Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-18
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James A. Scott of Thompkinsyille is I'M
der arrest for embezzlement. false swear
ing and burning the poStOftice. Scott is
Presbyterian deacon and Sunday
school superintendent.
1t is said the office of minister of
foreign affairs of Hawaii, made vacant
by the appointment of Frank w. Hatch
as minister to the United States. has
been rendered to Lorin NJ. Thurston
formerly minister here.
-Luella Merritt, aged IA, died at Mon
mouth, ILL.,, and her assailant, Shilo Nc
Intyre, so years of age, is strongly
guarded in the Warren county jail. The
sheriff, fearing a lynching, has hastily
sworn in number of deputies.
AT Toronto. Ont, the court in the
Hyams murder trial ruled out purDosed
experiments with the elevator and weight
to demonstrate the impoSSibility of the
weight becoming accidentally detached.
The ruling fayors the defense.
Frederick Romero and James Mon
tague fought duel at Bisbee. Ariz., in
which each received injuries that will
probably prove fatal. Romero believed
that Montague had alienated the affec-
tions of his wife and challenged him to
fight a duel.
Through an advertisement Mr.. and
Mrs II. Barnett were reunited at Elgin,
ILL.,, after thirty years of separation, dur
ing which each mourned the other as
dead Both are more than three-ScOre
years of age. They became separated
during the war.
The Cuban insurgent leader RolofF
is at Sigunca, province OF Santa Clara,
awaiting Maxine Gomez at the head of
force OF insurgents and with the lnten-
ton of advancing upon the city of Santa
Clara, the headquarters of Capt.-Gen.
Martinez de Campos
A train OH the North Midland div
sion of the Michigan Central struck
broken rail east of Auburn, Mich. Two
cars left the rails and tipped over Con-
dUct0F B. Martin had his shoulder dislo-
Gated and a passenger named William
Glass had his hand cut.
John B. Dickinson, the active partner
of Sprain, Dickinson & Co., bankers and
brokers at 10 WALL street. New York,
left his office at noon one day about a
month ago and has not returned. His
absence has caused much inquiry on the
part of persons having business rela-
lions with him.
IT is reported THAT twenty-five immi-
grants on their way to California from
oklahoma are in fearful condition OH
the, Colorado desert. They have aban-
donef their worn-out horses and their
food is almost exhausted A Southern
Pacific, train stopped and gave them a
barrel of water.
One corner of III. Helsey's mammoth
new glass plant being erected at Newark,
o., fell, covering in the ruins four men,
one of whom, Samuel Cooper, has not
been found. The others are, William
Bookings, Albert Boss, Addison Siddons
and Thomas Hastings. Boss and Brook
ings may die.
When Sanitary Inspector Jones went
to disinfect the house of Christian
Schissel in Indianapolis, whose children
have just recovered from diphtheria he
found big boa constructor, the family
pet, in am advanced stage OF THE, disease.
He will dose it with anti-toxin tomorrow.
Schissel is a sideshoW man and has a
dozen other snakes.
At London, in DR.. Henring's suit for
insurance, on the burned yacht Mohican
an expert testified to- finding evidences
of four distinct fires.
Josiah Quincy, who, was assistant
secretary of state early in the present
administration, has BEEN nominated for
mayor Of Boston by the Democrats.
Henry Du Lawrence, a young Polish
attorney. expects to have between 300
and 400 Poles in Cleveland ready about
November 25 to join the Cuban insur
gents.
Mrs. Ruby Cooper. the Chicago wom
an who,. several weeks ago, was severely
burned by the falling of gas jet in her
room at Atlanta, Ga, died at the Grady
hospital.
At Baltimore MIDI, Charles Schlaf-
fer, brewer. one of the German district
bosses, was arrested charged with pro-
curing. fraudulent naturalization papers
for aliens.
Acting Chief Conlin and Acting In
spectOrs Cartwright and Mccullough of
New York Will be formally appointed to
the, places which they have occupied tenn
porarily.
After nine years of successful part
nership as manager and star, Daniel
Frohman and e. Fl. Sothern have de-
cided to part company at the end of the
current season.
The trial of Col. A. B. Colt, who shot
rioters at Washington Courthouse, o.,
with the militia, will have to be gone
over from the beginning, as one of the
jury is likely to die of heart disease.
a switch point on the Baltimore 4
Ohio, near GAINESVILLE, O., broke beneath
a running freight train and fourteen cars,
loaded with government stores for West
ern military posts, were smashed to
splinters.
At Aurora, ILL.,, Walter Brown. Hor-
ace Storm, Sidney G. Graham and John
Jones are to be tried for murder. In
each case the victim lived hours or days,
and expert testimony will be feature
of the trials.
Charles A. Dana will preside at a
mass meeting in New York in behalf Of
Cuba to be held the latter part of this
month. December fair will be held
in Masonic Temple by the Daughters of
Cuba to raise fund for wounded sol
diers.
DIR. Fraker, the insurance swindler,
is reported to be dying of Bright's dis
ease.
Daniel H. Roberts, glass importer
at 41S West Broadway, New York, failed
for 100000
-Vassar college girls at Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, listened to Joe Jefferson's COM
parison of the actor and the orator.
Seven men are reported killed by
an explosion Of fire damp in the, Win
ming colliery at Blackwell, Derbyshire.
At St. Louis it is announced that
J. B. McCullagh, editor of the Globe
Democrat, is d candidate for the United
States Senate.
j. w. Collett, under arrest at Column
bus, O., for causing the death of John
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