Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-23
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A large quantity OF Smuggled
watches and gems have been seized at a
n. f.
The Canadian secret service is shad,
owing q gang of safe-blowers ut Mon,
treal. They are said to have recently OPP
Grated successfully in Chicago, New York
and Buffalo.
La Poste, Paris, says that Marquis
ImDerial. secretary of the Italian Legal
ton at Washington, is about to exchange
places with Sig. Malaopina, secretary of
legation at Brussels.
Owing to low water in the Ale
gheny and MOnOngahela rivers Alabama
| coal producers are enjoying a monopoly
of the sugar plantation coal trade south
of Greenville, Miss.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, Mrs Lora
Perkins was released from custody on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Hawkins.
Damage suits against those who caused
the arrest will follow.
The Holland Trust company of New
York has filed suit against the Interna,
tional Bridge and Tramway company Of
Laredo, Tex, for the foreclosure of $780,
600 first mortgage bonds.
w. 3. Cutting, Jr., of New York
met with a serious accident when on a
hunting expedition in the Rockies, all
| the flesh being torn from his left cheek
bone in a fall from a horse.
Jamaica advices show that the gov
eminent and the press strongly oppose
| labor emigration for the isthmus. The
| laborers seem willing to emigrate, but
government enactments hamper them.
The board of education of New York
passed a resolution designating the sec
ond Friday of October of each year as
day to be observed under the title of pub
| lie school day. with a parade of the chill
dren.
-Geoffrey Perkins, an American who
represented himself to be a lawyer and
journalist, has been sentenced to ten
years at penal servitude in London on
the charge of levying and collecting black
mail
A gang of professional pickpockets
made a big haul at the Union depot at
| Nashville, Tenn, during the arrival and
| departure of the trains to Chattanooga.
John Williams of, Nashville was relieved
| of $500.
The will by which over $4,000 was
conveyed in the estate of the late Mary
Kennedy to Father Meehan has been
broken by a verdict in the circuit court
at Morris, III. The evidence indicated
fraud on Meehan's part.
A project to hold an Occidental and
| Oriental fair in Tacoma, Wash, in the
summer Of the year 1900 was considered
| by q large meeting of citizens held at the
| chamber of commerce and unanimously
approved. A preliminary organization
was formed.
1t is stated that thirty-four soap man
ufacturers Of California are about to form
| a combination TO raise prices and avoid
keen competition among themselves. A
meeting will soon be held at San Fran
| cisco to arrange the matter. Eastern
competition is the cause of the action.
The louisville & Nashville and Mo
| bile s. Montgomery railroad companies
| have mortgaged all their properties for
| $5,0O0O0O to the Central Trust company
| of New York.
The report of Orbegoso, vice-presi-
to Europe as the bearer of special
| financial commission from the govern
ment is officially denied.
| Two street car accidents occurred in
| Washington within an hour of each other
and, although each was attended with
numerous casualties, none Of them is eX-
| pected to prove fatal.
Federal and state authorities in Kan
| sas are at loggerheads over the. former
| being required to appear as witnesses IN
| liquor cases and bring their books into
court. They refused to obey.
| A volunteer fire company is being or
| ganized among the students of the Mis-
souri, State university. The purpose of
| the company will be to protect the new
university buildings in case of fire.
| 1t is now announced that Mrs. Clara
Macarthur, alleged to have jumped from
the Brooklyn bridge, never jumped at all,
but was thrown in and pulled out by
! schemers. Her husband told her secret.
Glen Ford Mckinney, the young
| New York lawyer who became sepa-
rated from his father and other COM
panions on hunting expedition in North
west Colorado, has been found alive and
well.
| Judge Thomas Nj. Cooley was taken
| ill at Ann Arbor, Mich, few days ago,
and, becoming slightly worse, the report
| gained currency that he had suffered q
stroke of paralysis, but this is denied by
his family.
j. NJ. Mclean, a Scotchman, owner,
| and Capt. Jensen of the Gillian vessel
| Atacama, with lumber from Port Gam
| BILE to South America, are in Jail at Seat
| tie, Wash, charged with cruelty on the
! high seas.
The naval authorities made test
| of the new 13-inch gun, the projectile
from which penetrated a 14-inch plate.
! There is no doubt among naval authori-
ties that the shot would have penetrated
any armor.
| -frOmlueuL IuouIflcdl people, Ut Il
meeting held in New York, decided to
tender Joseph Jefferson a reception and
present him loving cup, to be secured
! by 5O-cent donations from members of
the profession.
| Albert e. Andrews, the cavalryman
who used his sword in the East Boston
religious riots on July 4, was given a
reception by the fine American Mechan-
les councils at Worcester, Mass, and
was presented with costly sabre.
| In response to advertisements for pro
posals to supply rapid fire field gun and
ammunition sent out by the ordnance
bureau of the war department but one
| bid was received. It came from the
Hotchkiss Ordnance company and was
| opened today.
Sir Charles Upper, Canadian minis
| ter of justice, resents Entertainments by
England on Canadian copyright laws.
! The Dominion has full control of the SUBJ
| ject, he says, and he is not going to sacrf-
| fee this privilege.
| Fox, Clinch & Corn, merchants OF
| Gloucester, Eng, failed, with liabilities
aggregating 100000.
Three tramps are believed to be