Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-22
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near Traverse City, Mich.
Fremont G.. White, a private at Fort
Houston, committed suicide with one OF
the new Krag-Jorgensen rifles recently
issued to the army.
George Mcnamara, while drunk,
stabbed his wife and seriously wounded
his mother in-law. Mrs. S. Il. Mayheld,
at Kansas City, Mo.
"A large building in course of erection
in Los Angeles, CAL, collapsed. Seven
men buried in the ruins were extricated.
Two were fatally injured.
"A saloonkeeper at Wichita, kaS.,
whose business had been broken up, stole
the horse of Rev. Mr.. Funk leader of
the reform crusade, to escape from the
county.
"A pretty girl of Henrico county Va)
is infatuated with Philip Nicholas, an
aged and ugly assassin who is in Jail at
Richmond awaiting trial. She wants to
marry him.
"A f. Ul1man, president Of the East
ST. Louis Jockey club, says that the East
ST. Louis track VIII be reopened as soon
as the fair grounds close providing there
is no foreign book legislation
IS. B. Castle, superintendent of a
summer resort railway between Mus
kegon, Mich, and Lake Harbor. eloped
with Mrs. Jennie Woodland. who was
The Lehigh Valley company has
of London $6,O00,000 5 per cent. bonds
guaranteed by the Lehigh Valley Rail
road company The price is said to be
105
Frank Lacroix and John link, night
watchmen at the Crescent nail mill at
Belleyille, ILL.,, were frightfully burned
by an explosion of coal oil, presumably
caused by carelessness in filling a lighted
lamp from an open barrel
Otto Enghausen, son Of a prominent
farmer near Bartlett, ILL.,, was dangerous
ly injured by Charles Shultz while return
ing from a picnic. They quarreled and
Shultz struck Enghausen over the head
with a stone. fracturing his skull.
w. V. Powell, grand chief of the
Order of Railway photographers, is in
Peoria inspecting sites offered for the
permanent headquarters of the order.
He says there is no doubt whatever OF
their removal to Peoria from Vinton, Ia
The Northwestern Lumbermen's as
ISOLATION has threatened to boycott the
Winona (Minn) lumber manufacturers
unless they refuse to sell to the Union
Lumber company, which has a number of
retail yards in Southern Minnesota and
which is charged with cutting rates.
Sixty United States prisoners have
been transferred from the Columbus CO.,
penitentiary TO- the LeavenWOrth kas.)
institution.
Alfred D. Kingsberry, dealer in fine
glassware and china goods at Akron, o.,
has assigned. Liabilities, SloOOO; as
sets the same.
Prince Bismarck's health is much
better, but as he is unwilling to travel
he will probably not go to Gastein or
Kissengen this year.
The Brazilian cabinet will not ac~
cept the terms of peace offered IN be-
half of the revolving bands in the state
Of Rio Grande do Sui
George Jessup and Joseph Boyer Of
Lafayette, Ind, had a dispute in Brook
ston Boyer stabbed Jessup in the face.
Jessu~ shot Boyer three times. Boyer
will die.
The nailers at Ellis & Lessig's iron
and steel plant at Pottstown, Pa, have
been notified that after August 1 they
will receive an increase of POS per cent.
in wages.
DIR. Eddmon, on trial at Bowling
Green, O., for being the principal Grim
inal in the Peany murder case, was
found not guilty. Mrs. Eddmon was also
discharged.
H. NJ. Morrison Of Cleveland, O., and
four Knoxville, Tenn. capitalists have or
ganized the Union Coke company and
will put in several large ovens at Coal
Creek at once
1t has been decided by the weather
bureau at Washington to hold the fourth
annual convention of the American AS
ISOLATION of the State Weather Service in
indianapolis this year.
Agents of the various steamship COM
panies declare that the business this year
is so much larger than usual that the
outgoing steamers will be filled for all
the rest of this month.
Forest fires are raging at Telegraph
Bay, 3. c., and the destruction of the
Victoria powder works, in the magazine
Of which is stored $4,000 pounds of nitro
glycerine, is threatened.
Paper manufacturers and paper bag
makers, at convention held in Niagara,
n. Y, decided to advance drab paper from
81 to 612 cents a pound and flour sacks
from $1S to SO thousand
Harry p Deuel., city passenger and
ticket agent of the Union Pacific at Oma-
ha, Neb., has resigned after thirty-five
years active service, to be succeeded by
A. G. Dunn Of the same road.
The British ship Inchcape Rock.
Capt. Wilson, from San Francisco, March
10, arrived at Queenstown with the
crew Of the brig Gerda, which was sunk
by collision with the Inchcape Rock off
the Irish coast.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a fifth dividend, 10 per cent, in
favor Of the creditors of the Evanston
National bank of Evanston, ILL.,, making
in all 20 per cent. on claims proved
amounting to $7S,260.64
The barn of John Murphy, two miles
north Of Varna. ILL.,, burned with all its
contents. Loss. $4,000 The barn was
erected in 1916, had a ground area of TO-
900 square feet. 1t was the best known
landmark in Central Illinois.
Baron Adolphe Van Der Smissen
brother of the famous Gen. Van Der
Smissen of the Belgian army, committed
suicide at Brussels by blowing out his
brains with a revolver. Another of the
generals brothers committed suicide in
June with the same revolver
Clay county Qnd) miners agree to
51-cent scale, drop the screen demand
and operators reinstate men dropped.
The board of education of Mount
Vernon, Ind, has ordered a separate
school provided for colored children, that
the teacher be an Afro-American, and has
engaged the colored Baptist church for a
SchOOIroom There is great diSSenSiOn