Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-05-18
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CHRISTOPHER WaG4n : @ ase with "a + s "a
disappeared from 4Ak!o,e- grandmothe
| of money belonging - Ms 20
| 1t is thought he is ifs CEie;NA
| La Rose, a smaf8 TOWN. ,ooa a.lii :
north of Washburn, IfE,. is the nam
wild excitement. A traMp,, W13&se FL
is unknown, attempted to assaa1Ik !;
wife of James Valentine, and the wA>
| town is searching for him..
Joseph Raymond, a maniac coIgslleA
| at the county hospital at Omaha, Neb.,.
eluded hisattendants and jumped through
window, carrying the sash with him.
and fell fifteen feet. 1t took five attend
ants to capture him.
H. The University at Budapest in com
memoration of the millennium celebration
has been authorized by Emperor Francis
Joseph to confer the honorary degree of
doctor of medicine on Dr.. John Shaw
Billings of Philadelphia.
According to the official returns, the
French customs receipts for the first four
months of 1896 show increases in I'M
ports to the amount of 167, 100000 francs
and of exports to the sum of S3,00O,00O
frames as compared with the same period
of 1895.
George Lee, the seed thief, who
few weeks ago confessed to completely
in the Eugene Wheeler diamond robbery
capped from the county farm at LOgans-
port. Ind. where he was taken from
the Jail sick some time in March.
A Rome dispatch to the London
Daily News says that there are rumors
there that Mgr. Galimberti, whose death
occurred on May Z, was poisoned. A
post mortem examination of the remains
has been demanded
The forty-four striking fremen of
A
City, Mo-, have petitioned the national
council of the Federation of Labor to
declare an international boycott against
the Armour products.
Ten days ago DR.. Coney, in q street
encounter in YanktOn, S. d., with Com
modore Coulson, the best-knoWn steam
boat man on the upper Missouri river,
bit the latter on the finger. Gangrene
set in and Coulson is not expected to
live.
Rev. Amos Carmicnae: of Brown
county, Ind, d Methodist circuit rider,
objected to q young man neighbor going
with his daughter and attempted to take
his daughter from him. The young man
struck the minister a blow between tie
eyes with his fist, knocking him down.
The German Lutheran synod, which
has been in session at Fort Wayne, Ind,
closed to meet in ST. Louis three years
were appointed a committee to devise
new rules for TIE government of the edu
cational Institutes. j. p. Brier resigned
the editorship Of the Young Peoples
publications, the position to be filled
later.
At a meeting of the members of the
Grace Presbyterian church of st. Louis.
Rev. J II. Mulhatton the pastor, against
whom there are charges of attempting to
defraud the church out of $4,000 in
money, was dismissed by a large ma
jority vote.
Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad
at Jersey City were notified that an at
tempt was made to wreck the fast train
from Philadelphia wien near Deans
station. Ties were placed on the track.
A negro named Henry Jackson has been
arrested for the act.
While Col S. w. Fordyce, president
of the Cotton Belt road, was seated in
his private car at Pine Bluff yesterday
he was approached by a strengthening
man. who demanded $1,000. The colonel
engaged the man in conversation until
policeman could be summoned.
"A suit involving Leadville mining
property known as the Archer Consolida-
ton, said to be worth $50, 100000, was
filed in the United States circuit court
at Denver. leonard M. Ballou of New
York and Alexis M. Lay of Kalamazoo,
ants are the hex Mining company and
twenty-five well-known mining men.
Harry c.. Hays, secretary of the
Locomotive Engineers Mutual Life and
Accident Insurance association, began
suit at Cleveland for $4,000 for SANDER
against William G. Hayes, one of the
trustees of the association.
The grain men on Kansas City
change received many complaints from
Kansas and Oklahoma of damage to the
wheat crop. Some reports say chinch
bugs are doing the damage. But the
great majority say no satisfactory reason
can be given.
The grand jury at Wichita Falls,
Tex, which has been investigating the
lynching of Crawford and Lewis, the
bank robbers who murdered Cashier
Dorsey has adjourned after finding in
dictments against Frank Smith, Dick
Quinn and f. NJ. Davis, charging them
with completely in the lynching.