Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-04-06

ceived a cable dispatch announcing
their wedding.
While playing policeman Hobart
Duncan. aged. S. shot and killed a COM
pauion. William Roberts, Of the same
age. at Wanamakero. Ok. Young Rob-
erts was commanded to halt, refused
and a load from a shotgun in Duncan's
hands killed him instantly.
Ambassador Choate has informed
the state department that sanitary
congress which will consider matters
OF international importance will be
held at Bradford. England, from July
Z to II and United States representa-
tives are invited.
on account of the heavy expense TO
which Cornell university has been put
during the epidemic of typhoid fever
work on the new Rockefeller hall of
physics will be delayed several
months. The work OF remOdeling Sage
chapel will also be postponed.
Admiral Dewey may be reprimanded
for an interview declaring that the
American naval maneuvers in the
West Indies are intended as an object
lesson for the kaiser. Germany was
+, also declared unable to send a fleet to
equal il.
A. G.. Spalding. former baseball man,
is now a resident at the Point Iona
(Cal) theOsophical community. Mrs.
Elizabeth Churchill Mayer, whom he
married recently, is a follower of Mrs.
Tingley. He declares himself a be-
lever.
The sealing steamers Virginia Lake
and Aurora arrived at st. Johns, n. F.,
! from the ice fields with $4,000 seals.
They report a total of 2SS,00O seals for
twO-thirds of the feet and this years
catch is likely to reach 100000 seals
altogether
1 General Greedy. chief signal officer.
/ has received a dispatch from the off,
Ger in charge Of the telegraph lines in
Alaska saying that the posts of St.
/ Michael and Fort Egbert will be con-
nected with the United States by wire
in Lay.
The Kentucky court of appeals az
p y
Becllham a writ of mandamus COMPEL
ing the democratic state committee 10
place his name on the ballot as a cali
didate for the gubernatorial nOmina-
ton.
In addressing Grand Army men at
New Orleans. Mo-, General Thomas
Stewart. commander in chief, said pre-
judice was rapidly dying out in both
north and south. but he did not think
reunion of the blue and gray was yet
in sight
Twenty persons were injured by the
derailing of a Burlington south bound
passenger train near Thompson, III.
The Pullman sleeper and chair car
were overturned and burned. Three
persons killed in a southern Pacific col
lision near San Antonio.
The president made an interesting
talk to the Society of Foresters on the
= general subject of the preservation of
forests and of forestry as a profession.
He said that the object of the forestry
policy was to make prosperous homes
and &c see that they were lsapt so.
The Cuban government was notified
by President Roosevelt that an extra
session will be called to ratify the re-
ciprCcity treaty. If the island congress
accepts IL as amended by the Uniie1
States. A hint was also given that
an amendment by Cuba probably will
cause it 70 fail.
Chief Justice Bingham of the dis
trict supreme court at Washington, has
made an important ruling favoring
John F. Grove, a retail feed dealer,
against members of the Wholesale
Feed Dealers association, involving
proceedings instituted under the Sher-
man antitrust law.
The big schooner Mary +. Morse.
bound from Port Royal, S. c., to New
York. with lumber, was lost as the re-
suit of a collision at sea with the Phil
adelphia and Boston steamer Parthian.
The Parthian. which sustained injuries
10 her stern. saved the Mary Z. Morse's
crew.
Harry Sanderson. 10 years old, for
merly Of Bridgeport, Conn, was ar
rested at Lockport, n. Y, in the act
of setting fire to Z. W. Rogers &
Sons cotton batting factory. To Dis
trict Attorney Stockwell he admitted
having set fire to the warehouse on
three previous occasions, causing
loss Of SIS 600.
w. f. MacLennan, chief of the war
rant division Of the treasury depart
ment. started for Honolulu charged
with the duty OF disbursing the $1,000
600 appropriated by congress to satisfy
i'm part the judgments rendered on &C.
count of the destruction Of property in
Honolulu in suppressing the bubonic
plague.
A system of motor vehicles capable
of being operated as double-deckers in
summer and carrying forty passengers
each will be placed in competition
with the Detroit United Railway COM
pany on a scent fare basis. The inten-