Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-04-13

The congregation of the pT0pagan-
z Ca unanimously decided 20 propose
I that the pope appoint Bishop Glenron
OF Kansas City as coadjutor bishop OF
81. Louis.
Dr. Isaac r. Funk, recently in con-
veTsation with the spirit of Henri
Ward Beecher. viii return the coin
. in controversy to Charles w. West
son of the original owner of widow =
mite"
Accused of setting fire to HIS
mothers clothes. John Wonder, aged
q. is locked up at Rochester, y. r.
Mrs. Carrier Wonder, aged 80, is so
seriously burned, that she may not
recover.
Mrs. Louise Anne Van Weik-Wolf-
bauer, known as Baroness Wolfbauer,
committed suicide in a Jersey City
hotel. She was a granddaughter of
former Bishop Ames of the Methoc-
list church.
The salaries of many postal clerks
throughout the country may be re
duced 500 yearly because of violated
laws discovered in the postoffice de-
partment by George w. Beavers
successor.
AS the last word of the hymn, Who
Knows How Near My End Will Be,
was being sung at the funeral of Gott-
licb Strecker. a stepdaughter of Mrs.
Kohler fell dead in Christ Lutheran
church at Philadelphia.
AfFraN A Knnnu s,raoHnT not ottflfx.
at Hamilton, o., to the indictment
charging him with the murder of
his wife. Hannah GODDARD Knapp,
TO whose murder with five others
. Knapp has confessed.
The worlds record for accuracy
was lowered by the gunners of the
battleship Indiana in their practice.
The thirteen-inch turrent guns made
twelve hits out of twelve shots, the
range being FIVE miles. The previous
record was fourteen out of sixteen.
. Mrs. Margaret Z. Armour, widow
Of 5. b. Armour, has given $4,000 to
the Woman's Christian association
at Kansas City, Mo. It will be used
for the establishment of a home for
worthy old people who are in need.
A plan 10 instruct all American
public school children i'm scientific
farming is considered by Secretary
Wilson. The elements of plant life,
grating. and composition of soil
would be taught with other lessons.
/ At Cincinnati Federal Judge Lurton
. refused an injunction asked for by the
Keene interests TO restrain the Harri-
man interests from voting the Union
Pacific holdings at the Southern Pa
cific cOmpany's election next Wednes
day.
{ Oscar Barcliff, the engine driver,
whose train. was in collision with a
trolley car in Newark, n. j., Feb. 10,
with the result that nine lives were
lost and thirty persons injured, has
recovered physically, but his mind is
gone.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg. Ger
man ambassador, in an address to the
Hartford Conn Yacht club declared
that the United States navy is adj
miTed by the entire world, while the
army will soon lie the most efficient
of any nation.
The situation has become graver in
the university towns of Spain. The
brutal treatment OF students has ere
-teG intense resentment against the
government. Worknen in the Iobac-
CO factories have Joined against the
authorities.
Arthur II. Pencil. the Buffalo
suicide and murder suspect, is an
alleged embezZler of 100000 placed
il his hands by friends for invest
ment Suicide was long planned by
him TO escape conviction. lie carried
$500 300 life insurance.
President Baldwin OF the Ions
Island railroad declared that with
the Pennsylvania tunnel New York
theater trains would run to Pills
deIphia in ninety minutes and pas
sengers be carried thirty miles into
Long Island in forty-five minutes.
At Akron, Ohio, Mrs. Susan Updike
was placed in Jail charged with caus-
ing the death of Andrew Fasnacht.
Mrs. Updike confessed TO the killing.
saying that Fasnacht vas playing the
part OF a peeping Tom at her home
and she hit him on the head with
club.
Another severe blizzard with the
thermometer registering twelve de-
grees below zero has frustrated the
efforts OF the railroad employees who
have been trying TO clear the snow
from the blockaded lines and release
the trains which are showed up in
the interior of New Foundland.
The Bates Machine company's
works one OF the main industries at
Joliet. H.. had a narrow escape from
destruction. Fire destroyed the
foundry, entailing a loss of $4,000,
partially insured. The pattern ware
house. containing 100000 worth o.
patterns, and the machine shop were
saved.
Jennie Impke, widow of Fred
Impke, the miner whose firing of an
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