Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-13
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brOOding from fear that she will be again
attacked. Every effort is being made to
capture the Would-be assassin, and the
officers, while they will say little, init
mate that they know of his whereabouts.
There was another Jail delivery at
Geneva, ILL.,, but not from the county
Jail this time Three girls, members of
the state home for juvenile female of
tenders, firing of the restraint put up
on them, managed to open one of the
grated windows on the second floor, slide
down the water pipe to the ground, and
walk to Aurora, were they were later
recaptured and taken back
A dastardly case of wife-beating was
revealed at kalamazoo, Mich. Mrs.
George Garside. clad in her nightrobes
and stocking feet, escaped from her
prison home. walked a mile and asked
protection from her husband at the jail
She was admitted and a physician ex
amined her injuries, which consisted of
black and blue punches from head to
foot, inflicted with a chain and rubber.
.-.-Drs. Parkhurst and Buckley, the
eminent New York divines, have written
against the proposed bull-fght in Nowlin,
one of the unorganized counties in the
coded Sioux lands, a DeadWoOd dispatch
having stated that the bulfght was to
be for the purpose of obtaining funds to
build a church. Letters of protest are
also pouring III from the clergy through
out the East
to be. members of the gang in~which Kill
loran, Allen and Russell. who escaped
from Ludlow street jail on July 4, were
shining lights, are locked I'D at police
headquarters at New York. They are
George Carson, who has also been known
as Haywood, and John Slauson and Sid,
ney Yennie, who also has paraded under
q wv
the robbery on January /, 1894, of the
poStOffice at Patchogue, l.. l., when
$170O worth of postage stamps were tax
en-.
Lewis Sells of Columbus, O., one of
the Sells Brothers of circus fame. today
bought the Crawford theater in Kansas
City for $35, 900. The house has not
been doing a good business for several
seasons. Abe Judah of Kansas City will
manage the house.
Before the Senate investigating COM
mittee in Philadelphia, policemen and
eX-pOlicemen testified to active participa-
ton in politics, to the orders of their SUI
periors as to how they should vote and
to the fact that certain policemen con-
Quoted disorderly houses.
-Poormaster Rowe stated before the
Benton Harbor (Mich.) council that physi-
clans of the city absolutely refuse to
attend dlphtheria cases or other in
fectious diseases among the poor for the !
regular fee of IS cents call. The physi-
clans, he says, declare they must have
ST or more per call or they will not re-
spond.
In the House of Commons at OF
tawa the Hon. G.. e. Foster, lately
minister of finance, made a statement
in reference to the causes which had
actuated himself and six colleagues III
resignlng their positions as cabinet mem
Nhnt cO1<
the seeding ministers had no confidence
in Sir Mackenzie Bowells leadership.
Two men giving their names as Hen
ry Phelps of Chicago and George Will
Jams of Brooklyn attempted to enter
the residence of the British ambassador
at Washington, through a back door.
They were discovered and arrested.
Phelps had a loaded weapon and also
had In his possession one of the most
complete sets of burglar tools ever seen
there.
Mayor Strong sent his annual mes
sage to- the board of aldermen Of New
York. After a review of the city's
finances the mayor refers to the excise
question as follows: PERSONALLY, / do
not believe that the enforcement of our
excise laws will ever fail to breed more
or less discomfort until the question of
the Sunday opening of the saloon is es-
tablished by a vote of the people them
selves, and | would gladly see the ques-
ton submitted for decision at the polls,
at time other than that of general
election e8 aH
in the Church of Our Lady, Brook
lyn, there HAS been enthDOmed a sacred
relic of st. Stephen, who was stoned to
death on the day following the crucifX-
ION.
Robert Montague, alias Watt Jones,
alias StetsoDy alias ComstoclS, one of the
nSf han iC
der arrest at New York. Montague has
a long and interesting record and has
served time in several prisons. His most
daring piece of work was done in Den
yer, Col, in.1890, when he got $4,000.
The British steamship, Massasoit,
which arrived at New York fn0m Swan
sea, reported that a vessel i@ distress
was sighted Four men were seen on
her deck, which had evidently been
wave swept. Owing to the storm the
Massasoit was. unable to send assist
anee. During the night the vessel dis
appeared. Her name was apparently
the Eagle of Chester.
Casper T. Wagner, the ST. Joseph
(MO.l priest who abducted Maud Steidl
q few months ago and afterward mar
ried her to escape punishment, will issue
his book, Both Sides of the Latest and
Greatest Sensation in ST. Joseph, in
about two weeks. The book will tell
all ABOUT the priest lnIdCudClUll 1Of the
15-year-old girl for whom he afterward
left the priesthood
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
ambassador, and Lord Cough, first Sec
rotary of the legation, had a conference
with Postmaster General Wilson at
which the establishment of a parcels
post convention between the United
States and Great Britain was urged.
The ambassador was assured by Mr..
Wilson that the matter would be con-
sidered as soon as possible.
The investigation of the alleged beef
combine at Chicago has come to a stand
still, Kennesaw NJ. Landis, the special
attorney assisting District Attorney Gen
eral Black hhing called to Washington
by the state department.. AS Mt. Lands
was the private secretary to Secretary
Gresham, it is supposed his summons TO
Washington is to confer with Secretary
Olney on matters. affecting state cues
tions that passed through the dead secre
tary's hands.
Public school building No. 9, at In
1ianapolis caught fire an hour before
noon from an over-heated furnace pipe
under the floor. The principal notified