Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-30
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out Of employment. Loss, $4,000.
AT Champaign, H., highwaymen at
tackled Mrs. j. A. Flanagan and her
sister in their buggy, but got no booty.
Owing to the great drouth farmers
OF Ohio are not sowing much wheat.
Dry weather is injuring the young clio
yer.
Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn gave
out a statement to the effect that under
no circumstances would he accept re-
nomination.
The Rev. J. E. Barth of the Farbury
Qll) Methodist church has been advised
he has fallen heir to a 100000 fortune
in England.
The Michigan board of corrections
and charities will urge the enforcement
OF manual labor in cases Of persons SEN
fenced to Jail.
William O. Lowden, representing
attorney of Barry county, Mich, Baptist
minister and forger, has been arrested at
Corrington, n. d.
People of Washington and Califor-
MIA discredit the report that a schooner
is being fitted out in Oakland creek for
piratical purposes.
&C. G. Reid, ex-deputy United States
marshal, was convicted at Birmingham.
Ala, yesterday, Of presenting false ac-
counts to the government.
New York capitalists are discussing
the ACCESSIBILITY of building an electric
line between Cleveland and Pittsburg.
1t is estimated it will cost $10,000,000
Frank S. Peterson, a Sioux City Qa)
special policeman, was arrested for hold
ing up and robbing Roy Ruthyen, a re-
cent arrival there. Peterson confessed
Proceedings have been commenced
for the impeachment of W. w. Rodgers,
justice for the Center district of West
Virginia. He is accused of habitual
drunkenness.
In the nonpartisan state silver con-
vention, called at Raleigh, n. c., by
Democrats, all the resolutions excepting
those declaring for free coinage of silver
were laid on the table.
1t is reported that Emperor William
and Gar Nicholas will meet shortly at
Rominten.
The first norther of the season has
cooled South Texas, resulting in some
damage to the cotton crop.
Lewis D. Means and man named
Owens We're seriously injured by an cleo
trio car in Washington city.
-Zella Nicolaus, en- route to Chicago,
stopped off at Wabash, Ind, to have de
positions taken in her suit gainst George
Gould.
Gen. George S. Bachelor, ex-min-
lister to Portugal, and family gave a re-
ception at Saratoga in honor of Mrs.
j.. r. Mckee, daughter of eX-President
Harrison.
Indiana oil producers wish to place
their product on a par with the Ohio
crude, and if their proposition is not ac-
cepted by the Standard Oil company they
may shut down.
President Faure has conferred the
grand Gordon of the Legion of Honor
upon Gen. Dragomiroff. who represent,
ed Russia at the French army maneu,
yers at Mirocourt.
One of the Peoria CID distilleries is
all ready to start on October |, but this
morning it received instructions by tele-
graph not to start on that date but to
await further orders.
indictments have been found against
Herman Bamber and Joseph Il. Motifs
of Salt Lake. They are charged with
fraud in connection with contracts for
the new city building.
"A dispatch from Nilg-Po says that
the whole province of Che Kiang, es>
pecially the city of Kin VIVA, has been
placarded with anti-foreign and anti
Christian proclamations.
"A Paris dispatch says that it has
been decided to commence at an early
date the construction Of a ship canal to
connect the Rhine and the Elbe at a
cost of 200,000,O00 marks.
j. r. McGregor, representing an iron
mining firm of Alabama, has gone to
Eagle Pass, Tex, and is endeavoring to
get a carload of the negro colonists who
have returned from Mexico.
According to the London World,
James Gordon Bennett, the New York
publisher, will soon wed Nine. Annekoff,
the widow of the Russian general who
constructed the transCaspian railroad.
AT the special election the people of
Duluth rejected the proposition to pylr-
chase the water plant for almost $4,000,
600 and declared in favor of building q
rival plant. Legal complications may
follow.
At Anderson, Ind, Supt. Kenyon OF
the county infirmary in preventing the
kidnapping Of the Bolton boys shot at one
of the despoilers and thinks he killed
him. The body was carried off by cons
federate.
-Diphtheria is epidemic at East St.
Louis, Mo.
Bolivia has called its naval commits
sion from Europe.
-Epizootic influenza is prevalent i'll
many New York livery stables.
AT Toledo, O., Judge Pratt decided
the "black list among railroads was IL
legal.
-RuSSlanS around 1OpekA, hde.: dIe
returning to Russia to stay. Each one
takes from $4,000 to $4,000 in cash with
him.
AT Niagara Falls the Duke of MARI
borough pleased people with his oHhand
ways.
At Santa Cruz, Cal, forest fires are
raging and railroad traffic it lnterfered
with by trees falling across the tracks.
-Ex-County Treasurer M. G. Clay
of Ironton, o.. who is said to be de-
faulter for $4,000, is not to be found.
John Devine Jones, aged 81, for
forty years president of the Atlantic
Mutual Insurance company, is dead IN
New York.
The Pope will shortly write to the
Gar letter protesting against the i'll
treatment to which Roman Catholics are
subjected to in Russia.
Capt. J. A. Mclean of Valparaiso,
who was arrested at Port Townsend,
Wash, for alleged brutality to sailor,
claims he is British subject and has
demanded his release.
-Chauncey Depew has returned to
New York from Newport, where he is