Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-17
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| fifty counties of South Dakota gives high
ly favorable news. A Washington re-
| port on peaches and apples says the crop
! will be much better than in 1894.
1t is announced that Miss Ida B.
| Wells, the leader of the so-called anti
lyncning crusade will on June q become
| the bride of Ferdinand L. Barnett, wells
! known colored attorney of Chicago.
| While Deputy Sheriff George Morris
was ringing the courthouse bell at Leav-
enworth, Ind, the cupola fell, injuring
| Tilden Carr, William Cummins and John
Denbo. Cummins and Denbo will die. 81
-Twenty-four citizens of Hubbard,
Mich, heads of families, marched into
| Midland this morning and besieged the
county officers demanding something to
eat. Thirty Hubbard families are des-
titute.
| Gross earnings of the Chesapeake &
] Ohio for the month of May were $S33.-
| 01O, an increase of S261,2 200. Earnings
4 of the Big -Four for the same month
amounted to 81, 1882, an increase of
| $133, 269
| The United Society of Christian En-
! deavor, the general body which has di-
rected the growth Of Christian Endeavor
throughout the world, held its annual
meeting in Boston. The old officers We're
| reelected. N
Rat poison was placed in tea used at
supper in the family of Thomas z. Burns
at Emporia, Kas., supposedly by Sarah K.
Roberts, a 16-year-old colored hired girl,
because she had been given notice. All
| will recover.
The directors of the American Bell
Telephone company declared quarterly
dividend of 3 PEI cent. and an extra divi-
dend of ~ per cent. and voted to call q
| stockholders meeting June II to vote an
| increase of capital stock.
| AT the commencement exercises of
Vassar college the largest class ever
graduated from the college, received their
! diplomas Among the graduates are
Miss Harriet Fay Holmes, Chicago and
Miss Elizabeth Updegraff, McGregor, Ia.
1t now seems probable that there will
| be war to the knife in the coke regions.
w. j. Rainey Of Cleveland, the larg-
est coke operator in the country. has de-
feated the efforts of the coke operators
to combine for the purpose Of advancing
| prices.
1t transpires that L. A. Wooley, a
| prominent lawyer who committed suicide
| in London last March, was involved in
extensive forgeries extending over a pc
| riod of several years. 1t is estimated
| that they amount to from $4,000 to
| f14O,00O
William w. Duham. the bankrupt
millionaire banker, and members of his
|
! suit filed at Charlottesville Ind, by J.
| NJ. Schultz, assignee of the estate, who
/ alleges fraud in the conveyance of some
| property. aa
Electricity was turned on in the new
| Baltimore e. Ohio tunnel at Baltimore.
| 1t will be the sole motive power and the
tunnel will be made as light as day from
| the same source.
West Indian advces report that the
! Island of Grenada Intends IN ST1bctit11to
| coffee for cocoa, its present staple, owing
| to the serious falli price of the latter in
the London market. e...s@as.s~.-4>
1t has developed that Woodward, I'm,
| der arrest at Cincinnati, operated extern
sively in check-raising in Virginia. It is
| expected that arrests of his accomplice.
will be made in Chicago.
The Farmers Implement warehouse
at Walla Walla.s Wash, was burned.
While trying to save the company's books,
the manager, Roland Wee, was so severely
burned that he will die.
Three years ago Mexican lines organ,
lied an alright pool on tonnage to AID
from the United States. 1t has just gone
to pieces, with. the usual result of rate
war OF large proportions.
AT Newport, the Pennsylvania road
will build the finest bridge across the
Ohio. It's channel span will be $40 feet.
Preliminary work on the bridge is being
zone by force OIL eAUU men.
Three detectives will watch Gray Ga
bles during the Presidents residence there.
The Bank of Commerce of Indianapo,
lis has suspended. Depositors will ulti-
mately be paid in full, it is said.
Prof. Daniel Kirkwood, LII. D., late
| professor of mathematics in Indiana state
university died at Riverside, Cal, aged
81. He was one of Americas best,
known scholars and an astronomer.
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up Lake Erie passenger train and ar
rested Engineer Fisher on a charge of
running too fast. The arrest is the result
of Fishers engine killing a city patrol
horse.
Walter Blandford has been appointed
to succeed Mr.. Lands. He occupied
the same position with Mr.. Olney while
the latter was at the head of the depart
ment of justice.
Jerry Simpson, who started on a free
silver lecturing trip from Medicine Lodge
to Topeka, kas., in covered wagon, was
caught in heavy doWnpour near Wichita
and forced to abandon his house on
wheels, ship his supplies to Scranton min,
ers by freight and use the railroad.
George Young Tweed, a son of the
notorious "Boss," has been missing from
the place where he lived, at 232 West
Forty-fourth street, New York, for elev-
en- days.
The British ship Falls of Dee, bound
to San Francisco from Newcastle-on-the-
Tyne, is out 1856 days, and considerable
apprehension exists among local under
writer's for her safety.
Fred Murray, Pat Downey and other
well-known Pana Gid young men have
been arrested on a charge of having alb,
Quoted Ethel Hartsock, aged Is, daughter
Of miller who lives at Nokomis.
The first cotton bloom of the season
was brought into the Mobile Cotton ex-
change. It came from the plantation of
J. S. Hobbins of Wilcox county. The
bloom is five days later than last year.
The United States circuit court at
Kansas City entered judgment for
$6S.OO4 against the Metropolitan Street
Railroad company in favor of the Pull
man Palace Car company for the value
of twenty-five cable cars made for the
Metropolitan company.
The Wells-Fargo coach was robbed
on lonely road between Frisco and
Luna, near the Arizona line. 1t is re-
ported that the stage was attacked by
ry,ooJ no Dd;fc vUho have hnnn rncnnflV