Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-04
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de Cuba are said to have ben sent with
out trial to the Spanish penal colony of
Ceuta, on the coast of Morocco.
Tomas Estrada Palma, delegate of
/ the Cuban revolutionary party at New
| York, has been appointed minister plen-
ipotentiary by the Cuban government.
At New York Arthur O'Dea disrobed
wrapped himself in a blanket and lay
! down on the cable car track, feigning
sleep. He was sent to Bellevue hosp1-
tai.
The two islands Of Huahine and
BOrabora, belonging to the Tahitian
group in the South Pacific, have been an
neXed to France by consent of the native
chiefs.
The investigation of the Richmond
! (Va) city gas works by committee OF
the common council, aided by expert ac-
countants, is bringing to light shocking
state of affairs.
The breach of promise suit of Mrs
Mary A. Pool Of Roanoke, Ind, against
Isaac Gephart of that place, in whose
employ she was as q domestic, has been
settled by their marriage.
The members of the Merchants Bar
Iron association, which has been in SEES
sion in Louisville, Ky. will make q tour
of the iron and mineral industries III
the Birmingham (Ala.) district.
At Denver, Col, Thomas M. Patter-
son, proprietor Of the Rocky Mountain
News, was arrested for criminal libel
on complaint Of the Denver TramWay
company, asking 100000 damages. "A
| charge of jury-b ribing caused the suit.
Passengers on the steamship Trayc,
who arrived at New York, had a startling
experience. On October %, for tel
hours. the ship was helpless BY the
! breaking of a lever steam rushed III
clouds through the vessel, creating the
impression it was on fire. Men and
women cried with fear, but were finally
uuieted Later a similar accident oc
Cured, creating a second panic.
AT indianapolis, Ind, twenty-nine
policemen have been discharged by the
new board Of safety.
AT ST. Johns, N. B., news is re
ceived that 500 wreckers made an at
tempt to rob the wreck of the steamer
Mariposa and were driven off by customs
officers.
Lawyer Francisco Alfaro has re-
| ceived power OF attorney from the au-
thorities Of Poweshiek county, Ia, that
will enable him to proceed legally against
| Chester Rowe, in prison at the City OF
Mexico charged with embezzlement in
Iowa.
In the divorce suit of Woolston at
London it was stated that Mrs. Wool
ston, the defendant, lived for a time
under the protection of the Duke of Or
leans, the pretender to the throne of
France on his houseboat and at the
Savoy hotel.
The last fixed span of the new Pa
cifc Short line bridge across the Mis-
souri, river at Sioux City, Ia, has been
completed. The substructure of the
bridge is entirely completed and the cree
ton of one draw span alone remains be-
fore the bridge is opened.
While the Canterbury band was play
ing 1.-THE Campbells Are Coming" at
Bucyrus, O., the engine of the train Ell
route there with ex-GoV. Campbell on
board ran off the track at that place.
Mr.. CampbelPs coming was delayed
| three hours.
A large number of citizens congre-
gated at the Baptist church at Slater,
Mo-, for the express purpose of praying
for rain. Such a scarcity of water was
never before known in this section.
Nearly 1000 tanks Of water have been
sold here during the past year.
Two suburban trains on the Mis-
souri, Pacific road, one loaded with sub
urbanites returning home from the the
aters of ST. Louis, and the others com
ing into town, collided within the city
limits. Engineers Harper and Campion
were killed and other trainmen severely
injured None of the passengers were
badly hurt.
A couple, passing as the Count and
Countess Scheliher Of Germany, and
who have been entertained at Cleveland
1 by society people, are missing. When a
constable called at their apartments in a
fashionable family hotel to levy an at
tachment for an unpaid board bill at an
other house their rooms were found
to be empty. They forgot to pay their
| bill at this hotel also.
Freight traffic managers of all but
four Of the railroads which had mem
bership in the Western trunk line COM
mittee. met in st. Louis to make an effort
to revive and reorganize that committee.
Owing to the absence of the four repre-
sentatives nothing was done.
The windstorm which has been rag
ing near st. Joseph, Mich, has blown
tons of sand on the Chicago & West
Michigan railway tracks. The north and
southbound trains are both delayed, and
the northbound is stuck in the sand The
passengers were brought to ST. Joseph
by wagon.
The Buckley & Douglas Lumber
| company let contracts at Manistee,
Mich for the largest salt plant in the
United States. 1t will have capacity
of 1000 barrels day. Both the gralner
| and vacuum pan processes will be used
and warehouse capable of storing 30
900 burrels will be built.
AT Dallas, Tex, it is said all mem
bers of the Dallas Artillery company
are to be dismissed from service in dis
grace for refusing to turn out as escort
to Gov. Cuiberson at the state fair. The
trouble is the sequel to Gov. Culberson's
course in preventing the Corbett-F'itz-
! simmons fight taking place in Dallas.
The trial Of the Marquis de Nayve,
who is charged with the murder of his
stepson in 1885, has begun at. Bourges,
France The case is a sensational one,
and has attracted considerable attention.
The city is full Of strangers from every
country in Europe, and also some per
sons from America have come to witness
| the trial.
in the disbarment proceedings
brought by J. III. Crist, district attorney
of Sante Fe county, n. NJ, against I.
B. Catron, delegate to the ffty-frst Con
gress, and G. A. Spiess, his partner the
New Mexico Supreme court handed
down an opinion dismissing the charges
and holding the evidence for the prose
cution untrustworthy.
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