mother, the Baroness Won RoQues
will, it is said, lose all title and in
terest in 2,552,302 acres of land in Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Kentucky
valued at $7,500,000, unless Mrs. May.
trick is released from prison in Eng
| lang in time to testify in a suit now
pending in the chancery court of Ricn
mOnd, Va.
Prominent members Of the Sons OF
| the American Revolution will go tC
! Canton Jan. 20 TO present to Mrs. Nc.
! Kinley an elaborate memorial Of he1
husband, who was a compatriot of the
society. The party will include mem
bers from every state in the union
{ They will gather in Cleveland on the
evening before TO attend the annual
banquet of the society
! The Chippewa Indians in the north,
! west are to receive $194,261, or almost
! $40 per capita, as i'e amount derived
from the sale OF DEAD timber cut on
the coded lands of the Chippewas
under the act of June T. 1897. Or this
amount $37 $50 will go to the Chippe-
was at the La Pointe, Wis, agency;
$92,973 at White Earth, Mimi, and
| SCALES at Leech Lake, Mimi.
J Brooks Story, an escaped convict,
has voluntarily delivered himself to
the sheriff at Kosciusko, Miss, and
asked to be taken lack to the penI-
Tertiary at Jackson to serve three I'M
expired years of his term. Story was
convicted in 1892 of robbing the ex-
press o &c at Durant and was given
/ a sentence of ten years. He escaped
| five times and was recaptured four
times.
| Former Governor A. S. Bushnell, A.
j. Baker. r. F. Hayward, T. D. Wal
lace, T. F. HARDWOOD and other promi-
, nent politicians of Springfield, O.,
have been subpoenaed ty the grand
jury to give testimony in the inyesti-
cation Of the alleged bribery charges
% i11S Oit ogNlN,,c
of the board of education Evidence
is desired in regard to a gas CONTRACT,
the city clerk fight and contracts for
new school buildings.
A combination of manufacturers of
Egyptian cigarettes is announced at
Boston, Mass, in the purchase Of the
factory of Mithran Ateshian, the larg-
est wholesaler in New England, with q
branch factory at Providence Mr.,
Ateshian, who will be prominent in the
new organization, the International
Tobacco company, capitalized at $780,
1000, says there are IA makers of Egyp-
tian cigarettes in the country and
most of them will join the cOmbina-
ton.
Charles A. Chaplin of Niles, Mich,
announces that the courts have rel
iered a decision favoring his rights on
the ST. Joseph river in Indiana for all
electrical power as against contestants
appearing as parties to a suit from
Berrin Springs, Mich. The suit in
wolves the right to dam the st. 10
seph river at Berrien Springs. It is
expected that the work of building d
dam at Berrien Springs will be begun
at once, the power derived to be used
for manufacturing purposes in Berrien
Springs, Niles and South Bend, Ind.
FOREIGN.