Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-29
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| line SHlpHeHI OIL government eAn1D1CS
| to Atlanta for the cotton exposition will
begin at the end of the week.
1t is thought Frederick L. Smith, the
missing manager of a jewelry house in
Denver, has fed to Mexico, on his way
to Japan. He is short $4,000.
w. L. Sheldon, who lives near Skid
| dy. Morris county, Kas., performed a
| surgical operation on himself success
fully removing twelve-ounce tumor.
! The New York Mills Cotton company
at Utica, n. Y, has notified it's employees
| in mills Nos. and that they will grant
an increase of wages amounting to 10
| per cent.
The frst-class unarmored cruiser
| Powerful, sister ship to the Terrible,
was launched at Barrow, Eng. The
| new cruiser will be much larger and of
| considerable greater displacement than
any other cruiser heretofore built by
any nation.
James Bum, chief of the Shinnecok
| Indians, is dead at Southampton, L. l.
| He died on the reservation among the
| Shinnecok hills with his face towards the
rising sun. He was probably the only
| full-blooded representative Of his tribe.
| The great wheel at Earl court, an
imitation on a larger scale of the Ferris
crowds of passengers. Several hours
elapsed before the wheel could be moved
| and the passengers released.
The Rev. B. F. Brown, an aged min
lister residing at New Geneva, Fayette
county, Pa, retained counsel and began
work on claim Of $1,000 900 against the
government. His family furnished pro-
visions to Union soldiers during the war.
Three million dollars in hard cash has
been advanced to back the interests of the
Union Traction company, the gigantic
corporation which is being formed to alb
sorb the three big traction companies and
to assume control of every street car line
in the city of Philadelphia.
Fire broke out in the residence OF
the Rev W. H. Scudder, pastor of the
Congregational church in Norwich, Conn.
There was seven children and the servant
girl in the house at the time. There were
two childrn burned, Mary and Clarine,
aged and 2 years respectively.
james J. Corbett fell on the bicycle
track at Asbury Park while riding the
wheel given him by Champion thinner
man a short time ago. He was so badly
injured that he will not be able to train
for a week. Corbett's shoulder was
sprained and his side completely scraped.
An order has been made by the secre,
tary of war by direction of the President,
by which that portion of South Dakota
west of the Missouri river and between
the forty-fourth and forty-6fth parallels
is transferred from the department OF
Dakota to the department of the Platte.
John Quinlan, SO years old, a cross
ing fagman on the Lake Shore tracks
in South Bend, Ind, prevented terri
bic wreck there by jumping in front of
an express train and removing an OBJ
struction. Quinlan was struck but not
seriously hurt.
Russia, and his mother, the dowager
empress, have gone to Peterhof from
Abastunan. They will stay at the Peter
hof palace until after the celebration
there of the czarowitch name day, when
they will go to Copenhagen until Sep
TENDER.
Communications were exchanged by
means of Photograph signaling by army
officers in the Equitable building in
Denver and Long Peak, a distance of
seventy miles. Capt Fowler, under
whose supervision the signaling party
are acting, signaled that the party had
encountered a few hardships.
The intercollegiate oratorical contest
at Bay View, Mich, resulted in a victory
for Lake Forest university, represented
by John G.. Coulter Much interest was
manifested in the contest, and during the
day, which was set apart as college day."
many reunions were held in the different
halls, twenty-one colleges and universities
Leing represented.
Forest tires are approaching East
TaWas, Mich.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is i'll at Nara
gansett PIER +. I.
Phil Dwyer refused $4,000 offered
by Lucky Baldwin for Handspring g,
the 2-year-oId colt.
San Francisco police are seeking a
new witness against Theodore Durant,
the alleged murderer.
The body of Ida Gebhardt, aged 3.
who was missing FROM her home at In
dianapolis, was found
George Barnhart, farmer living near
Tolono, ILL.,, was kicked in the abdomen
by 4 horse and will die.
Manager Cole of the Singer Ma1xu-
featuring company at Newburg, N. y,
was shot in the hip by ans insane man..
In view of the report that Ecuador
lis threatening to invade Colombia, the
garrison at Panama is, beng REINFORCED.
There is scarcity of binding Irvine
In the West, the farmers being unable
to get enough for their immediate wants.
Frank a. Langdon, manager of the
Wagner Palace Car company at Mon
treal, has disappeared, leaving many cred
itcRs.
Burglars entered the residence of
William Baxter at Cardonia. Ind, chloao-
formed Mr.. Baxter and his wife, and
stole $500.
Martinez, the escaped Trinidad mar
derer and {; companion held up saloon
in New Mexico and Swept $500 off the
fars table.
Duluth Will hold another election over
the city purchase of waterworks. The
irs8 was declared illegal.
John w. Barry, the actor, sues his
wife, Sadie Farley, for divorce at Terre
Haate, on ground of desertion.
Ida Gebhardt, aged 3, was kidnapped
while playing in the street at West In
diaaapolis. No motive is known.
Mrs. Frank MyBarger of Bowling
Green, O., swallowed poison with suicidal
infant, but tine. DOCTORS saved her Life.
The strike of wharf and ship laborers
at Colon is extending to the eolored
mechanics and to tire laborers ait Pana-
me-
The Spanish transatlantic Lime has re-
dmeed by one-half Its freight rates on
sugar shipped from Cuba to the United
States. 4i
Walter Phelps Dodge has repudiated
THE statement made by Chaumeey Depew
TO- the effect that Americans favor home
rnle for Ireland