Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-06-13

DR.. A. s. Draper, the retiring presi-
dent Of the University of Illinois, de
livered farewell baccalaureate address
at Crbana.
l. c. Phipps. who kidnapped his chill
dren in New York. arrived in Denver
and denied that Mrs. Phipps was rough
~ treated.
Judge f. R. E. Kimbrough Of the
Danville advised graduates of the
Paris Ol) high school TO go south for
The wives.
DR.. Horace Ellis. president of the
Idaho state normal school, has accept
ed the offer of the presidency of Vim
cennes university.
The submarine torpedo boat Fulton
with fourteen men in board passed a
night al the bottom of Narragansett
bay in an endurance trial
The body of DR.. J. H. Hudson,
mayor of a Negaunee, Mich, who was
lost in the woods two weeks ago, was
found in the Escanaba river.
A check for $4,000 is said TO have
figured in the Bedford murder trial,
and evidence against a citizen former
ly suspected is said TO be strong.
Arthur Thompson. a Georgia negro
who shot and killed NJ. L. Dudley, a
young white man, at Arlington, Ga,
was lynched within a few hours.
Stuart Lindsay, a New York con-
tractor. on his way 10 pay of men near
East Orange. n. j., was robbed, bound
and thrown on the railroad track.
Two lives were lost in the Dakots
floods. Many houses were swept
away, and Deadwood is reported as
still shut off from railroad traffic.
A crowd incensed at the failure of
the st. Louis promoters TO furnish a
real bull fight, engaged in riot in
which many were hurt, and burned the
amphitheater.
Ten and possibly fifteen lives were
lost. six were injured, and property
valued at 81 100000 was destroyed in
the destruction by fire Of the Corning
distillery at Peoria.
The Colorado supreme court heId
that the governor could declare mar
tial law, make arrests, and even order
the death penalty, and that the civil
courts could not interfere.
Two workmen were fatally injured
and several seriously burned by an
explosion of a mixing furnace at the
plant of the Monongahela Steel com
pany at McKeesport. Pa.
Judge Arellano, chief justice of the
Philippine islands. was the guest at
luncheon given by Judge Charles A.
Willard, also OF the supreme bench of
the Philippines. in Minneapolis.
Ban On Won Sternburg. the German
ambassador, officially took leave Of
/ Secretary Hay for the summer. as he
left for Lenox, Mass. where he has
taken a cottage until October.
John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., has ar
rived in st. Louis, and was best man
at the marriage Of Miss Martha Black
well to Stewart Morgan Aldrich, son OF
Senator Nelson A. Aldrich of Rhode
Island.
Rev. John Murray of Baltimore has
announced formally that he had de-
clined 10 accept the bishopric of Ken
lucky. to which he was recently elect
ed by the Episcopal diocesan conven-
ton CT that state.
At the Wisconsin high school de-
clamatory contest Roy Harvey of Del
avian won first place with an Grafton
ON affairs n Cuba. Alice Zinns of
west division high school of Milwau-
kee got second place.
Albert Greenwood of Palestine,
Texas. assistant attorney general OF
the Lone star state, is being closely
guarded at Ottumwa, Iowa, TO prevent
his doing himself bodily injury be-
cause the girl he was to marry Tilted
him.
The authorities at Bedford, Ind, de-
clared that the second inquiry into the
murder Of Miss Schafer establishes
that Eva Love. roommate of the dead
girl, holds the key TO the mystery.
John T. Young, better known as
Caesar" Young, a bookmaker, was
mysteriously shot and killed while rid
ing in acab in New York.
The University of Wisconsin cele-
brated the jubilee commencement.
DR.. John Bascom's baccalaureate SER
mon attacked the corruption in mu-
nicipal affairs and the tyranny of
wealth. Nearly 1000 persons attended
the alumni banquet; the alumni asso-
citation decided TO employ a regular
secretary; President Van Hise was for
mally inaugurated; d grand water fete
and torchlight procession was held
and the celebrated ended with a recep-
ton and ball. Educators from many
parts of the world were present.
POLITICAL.
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