Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

| the home of her daughter in Cincinnati,
| O. She was the Oldest woman residing
| in Anderson. Ind. and had survived al
! most all of her offspring. She was born
| in Boston in the first year of the century,
| and her after life was Synonymous with
the history of Indiana.
james \. Gray, a farmer six miles
above Little Rock, Ark, came in town
the other day to transfer his farm of 16O
acres, with all appurtenanceS, to his
neighbor. j. III. Hayes, in payment of an
election bet. Gray bet his farm. together
| with everything he had on earth, that
Bryan would be elected.
The dead body of Justus Seward, an
old man who had resided in Dubuque
| county, Ia, since 1850. was found ON the
road He had been working for Il man
named Evans for many years. He was
nephew of the statesman, William FL.
Seward of New York An early love
affair unbalanced his mind.
Rev. Alexis Rerk, a young Methodist
| minister whose people live in one of Chi
! cago's 81 ourbs, is reported lost in snow
storm in the mountains near Troy, Mont.
He left home to cover his circuit, and
was oyertaken by the storm. Searching
parties are out, but with little hope of
| finding the lost preacher alive.
A new order went into effect the
Boston police department Whereby patrol
men are forbidden to lean against II
| building. wall or post. When obliged to
stop walking they must stand at least
| six feet from any upright structure like
| those named above. The order does not
say what they shall do in case of fire,
murder or robbery.
Robert Pecongea, the leading mem
| Der of the remnant of the celebrated
Miami Indian tribe, dropped dead at his
home near Lafontaine. Ind. Deceased
| was Il grandson of the famous old Miami
chief. Me-Shins- Go Mesia, and a brother
of William Pecongea, who in 1872 was
| appointed chief by President Grant. He
was 50 years old
The supreme court of New York de-
cided i'll favor of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Crime, of which Rev. DIR.
Parkhurst is president, and against the
| Society for the Prevention of Vice, of
which Anthony Comstock is the head.
| in constituting the will Of the late Charles
| Bathgate Beck, who died at Richfield
| Springs. n. Y, October II, 1898.
A letter addressed to man in La
Sale Ill.,, and mailed seven years ago
| by Attorney Alfred n. Hill of Joliet,
| was found in a mail box in the latter
city. Mr.. Hill died about three years
/, ago.
Princess Marguerite, wife of Prince
Frederick Charles of Hesse and sister of
Emperor William, has given birth to
| twins, boys. Princess Marguerite already
| has two sons, the elder born in 1893 and
the second born in 1894.
Mrs Elby and her 1S-year-old daugh.
ter, Clara, who are walking from Spo-
| kane Falls. Wash, to New York for re-
ward of $4,000 offered by q New York
| weekly newspaper, reached Chicago foot
sore and travel-stained.
David Dodge, well-known Western
| lawyer, who for many years practiced
| law at st. Joseph, Mo-, was found dead
| in a chair at Perry, O. T. His death
was due to heart disease. Dodge was
reared in Po1ghkeepsie, n. Y.
The Golden Scepter Mining company
at, Quigley, Mont, has assigned with
at 100000 consisting of the company's
mines and its vast incomplete mills, cleo
trio power works, railroad etc.
! Carlos Martyr, Jr., of Chicago, son
of a noted minister in that city, pleaded
guilty at Los Angeles, Cal, to a charge
of obtaining money by means of bogus
| draft, and was sentenced to the states
prison at San Quentin for five years.
| An unknown young man attempted
to assault girl named Bertha Graft in
| the tenement house district in New
York. The girls father and brother cor
nered him in Il cellar armed with clubs
| whereupon he drew Il revolver and killed
himself. gsa
| Miss Lizzie Hendricks, Calhoun
county (Ala.) girl was awarded $245
| damages from the Southern Railway
company by the circuit court for being
! kissed by one of the company's conduc-
| tors while en- route recently from Rome
| to Admission.
Leo Won Waltzdorf, aged p years,
| who said that he was a graduate of the
| University Of Halle, Germany, was ar
raigned in the Yorkville On. ~ court,
| charged with attempting to commit sui
eide, and was held in $500 bail by Mag
| istrate Cornell.
--Gustave Hanauer, proprietor of the
Manhattan Clothing and Shoe store at
Dayton, O., filed chattel mortgages to the
amount of $76,9S4 and at noon assigned
to A. w. Goldsmith. The liabilities will
reach 100000, but no statement has as
yet been made.
A dispatch from Berlin says thar as
result of visit to the Krupps' ord
nance factory, Emperor William has
ordered that all German men-of-war
shall henceforth be armed with Is. p
and 24-centimeter quick firing guns in
addition to the usual heavy artillery
The locks 1T the Cascades of the Co
lumbia in Oregon have been formally
opened for traffic. The construction Of
the locks was begun eighteen years ago
by the government, but for many years
the work was allowed to drag and little
was accomplished toward opening the
river.
William Osborne, railroad con+rac-
tor of national reputation and founder
and president of the Atchison (Kas)
Savings bank, died at Waterville. n Y,
aged 81 years. He left large fortune,
accumulated through railroad construC-
ton and banking.
The town of Jackson Center, O.. is
agitated over the mysterious death of Dr.
c.. T.. Hawker, a prominent citizen. Miss
Deweese, his niece, keeps house for him,
and returned home late in the afternoon
TO find him dead on the floor. There is
a bullet hole in his head, but as no weap-
on can be found it is thought he was
murdered.
At Robertsdale, mining town in
Pennsylvania, Peter Venzelona was muir
dered. His slayers, Lewis Lawrence,
Daniel Cheraz and Chillan and Alex
ander Vanace, all Italians, were lodged
in Jail. The murderers used iron Iins
and stones on their victim. Jealousy
over a girl is said to have promoted the
crime.
LIFE IN THE IRON INDUSTRY.