Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-17
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, the Indiana
Celebration of Trades and Labor Unions

At Fort Wayne, Ind, the Indiana
| Federation of Trades and Labor Unions
| decided, after warm debate, not to ask
| Congress to pass more stringent immigra-
! ton laws.
AT st. Louis, No., it was decided
that all cars of grain will be sealed when
! weighed at the elevators and weighed
again by the railroads. Petty stealing
| made it necessary.
Western Union Telegraph company
! stockholders in annual meeting elected
all the old directors and chose w. +.
| Cochrane to the vacancy caused by the
death of Percy r. Pyne.
| At Duluth Mimi. the plant of the
| Great Western Manufacturing company
was taken from Receiver Fowle of Chi
cago and turned over to Receiver Moore.
representing local interests.
DIR. j. c. Hearne and wife. charged
with the murder of the latter's husband.
StillweH. well-known pork packer.
asked for change of venue from Hanni-
bal. Mo-, to Bowling Green, and it was
! granted.
| Richard Einfeldt, formerly instructor
of the Duluth Athletic club. but now
of the Winona (Minn.) Turner's, broke
| the state record at high and broad jump
| ing. He cleared So feet high and 1O1a
| feet broad.
At st. Paul the Minnesota chapter
of Royal Arch Masons elected Charles
| u. BOyce grand high priest There is
a balance of $1,000 in the treasury and
the membership has increased 143 dur
| ing the year.
A burglar alarm on church poor
box is something out of the ordinary.
| but it trapped thief in the Blocker
Street Roman Catholic church in Brook
lyn, which, like most Roman Catholic
churches, is open all day.
AT Peoria. ILL.,, Anton Theirs, who
was to be married to Miss Annie Bur-
lett, failed to appear. His father and
father-in-law gave him $500 the day be-
fore the wedding time and he started on
| spree and could not be found.
"A new complication has been added
to the contest of the will disposing of the
| $4,OO0,OO0 estate of the late Mrs Charles
Lux by the filing of a petition at San
Francisco by the California Safe De
will now before the probate court de-
| clared invalid.
The suit of Mrs. Clint Nickells Of
Kansas City against Mrs. Maud Graha NJ
| for $4,000 for alternating the affections
| of her husband, was settled in the Unit
| ed States district court in Fargo, n. D.,
by which Mrs. Nickells gets $4,000 cash
Minneapolis.
Patrick Grove, who is thought to
have been the leader of the gang of
train robbers which operated in this sec
ton two years ago, was indicted at St.
Joseph, Mo-, for jail breaking. 1t is
believed Grove planned the jail delivery
last January in which, beside himself,
! two men under sentence of death and a
number of others escaped
The courtmartial of Capt. Joel T.
Kirkman, that has been in progress at
| T nj for hn 10 II two nlyS
and had caused a big stir in army circles,
| was given another sensational turn. Gen.
| Merritt telegraphed dissolving the court
| for permitting irregularities during the
trial and ordering all the officers in the
court to their respective stations.
| The trial of Mrs. Samuel Smith of
Detroit, alleged to have aided her hus-
out of $4,000 after he eloped with the
woman from Detroit, began at Duluth.
The Dolphin has arrived at Port
| land Me-, to assist in the speed trial Of
the battleship Indiana. The naval board
is in Philadelphia inspecting the new
| battleship before she starts away from
| Cramps.
Probably the most dramatic scene
| of the kind ever seen in a Brooklyn
| Presbyterian church on the occasion of
the farewell sermon of the Rev. T. De
| Witt Talmage.
The Peruvian Congress has approved
| the project of railroad running from
Lima to Pisco, traversing a rich and
| cultivated district. The construction Of
| this railroad offers a grand opening for
| American capital.
| After having been out forty eight
hours the jury at Duluth in the embezZle-
| ment case against George A. Elder of
| Chicago reported disagreement and
was discharged. The last ballot stood
eight for conviction and four for ac-
| quittal.
| The grand jury at Springfield has
made final report and adjourned They
| found but one bill for bribery in the
| legislative investigation, but it is said
had evidence of several cases on which
| Chicago and Peoria grand juries could
| find indictments.
-Debs has issued circular from his
| Woodstock Jail headquarters telling rail-
way employees how they can organize
secretly in accordance with the plans
promulgated by the directors of the
| American Railway union before they
| had served out their sentences.
Richard O. Davis, the alleged pro-
| fessional forger, was released from the
| Charles street Jail, Boston, on $4,000
bail, furnished by Detective William HI.
Jackson of Cincinnati He was then re-
arrested by Detective Jackson on a
bench warrant from the court of common
pleas for Ohio on charge of forgery
committed a year ago. Davis consented
n 30 70 C;ro;oDoti without rac1iSition