Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-25
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

! IS 1mnossible as vet to state what the
loss amounts to. but it is very heavy.
| The British steamer Roma, from Lon
| don for Brisbane, was wrecked near
! Algoa Bay. It is expected everybody
/ on board of her was drowned. Four
bodies have already been washed
| ashore.
| THE Argentine Republic, Uruguay,
| Paraguay and the United States OF Co.
| lombia have conceded to France the
'smost favored nation" treatment.
THE Queen has elevated to the peer
age Sir Lyon Playiair and Cyril Flower,
member of the House Of Commons Tor
the Luton Division OF Bedforshlre.
A YACHT sailed by Benjamin Parker,
Furman Manery and Charles Seaman:
was capsized at Atlantic City, n. j., and
all were drowned. Three yachting
parties were caught in the Great Egg
! Harbor inlet and their boats capslzed.
1t is reported that several were
| drowned.
Mrs. PATSY SEARS died at kokomo,
j Ind, aged los years.
Mrs. JOHN SIDENBERG was killed by an
electric car at St. Paul.
AMOS JONES, of Plttsbarg, Pa, burst a
blood vessel while coughing up crumb
and died.
CAPT. ENoCH HACKErT was drowned
by the capsizing of the yacht Sallie and
Eliza at Ocean City, n. }.
Francisco TORRES, the Spaniard who
murdered Supt. McKelvey, of Nine.
| Modieskas ranch at Santa Arno, CAL,
was lynched by mob.
A CONSTABLE, in quelling disturb
ance at Limestone, Ind, killed two
brothers named SEM, and fatally
wounded third.
GEORGE G. STOCKBEIDGE, aged "a, has,
it is said, in the past few years embez-
zled $1,000 from his employers, c. E.
Woodward & Co., druggists, of Boston.
The money went for gambling and high
living. Stockbrldge has left Boston,
leaving behind his wife and young
child.
On the Coventry track, England, on
the Goth, Oxborrow, the cyclist, low
cred the mile record by 2-5 seconds.
Time, POI 3-5.
NINE gambling houses were raided by
the sheriff at Cleveland in one night on
an attachment suit brought by the big
lumber firm of Grey, jerks Il Co. for
$4,000 lost in them by their embez-
zling book-keeper, John c. Campbell.
DURING quarrel over a hand organ
at Chicago, Vinganso Sasso shot and in
stantly killed Luigi Barri. The MUIR
derer was chased by q large crowd of
the dead mans friends, but held them
at bay with his revolver, ana escaped
before the police heard of the killing.
A CLoUD-BURsT occurred at Freedom,
Pa, doing much damage to property.
The main street was torn out SIX feet
deep and the foundations of houses
| IL \ tolls
killed or injured.
FIRE in the furniture house of Shiv-
erick & Co., at Omaha, did an immense
amount of damage to the stock. The
| fire started in the basement and quick
ly spread through the elevator shaft to
the three floors above. The building
was flooded before the fire was gotten
under control. The loss is estimated at
500, 600.
Texas fever has been discovered
among the cattle in West Indianapolis
near the stockyards. A dozen COWS
have already died. The disease is rap
idly spreading. Within few days
shipments of Texas cattle had arrived
from st. Louis.
A FIRE at South Royalston. Mass, de-
stroyed the George Whitney Wooden
Company's large mill, also his large
|
ness of the town, throwing about 200
people out of employment The prop
erty is insured for 5000 to 100000.
AT Hillsboro, Tex, Warren Fisher
slapped his l3-year-old sister for some
petty misdemeanor, when she picked
up carving knife and fatally stabbed
him. She will not be arrested on ac
count of her tender age.
THOMAS YOUNG, who murdered his
wife at Greensboro, KY, last March, for
what he considered indascreet conduct
with other men, has been setenced to
ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.
MURDERER Tom SMITH, who was to have
been hanged at Kansas City, Mo-, on
the 10Th, has been granted a stay of ex-
ecution.
A FIRE in the town of Serdovsk, Rus
| STA, government of Saratov, destroy ed
800 houses, and made $500 persons
| homeless.
THE engine and shaft house of the
Cambria mine near Negaunee burned
on the 18th. The mine had not been
working this season and the fire is sup
posed to have been caused by tramps.
! The hosting plant was ruined and the
| loss is about $4,000.
| BELLE GROVE REFINERY, together with
contents and adjoining cabins, situated
half mile from Jeannetta, La, owned
by DR.. S. S. Gray, burned. Loss, $4O,-
| 600; insurance, ST., 900.
The President has appointed William
| Harrison Bradley, OF Illinois, to be
United States consul at Copenhagen.
vice Ryder, dismissed. Mr.. Bradley is
the present consul at Nice. France, and
is transferred to Copenhagen because
OF the necessity tor the immediate pres
The change is made in consequence of
Mr.. Ryder's confession of official mis-
conduct.
THREE hotels and nearly every bust
ness house in Geneva, o., were com
pletely destroyed by fire. Altogether