Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-01-26
NEWS PARARcDx
TWELVE prisoners escapeoTo1
Springfield. Mo.


IT is said the Earl OF Aberdeen will
become governor-general of Canada.
GERuANY's machinery for the Worlds
Fair exhibit has arrived at Baltimore.
PROF. DRUMMoND has declined the
offer of the new University of Chicago
to become it's president.
allow the Earl and Countess of Shrews-
bury, who we're Divorces, to partake of
the sacrament of communion.
GEORGE w. HOWARD. the actor who
impersonated the ola miller in
"Adonis," is nearly blind, and about
to become an inmate of the Forrest
Home.
HENRY O'NEIL, his wife and two chill
dren, of Indianapolis, were found in
their house nearly suHocated by escap-
lug gas. They were resuscitated with
great difficulty.
KEEPER WILLIAM GUNTER and his light
house, which stood upon Old Plantation
Shoai, near the mouth of the Chesa-
peake, were carried away by the ice.
Gunter was rescued by tug.
JOSEPH W1NsoR, the inventor of drop
gates used at railroad crossings, died at
Providence, r. l.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the novelist.
| is reported to be dying of consumption
at his home IN Samoa.
| GEORGE DURR, of Steelton, Pa, was
run over by the Columbian express
train and instantly killed.
WILTON BENNETT. of Port Jervis, N.
| Y, was awarded 81 in his $4,000 libel
suit against the Albany Argus.
THE steamer Elder, which was
wrecked on the Isle of Wight several
months ago, will be reftted for service.
A PASSENGER train on the Missouri,
Kansas q Texas road ran into freight
at Sedalla, Mo. Engineer Thurber was
killed.
AN explosion of giant powder at
Richmond, Utah, killed Benjamin
Lewis and seriously injured several
other miners.
| ScoTT HARRISON. brother of the Presi-
dent, is seriously i'll at Kansas City,
where he is engaged in the real estate
| business.
A SENSATION has been caused in Co.
lumbia College circles by the discovery
Of a roulette wheel and outfit in the
/ basement of the School of Mines.
+. N. SAvILLE, forger serving term
| in the Utah penitentiary, was killed by
| falling from the corridor of the third
JACOB DAVID, defaulting treasurer of
the Chicago Building Association, was
arrested at New York as he landed
from the Aller, returning from Europe.
JOHN LOGAN, foreman of the hair and
main spring departments of the Ameri
can Walsham Watch Company, COM
mitted suicide at Waltham, Mass, by
shooting.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT has settled the
action brought against him by Eliza
Crrm, on behalf of her son, John
| Crum, the boy who was run over by the
Vanderbilt carriage on the night of
January last, by the payment OF $500.
IGNATIo SERRANo, a noted smuggler
| and desperate, was killed near ella
! Bend, in Maricopa County, Ariz. He
| engaged in a quarrel with another Mex
! lean, and q third one stabbed him In the
| back and through the heart, killing him
| instantly.
THE hull of the schooner Vollant has
| been towed into San Francisco, bottom
up. 1t was found near Point Gordo, on
| the northern coast of California. The
| Vollant lett Eureka, CAL, for San Fran
cisco recently, and had on board crew
| of seven men.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, daughter of the
Southern Contederacy," and her moth
er, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
! leader of the ''lost cause" were among
| the guests of the Confederate Southern
| Camp of New York at the annual Dan-
quet of the camp at New York.
S. OHIO WILSON, the head of "Gid-
cons Band" secret political oath
| bound order, which is an outgrowth of
| the Populist wing of the Farmers ALI
ance organization, was indicted by the
grand jury of Wake County, N. c., for
! belonging to a secret political organlza-
| ton.
CHARLES w. THoRNE, of Kansas City,
lately messenger in one Of the banks of
| that city, and who left there recently
| with $l1 800 of the banks money, was
| arrested at St. Paul. At the time of his
apprehension he had il his possession
all of the money with the exception of
| 81 600 which he had sent to sporting
! woman in Minneapolis to keep for him,
| and which was recovered.
DEMOCRATIC members of the Indiana
| legislature would not permit an adjourn
! ment out of respect to the memory Of
ex-President Hayes.
The Washburn Moen Company, of
Worcester, Mass, has petitioned the
| legislature for permission to increase its
capital to $4,000 900.
JOHN LUNING, son OF the late San
Francisco millionaire, has become in
sane in France while on yachting voy-
age around the world.
IT has become known that the autopsy
of Gen. Buffers body showed that the
| brain was four ounces heavier than
| that of Daniel Webster.
| THE National Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation decided to meet i'll WASHINGTON
every alternate year at the beginning Of
the long session of Congress.
GEORGE ROBERTS left Rutland, ILL.,,
twelve years ago. He returned few
days since, and found that his wife had
| remarked during his absence.
ANDREW CARNEGIEis expected to reach
Pittsburg within few days. He will be
petitioned to have the cases against the
Homestead strikers dismissed.
THE steamer Guiding Star was sunk