Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-12
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! The big Rockford Glue company's
| factory at Rockford ILL.,, which has been
! idle for several years, will resume opera
| lions at once, giving employment to 200
| hands and consuming $4,000 bushels of
/ corn daily.
| Thomas Pheland, who at one time
was one of the leading attorneys of AL
| buquerque, was before Judge Crawford
| charged with perjury. He was bound
over in $500 bonds to await the action
Of the grand jury.
The New York common council
passed a resolution directing the excise
| committee of the board to hold public
hearings and to prepare bill to be sub
mitted to the Legislature for a more
! liberal excise law with local option as the
| feature.
Since the return of Carrot A. Ho-
| bart from Europe renewed efforts have
been made to induce him to become
candidate for the Republican nomina-
| ton for governor of New Jersey. He
saws he IS not a candidate under any
considerations
! Edward Fagin died at the home of his
son near Boston, Ind, of old age. Fagin
was a member Of Col Campbells regi-
ment during the Crimean war and also
| a soldier in a Louisiana regiment during
| the Rebellion. He was badly wounded
| in both wars.
Attachments have been run on the
roundhouse, depot, engines and other
| property of the Wichita & Western rail
way at Cullison and Pratt, Kas., by the
| sheriff Of Pratt county. 1t is to compel
| the road to pay $1,000 taxes on their
property there.
/ The suit brought by Mr.. and Mrs.
| Robert Crowley, residents of Nova SEQ
! tia, some time ago against the Nelson
! Lumber company of Duluth to regain
| possession of a tract of land on the Me-
| saba iron range valued at something over
| $1,OOO,0O0, and embracing the Auburn
mine, which is now shipping over 5000
| tons of ore per day, was decided by
| Judge Lewis at Duluth in favor of the
| lumber company.
| w. e. Snyder has sued Findlay, O.,
| for S14,5OO. He claims his business
! block fronting on the river has been dam
aged by the sewage that is emptied into
/ the river.
at an old-fashioned circus exhibiting in
| New York, escaped and created panic
among the 1000 persons witnessing the
performance.
e. G. Devine, an expert Merger
thaler operator of the Helena (Mont:)
Independent office will accept the chal-
| lenge of Taylor of Denver or 6. l.. Cole
Of Cincinnati, stipulating nonpareil.
The territorial Supreme court at
| Tucson, AriZ., in upholding the validity
| of the county classification law passed
by the last Legislature, makes the total
reduction in salaries of county officials
| over 100000 annually.
Miss Ada Fisher sued the West Shore
| railroad at Dubuque, Ia, for $4,000 dam
| ages for alleged injuries IN collision.
| The lawyers allege to have found she
was uninjured the day after the collision
! and that she was trying to sWindle the
| company.
The heirs of the Sharon estate at
| San Francisco are ready to dissolve the
| trust which was organized ten years
ago and which expires on September 1.
| The heirs have already organized and
| are doing business under the new man
agement.
The dining room of the Howell house
at Quogue, l.. l., was the scene Of q
! lively time. Hamilton Fish, Jr., son OF
Senator Fish, who is stopping at the
Howell house with his uncle, Rev. Mr..
Fish, appeared at dinner intoxicated and
had a fight with a waiter.
George A. Martin of Sioux City, Ia,
has sued the Southern Pacific company
| for $4,000. He was on his way home
! from San Francisco on round-trip tick
| ct which the conductor charged him with
having purchased from scalper and
| Martin was put off.
The French line steamship La
| Touraine from Hayre came into New
| York twenty-four hours behind her usual
| time owing to a mishap to her machinery
/ during the voyage.
Several thousand people attended the
state encampment OF the Peoples party
| of Texas at Fort Worth. There is
movement on foot for fusion with the
| free silver Democrats, who are also III
session there.
The Daily Mercury of New York has
returned to the control of its former pro-
prietors, Messrs Caldwell and Noble.
| Four thousand nine hundred and seventy
! FIVE shares of the capital stock were sold
at auction and were bought for SSOO
| Two welI-known British ships, one
! bound from Melbourne for London and
| the other from Newcastle, n. 5. W., to
| Panama. are long overdue and San Fran
| cisco insurance men who have some risks
! on them have given both up for lost.
Rates for the Knights Templar con-
| claye at Boston are getting badly dis
| turbed The Eastern roads have aban-
! doned the idea of having q Joint agency
| at Boston to regulate return tickets and
| this will lead to manipulation by the
! scalpers
! At keystone, w. Va, j. M. Stroud,
coke boss for the Pulaski Iron company,
shot w A. Gilbert and James Owens,
two white miners working Tor the same
company The trouble originated at
dance given by strikers last month. Gil
bert may live, but Owens will die:
| The Burlington railroad is going west
to Washington and there are reasons
for the belief that it is going in hurry.
| A new route running nearly midway
between the Northern and Union Pacific
| through a wild and unsettled country
is now being explored and surveyed.
| H. Arms, Chicago millionaire, while
| attending the races at Cleveland was sued
| by Howard p. Eels, receiver for South
Milwaukee (Wis) hosting machine com
pany.
Hazel, the 9-year-old daughter of
Mrs. J. G. Rardin at Greenfield, Ind,
| took poison because she had been severely
punished by her mother. She will re-
| cover.
The holiness people have been holding
meetings at Tabor, Ia, the last week
They claim to have had a divine present.
ment that the world will come to an end
within ten days.
| John Quill, an old and wealthy resi-
| dent of Eaton, O., advocated boomers