Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-12-07

the bureau report and estimate of this
seasons crop. 1t was the most excit-
ing day in the history of the exchange.
Troops arrived at Lexington, KY,
from Jackson under orders of with
drawal by Governor Beckham, after be-
ing on duty there as a provost guard
since the feud trouble began there last
May.
AT Portsmouth. Ohio, during a dense
fog, a yard engine collided with a
commuter train in the yards of the
Norfolk & Western railroad, demOlish-
ing both engines and injuring 13 per-
sons, some seriously.
Bedford B. Hopkins, aged 90, a well
known clubman and business man of
Milwaukee, died of pneumonia. He
was at one time a member of the dem
ocratic state central committee. He
was also a 33d degree Mason.
Near Ocean City, Nd, the three
masted schooner Darwar, from Hong
Kong for New York, is ashore. Life
savers have been unable to launch a
boat to go to rescue the crew. the
wind blowing SO miles an hour All
persons were rescued later.
A New York dispatch says the OPP
position by ministers toward solemniz-
ing the marriage of divorced persons
is becoming so marked that the
Protestant Episcopal churches com
mittee on the subject is receiving as
surances of cooperation from other de-
nominations.
John Alexander Dowie issued the
following order to his chief police:
"All who have not Zion in their heart
cannot come into Zion. From now on
arrest or escort to the city limits
every person who either is not of the
faith or a United States official. We
will bow to the government alone"
At Providence, r. l., plan under
which the representation from the
southern states in the national republi-
can convention would be decreased
and that from the north added to is
proposed by General Charles S. Bray
ton, member of the republican national
committee from Rhode Island AMI
party leader in that state.
At Buffalo, the decomposed bodies
of Franz Frehr and wife, an aged
couple who disappeared from their
home November 20, were found buried
beneath the woodshed in the yard
back of their house. They had been
murdered. Charles BOnier, aged 65.
who moved into the house on the day
of their disappearance. and who later
has been arrested at
Erie, Pa.
At Baltimore in the trial of Column
bus Ellsworth Upton and Thomas w.
McGregOr, postoffice department
clerks, charged with conspiracy TO de
fraud the government in mailpouch
contract frauds, William H. Hayden,
secretary of the Warren Leather
Goods company of Worcester, Mass,
testified that his company had fur
nished 10000 mailpouches to Charles
E. Smith, a leather merchant of Balti-
more, who had secured a contract with
the government through the aid of Up
ton and McGregor on proviso to divide
the profits with them.
For several months the number of
steerage passengers on all outgoing
steamship lines have been very heavy.
During the fall months there is usual
ly a greater number of steerage pas
including those whose busy
time is during the summer and who
wish to revisit their old homes. The
travel this fall has been heavier than
usual and II is Thought that MANY lab
orers, especially Italian, having been
able to accumulate what is to them a
and now that there is
less demand for their services, are re
turning to their native lands to remain