Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-03-23

kalamazoo county.
The committee appointed by the
board of supervisors to audit the &C
counts of ex-Treasurer Lovejoy of
Macomb county. Michigan, will com
plete its work next week. IL finds
balance due to county up to date of
$4,000.
A high joint commission will meet
next fall to attempt settlement of dis
putes with Canada. Passamaquoddy
river boundary division probably can
be arranged easily; difficulty likely
over efforts to build warships on great
lakes.
Valuables worth $4,000 stolen by
fourteen masked robbers from the
home of Mrs. Reichelderfer, Orders
vile, o.; three other persons were
bound and gagged, and the hiding
place of property extorted by threats
of death.
A western freight war is threatened
by the Great Western railroads an
nOuncement of a 80 per cent. cut in
agricultural implement rates: a long
time contract with trust is believed To
have been made; other reductions are
expected.
Announcement is made of a plan
for the division of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of New York to
create a new jurisdiction with the
borough of Bronx as its see city.
The other jurisdiction would keep
Manhattan as the see city.
At New York, after a conference in
the rooms of the National Civil
between representatives
of the federation, striking employees
of the shipbuilding corporations and
of the corporations,
the strike was settled.
Miss Helen Gould is a probable wit
ness in the $4,000 suit of J. H. Pat
teTsOn, the National Cash Register
company's president, against the Ideal
company; the laters president is ac-
cused of libel over the rumored Gould
engagement.
Grief for brother who died be-
cause of unrequited love for an Italian
opera singer, has caused Bishop
head of the Greek Russian
church in this country, to decide to
abandon the cathedral and return to
his home in South Russia.
Fast mail train No. 102, east bound,
on the Union Pacific, collided head-on
in a fog with a freight at Brady's
Island. Neb Herman Hopkins of
Omaha. the news agent, was killed,
and Conductor NJ. C. Wallace, also of
Omaha, had a leg broken.
Half of the striking pupils at the
Esthervile, Iowa. high school have re-
turned to their studies. Football was
the primary cause of the walk-out.
Miss Cullum favored the game. while
Superintendent Dukes disapproved
the sport. Miss Cullum will not re-
turn.
Mrs. II. Holmsen, wife of Rev. II.
pastor of Bethel church at
Wis, and holding pastorates
at New Richmond and Star Prairie,
has secured divorce. 1t is alleged
that Rev. NJ. Holmsen left the country
with a young girl, a member of his
The interstate commerce COM
mission has designated April q for
the hearing to be held in New York
city in the case OF William r. Hearst
against the Reading and ether rail
roads, alleging unreasonable and
Illegal rates fer the transportation
Of anthracite coal.
General Frederick Funston, u S.
A., is to become a trust buster. His
operations in this role will be directed
toward a commercial combination at
ST. AIichaels. Alaska, which is WITHIN
the jurisdiction of the department of
Columbia. to the command of which
ne has just been assigned.
A freight train containing a car of
powder and three cars of dynamite
cOllided with a switch engine on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Olean. u. Y.
The powder exploded, blowing the car
to pieces. Eight other cars were
wrecked, but the dynamite did not
explode. No one was hurt.
Secretary Cortelyou has concluded
negotiations by which he secured a
lease CT the Willard building on Four
teenth street, between Pennsylvania
avenue and F street, for the depart
ment of commerce and labor. The
building is eight stories high. Pos
session viii be given in May.
The Long Island sound steamer
New Hampshire of the Stonington
line ran down a Long Island railroad
float in the East river. on which there
were fourteen loaded freight cars,
which were thrown into the river
Some of the cars were broken by the
impact and the light freight floated
down the river.
The Southern Pacific railroad fac
tiCn controlled by Hartman was ell
Joined by the United States court at
Cincinnati on application of James r.
Keene from transferring the Central
Pacific lease or stock now held in
Southern Pacific treasury; the Union
Pacific is forbidden to vote Southern
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