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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01
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SINGERS IN COURT.
Sensational Scandal Case on Trial at
WATERFOWL, S. D.


WATERFOWL. $. d., May 2S.-Probably
one of the most sensational cases ever
tried in WATERFOWL has been COM
menced here. The plaintiff is Mrs.
Rose EddingtOn, a prominent society
woman and the best soprano singer
Watertown ever had. Until the last
year or so she was a member OF the
Episcopal choir. The defendant is the
wife OF S. b. Sheldon, cashier OF the
First National bank, the finest alto
singer in the city. There is no more
prominent family in the city than the
Sheldons.
The cause of the action is several
anonymous letters which were re
celved by prominent citizens at diff
ferent times last fall. The letters were
signed, zone Who Knows" and the
woman referred to in them was Mrs.
Eddington, the plaintiff, and the gen.
tleman was K. j. Evans, who was
formerly rector of the Episcopal
church in this city. The latter was
charged with being too attentive to
Mrs. Eddington, who was spoken of
as a bad egg"
At the trial it was alleged by the
plaintiff that the defendant is eX-
remedy jealous of her singing ability
and for the purpose of injuring her
standing in society wrote the anony-
nous letters referred to above.
The defendant denies the authorship
OF the letters, but in her answer al
leges that the statements of the let
tiers are practically true and that the
plaintiff is in i'll repute in Watertown;
that she has been in the habit of pos
ing in the window of the Eddington
studio for the purpose of commanding
the admiration of men, and that she
is unchaste and impure.
The case promises to be the raciest
in Watertown's history. The amount
of damages demanded is $4,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01
Buffalo Next Time.

Washington, d. c., May ga. w.
Machen. superintendent OF the free
delivery, who was relieved from duty
some time ago, was arrested at the
instigation OF the pOstOfice depart
ment charged with receiving brides
from contractors. These brides are
supposed to aggregate $4,000. II is
said the department has the name of
g0-between in the crime.
Postmaster General Payne was
asked last night for the name of this
man but declined to discuss the sub
ject, adding he knew nothing else
about il. The inspectors, however, 1t
is stated, know the identity and move
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01

Los Angeles, May ga case of in
terest to the Presbyterian church
came up i'm the general assembly yes
terday. IL was the appeal of Rev.
Louis Richter of Minnesota from the
action 0f the synod OF Minnesota in
deposing him from the ministry and
communicating him from church.
The charge against Richter was that
he. as a Presbyterian minister, acted
as agent for the dissemination OF liter
AZURE for a brewery trust. IL was also
charged that after the citation OF his
presbytery he appealed 10 saloons and
breweries to contribute to the fund
10 enable him to prosecute me case be
fore the general assembly. The case
was tried By a committee appointed
by the assembly and which was head
ed by the Rev. DR.. Mccormick. This
committee reported to the assembly
yesterday sustaining the Minnesota
synod. The report was adopted by the
assembly and Richter by that means
was barred from the church.
Want Cooperation.
Los Angles. May 2S.-The Presby-
terrain assembly appointed a commit
tee of seven to consider the relations
OF the Presbyterian church to the
other churches in the matters of coop
Grafton. confederation and cOnsolida-
ton. The committee was instructed
to open correspondence with the other
churches for the furtherance of these
objects.
Buffalo Next Time.
The assembly selected Buffalo as
the next place of meeting.
Considerable time was devoted to
the report OF the board of publication
and sunday school work. A recon-
mendatiOn was adopted which will ef-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01

empties and great damage to the col
liding engines. The dead are:
Henry Action, L. G. Chester and
Sam Johnson, engineers; Roland Mad
ison, Otto Wood, Dave Ingram and
Bob Hancock, firemen, and ]. ID. Hill,
brakeman.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01
MERGER EFFECTED.

Traction Companies in Indiana Get
Together.
Anderson. Ind, May 2S.-A merger
of the Indianapolis Northern and the
Union Traction Company of Indiana
was effected here yesterday afternoon.
The merged capital amounts to $780,
600. The stockholders are to receive
a stock dividend of 40 per cent.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01
Head End Collision Kills Eight Trainmen

Birmingham, Ala. May ga head
end collision on the Southern railway
near Bryan. yesterday resulted in the
death of three engineers, four firemen,
one brakeman. and the destruction by
fire Of 12 loaded freight cars and eight
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01
EYCOMMUN ICATED
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY GUSTS
SALOON PREACHER.
SOUGHT BREWERIES' HELP

Church Declares EmphaticaIly Against
Any Alliance Between the Ministry
and Grog OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Literature for a Beer Trust-com-
nittee on Interchurch Relations.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-01

Abraham Knotlamfker is one of Rus
sia's most noted rabbis. He is a leader
among his people, who look up to him
in the light almost of a prophet of old.
The Hebrews massacred in the recent
outbreak were among his personal
flock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
THE FUR-cLAD CASTELLANEs.

