Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-02
TELEGRAMS N BRIEF

President Roosevelt appointed J. H.
Moore of Philadelphia chief of the
bureau of manufacturers of the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
The Japanese army headquarters
published a list of casualties, presum-
ably at Port Arthur, showing that
40 officers from the rank of colonel
downward were killed and SO from
colonel downward were wounded
The British steamer Anglo-Chilian
from Pensacola, arrived at Havre
with Capt Nelson, wife and five
members of the crew of the Ameri-
can schooner w. r. Chester on board,
and reports having rescued them in
midlocean when the Chester was sink
! ing after having encountered four
days storm.
Admiral Kaznakoff is returning to
Russia and will be replaced by Vice
| Admiral Doubassoff, AIS Russian COM
mission at Paris, which dis ito inquire
into the North sea incident. Doubas-
soft starts for Paris next week.
The Theory of Money was the topic
discussed by the American Economic
association at the University of Chi
cago. Prof. j. Lawrence Laughlin,
university of Chicago; David Kinley,
Illinois; A. P. Andrew, Harvard, read
papers, after which discussion was
opened by Prof. William A. Scott of
Madison.
At Chicago; George Adams, one Of
the IL jurors. who decided the fate
Of the Haymarl1et anarchists, sending
four to the gallows, two to the peni-
tentiary, was adjudged insane and
will be sent to Kankakee. 1t is be
Leved that his condition is due to
the strain undergone during the
trial and subsequent development.
BY direction of the president, Capt
Robert L. Howe, of the sixth cav
airy, has been appointed command
ant of cadets at the academy at West
Point from June Is, next. Howe
was one of the officers charged by
General Miles with having abused
and i'll treated filipino prisoners.
Two searching investigations of the
charges resulted in the complete ex-
oneration of the officer
AT st. Louis, an Italian name I'M
known, who lived with his brother,
employed by the Italian worlds fair
commissioners, cut his brothers
throat and was himself fatally shot
by a policeman The wounding OF
the two men. occurred as the culmi--
nation of a terrible struggle between
the two brothers, one of whom had be
come a maniac and the policeman
was called in to arrest him.
Standing almost in !the very spot
in New York where Robert Brennan
was shot to death by Patrolman
Arthur Mallon last May, William
OsBrien, "a homeless waiter who gave
the most important testimony in the
trial which resulted in Mallon being
sent to prison for 20 years, received
a bullet wound which probably will
result in his death. O'Bmen's assail-
ants escaped and he refused to make
any statement which would assist the.
officers in learning their identify
A crowd of men went from Selby
to Bangor, South Dakota, Tuesday
night and carried off by force the
county records in the court house,
then left word that they would return
Wednesday night for the court. house
itself. They kept their promise.
The building has been torn down,
piled ON wagons and is being hauled
to Selby in sections and rebuilt. AL
though the action of the Selby men
aroused much bitter feeling, the
Bangor residents made no resist
ance.
Can bishop or ought
a bishop ito write defama-
tory letters i'm secret in order to
iDjure any member of the ministry /?
This is the question which will be de-
cided at the meeting of the board OF
inquiry in the case of Irvine VS. Ia
bot" said Rev. Ingram N. w. Irvine,
the plaintiff in. the celebrated case, IN
discussing the charges which had
been made against him. 'iMy rein
statement" he continued, lis of sec
cndafy consideration when contrasted
with the above query. If course,
wish to have this unjust deposition
removed, but wish also, entirely
without malice, to be indicated in the
sight of God and my friends" In dis
GUESSING the motive of the present
ment Mr.. Irvine said iC was becausc
he had persistently refused Ito serve
communion ito Mrs. Emma D. Elliott,
who is divorced. against the wishes OF
Bishop Talbot.