Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
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The railway men of Texas will meet
to secure such legislation as will benefit
their labor organizations.
u. S. Grant, Jr, favorite son of the
famous general, is interested in Southern
California hotel property.
Anthony Brake, bricklayer, was
killed by falling from the third floor Of
a Dubuque, Ia, brewery.
Edward W. Burch, a Peoria Qll.}
druggist, died from the effects of chloro,
form taken to induce sleep.
Delegates to the American Library
associa tons convention at Denver took
an excursion on ''the ''loop."
Coils p. Huntington is pushing his
Guatemalan railway into the heart of
immensely valuable territory.
Nick Becker of Chicago was drowned
in the river at st. Joseph, Mich, while
bathing. He was about 35 years old.
Minister Ransom expects to be suffi-
GENTLY recovered in health to be able to
return to his post in Mexico in a few
weeks
w. B. Dennis, Jr., young dentist
of Effingham, ILL.,, shot himself, but was
saved by the ball striking a rib and
glancing off.
The Colorado Humane society has ap-
pealed to Gov. Mcintyre to stop the
Mexican bull fight at Gillett. in the Grip
pie Greek district.
Norman S. Mussey, the lawyer who
tried to jump in front of a Sixth avenue
81 train and fell to the street. died ia
the New York hospital.
One of the steerage passengers of the
Majestic jumped overheard and was
drowned. He was John Herman John.
son, aged 81, of Sweden.
L. L. Osborne of Kewaunee, Ill,
tried to commit suicide by taking NOR
phine. His reason was that he was u1..
able to get divorce from his wife.
A rowboat containing Juan De Con,
zalez. a barber from Grand Rapids,
Mich, was run into by the ferry tug
Watson at Holland and De Gonzalez
drowned.
David Howard. 35 years old, was
instantly killed at Cambridge City, Ind,
while loading some machinery on a
freight car. A heavy shear cutter fell
upon him.
-Four tramps stealing a ride on the
cowcatcher of an Alton locomotive were
Knocked off by COW hit by the engine
near Marshall. ILL., Two were killed
and one fatally injured.
Samuel Degen, cattle shipper Of
Chicago, who recently sailed for England
with 3OS cattle, has returned to Wash
ington and reports that not a single one
was lost on the trip. The cattle brought
$3.50 head.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Stuttgart ran into the bark Eleanor M.
Williams twenty-five miles off Davis,
South Shoal lightship. The bark's stern
was cut clean off. The Stuttgart towed
her into port.
The Oregon weather bureau has IS
sued a report on the hop crop, which is
estimated will be in excess of 1894. Last
years product in Oregon was 10000
bales.
1t has just been discovered that NJ.
Kirk, elected special judge in Martin
county, KY, and who has tried num-
Der of Iawbreakers, is ineligible because
he is too young.
An unknown person fred two shots
at Michigan Central passenger train
near Wayne, Mich. Fortunately none
of the bullets took effect Detectives are
at work ON the case.
The heirs of Don Jose de Jesus Noe
have begun suit in a San Francisco court
to regain possession of a tract OF land
comprising over 5000 acres known as the
San Miguel rancho in that city
The Bessemery Ala, Land and I'M
company has bought the two
iron furnaces at Fort Payne, Ala, and
will remove Them to Bessenaer. 1t will
their outpat.
The cruiser Columbia WAS officially
inspected at New York, when it was
found the breaking of the pilates OF the
keel had caused cracks In tire concrete
packing The leakage cam easily be
stopped after the. keel plates aae straight
ened.
Fannie Gordon, eldest dtanghter OF
Byron Gordon of Moline, ILL.,, was mar.
~ = M ESxrrT1 Vr-
nette, a young drug clerk in tdfe employ
OF G.. H. SohrBeck.. 1t is her second Sc
cret marriage.
Mrs Burke of Rochester, n Y, was
at Sioux Falls last summer and after
getting a divorce she, married Jack Da>
Wis. He proved to, re a higti-a0lEer and
now she is back at Sioux Fails for q
second divorce.
-JOhn G. New, ths former osansul-gen-
eraE of the United States at London.
anrG one Of the. stausrhest supporters OF
ex-Yresident Benjamin HARRISON, ar
ri we'd! in New York On the American line
steamer Beran.
ATT a meeting: of HE Canadian Pacific
boa1d of directors dividend ad the rate
of 4 per cent per annum Oh the pre-
ferned' stocks of the companE was de
claretll for tine half year ending June 81
last, payable October /.
A terr1fN' explosion ocCuhaII at Cne
EnfDson canning factory, Longmont,
Coz. in which five. men and ONE woman
were. injured. One of the steam watts
usesi! for Boiling peas eXqhOdied while
the. factory was. I'M full blast.
An execution Cor SIC, S33s& was issued
at Lancaster, Pa against R. l.. Lands,
a farmer off Landis Valley. by his wife.
Inn additions he has confessed judgments
amounting to s$s444163O. His principal as,
sets is his reaI estate whia& is assessed
ast $4,000.
Charles, f.. McDermohh of OaklandI.
Cal, is perfeatfng an eleatrfc submarine.
torpedo, the, inwention Of DIR. Gross Of
Chicago. which,. he Says will put an
end to marine, warfare. With his tDr-
pedo he says, q few men could keep off
the combined navies of the world.
Two attasApts to a3berste Stonewall
J. de Nnanaes. the king of WESTERN for
gers, have recently BEEN frustrated by the
Denitentiany officers ant Jackson, Mich,
and die. fact has developed that the con-
Wet has a powerful gang, both inside and
outside, THE prison, who are bending every
eneagy to- release him.
BY tine alteration of brands thousands
of heads of Colorado and Wyoming cattle
Is,x,. hoon, -+oJo,, q scf9 n11n north into Mon