From the New York Press.
 Although Anna, Countess de Castel- lane, has received no social recognition to speak of, her presence In America IS felt by the youngest generation. The fashion of dressing her two young poys has interested scores of mothers The two little Castellanes spend much or their time parading the avenue, between Forty-seventh and Thirty-third streets. They wear entire suits of fur, from their peaked hoods to their fur leggins. George, the elder, wears lynx, and his brother' Boni wears Russian squirrel. Their jackets, their trousers and their attached hoods are all of fur, and in this garb the boys look like baby Eskimos. It IS rather a pretty fashion, for the children faces are framed in fur, and, in the ln- stance of the Castellanes, this style suits their interesting, dark countenances. Rarely have such lively, prancng child ren amused the avenue. Boni dragged a sled the other morning across the clear pavements, but in his aunt's (Miss Helen Gould) private yard, he was permitted to tumble In real snow to his hearts de- light. These fur clothes for children are practical for sledding. as the boy may simply wallow in heaps of snow without catching cold, but an obstacle to the popularity is the cost of the furs. The cheapest fur suits fetch $2o0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
School Books at Fair Prices.

The legislature will have to choose in the text book matter between cer- tain tachers who manipulate school books and the parents of scholars who pay for school books. The book trust Is now engaged in mastering it's favor ite teachers, and if the legislature listens to them there will be no state text book law.
 County uniformity is simply de- fusion and snare. It would give the state 66 different sets of books, all ways provided the book trust did not corner each and every county board, which it proposes to do. County uni fcrmity means, in other words, either 66 sets of school books, or else one set to be furnished by the book trust at book trust prices. No legislator who desires to place within the reach of tho people of Alabama school books at fair prices will vote for county uni formity, no matter how many teach CTS and county superintendents the book trust musters at Montgomery.
 The legislator who desires to know what boon state uniformity is does not have to go to northern state to ascertain the facts. Let him ask the first Tennessean he encounters, or North Carolinean, or Texan, or Louis- ianian. All of these states have state uniformity. Governor McMillin says the state uniformity law of Tennessee became so popular it was made the subject of a plank in the state dem- ocratic platform, and that platform swept the state by 10000 majority. No one desires or expects its repeal. And so it is in Louisiana and Texas and North Carolina. Either Alabama must pass a state uniformity bill or stand alone after a while as state to be exploited by the book trust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
Army Officers.

Congressman Warner of Illinois made sarcastic remarks in the house few days ago when the army bill was passed" said military man at the Metropolitan. MT. Warner stated that he favored the bill because 1t would do little harm and would give the officers some amusement in time of peace. He is evidently one of those who think that officers of the regular army lead an idle life in barracks.
 "As a matter of fact, officers from sec- ond lieutenants up to the commandants are kept busy. They come as near earn ing their pay as the average man who works for living. Guard mount and dress parade constitute only small parts of their duties They have many things to look after and reports to make.
 "The salaries are doubtless large enough but after a lieut. tenant has paid for his clothing, his board and his incidentals, he has not much of his fourteen or fifteen hundred dollars left, even If he Is un- married The higher the officer the larger his salary, but when one gets to be a captain he is almost certain to be a man of family, and majors and colonels with families, much less captains, find it next to impossible to save anything"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
IN NEW YORK a5o YEARS AGO.
the New York Evening .ost.

From the New York Evening 'ost.
 Lots near the present Hanover square were valued at $50 each and lots on Broad street were worth $do each. Broad street was known dhough why is not apparenD as "the street of the graft" Mulberry street was not known then.
 A day of prayer was set apart on ac- count of the prevailing fevers and also because "of the rise of a people called Quakers.' Cartridges were shot near Bowling Green, c. Jansen having lease near the Bowery. offered to give it up because The had to ride two miles through a dense forest" The rent of a hatter's residence on Bridge street was thirty-six guilders, six beaver skins, and two fine hats. English pirates were very annoying to the city's shipping" There was no tapping Oiquor selling) after the curfew toll at o'clock at night. Negro slaves were brought here by slave ships. A good slave was valued at s2s0 All Jews were ordered out of the city. Burgomas- ters received salary of $40 year. It was customary to have a poor box at weddings. Pumpkins and watermelons were common In the city. It was custo- mary to examine by torture any man &C., cused of theft. A man convicted of steal ing cabbages from a neighbor was sen- fenced to stand in the pillory with cab bages on his head and to be banished for five years. Buildings were mostly of wood, and some were matched with reeds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
Greater Birminuham.

