Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-05-19
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

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| foundered in the Caspian Sea, and that
| $50 passengers were drowned.
AN Atlantic liner ran down an un-
! known lugger off Castle Townsend light,
County Cork, Ireland, and sunk her
with all on board.
FRED c.. PILLsBURY, member of the
great milling firm of P1llsburv u Co.,
died at Minneapolis Of malignant dlph-
| liberia. He had been sick but four
DAYS. He was So years old and
| brother of c.. A. Pillsburv, son Of George
A. Pillsbury and nephew of ex-Gov.
! Pillsbury.
DENIS LEAHEY q Co., Chicago, whole
sale dealers in WOODEN cloths, have
| failed, with liabilities estimated at $780,
600, and assets nominally the same.
AT Albany. capital of the department
of Tarn, forty miles from Toulon,
| France, great excitement was created
on the l4th inst. by the blowing up OF
an Off ce building by bomb. No one
| was hurt.
MEssRs. HAM, Mumford, Coates,
| Griffith and Baker, American tourists,
have been awarded 81, POO damages each
| by a Swiss court in suit against the
| ment. They were arrested at Berne In
August last.
DAN, CoUGHLIN, another life prisoner
at Joliet for completely in the Cronin
| murder, is in the prison hospital, suffer
ing, it is believed, from quick consump-
ton.
GEN. THOMAS A. RowLEY, Who served
with distinction in the Mexican war and
the rebellion, was found dead III his
bed at Pittsburg.
The will of William Astor has been
filed for probate in New York: 1t dis
poses of property valued at S'65, 900, GOO,
but of this large amount Mrs. Coleman
Drayton, the testator's daughter, gets
nothing. Provision was made for her
in the original document, but late
codicii revokes all mention of her.
AT Fresno, CAL, the Jury in the case
of F. w. Baird, ex-president of the
Bank of Madeira, who is charged with
forgery, has returned verdict Of guilty.
THERE was riot on the 18th in the
town of Sezemetz, near Pardubltz,
| Bohemia. Five hundred workingmen
out of employment, after vainly de-
handing work from the authorities,
the money and goods they could lay
their hands on, including large
quantities of brandy and tobacco. The
riot was quelled by gendarmes, who ar
rested the leaders.
Ten THOUSAND foreign Jews in Odessa
| have been ordered to leave Russia
forthwith.
| AT Memphis on the 18th inst. the
| new steel cantilever bridge, the largest
of its kind in the world, was formally
| opened for traffic in the presence Of 3d.
600 people. The main span is 794 feet.
The upper leather tanners in the Bos-
| ton district have agreed to shut down
| for sixty days.
JUDGE NELSON, in the Unitee States
| district court at Boston, has quashed
the Indictment against officials of the
great Whisky Trust.
THE tug Darlington, OF Duluth. picked
up among the breaking ice in Lake Su-
perior dilapidated boat containing the
bodies of three men. The boat is sup
posed to have come from Two Harbors,
but has not yet been identified.
Much damage is reported on Lake
Huron by reason Of heavy fog.
THE heavy foods along the Missouri
and Lower Mississippi are reported to
be receding.
THE contract with the Henry syndi-
cate for Worlds Fair water Transporter
ton was signed at Chicago on the 18th.
The company is to be stocked for $780,
600. One whaleback steamer $50 feet
long and one composite steamer are to
be built
The will of Augustus Kountze, the
New York banker, gives his brother,
Herman, in trust, the "Kountze add,
ton to the Omaha Reserve Block" con-
tanning thirty lots, and $4,000 in cash.
This goes to the General Synod of the
Lutheran Church of the United States
for a theological seminary on the
ground.
The pottery of Thomas A. Mad
doX d Sons, at Trenton, n. j., san
itary-ware manufacturers, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss, $175,-
600; partially insured. Over $50 men
are thrown out of work.
THE Pesther-Lloyd publishes particu-
lars of terrible disaster that occurred
near Brody, town in Austrian Galacia.
While 100 workmen, with their wives
and children, were crossing the river
near Brody on raft, the raft capsized
and all were thrown into the water.
Sixty persons were drowned.
The steamer Fuerst Bismarck has
again lowered the ocean record, making
the run from New York to the Needles
in days y hours and SO minutes, re-
duction of 10 minutes.
THE Ohio law on the subject calls for
detailed report from all schools, public
and private. DR.. Quigley, head of
church school at Toledo, failed to COM
ply swith the law. The School Board
brought the case before the courts for
judicial decision on the constitution
atty of the law. The supreme court
sustains the law.
JEALOUSY caused William Wilson.
Well-to-do farmer of Anderson County.
). e., to kill his wife and himself with
razor.
W. W. FINLEY has resigned the chair
manshlp of the Western Passenger AS
ISOLATION.
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