Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-10
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DIR. J. T.. irwin, Detroit. was elected
president of the NJ Sigma NJ fraternity
| at its convention at Minneapolis. DIR. t.
| g. Stubs, Chicago, was chosen editor of
the fraternity publication.
Unless Bank SwindIer e. r. Cassatt
of Pella, Ia, takes refuge under the pro-
lection of United States marshal his
defrauded creditors are likely to deal
out summary vengeance on him.
Freight rates are wide open via st.
| Louis, but little pretense of maintaining
| tariff is being made. The reason given
is The small tonnage and the hunger of
| the roads for what little there is at any
| price.
The mammoth demonstration Of stu
| dents arranged for at the tomb of Gen.
| Melcher Campos in the City of Mexico
| as a protest against the return of Gen.
| Leonardo Marquee, the imperial exile,
was broken up by the police.
The war department has granted
medal of honor to AlonZo III. Pickle, ser
geant of Co. B, First battalion, Mime
sofa infantry, for saving the life of an
officer who fell desperately wounded be-
tween the lines in a battle of the late
| war.
| -Advices received from Antananarivo,
Island of Madagascar, say the French adj
vance into the interior from Majunka has
| been repulsed. 1t is added the mortality
/
/ various feyers peculiar to the island is
! increasing.
Charles E. Pearce, jute and cotton
manufacturer of st. Louis, who has just
returned 10 San Francisco from a bust
! ness tour through the Orient. is of the
| opinion that Japan will soon become an
| important factor in the manufacturing
| industries of the world.
On the North German Lloyd express
| steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Ii. a party of
some 400 Bohemians. mainly from Chi
cago, but joined by smaller delegations
from various cities, sailed from New York
on an excursion to attend the grand Eth
biographical exposition at Prague.
| Prof. T. Nash, chief of the British
educational bureau of India, committed
suicide by jumping overheard from the
steamship City of Topeka in Alaska
waters. 1t was done in the presence OF
his wife, who is the daughter Of an Indian
prince She was jealous of him and they
| had quarreled.
DR.. J. n Matthew, the poet of the
prairies, met with a serious accident at
| Dillingham;, Ill. While on his way to the
! city in a buggy strong wind was blow
| ing and his clothes caught fire from his
cigar. They ignited rapidly, but luckily
a spring which had been opened by the
| w. G.. T. U. was near by, and the doc
| tor extinguished the flames.
IS. G. Seiders was engaged at Mar
| tinsville, Ind, in charging large soda
| fountain when the thing exploded, Seid-
ers being blown through door and both
| legs broken. He was otherwise injured.
The body of James Mcpherson, resid-
| ing eight miles east Of Lebanon, Ind,
was found partially concealed in hol-
| low log with his throat cut from ear to
| ear. He had not been seen since week
| ago.
| Mrs. Grimwood, heroine of the siege
| of Manchur in 1891, during which her
! husband, the resident minister, lost his
| life, was married today at Carshallton,
| England, to Mr.. Miller, a paper manu>
| facturer.
| Through the kindly Offices of num-
Der Of personal and political friends OF
| the late Chief Justice Salmon Z. Chase
the grave of the distinguished statesman
| at Spring Grove, o., will be marked by
| a handsome monument.
Two men, believed to be J. w. Gray
| of Unionville, Massac county, ILL.,, and
| John Griffin from Metropolis, ILL.,, were
| found in dying condition near the rail
road track at Little Rock, Ark. 1t was
evident they had been drugged.
| (Cal) Civic federation have been ar
rested on a charge of criminal libel The
complainant is DR.. Marie Livingston,
candidate for health officer, upon whom
the federation had been making war.
| Miss Ida Mott Smith, daughter of
| DR.. and Mrs. J. Mott Smith, and Prof.
Robert Morse Lovett Of the University of
| Chicago, were married at the residence of
the brides father in Boston, Mass. Mr..
and Mrs Lovett will reside in Chicago.
| Inspector Gould, accompanied by
Postmaster Ridgeley, George f. w.
Scheevers and a party from Waverly,
ILL.,, left for New York to identify. if
possible, the men who are suspected of
robbing the postoffice in Springfield of
| $4,000.
Having an execution against w. K.
Lowrey, Sheriff Archibald snatched some
money as Lowrey was drawing it from a
bank at Cincinnati. The sheriff was mis-
taken for a robber and was severely
handled before he could prove his legal
right to the money.
New Orleans councimen, Dudoussat
and Desforgus, lost their case in the SUI
preme court and must do three to five
| years respectively.
William Peck, aged 8, Of Port Jar
Wis, N. Y, had a fierce battle with d
snake. The boy was victorious, but was
| bitten during the contest and will die.
Leading citizens Of Hot Springs Ark,
| attended memorial services, including sol
emn high mass, conducted in the Catholic
church in honor of Gen. Sherman and
Gen. Sheridan.
Ohio miners have agreed to accept
54-cent scale and will resume this week.
The streets at Cripple Greek, COL,
are covered with snow.
--Pittsburg is crowding shaky building
and loan associations to the wall.
George Derthick was arrested at Wa,
terloo, Ind, for horsewhipping his wife.
| A movement is being pushed in st.
Johns, Newfoundland, in favor of Co
| lonial Secretary Bond for the premier
ship.
Prof Edwin V. Morgan of Harvard
has accepted the chair of history in Adel-
bert college of Western Reserve univer-
sity.
Shortly before the opening Of court
at Claremore, /. T., Sheriff Musgrove was
shot and killed by Frog" Davis, an out
| law.
-Ex-Gov Merriam of Minnesota de-.
MES that he is a candidate for the chair
manship of the Republican national com
| mittee.
Al Gronnvi1ln Miss Peter SeriO and