Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-18
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locked up for disturbing the peace. HIS
son met his father in custody OF an o11l-
Ger and shot the former dead. He then
put Il bullet through his own brain.
ANDREW FUELoNG lies at the Cook
County Hospital, Chicago, in critical
condition rom being stabbed by Fred
Woodruff.
OFFICER PATRICk SLATTERY, Of East
Chicago Avenue Station, Chicago, was
dangerously wounded by crowd OF
toughs while arrestlng Mike Brennan,
North Side rowdy. on Michigan Street.
ENGINEER GEORGE BONE, Of Galesburg,
was killed in wreck on the 20" near
Peoria.
SYNDICATE has secured controlling
interests in the Lynn & Boston Railroad.
Tie deal represented an outlay OF
So, 500, 900, including the Naumkeag
line.
THE cases Of smallpox were re- orted
in the Italian quarter, New York, on
the 10Th.
Two walters IN the Hyde Park Hotel,
Chicago, struck because white Liam
was " be employed as head waiter.
HERR LUDWIG RUBEN, the New York
musical manager who has been serious
ly i'll in Copenhagen, IS now out OF dan
ger.
A LARGE ship named the Thracian,
which was being towed to LIVERPOOL,
was lost off the Isle of Man. Her crew
OF seventeen men went down with her.
SIXTEEN were killed by the premature
explosion of fireworks at Naples.
ASSURANCE has been given the Ger
man government that Gladstone's tor
eign policy Will not be inimical to the
Triple Alliance.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has been compel
led to Submit to the popular opposition
to holding an international exhibition
in Berlin.
News has been received at Trinidad
that the Legalists have captured the
city of Boliver after battle with the
government troops, in which nearly
/ 600 men were slain.
A Fort WORTH, Tex, special of the
14th says: Two prominent society peo-
pie last night attempted suicide by TAX
ing morphine. They are Eugene 2.
Ihorne, travelling salesman, married,
and Miss Mary West, of Hillsboro, Tex,
vino has been visiting friends here. The
two had fallen desperately in love
months ago, bat could not marry. Last
night they went to the Arlington Inn,
represented themselves as man and
wife and were assigned apartments
where they took the deadly drug. To-
cav both were declared out Of danger.
AT Chicago on the night Of the 18th,
Eugene Steirwalt attempted to kill his
divorced wife. He entered a room
where she was seated alone and fired
four shots at her, all of them missing
the mark. This is the fourth attempt
SteirWalt has made to kill his wife.
He escaped.
VICTORIA HALL, Lexington Avenue
and Fifty-fourth Street, New York, was
the scene of a unique wedding on the
18th, when pair OF midgets were made
man and wife. They were Leopold
Kahan, better known to the public as
Admiral Dot and Miss Lottie Naomi
SwartWood. The ceremony was accord
ing to the Jewish ritual.
WILLIAM B1THERs' large chair and cur
tain pole factory, at Traverse City,
Mich, employing over 100 hands,
burned on the 14th.
AT o'clock on the afternoon of the
18th fire broke out in the livery barn of
E. b. Smith, Detroit, and within one
hour had destroyed a whole block Of
buildings, comprising seventeen dwell
ings and three barns. Tie total loss is
estimated at $40 1000; insurance about
$4,000. Three tiremen received serious
in juries by Il alling wall and were taken
to TIE hospital.
A DISPATCH from ST. Paul de Loanda
states that the Arabs have annihilated
the Congo state forces stationed at
Benakamba, at the confluence Of the
Iualaba and kassair rivers. Com
mander Hodister was captured by the
Arabs. who subjected him to horrible
torture for three days, after which he
Eah cd hn II tch Il hot
two white men succeeded in making
their escape from Benakamba.
The international Brigade Congress,
attended by 1000 fremen from differ
ent European cities, was opened in
Havre, France, on the 18th. The pro-
ceedings were lnaugurated by parade
and series of competitions with fire
apparatus.
A BON filed with gun cotton, placed
in the center of mass OF petroleum,
aud with burning fuse attached, was
found in the basement of the Law
Courts building in Grenoble, France.
The discovery was made just in time to
prevent an explosion.
A DISPATCH to the London Standard
saws that twenty adults, ten children
aud numerous animals were recently
bitten by mad wolf at Lodse, Poland,
and that all are now raving mad and de-
yond recovery. Their howlings are
described as terrible in the extreme.
THE harvesters in the Croatian prov
ince of Slavonia have gone on strike
In order to support an agrarian agita-
ton. The strikers decline offers of
double wages to resume work. The
crops are rotting in the fields and as a
result the farmers will be ruined. In
cendiary fires are frequent.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the London
Standard from Tentsin says: "The ex-
IRENE gravity of the Pamir question is
beginning to be recognized here. A
force OF infantry and horsemen have
been ordered to proceed from kashgar
to- Ranskul. in the Chinese province