Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-04-13
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The engagement is announced of
Harry p Cross. Yale's famous center
rush and hammer-thrower, to Miss Lo-
rama G. King, daughter of the late
Fred King, one of the prettieSt of the
recent debutantes at Providence, r. |.
Just before noon the sophomores and
freshmen of Columbia college at New
York came together in the courtroom,
and for ten minutes there was a lively
scrimmage i'll which sixty students took
part. Clothes were torn, hats broken
and after the rush was over there were
a, dozen bloody noses and as many black
eyes and battered faces.
Easter business in the matrimonial
line was unusually brisk at Jeffersonyille,
Ind. The two famous matrimonial JUS
tees, Hause and Keigwin, married nine
clipping couples in one day. All were
| from Kentucky.
DIR. A. J. Mullen of Michigan City,
Ind, one of the best-known physicians
in Indiana and at the head of the Null
len hospital, has become deranged owing
to grief over the death of his brother and
| to oyerWOrk.
The adjustment of the Mexican GUS
| tom houses in the interior of the coun-
try, to take effect July / next, the begin
ming of the new fiscal year, is announced
in communication to the postoffice de-
! partment here from the encouragement
of posts of Mexico.
The British ship Brabloch, sixty-sey-
en- days from Newcastle, New South
| Wales, was towed into San Francisco
was grounded and water pumped into
her hold through ten lines of hose until
the fire was extinguished.
Rev. DR.. John Lanahan sprung a
sensation in the Methodist preachers
meeting at Baltimore when he an
nounced that in a few days he would
publish in permanent form a document
entitled "The Era of Frauds in the
Methodist Book Concern at New York, y
where he was at one time an agent.
Dispatches from Hudson bay report
| the arrival there of the crews of the
fishing schooners Wilhelmina, Mary and
Ellen, which were lost on st. Patrick S
night in the straits of Belle isle, while
engaged in seal fishing Several of the
men were frostbitten, but no lives were
| lost.
While proceeding to sea from New
York the steamship Bellarden, bound
for South American ports, came AUTO col
lision near quarantine with the Red
Star line steamship Friesland and was
so badly injured that she was beached
at Staten island to prevent sinking. No
one on board either vessel was injured.
Cardinal Satolli, accompanied by DIR.
T.. G. Rocker, secretary of the apostolic
legation at Washington, arrived at St.
| Louis on special train over the 3. q
! O. Southwestern railway. Archbishop
Kahn and a number of priests and proni-
nent laymen joined the party at Gin
cinnati and returned to the city with
them.
Upper Mississippi log-owners at Min
neapolis, Mimi, canvassed the pine tim
Der cut of the winter finding it 5S5, OOO,-
600 feet, 150,O00,OO0 feet less than a
year ago. They voted that only Is per
cent. of logs to come down the river shall
be sawed, reducing the cut of lumber
to about 4OO,OOO,O0O and directly affect
ing 10000 laboring men.
The firemens strike at Vienna has
collapsed and the men are returning to
their posts.
Hiram A. Waite. city comptroller of
/ Port Huron, Mich. is missing and it is
feared he has been foully dealt with.
Carol Gay, operating grindstone in
a pillow factory at Allegan, Mich, was
fatally injured by the bursting Of the
stone.
Cardinal Gibbons has made public
an appeal for arbitration instead OF war,
signed by himself and Cardinals Vaughn
/ of Westminster and Logue Of Ireland.
Bandits wrecked an express train on
the Canadian Pacific railway near Perth,
Ont, in hopes of getting at a heavy
shipment of bullion, but they did not
/ get any booty.
Miss Hannah Julia Shelby of JEFF
ferson, O., has been given verdict by
the jury in common pleas court for SlO,-
600 in her suit against Rev. Robert T.
Hill for breach of promise of marriage.
I'm an interview at London Hobart
Chattfeld-Taylor of Chicago, who has
been sojourning in Spain, says the peo-
pie of that country are in earnest and
would readily go to war with the United
States.
The house of delegates in st. Louis
has passed bill providing for the put
ting of overhead wires underground by
December 81 1897. The bill now goes
to the council where those interested
fear it will be killed.
The engagement of Frank B.
Loomis, a well-known newspaper writer
/ and Republican politician at Columbus,
/ O., to Miss Elizabeth Mast, daughter of
Springfeld's millionaire mayor, T. 2.
Mast. is announced.
The policemen at Alexandria. Ind,
went out on strike, taking off their
uniforms and handing them in. They re
wages. but because they claim they are
not getting the moral support of the
people.
of Carrollton, Mo. against whom the
sentence of death for the murder Of the
/ Meeks family has just been upheld by
the state Supreme court have decided to
ask the Supreme court for a rehearing
of the case.
The Lawrence Manufacturing COM
pany Of Lowell, Mass, having decided to
abandon the manufacture of cotton
goods, has closed one of it's mills, throw
ing 1000 operatives out of work.
During 1895 the value of goods i'm
ported at Philadelphia was 47.271 ,435-
Of these goods worth S31, S2O,358 paid
a duty. The number of immigrants land
ed was 20, 500, of whom 1899 were from
ireland and 6521 from England.
The money order transactions
throughout the United States during the
last quarter of 1895 beat all previous
records in volume. They aggregated
$1O5, 1855, 971. Domestic money orders
issued amounted to S49.O00,00O in round
numbers, very large increase. The net
revenue of $275,OO0 has been equalled
/ Onlv once