Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-12-02
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! self at Algona. Mr.. Wilson was sew
/ eral times mayor of Algona. ran for Con-
] gress, served in the Legislature and his
name was before. the Democratic con-
yention for governor.
in the last ten days there have been
| four murders and two suicides in Nash
| vile, Tenn, and vicinity. One negro
| smashed the head of another, and in q
drunken brawl with a negro woman,
Walter Cartwright, a young white man,
was stabbed and his dead body was
| found in backyard.
! Judge William r. Kelley has been
officially appointed general solicitor of
the Union Pacific Railway company, to
succeed John NJ Thurston, who re-
signed in order to take possession of his
seat in the United States Senate. Judge
Kelley has been assistant general solic-
| itor a number of years.
"A tree was thrown across the Pan
handle track north of Anderson, Ind. 1t
| fell just in front of the northbound mid
night passenger train, and the engineer
| just had time to put on the emergency
/ brake. The train was still going at q
| good rate of speed when it dashed into
| the tree. The damage was small.
The Michigan state board of health
was informed by Health Officer Seid-
more of Three Rivers that many persons
were exposed to smallpox in that sec
| ton of the state. The other night a
man named Ulrich boarded a Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern train at Moore
Park and rode to Three Rivers, where it
was found he was suffering with small
! poX. The railway company was notified
and everyone known to have been eX-
posed and who could be reached was
yaccinated.
Griffin Johnston, son of Albert Sid
ney Johnston, the noted Confederate gen
eral, died at Los Angeles from the re-
| suits of a fall.
-Ex-PostmasterG General King Of
| Washington has received from the pri-
| vate secretary of Queen Victoria grace
copy Of his book, Turning Out the
Light
| Announcement was made on the
! Commercial exchange at Philadelphia of
| the failure of S. j. Clevering & Co.,
commission merchants. The amount of
! the liabilities and assets is not known.
| The liabilities will probably be heavy, as
the firm did big business.
! w. HI. Gass, prominent Sewer
county QAy.) whitecap, has been SEN
fenced to eleven years in the penitentiary
| for the murder of DR.. J. A. Henderson.
| During the trial some sensational dis
| closures were made about the secrets of
whitecaps and how they operate.
The Pennsylvania road had serious
wreck at Richey, caused by eastbound
| freight No 70 breaking in two and the
was sitting on top of the caboose when
! the crash came. He was hurled about
| fifty feet and badly injured on the back
John r. Miller, ex-city civil engineer,
was indicted at Toledo by the grand
| jury, two true bills being found against
him. One charges him with allowing
| false claims, and the other with making
a false final estimate. A contractor, who
is said to have profited by this work.
was also indicted.
"A deal was consummated at Akron
O., by which an Eastern syndicate
headed by Gen. Sam Thomas of New
York, purchases the Akron Street Rail-
road company, controlling twenty-five
miles of electric lines, and the Akron
| General Electric company, doing a gen
eral electrical business. The contract
price is $1,200,00O.
The United States district attorney
and counsel for the Raymond brothers,
charged with wrecking the Middletown
| Pa) National bank, have reached an
agreement upon what counts in the in
dictment the defendants shall be tried,
and the case will be called next Monday
at Philadelphia. The money involved
in the counts amounts to 100000.
Mrs. A. K. Ward, wife of the al
legged Memphis forger. is said to be a
passenger on the steamship Regulus, due
in New York tomorrow from Honduras,
and upon arrival she will be closely
questioned about her husbands where
abOuts.
A protest addressed to the Marquis
of Salisbury having 1000 signers and
calling upon the European powers to
| compel the Sultan to govern Turkey SO
that the life and property of foreigners
will be safe was mailed to London at
Des Moines.
Chief Engineer r. r. Leach of the
United States steamer Boston has been
| condemned by medical board, which
has requested the assignment of another
chief engineer to the ship. Mr.. Leach
has already been relieved twice this
| the Castine and once from the Alliance
| Overwork is the cause.
Duncan 3. Harrison, the author
| actor who was indicated of the charge
of being a correspondent in the famous
| Eaton divorce case in San francisco,
| I. Kowalski of that city, to have Will
| lam Eaton. the defeated plaintiff, ar
rested on the charge of perjury and to
| bring action against him for $4,000
! damages for defamation of character.
j. Walker Coleman, one of the most
| widely known railroad men In the South,
| died at his residence in New Orleans
| year ago he was assistant general pas
senger agent Of the Illinois Central and
| Mississippi Valley railroads. Mr.. Cole
man began railroading in 1869, when he
was appointed travelling agent of the
| Erie, Atlantic & Great Western rail-
road.
| The town of Saltwater, Sussex coun-
| ty, n. j., offered a reward of 10 cents a
scalp for groundhogs, skunks and weasels-
| The township committee met last week
| to settle the bounty claims. One man
had wagonful, another had scalps in
| a wheelbarrow and a bicyclist had near
| ly 800 strung to his wheel. The com
mittee counted 10000 scalps and placed
them in corn cribs, to awair further ar
| rivals this week They will cut down
| the reward one-half and pay in due bills,
which cannot be cashed until the fall
| taxes are collected.
| The South Carolina constitutional
| convention took action which validates
in that state the divorces granted in
other states to a certain extent The
passage of the law legitimatizes hum
| 6ro1S of 0hiIdroO in tho dat