Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-05
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states. at Rouse HOlnt, N. l., nave
been detected by customs officers, and
many arrests will follow.
-"Blinky" Morgan, the escaped lu-
matte, returned to Kokomo, Ind, burned
his fathers sawmill at Cassville, and
again disappeared, the officers being I'M
| able to locate the fugitive.
The body Of Ben Burdit, a burglar
who escaped from Logansport, Ind, a
| few weeks ago, was found on the fair
grounds there with bullet hole in his
head from his own revolver.
The Reading Iron company increased
the wages of it's puddlers to SD ton, all
advance of % cents. The 275 employees
of the company's rollingmill also re-
ceived 10 per cent advance.
Miss Grace Gale of Davenport and
Mrs. Patrick Burke Of Clinton, Ia, at
tempted suicide. The former swallowed
poison, the latter tried to drown herself
One was pumped out. the other fished out.
Commodore Chadwick has recon-
mended that all steel ships in dock or
on the ways be connected by copper
conductors with the sea to prevent a
recurrence of seamen being struck by
lightning.
The situation in Chinatown, San
Francisco, continues to grow more serious
each day. Clashes between representa-
tives of the ,,-nerent societies are of fire.
quent occurrence, and riots have been
narrowly averted.
Herman Perlet, the well-known mu-
steal director, and Miss Belle Thorne,
prima donna. were married quietly in
Jersey. City: Two days previously Mr..
Perlet's wife obtained a divorce from
him on statutory grounds.
The oldest Iowan thus far shown by
the census returns is Mrs. Lucy Alex
ander, colored, OF Keokuk. She was
born in Virginia 119 years ago. Four of
the five centenarians thus far revealed by
the census were born in that state.
Mrs. Zahn of Metamora and her two
daughters were thrown from their car
rage; Sophia, aged II years, was in
jured internally. A baby had its skull
fractured and Mrs. Zahn is suffering
from hysteria and her condition is alarm
ing.
A meeting of freight representatives
of lines interested in business to and
from Mexico will be held in Chica-
go to consider the ACCESSIBILITY Of meet
ing reduced rates made by some Of the
Mexican roads from st. Louis to the
City of Mexico.
Strenuous efforts are being made by
the Japanese foreign Office to have the
execution of the treaty of Simonosaki
and the evacuation of the Liao-Tung pen
insula regarded as interdependent ques
tions evidently with the intention of re-
ldEuIuS DIS ldI dS pUSSIUlc Tie
of Japan's forces from the peninsula.
M. P. Trout, commissioner of Sumner
county, Kas., was held to the grand jury
for having agreed to vote to give county
newspaper the official printing in eX
change for it's support
The Reading Pa) Iron company in
creased the wages of it's puddlers to So
a ton, an advance of 25 cents. The 275
employees of the company's rolling mill
The express companies doing bust
ness in Minnesota have been notified to
comply with the law placing them under
the jurisdiction of the railroad and ware
house commissioners within ten days.
in the $50, 900 libel suit of Julia Mar
lowe, the attorney for the Cleveland pa
per filed answer that the article COM
planned of was a review and criticism
and no damage has accrued to the plant
if.
Serious street disturbances have oc-
Cured at Lisbon, Portugal, in conse-
quence Of rumors that priests have been
guilty of child stealing. In a number of
instances priests have been attacked by
mobs and several of them have been in
jured.
Link Pitts, who claimed that he was
robbed at Sunnydale, Kas., is now the
correspondent in a divorce suit filed by
~.
farmers who lost their money through
Pitts say they do not believe he was
robbed.
Secret service detectives have found
at Buffalo a satchel containing $4,000
worth of bogus stamps which belonged
to Mrs. Mcmillan. alias Mrs. Mckay of
Hamilton, Ont, who is now in jail await
ing trial for participating in stamp
counterfeiting scheme.
~ II III a04
through his trouble with the people of
the Northwest and he will, in all proba-
bility, be in court in a short time fight
ing for the payment of bonds to the
amount of S250,000, which st. Louis
county. Nina, through its commissioners,
is now thinking of repudiating.
-Alonzo Beagd of Chicago, represent
ing a number of Chicago and New Work
capitalists will today hold q conference
with the Delavan heirs IN Albany, II. T.,
relative to the proposed scheme of e1tecT>
ing q large modern hOtet, superior to any
now existing between New York and Chi,
cago, on the site of the De1avan house Ee>
Gently burned.
4. T. Lewis, the Urbama (O.) forgery
was seen on the streets of Marysvilles,
Ky.
The Standard Oil company has bought
1000 acres of land in Ohio to develop
for oil fields.
Samuel Smelsen. a WHinsanNac (Ind)
farmer has been poisoned,. presumably
from eating pickles.
The Carnegie works at PIttsburg
are building steel freight cars and hope
to drive out wooden cars.
Richard Cooley of Fairwiewv My-, in
sane on religion, attempted to cut his
wife's throat but was overpoWered.
Andrew Boyd, at Montreal, has con-
fessed that he conspired with ffrebugs to
destroy his business building to get the.
insurance. -
20. E. Sanders and Isabelle Sanders,
divorced for four years, remarked at
Wichita, Kan-, for the sake of their lit
tie daughter
p. E. Rothermal, the artist. is not
dead as reported erroneously~ He is in
a critical condition in his home near
Norristown, Pa.
The 3-year-old son of Judge Field Of
Lincoln, Neb-, strayed away FROM home
and was found in the Catholic cemetery,
where he had passed the night.
George Susanka, the ST. Louis boy
x,,bo Suddenly .ElJnA 1S has