Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.

QueSted the resignation OF James H.
Scripps the Well-known newspaper man,
from the board of park commissioners.
The fact that Mr.. Scripps' papers have
been attacking the mayor may have had
something to do with the request
The health department at Cleve-
land, o., is making careful inyesti-
cation of restaurants. Some astOund-
ing revelations are being made, and res
taurant keepers are trembling. A health
officer arrested n johnson on the charge
of keeping his house in a filthy condi-
ton.
Arthur Gilman, the well-known Cam
bridge teacher, who has been connected
with Radcliffe college since its organiza-
ton as the Harvard annex, has resigned
the position of regent of that institution
because of the pressure of work Mr..
Gilman will continue to be a member
of the advisory committee of Radcliffe.
Daniel Winter, who was appointed
president pro TEN. of the National Win
dow Glass Workers association when
President Burns was suddenly deposed,
and Hudson Campbell, presiding officer
of Labor assembly NJ. 300, were run out
of Jeanette, Pa, by {; mob of more than
1000 men and boys, who sympathized
with Burns.
The DERRICK Supply company of St.
Louis has made an assignment, with liza
bilities aggregating $51, 900 and assets
of plumbing stock valued at $4,000.
All the freight crews on the Alabama
Northern railroad are on a strike and on
ly one train went out during the day. An
amicable settlement is expected soon.
Seventeen counties out of twenty
heard from throughout Alabama have
instructed for Mckinley, who will get
eighteen out of the twenty delegates.
Mrs H. r. Knollenberg quiet little
woman, performed an act of heroism at
st. Louis which any big, strong man
might feel proud to have achieved. She
dragged two children from beneath the
hoofs of a runaway horse.
Millionaire Thomas Varker, formerly
a member of the dry goods firm of Lord
& Taylor, committed suicide at New
York during a temporary fit of insanity,
induced by dependency, presumably
over the death of one of his sons last
summer.
w. w. Harris, an undertaken of
Sioux City, Ia, is in danger of losing
his right arm as result of a scratch on
his middle finger received while embalm-
ing the body of a woman. A serious case
of blood poisoning ensued.
John L. Russell, a florist has been
appointed chief of police of Denver,
George L. Goulding having been removed
because, it is alleged, he permitted the
gambling houses to run. The church ele-
ment stirred the governor to action.
A chess match for the championship
of the United States and 500 side
was begun at Philadelphia by the e1-
perts, Emil Kennedy of that city and
Jackson W. Showalter, the American
champion, at the Franklin Press club.
The immediate effect of the altitude
of hostility assumed by the Prussian
government towards American Insurance
companies is a rush of German policy
holders to the American consuls in Ger
many for information concerning the
standing of the companies.
Ed Nice and Miles Rumell, 16-year-
old school boys, quarreled at Logansport,
Ind. over a girl and fought in the Cen
trail school building. Nice stabbed Rum
ell twice, inf1icting flesh wounds in his
shoulder He fed and cannot be found.
Rumell is not dangerously injured.
News has been received at Mana
qua, Nicaragua, of the outbreak of re-
volt, and the districts north Of Lake
Managua comprising the departments or
the West and North, both of them nu-
merously populated, are in full revolu-
ton and are armed against President
Zalaya.
Elevator companies operating in
North Dakota agree that wheat receipts
in Minneapolis and Duluth, Mimi, will
be very large i'll March and especially at
III.
figured receipts of 600 cars daily, or
100000 bushels for the two points IN
that month.
The Confederate museum in the old
Davis mansion at Richmond, Va, has
been formally opened.
The eighteenth annual session of the
A. O. U. w. grand lodge of Kansas is
being held at Leavenworth, Kas.
-"Bill" Nye's brother, an attorney re-
siding in Minneapolis, arrived at Ashe-
Vile. n. c., three hours after the death
of the famous writer.
Hartford Weiner Edison, instructor
of rhetoric and elocution at Williams
college. has become Insane. He is the
son of Rev. Hanford A. Edison of In
dianapolis.
During the Companies last voyage
she was struck by a big wave which had
sufficient force to throw passengers from
their beds. No serious damage was
done, however.
indications are that the striking
weayers of the York corporation who
went out twelve days ago, throwing 1000
other operatives out of employment, will
go back to work.
During preparations for a wedding
at Conant, O., Robert Whitridge, aged
5 years, brother of the groom-elect,
was sent to the barn to get some eggs.
The heavy barn door blew shut, crushing
the boy to death.
Samuel D. Davis, first vice-president
of the Columbus, Hooking Valley & To
ledo railway, has appointed w. A. Mills
general manager. Mr.. Mills was as
sistant to the late President Waite.
Goodman Bernard Mackell, former
ly employed by Henry 6; Hilton, Jr.,
and his wife. Sylvia Gerrish Hilton has
brought suit against the latter to re-
cover $500 promised him for interposing
his strong right arm when her husband
attacked her at their home in New York
city.
John M. Smith, a young farmer of
Princeton. Mo-, is under arrest on
charges of counterfeiting. Mrs. Laura
Lemon, a sweetheart of Smiths, in
formed the officers. She claims Smith
offered her counterfeit dollars to pass
on merchants. A large amount of coun-
terfeit coin was found at Smiths house.
Superintendent of Insurance Pierce
of New York, acting under the provi-
sions of the insurance laws, notified the
Prussian companies transacting business
in that state that their corporation GER
tifcates would not be renewed during