Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-10-06

cotton spinners of England have de-
cided to enforce a reduction of per
cent. in the wages OF their employees.
The men stubbornly refuse to accept
the proposed reduction, and intend to
strike. The decision to reduce wages
affects II ,0OO,O 600 spindles using cotton.
THE twenty-five prisoners implicated
in the Bukovina customs traut.s at
Vienna were all found guilty. Five OF
the ringleaders were sentenced to four
years each, and eleven others to one
year. The balance were discharged.
THE London Economist says that
crisis exists in the Scotch mineral oil
trade, owing to the disagreement with
the American scale pr Iucers and can
dle-makers' committee in the matter Of
the proposed pooling OF accumulated
stocks OF solid paratfine.
In an election to fill vacancy for
South Bedfordshire in the British Par
lament the Liberal candidate was
elected, but by largely reduced ma.
ioritv on account of the temperance
question and pledges of the Liberal.
A JURY in the district court of Wyan-
dotte County, Kas., returned verdict
awarding $4,000 damages to Lille f.
Wyatt, an ll-year. old girl who brought
suit for 10000 against the Kansas City
Consolidated & Chelsea Park Railway
for personal injuries. Lille Wyatt was
run over by an electric car and had leg
cut off. The jury found that the acct
dent was caused by gross carelessness Of
the company's employees.
WHILE workmen were operating a
derrick near Anderson, Ind, it caught
q freight car and threw it over upon
some laborers. Charles Cunningham
III To- ofnl.
ly hurt and four other Workmen serl-
| ously injured.
THREE valuable trotting horses and
twenty-five hogs Of good breed were
killed by freight wreck near Wal
than, Mass.
EMIL HABERKoRN, leader of the Du-
quesne Theater orchestra, Pittsburg,
and recently divorced husband of Mar
garet Mather, the actress, was married
on the 1st inst to Miss Emma Smith
Foster. of that city. Miss Foster was
formerly engaged in missionary work in
the Southern states.
MAINS large axe factory at Altoona,
Pa, has been shut down, throwing a
large number of men out Of employ
ment.
THE Webb family, who number about
ZOO, and who descended from Lozam
and Eli Webb, who settled at Webb's
Prairie, Ill.,, in 1912, had q reunion
at that place. Fully l,5OO were present.
John Webb, as. the eldest living de-
scendant, was presented with gold
headed cane, and Mamie Page, Of Ham
ilton County with a rocking chair. Their
ages are respectively II and rs years.
THE record of Maud S. was tied by
Belle Vara also by Vatican at Terre
Haute. Ind, on the 3Oth.
THE official figures of the Maine guber-
material vote of the last election, every
city, town and plantation included, give
Cleaves, 81 $50; johnson, So, O73; Massey
(Pro.), 1871; Knowlton Uab.), 1850;
Total, 129, 629; Cieaves' plurality, 1882.
A FIRE which at one time threatened
the e H! Try goods DIS dl; ;n +6 OF
fve-story building, % and "a
White Street. Paul Gurnbinner, laces,
silks and embroideries, occupied the
third, fourth and fifth floors and
the mansard roof. The first and Sec
ond floors were occupied by Otherman,
Dyer & Southwick, WOODEN goods. Dam
age, 100000, mostly to Paul Gurnbln-
ner.
The New York Chamber of Com
| merce cholera emergency fund was
probably the largest fund ever collected
in that city in so short time. The
| fund is now practically $2OO,OOO.
FIRE at the Union stock yards, Oma-
| ha, burned about 1000 sheep sheds
| and smothered about 900 head of sheep.
Loss, $4,000. Fully insured.
WELSH newspapers declare that Mr..
| Gladstone has invited an eminent Welsh
ecclesiastic to draft a bill disestablishing
the church in Waless They add that
the bill will be prepared IN {, manner 1a1
| that will be acceptable to the Welsh
clergy.
The board of directors of the Suez
Canal have decided to reduce the tolls
on January /, 1898, by half franc.
| THE foot and mouth disease has brok-
| en- out among the cattle in the province
of Hainault and the districts round
about.
| The British steamer North Flint had
| collision with a passenger steamer IN
| the Bosphorus. The passenger steamer
| was stove in and had to be beached
| near Constantlnople.
CHARLES f. POTTER, United States di-
vision engineer, died at Omaha. Mr..
Potter had been employed in Missouri
River improvements for fifteen years.
The remains were sent to Elms, Mass,
| his former home. He was 50 years old.
MAUDE H1LLMAN, while playing the
leading part in Lady Audley's Secret"
at the Breed Opera House. Norwich,
Conn, accidentally stabbed herself near
tie heart, inflicting severe flesh
wound. The doctor says the wound
will not interfere with her engage
ments.
YALE COLLEGE has entered upon the
1O3d wear of it's existence. Over $780,
600 has been expended In the erection
of new buildings for the different de-
partments ofthe college during the past
twelve months.
J.F. TENNYsoN, until recently man
ager of the Lynchburg, Va, opera
house, was drowned while duck shoot
ing on the James River. His gun
kicked and upset the boat. He leaves
a widow end two children.
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