Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
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| York President Spaulding said that
when the finished reports of the Chicago
and New York shows We're ready, the
treasury of the board will be enriched
by about $4,000
| A. G. Bachelor, one of the best
known business men at the head IF the
| lakes, where he was an old resident,
| died at Duluth of typhoid fever. Mr..
| Bachelor was president of the Tower
| Telephone company and prominently
identified with many other big concerns.
| He leaves a widow.
| AT Pierron. Ind. station on the
| Nandaiia road, a lot of WoodchopDers
camping in the woods got on spree.
and because one of their number would
| not drink as often as the others thought
! necessary, they stripped him of his cloth
! ing, and, placing him Oh a stove, held
| him there till his flesh was burned to a
| crisp
| seph. Mich. some boys placed kernel
| of popcorn III the ear of Robert Croft.
| The corn sprouted and grew half an
| inch. 1t caused the boy so much pain
! that today he was operated upon. The
/ ear drum was ruptured and his hearing
| is ruined. The parents Of the boy will
| institute a suit for $4,000 damages
| against the parents of the boys that did
! it,
| United States Consul General Vif-
! quain ar Panama has cabled the state
| department that the schooner Golding,
which is reported to have left San Fran
| cisco with Antonio Ezeta aboard. bound
/ on a flibustering expedition against Sal
vador, has been detained at Panama on
| a charge of violating the neutrality laws.
/ The vessel is reported to have a store of
arms aboard intended for the use Of
,, rebels in Salvador.
The Rev 3. 2. Wise, pastor Of the
| Christian church at Massillon, O., who
/ has one of the largest congregations in
| the city, was arrested, charged by Albert
! Arthur with shooting with intent to kill.
Arthur called on the Wise family's serv-
ant last night and was asked by the min
| lister to leave. After hot words Wise
| forced Arthur out and says that he then
| threw glass at him. Arthur insists
| that he was shot at and severely wound
| ed.
The Gar has confirmed the Rus
! sian budget The navy for the next
| seven years is to have a total Of 403,-
100000 roubles, 57,500,000 roubles of
which is for the current year, increasing
! 100000 roubles annually Should for
| eign nayies grow faster, it is expected
| that these credits will be increased. The
main object is to renly to the appear
| ance of every new English battleship,
and especially of the cruiser type, by the
! production of a Russian one of equal
!. Or superior power.
A cablegram from Rome to Arch
bishop Rain announces that the pallium,
the insignia of his archbishopal rank, is
now on it's way to St. Louis.
Maj. William D. Hale is settling up
the affairs of the American Savings and
Loan association at Minneapolis, Mimi,
and will soon ascertain the real value OF
the associations interests.
City Treasurer George johnson Robb
of Moncton, Neb., is said to be defaulter
to the extent of 5000, said to be due 10
speculations in the New York stock
market. He is i'll and probably will die.
w. G. Baker, supposed to have
jumped from the suspension bridge at
Cincinnati, and to have been drowned,
last Friday, has been heard from in
Kentucky, where he went to escape
his creditors.
of the Ohio and Indiana Pipe Line com
pany, located one mile south Of this
place, exploded and caught fire. Palmer
Goodwin, the engineer, was killed and
four men were seriously injured.
Seventy sheriffs and heads of police
departments from all parts of the state
met at Jackson, Mich. A home for men
discharged from prison was advocated
and the annual reports show the organ
ization to be in tlourishing condition.
AT the meeting of the Democratic
state executive committee at Montgom-
cry, Ala, John B. Knox, a staunch sup
| porter Of Joseph F. Johnston, the free
silver candidate for governor, was elect
ed chairman and all vacancies were filled
with Johnston supporters.
William A. Poste of the law firm of
Russell, Poste & Percy, New York, died
| in Presbyterian hospital while undergoing
an operation for appendicitis. Mr.. POste
was deputy attorney general of the state
! for several years and was also mem
| Der Of the state civil-service commits
| sion. He was born in Canton, n. Y,
| forty-tWo years ago.
The members of the executive com
mittee of the Populist national conven-
| ton and the Business Mems league of
| st. Louis have completed details for the
! July convention and executed a contract
whereby the Populists will be given the
use of the hall in the Exposition building
now being prepared for the Republican
| national convention.
| Mime. Modjeska, who was billed to
| open her farewell engagement at the
! Walnut theater at Cincinnati, did not
| appear She is i'll, and her attending
| physicians say that under no circun-
| stances must she leave her bed. Mime.
Modieskas trouble is an Inflammation Of
| the veins of the neck said Dr.. Mitch
| ell, who is attending her.
| The Lehigh Valley passenger train
from Wilkesbarre, in charge of Engineer
| Michael Ionzier and Conductor George
| Reese. was precipitated into the depths
| of a coal mine near Eazelton, Pa. Lon
zier was crushed to death The fire
man, Frederick Meyers, will probably
| die. There was a cavein and this let
! the engine down into the mine.
Judge Baker of the United States
district court at indianapolis handed
| down decision III the National Linseed
| Oil trust case in which the deed of the
| trust to the National Linseed Oil COM
pany is upheld, but the trust is held to be
| illegal, the company an illegal organiza
| ton and monopoly and only capable
| of holding property until suit is filed by
! the proper persons.
A Cape Towns dispatch to the Lon
| don Times says that the German gum
boat Sperber has started fof Delagoa
| bay.
Two freight trains co!lided on the
| Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic railway,
| at Beauford Junction, between Nestoria