Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-18

The St. Johns IN. b. Gazette build
ing was partly destroyed and the
plant damaged by fire on the 18th. The
loss is heavy, but fully insured.
In less than an hour on the 18th the
magnificent grain elevator and mill of
%. 3. Chase 4 Co., on the corner OF
Thirty-tourth Street and Eleventh Ave-
nue, New York, was destroyed by fire.
The flames were first noticed in the
tower, and were in full possession OF
the structure when the first detach-
ment of firemen arrived. The total
loss on stock, building and machinery
will reach $4,000. No one was hurt.
A CLERK in Vienna named Johann
| Singer, who had been out OF employ
ment for some time, and who saw no
means of supporting the woman with
| whom he was living and by whom he
had three children, determined to kill
them and then commit suicide. The
means employed was burning charcoal
He started the fire in the room in
which the woman and children were
asleep, and inhaling the fumes they
soon died. Singer himself remained in
the room and died shortly after his
victims.
| GIUSEPPE GIoFREI, an Italian, % years
old, suicided by firing four bullets into
his body at Chicago. He was suffering
from typhoid fever.
A PARTY of four went to Marine City.
Mich, on the steam yacht Joker, and
on their return collided with the Sus-
quehauna. Charles Wood, aged %, was
| drowned. He lived at Wallaceburg,
where his father is United States consul.
The rest were saved.
| GEORGE A. LEACH, we'll known in
newspaper circles in New York, died at
his residence in Herkimer. Mr.. Leach
was formerly connected with the Asso-
ciated Press. in New York. in various
positions, the last being assistant gen
eral manager. He afterwards was the
agent of the Associated Press IN Lon
don.
AT Talladega, town twenty miles
south of Annlston, Ala, a case of MUIR
der and suicide is reported. 4. L. Ras-
berry, a bartender employed by n.
Simmons, was discharged. Drawing 9
pistol he shot Simmons once. He then
placed the pistol against his own heart
and fred, and then fred two more shots
at Simmons, who lay on the ground al
ready in his death struggle.
NEAR Camden, Ark, Bob Jordan, a
negro prisoner in the custody of a con-
stable, while being brought to the city
for Judgment in jail was taken from the
officer by party of masked men and
shot to death. He had insulJed white
| woman.
AT Scharnitz, village and pass in the
Tyrol, ten miles north of Innspruck, g
landslip caused the death of five per-
sons who were overwhelmed beneath
the mass of rock and earth which came
laundering down from mountain.
NEAR TonnensaEd, on the Elbe, q
steamer ran into pleasure boat, smash
ing the boat, which sank Immediately.
Three of the persons who were in the
pleasure boat were drowned.
CATHOLICS of. Winnipeg at a mass
meeting unanimously decided to main
tain separate schools for their children,
despite the decision of the privy council
in England compelling them to pay
taxes for Manitoba public schools.
PATRICK QUINN, telegraph operator al
Delaware Station, n. j., is lying at his
home in Oxford suffering from two pis-
toll shot wounds in the head and neck.
inflicted by Miss Hattie Acres, of Cres-
CO, Pa. Miss Acres regarded Quinn as
lover, and it is said that the shooting
was the outcome Of his desertion Of the
young woman. The girl, after the
shooting. took poison, but recovered.
Miss Acres, after her arrest, would not
make any statement, except to say that
Quinn had wronged her, and that she
wished both were dead.