Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-10-21
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from Ambassador Patenotre of France
the invitation of the French republic to
take part in the French Exposition of
1900, which is to usher in the Twentieth
century.
B. V. H. Schultz. a son of the mill
ionaire soap manufacturer of GAINESVILLE
O., has been remarked to his divorced
wife. II is said that he was reconciled
to her in Chicago at the sickbed of their
daughter.
Counsellor Kennedy of the Waller
case is of the opinion that the turn the
course of military affairs has taken in
Madagascar in favor of the French will
not unfavorably affect the financial in
terests of the ex-consul in that island.
At Guelph, Ont, the relatives of
Hugh Walker are convinced his death
was natural Annie Walker, the wife,
when in Guelph had hallucInaJion that
she was suspected of numbering him. She
is now in Chicago clearinghouse in
sane.
1t is reported that A. B. Plough,
vice-president and general manager of
the ST. Paul & Duluth railroad, has been
rendered the position of general manager
of the Central railroad of Georgia, po
SitiOn of much greater Importance than
he now holds.
AT State college, Pa, member of
the freshman class. named Miller, held
a loaded revolver in front of him and
cowed down members of the sophomore
class assembled to haze him. Miller is
from Mcdonald, Pa, and several unsuc-
cessful attempts had been made to haze
him.
Baby" Mckee is reported by DR.. w
H. Hall as suffering from scarlet fever in
mild form at Saratoga, n. Y, and while
the disease may not assume a serious
character the attending physician says
4ho+ 1lIyi will no lyS
before the patient will have fully recov-
cred.
Edward Livingstone, sent to the
Michigan state house of correction from
Bad Axe for burglary, was released at
the expiration of his sentence. He was
met at the door by Minnesota official,
who took him back to that state to serve
out the balance of a fve-year sentence,
he having escaped. He. is also wanted
in New York.
The board of public improvements at
st. Louis alleges the iron columns holding
up the city hall are defective by reason
of innumerable blow holes, and the infer
Ance is that unless this had been discov-
cred the columns might have Succumbed
to any extra weight placed on the floors
with disastrous results. Trouble is eX-
pected with the contractors.
"A Hamburg paper says there has
been a mutual agreement with the pur-
pose to form a pool of the continental
steamship lines. They have agreed to
reduce the Storage rate to New York 20
marks $50.
AT Birmingham, Ala, State Mine
Inspector Hillhouse predicts that the
output of coal in Alabama this year will
be 100000 tons and that the manu-
facture of iron will equal that of 1892,
the largest yet.
AT Eagle Pass, Tex. Station Agent
George of the Southern Pacific has been
instructed not to transport any more
negro colonists there being hitch about
the payment Of their fare by Birming-
ham people who engaged them.
A Kansas & Arkansas Valley
freight train fell through a trestle eight
miles east of Kiowa, I. L. The trestle
was ia feet high and the train was
literally smashed into atoms. Thirteen
of the cars contained live stock.
AT the annual meeting of the On
tario Curling association it was decided
that the next international match will be
held in Buffalo in 1897 and the executive
committee was instructed to arrange the
details with the United States curriers'.
The revision of the Bible at London
has been completed, including the apoch-
rypha, upon which the revisers have been
engaged since 1881, and it will shortly
be issued from the Oxford Press in
various sizes, uniform with the revised
Old and New Testament.
"A panic was created on Midway
Heights, the pleasure resort of the ex-
position, this afternoon by fire which
originated in the Old Plantation kitchen,
an exploding gasoline stove being re-
sponsible Hagenbeck's wild beast arena
was damaged before the flames were
controlled
The explosion of a gasoline generator
on the first floor set fire to the Southern
laundry works at Birmingham, Ala. The
building was in flames before a dozen
girls working on the second floor could
escape by, the stairway and all jumped
from the windows several being serious
ly injured.
The office of general superintendent
of the, Southern Pacific company has
been esta blished and ]. A. Fillmore Civ
en- the title of manager of the Pacific
system of the Southern Pacific which in
cludes the roads between Ashland, Or,
on the north, Ogden on the east and Ell
Paso on the south.
The contract for the transportation
of coke and copper bullion between Fort
Thomas and Globe, Ariz., has been
awarded to J. N. Porter by the copper
companies interested. This is prelimi-
nary to the renewal of production by the
great copper mines at Globe. A mean
VI .-sOOO.OOO pOu1uo pei AAOAAtA
is expected. 9f8e
AT Elyria. O., Mrs. Celeste Bruce
has sued St. Mary's Catholic church for
$4,000 for damages sustained by the
falling of the platform during the dedi-
cation of the church two weeks ago.
Secretary Smith has directed the
force in the law division of the interior
department to work one hour extra each
day in order that the work of that d.
vision may be brought up to date. 1t
is now about ten months in arrears.
"A horse named the Nipper, formerly
a jumper at races, could not stand har'
messed and plunged down steep bank
outside Of San Francisco. 4. Page
out of the carriage and probably fatally
injured
Blanche Elkan, the daughter of
prominent Hebrew cloakmaker of Bos-
ton, became a convert to the Catholic
religion while attending school at Belle
vue convent, Quebec, and upon her re-
turn there this fall was enrolled as
nun in the order of the Good Shepherd