Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
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became very much lncenSed over some
trif1ing childish action of his little daugh-
ter and beat her until she was insensible
decorating her back in a fearful man.
ner. He was arrested and placed in jail
and is awaiting trial. The little girl is
very i'll, though it is thought she will
recover.
The officers of the Michigan grand
lodge, knights of Honor, for the ensuing
year are as follows: Dictator, p. A.
E. E. Brownson, Kalamazoo; reporter,
f. t. Ward, Holly; treasurer, G. G..
White, Lapeer; representatives to the
supreme lodge, e. A. Fletcher, Grand
Rapids, and e. A. Herrig, Saginaw.
Bishop Stanley of North Dakota has
arrived at st. Louis, Mo-, and delivered
to Archbishop Kahn the pallium recently
This badge of office will be officially
conferred upon Archbishop Kahn by Car
dinal Gibbons. A report is now being
circulated that Cardinal Satoli will not
make the contemplated visit to st. Louis.
Col John Bradbury, who is intending
to explore Tiburon island in the Gulf of
California, has purchased the schooner
Lily Light and has armed her with a
Maxim gun and a 5-inch rifle. From
his mine in Mexico he has recruited
125 men, who are experienced fighters
and accustomed to Indian warfare. The
object of the expedition is to locate the
treasure secreted by Montezuma.
The Niagara ice bridge has under
gone some wonderful changes. As a re-
suit of the high water occasioned by
the strong westerly winds, the bridge
has been lifted up some fifteen feet and
is now higher than the docks The ris-
ing water was INSTRUCTED by the bridge,
and being unable to go over it, went I'M
der, causing an upheaval. In some
places cracks sixty feet wide appeared
Inspector General Walsh, assisted by
Col. f. B. Lyon, the First regiment Of
Iron Mountain, Mich, was mustered in
to the service of the state, to take the
place in the Fifth regiment made vacant
by the disbanding of the Menominee
company.
Michael Davitt is freely mentioned
as a compromise for the nomination to
succeed Justin Mccarthy as chairman
of the Irish National league The Lon>
don Standard learns that Michael Davitt
has been sounded and has declined. 1t is
rumored in Irish circles that the govern
ment commission has reported that Ire>
land is oyertaxed to the extent of over
G2,000.00O.
United States Vice-Consul Bondinel
at New Chang, in a report to the state
department., says now that the Japanese
have evacuated the NIancharian PENN
sula and the Chinese are reSuming pos
session, there will be some demand for
cannon, small arms ammunition, smoke
less powder and other military stores to
replace those carried off by the Japanese.
Charles Swear, a 10-year-old boy, is
at the police station at Omaha, having
been picked up on the streets by the po-
lice Steps are being taken to send him
to the reform school on the charge of
incorrigibility. The boys father is I'M
known. His mother is a Salvation army
woman. Some time ago she set out on
mission to convert the heather in Iowa,
and left the boy without home.
One of the first projects which will
be submitted to the national convention
sembles in May will be q commercial
treaty with Spain for the construction Of
a railway from 1barra to Pailon.
By an explosion of gas in a furnace
at Jones-Laughlin' iron works at Pitts
burg, Martin Kronski, a workman, was
fatally burned and three others seriously
injured. The explosion was caused by
the gas from a leaking valve igniting
from match struck by a workman to
light his pipe.
What appears to have been cold
blooded murder was committed in the
Institution for the Improved instruction
of Deaf Mutes at New York. The vic
tim was Prof. Max Eglau, 81 years old,
an instructor in the study OF drawing.
SO far as known the professor had no
enemies.
-Ex-Judge Edward Cahill of Lansing,
Mich, returned from Chicago. where
he prepared the articles. of incorporation
for the Michigan Liquitying Gas com
pany and the Michigan Carbonide com
pany. These companies propose to or
ganize in Michigan with a capital of
$1,00O,0OO each for the manufacture of
acetylene gas, a new product of scientific
investigation.
In a fight at Clifton Prairie, fifteen
miles from Sulphur Springs, during
church services, Charles and Will Walk
wounded. Two Williams boys, with
whom the Walker brothers fought, were
wounded, and one will die. The affair
was the outcome of family feud.
Mrs. Francis c. Ralston, Jr., is
the first Philadelphia society woman
who has determined to follow a fashion
that Nine La Mode already has success
Mrs. Ralston will open a millinery es-
adjustment and will be the practical
worker as we'll as the charge affairs.
AT a regular meeting Of the Trades
assembly at Denver "a resolution was
proposed calling upon Senator Wolcott
to resign Tor the reason that ne does
not represent the sentiment Of Colorado
voters on the Monroe doctrine and for
his unpatriotic speech in the United
States Senate on the Venezuelan Ques
ton.
"A new women's society at Coloma
Mich, was so unsuccessful in deyising
means to raise money for charitable pur-
poses that the twenty members offered
to work an entire afternoon for so cents
A thrifty farmer saw profit in the
scheme, and when night came his last
years 'bean crop had been nicely hand
picked.
With $50 girls and women looking
on in fright and shrieking for help Miss
Carrie Walters, a dressmaker in New
York, tried to throw Mrs. Anna Won,
the head designer Of the establishment,
from a window ON the fifth floor Of that
building to the pavement below. The
insane girl was finally overcome and
taken to a hospital.
George G.. Harbo and Frank G. Sam
uelson, sailors, living in Perth Amboy,
n j., are making arrangements for q
novel and dangerous trip. 1t is their
intention to make an attempt in June