This valley is full of prosperous communities, all having common inter- ests and common ambition, namely, the filling of Jones valley with indus tries and people. Each and every one of them thrives when the central town of the valley tnriyes, and each and every one of them droops when Bir- mingham has houses for rent.
 In any other locality such valley would be organized into one munich pality, because sewerage and water supply and fire protection and police regulations and public education, and various other matters or common in- terest could in that way be more economically and efficiently conducted.
 Then, too, the whole world would give the district credit for what 1t has achieved At present it stands credited with a town of about 38,000 people, for this is all the man at a distance knows anything about. Such a man gets his information from the census tables.
 AS business proposition, a proper ty valuation matter, a working public problem, can the communities in this valley afford to go along in this dis connected and absolutely unprece- dented manner? There are some back number tax payers who will say they can afford to do this, but will any man with a future, and possessed of busi- ness sense say so? As nearly every community in the valley is bonded up to its limit this would seem to be an opportune time to get together, wholly regardless of the tax-dodger and retro gressionist, and small local office-hold- ing cliques. This is what would be done elsewhere, in any other state, and Atlanta, Richmond and Memphis are today preparing to annex all su- burbs. After the next legislature meets, in 1907, annexation and con solidation will be impossible before another census is taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
COAL DEALERS EXAMINED.
Committee on District of Columbia
 Begins Investigation.

Washington, January s.-The committee on the District of Columbia today began an investigation regarding the prices and scarcity of coal in Washington. The local dealers were heard and their statements indicated that they were able to obtain coal from the big coal carrying roads at prices similar to those paid heretofore, which coal they were able to sell at slight advance. These dealers, however, said they could not get very large sup ply from the coal-carrying roads.
 One dealer said coal cost him s9.45 per ton at Port Richmond and was sold here at SIP per ton. He said that coal was selling at the price the market would stand. Offers were made of considerable quantities of coal at SS.25 at the mines. Several men testified that they bought coal from the Reading company at s5.75, which was sold at $725. the dealer keeping his agreement with the Reading to sell at that figure. The hearing will continue tomorrow,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
GERMAN AMBASSADOR LEAVES.
Herr won HolIeben Has Been III for Some Time and May Go Abroad.

Washington, January S.-Herr von Hol- leben, the German ambassador, left here for New York today to consult special ists. He has been a sick man for some time and his indispostion has been ag- grevated by a protracted spell of inclem- ent weather. He expects that his phy- sician will advise a prolonged rest at some of the health resorts in Southern Europe, and therefore has arranged to sail on Saturday. At the ambassadors request he has been granted a prolonged leave of absence
 Count A. von Quadt- Weykradt Isny, counselor of embassy and first secretary, is now charge d'affairs, having been in structed by the foreign office to take charge upon the ambassadors depart ure. His relations at the state depart ment are most cordial, the officials re- garding him as a diplomat of exceptional ability. His conduct of the Venezuelan negotiations has been most acceptable to the Washington government and should the preliminary conference looking to a reference of the dispute to The Hague succeed, Count Quadt, as charge, would act as Germanys representative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
CRUMBS FROM KANSAS.

From the Atchison Globe.
 There is entirely too much future to some people.
 On a slippery morning. do you like to see people fall? It's bad sign, if you do.
 There is talk in Leavenworth of running the Hon. Mickkchackial Przbylokickylk for mayor.
 There Is a girl in Atchison who shows so plainly that she thinks she is pretty that she is impudent
 One good thing about tobacco chewing; A ouid lacks that chewing gum quality which would fasten t to the under side of chairs and tables
 Ever little while letters are received at this office addressed 10 the ali elit,r or the literary editor. As they say over in Missouri. !. hatn't got none.
 Probably one reasQe more women than men go forward at a resvai is thtl he desire in a mans heart to U something to please the preacher is not so strong. A reformer writes to this office that lie intends to quit smoking three months; if he longs for it at the end os that time, he will jump in and smoke himself to death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
BRITAIN FOR MONROE DOCTRINE.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 How greatly changed within a single generation Is the British view of the Monroe doctrine is shown by the vlgor- ous words with which Lord Charles Beresford, in conversation with a re- porter in London, refers to the Venezue- Ian incident:
 Ut has taught our government lesson that it must never try it's hand again at such a game without the partnership of the United States. I do not say a word against Germany. But I do think it to Englano's s advantage to come right out and not only say we support the Monroe doctrine, but by heavens, we are willing to fight for it.' D
 Admiral Beresford is typical British arlstocrat. a typical fighting sailor, typical tory a popular idol. He repre- sents dominant British public opinion just as during Maximilian's illfated at tempt upon Mexico the London Times represented British opinion in expressing the hope that Napoleon III. would pune ture the Monroe doctrine for all time. This surprising change results from better understanding
 '1. That the doctrine is historically of British sanction, with Monroe and Can ming as joint authors
 "2 That in case of a general war it safeguards Canada from attack by any European power.
 .3 That it i5 the security of British trade in South American countries, such as Brazil where sapid immigration might without 1t lead to annexation by Flu ropean countries and diff >atial tariffs"
 From the wish to see the Monroe doc Urine smashed to the willingness to fight for it is indeed a striking change for J0hn Rull
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09

