Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
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made among the negroes and IfoteStantS
of Florida, and hoped that it would con-
tinue.
An attempt was made to wreck the
eastbound night express on the Nickel
Plate road near McComb. Q. Ties
We're placed on the track and had the
train not been late it would have plunged
into the obstruction.
j. WILDER Chapman, an evangelist of
national fame has accepted the man
school at Eagle Lake, Ind. This school
is one that is to be similar to that of
Dwight l.. Moodys at Mortified, Mass
-Spellman Bros, importers and deal
ers IN fancy goods, novelties and toys, at
301 and 1853 Broadway, New York, made
an assignment to S. Y. White. The firm
has been in existence about fifty years
and carried a stock valued at between
100000 and S230,OOOO.
The Montrose County Cooperative
colony is the name given to the latest
Socialistic colonization scheme of Kan
sas Populists. Mrs. Anna l.. Diggs,
the well-known Populist writer and ora
tor, and DR.. S. McLallin, editor of the
Advocate, are the prime movers in the
enterprise.
Official returns have been received at
the internal revenue office in San Fran
cisco which show that the sweet wine
industry of California is increasing fast
er than any enterprise fostered by the
federal government and that California
ranks first among the states of the Union
in this industry.
The leased wire system of the AS
ISOLATED Press, through the cooperation
of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany, has been extended from San An
tonic, Tex, to Laredo, Tex, on the bor-
der of Mexico. where connection IS made
with the system of the Mexican National
Railway company.
AT the suggestion Of the German en-
voy at Toxic and of the Prussian minis
ter of commerce, the central committee
Of German manufacturers is about to
publish periodical in Japanese IN order
to advertise German products IN Japan.
Later a similar experiment may be tried
with the Chinese.
The Puget Sound & Central Ameri-
ca Steamship company has been incorpor>
ated by prominent shipping firms of Ta>
coma. Seattle, Port Townsend and Port
Blakeley Rates have been fixed at So
ton for flour and So per thousand for
| lumber, the latter being a saving of 50
per 1000 over the present method Of
trans-shipping at San Francisco.
The nail washers won a decisive vic
tory at Cleveland, O., and the strike is
ended
Manager Wolfe is under arrest and
it is proposed to thoroughly investigate
Tile OO1OIduO Uul1 light.
j. G. Provost, registrar of the SUI
preme court of British Columbia, has dis
appeared, and is alleged to have embez-
zled trust funds.
Wichita (Aas) men being too preju-
diced to try a case under the prohibitory
law dispassionately, eighty farmers have
been subpoenaed
A meeting of the largest steel con
Germs in the country was held at Pitts
burg, Pa, and preliminary steps taken
to form an organization to control prices.
1t is reported in official circles that
the Brazilian government has good
grounds to believe that England will re-
linquish her claim to the island of Trinl-
dad.
Count Bella Itchy, who has arrived
in New York from Europe, denies that
he is waiting for Mrs. Fernando Yznaga
to get her divorce and will then marry
her.
The first steel vessel to be butt at
Perth Amboy will be under way soon.
1t will be a gt1nboat, for which the gov
ernment Of Colombia has contracted
with the Ramsays.
Regarding the statement that the
Nicaragua canal report had been made
and received in Nicaragua it was said at
the state department in Washington that
there would be no report made before the
LIST of November.
j. S. Hackley, travelling salesman of
Louisville, Ky. claims to know the man
who helped DR.. Fraker of Excelsior
Springs, Mo-. to defraud the insurance
companies out of $4,000. lie offers to
produce Fraker for $4,000.
An unknown tramp about IS years
old was murdered in a box car on the
Pennsylvania road at Mansfield, q.
Officers at Ashland arrested five other
tramps supposed to have committed the
crime after a desperate fight.
-Asiatic cholera exists at Tarnepol,
Galicia
The bull fights at Gillette, Col, were
a failure financially.
Sir w. Cleaver Robinson, governor
of Western Australia, has resigned.
The Baltimore Herald is now domi-
cied in it's white marble and pressed
brick building.
The infant child of II. D. Osborne
of Champaign, H., was so severely
scalded that it died.
The Rev. G. F. Gates Of Chicago has
been elected president of Euphrates col
lege at Harpool in Turkey.
Six framen were overcome while fight
ing blaze at Des Moines, Ia, and they
were rescued with difficulty.
The city Of Hillsboro, ILL.,, will give
meal to any person who will earn it
by breaking rock two hours.
Later reports show that there was
no loss of life attending the wreck of the
brig W. II. Meyer in Alaskan waters.
The coroners verdict on the remains
of L. p Smalley. the train robber shot at
Lake City, Mich, was justifable homi-
eide.
Harry Sunders and little girl
named Huffman were seriously injured
by the explosion of thresher boiler at
Iowa Falls. Ia.
One hundred and sixty-six cases of
smallpox and forty-hve deaths have oc-
CURED up to date among the negro colo
nists detained near Eagle Pass. Tex.
Spencer G. MILAN, lieutenant-goyer-
nor of California, who has been in Mich
igan for his health, was hurriedly sum
moned home because of the critical ill
ness of Gov. Budd.
Detectives have ascertained that the
notorious Holmes was in Elwood, Ind,
from October 10 to II last year and tried
to rent a room. They think they may
find in that vicinity the body of Howard
PietZel.
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