Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-06-02
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

|
D1REcroR-GENERAL DAVIS has abol-
ished the New York Office Of the
| Worlds Columbian Exposition, leaving
| the Eastern interests of the fair in the
| hands of the New York state commits
| sion.
The Barney & Smith car works at
| Dayton, o., have been sold to syndl-
cate for 81 100000 cash. The plant COW
ers twenty acres and employs 1900
! men.
MELVILLE ToLEN, whose home is at
Clifford, Ind, paid considerable atten-
ton to Maggie Burns. Then he didn't.
Subsequently the young lady called on
marry her. His reply was, "No, you re
too old" Her nextm move was to find her
pocket, in which she had a pistol. She
utilized the Young man for a target five
times. The first four shots missed him,
but the fifth may place him in charge OF
the undertaken.
Four children were drowned in Char
items Creek, at Reedviile, near Pitts
burg.
Two men were killed and several 9TH
ers injured at the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works, at Braddock, Pa. They
were working a travelling crane, and q
portion of the machine came in contact
with al electric light wire.
| GEN. EppA HUNTER has been appoint
ed bv the governor of Virginia to fill
the seat in the United State Senate
made vacant by the death OF Senator
Barbour.
A. w. ARMOUR, one of the principal
stockholders of the Armour lacking
Company, died at Excelsior Springs,
Mo.
A LARGE plant for the manufacture of
nomonee, Mich.
BISHOP O'RE1LLY, of the Catholic do
cese of Springfield, Mass. died at that
city on the 2Sth.
JURORS likely to be drawn for the trial
of Ravachol at Montbr,ison, France, TOR
murder, are pleading ill-health IN order
to avoid serving. It is now expected
that the trial will begin June A.
AT Verona. on the 9th, man named
Marchesin1 surprised his wife entering
a house with lover. a lieutenant in
the Italian army, and killed the lover
with a revolver. The parties are Of good
position, and the affair has created a
sensation.
PEcHER & Co., of Antwerp, have
failed with liabilities of 81 ,250, 900. The
failure Is attributed to the decline III
the rates of Brazilian exchange. 1t
has caused considerable excitement IN
financial circles.
ANNA DICKINSON suit against men,
bers of the Republican National Com
mittee was dismissed at New York on
the ground that it was illegal.
FREDDY GERHARD has established a
branch of the Keely Institute at Baby
Ion, Long Island.
SIR CHARLER PARKER Butt, president
of the probate, divorce and admiralty
division of Her Majesty's high court OF
justice, London, is dead.
THE postal treaty between Germany
and Mexico was signed on the 25th inst.
THE fruit crops in the south of En-
gland have been greatly damaged. If not
destroyed, by terrific storm that passed
over that section.
A 12-YEAR-oLD boy named Berger shot
his head off at Four-Mile Creek, Va. 1t
was case of suicide.
AT Morrilton, Ark. colored family,
consisting of nine persons, and three
colored men, were capslzed IN a skill
and drowned.
THE Phoenix iron mines at Boyer
town, operated by the Phoenix Iron
Company, and among the oldest in
Eastern Pennsylvania, is about to close
down for three months.
AFTER a speech in the British Com
mons on the oath on the Balfour Irish
local government bill. it passed its Sec
ond reading by 339 to 247.
WHILE force of artillerymen were
engaged in entrenching practice at Fort
Aubervilliers, five miles north of Paris,
a bank of earth which formed one of
the sides of trench suddenly collapsed
and fell upon a number of soldiers.
Four of the men were completely
| buried in the mass of earth and were
taken out dead.
Coz. WILLIAM B. REMY, judge advo-
cate-general of the navy, mas broken
down from overwork, and is on the
verge of insanity. Application Will be
made for his retirement.
| GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, JR., OF the
| WESTINGHOUSE Electric and Manufacture
| ing Company, at Pittsburg, has been
awarded the contract for furnishing the
| incandescent electric lighting plant on
the Worlds Fair grounds. He is to in
stall 92,622 lamps, alternating current,
for 1899 900 under a bond of 81 ,OOO,OOO
Col. A. B. BRoADwATER, president of
| the Montana Central Division of the
Great Northern Railway, died at He
lena on the oath.
The non-un1on shipping master,
Capt. P. w. Egan, of Cleveland, who so
mvsteriously disappeared from Chicago,
has been found in Rochester, n. Y.
THREE lumber cutters, while sitting on
a bench under shed during thunder
storm in Nansemond County, Va, were
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
Two others, who were IN the house,
were knocked senseless, but recovered.
OUT OF A MEXICAN PRISON.