train robberies last year was pretty large, but it did not approach that of the record year, 1895, when 49 trains were help up and robbed. The indus try is by no means, however, in de- clining condition, and the country
 seems to expect about 25 hold-ups a year, and the strangest part of the affairs is that one man can hold up a whole train load of persons, part of whom are as well armed as the robber himself. Until there is more courage on the part of the holdees there will be train robberies. At present the average load of passengers is lot of lambs who let the train robber work his will unopposed and unmolested. What is needed is a man oh the train who is ready on the trigger. The chance is by no means an uneven one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09

title. For the elderly bridegroom, apart from sentimental considerations, there Is the incentive of longevity; the statistics prove that old men live longer if married than if single.
 Dr. Zilz's figures for Europe indicate that among men past seventy the death rate is forty-five per thousand for the married, as against seventy-one for the single. Dr. Schwartz instancing the fact that of fifty centenarians examined by him not one was a bachelor or spinster, showed that of men who lived to be ninety the ratio is nine married to three single. Among individual examples of matrimonial longevity that of James Ni- cholas Lam of Goshen, N. r., may be cited. This doctor-prea cher-author mar ried thirteen wives and lived to be ninety nine. To what extent did each of his helpmeets contribute to his length of years? Presumably an amiable wife would add a year where a Xantippe might cut one off.
 It Is a normal act for a man to marry a woman younger than himself Statis- tics collected in Germany show that of 1000 bridegrooms only eighty-nine chose women older than themselves. A differ ence of sixty years is of course, wholly abnormal In New York city in one year the number of couples married in whose
 
 years or more was SIS; but among these there were very few In whom the differ ence exceeded forty years.
 Doubtless the controlling impulse with women who marry men greatly older than themselves Is money; an examina- tion of sixteen cases reported in the World indicates as much. Yet there have been important sentimental exceptions Sentiment was the motive that led Ida of Do marry Jacob Dorsey, sixty, though by so doing she became her own grand mother Agnes May, twenty who mar ried William Cheney seventy, of Bow ling Green. Ohio, was the grandchild of his first love. and for that reason TO- mantically inspired toward him. Nellie White, twenty-two, who became the wife of Zerah Pomeroy, eighty-nine of Meri den. Conn.,, was a grandchild of his frs sweethearts sister. The way of the mal with the maid in these cases was an az peal to the romance in her nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
AN UNGALLANT ROOSTER.
Gets His Owner Into Trouble-Wo'-
 mans ParasoI.

From the Philadelphia North American.
 Reading, Pa.-The latest thing in the way of woman-haters, so far as Berks county is concerned, is a big rooster owned by a local fancier of fowls.
 Pete, as this opininated cockerel is known, was not always the foe of the fair sex. Time was when he would wink his grey eye in as engaging way as any other gentleman of fine plumage when there came across his path lovely wom- an. And he had been known to peck corn from fair hands held out to him. But that was long ago, away back In the callow barnyard days when Pete's heart, like his spurs. was soft, and when his soul had not known bitterness.
 But as may be supposed, Pete possesses a gall, and one day it was all upset His whole system-his whole life, for that matter-became impregnated with the virus. and a woman was the cause of 1t all.
 This woman, whoever she may have been, poked at Pete with long parasoi' spoiled his finest feather, ruffled his tenn per and incontinently upset the gall afore- said. So persistent was the teasing or this woman that Pete succeeded In workihs out an exact mental diagram or her anu her kind, so that thereafter ne was ai- ways able to recognize the animal m pet ticoats at a glance. And he nas never made the mistake of opening negotiations of friendship with any representative ol her class. .a
 pete carried matters even farther. As the wears went by, and his spikes grew hard and curled up like the horns or o,d-fashjoned cows. Pete's hatred of wom- e, haoan to take on a more aggressive Form Not content with holding them in a,sdain he would on occasion make plain h;s continents by flying into their faces
 Of late this tendency has been the more ,,arLed One woman after another has ooTonlained to the owner of the bird that he has attacked them as they passed through the alley abutting upon Is baiii- ,yick In several cases Pete has left the marks of his spurs upon fair necks
 Matters came to a climax yesterday. Before Magistrate Kirschman an inform ation was made against the owner of the rooster, and incidentally against Pete. who is tacitly charged with the commission of an assault and battery, with spurs upon the neck of the com plainant.
 The chicken fancier has been instructed to imprison the woman-hater-or to cut off his head.
 Pete's friendship for men is quite as marked as his dislike of women. In the hands of all representatives of the stern- CT sex the rooster is a pet.