Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-24
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Strawn is supposed to have been killed
Their business card was found on Il table
IN the house where the girls body was
found.
Joseph Sylvester. burglar. now in the
TombS at New York. made statement
before his counsel in regard to The big
diamond robbery at the residence of l.
Townsend Burden. Nothing official was
given out, but Sylvester. it was learned,
told how the Burden robbery had been
committed.
Thomas Wilkins, IS years of age, a
member of the Leayenworth QKaS) Ma
tional Soldiers home, filed suit against
Gov. A. J. Smith of that institution for
personal damages in the sum of S15.-
O6690. In the petition it IS alleged that
Gov. Smith. by actual imprisonment and
by threat of dishonOrable discharge from
the home. frightened, tefrorized and com
PEELED the plaintiff to take the Kelley
cure for alcoholism
The mother of Valentine Meyers. an
incorrigible youth of 10, while testifying
against him at Indianapolis in proceed
ings looking to his transfer to the state
reform school, was called a liar by the
young hopeful who also abused an attor-
ney. Watching his opportunity, the 10y
struck his mother, knocking her to the
floor, and he also cursed the court when
ordered under restraint at the reform
school until he was q years old.
After having been ashore off Fire
Island for nearly a week the Wilson
line steamer Otranto has been foated.
The reform committee prisoners have
all been liberated by the Transvaal gov
eminent. but they remain under police
, surveillance.
Strenuous efforts are being nad
to secure the release of Bert Holmes of
| Grand Rapids, Mich, who killed u street
: car mOtOrIlan recently.
The total amount received and for
warded to Turkey for relief work thus
far by Frank H. Wiggin. assistant treas
urer of the American board, is $780,
022 80.
The Oxford sanitarlum and Turkish
bath house at ST. Louis burned. John
Silyey, Chicago travelling man, who
was lying helpless III the sanitarium, was
rescued with considerable difficulty.
Loss, $4,000.
1t is stated that q movement is I'M
der way by large stockholders in the
United States wall paper trust to dis
solve that corporation because of its
failure to pass any dividends since last
April on $S,0O0,O00 of preferred stock
j. X. Gwyan, who for the past two
years has been secretary of the St. Louis
Fair association has resigned to accept
a responsible position with a large to-
bacco company in that city. Col. Robert
Aull hess been appointed to succeed him.
Three Indians on the Winnebago res
ervation near Pender. Neb., secured a
jug of whisky and after imbibing
stripped for an old-fashioned war dance.
When they had exhausted themselves
they sank into q drunken StupOr and
were found dead.
Smallpox has appeared in the house
of corrections az Detroit
The SUM which the Dominion gov
ernment will ask Parliament to grant for
purposes of national defense will be
the militia WIFI be provided is the Lee
Enfield, combining the Enfield barrel and
the Lee magazine.
Am auction sale of 161 paintings be-
longing TO David FL. King was begun
in Chiekering hail. New York. A mas
terpiece by G. Treyon, named Driving
Home the Flock" was started at S10,-
900 and was sold for ST. 50. Judas
Oehme was the purchaser.
Mrs. Bella F. Lovett has commenced
suit in the superior court at Los Angeles,
Call against her father-in-IaW and moth
er-in-laW, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Il. LOvett
of Boston for $4,000 damages for
alternating the affections OF her husband,
Albert B. Lovett, who is q weIl-known
newspaper man.
in the local court at Wichita, Kas.,
her suit for damages against Emil Warn
er, hardware dealer of that city. Mr..
Warner is member of the Merchants
Protective associations. and WAS charged
with blacklissing her because she was
delinquent to his firm.
The Anchor line freighter Elysia,
which sailed from New York f0r Genoa,
put back to port on account of inSubor-
dination of her crew, it being claimed
the cargo had been improperly slowed
A new crew will be shipped
Sir Edwards Clark, e. c., the distin-
guished criminal advocate, has been re-
tanned for the defense OF DIR. Jameson
on his arrival i'll England.
President O. c. Waite of the Column
bus, Hooking Valley & Toledo Railway
company is lying in his private car Id
the yards Of the company at Columbus,
O., very i'll with pneumonia.
Buffalo will. have new stGckyards.
company is, being, organized and soon
will be incorporated, to- build better
system of yards. on land adjacent to the
existing yards. One million dollars will
be invested.
The Michigan, state military board
decided to hold the arnlaal encampMeMt
of the state troops at Islsnd Lake, conn
mencing August 10! Only militiamen
who enlist previous to- May 10 viii be
eligible to camp duty.
The Michigan Central Railroad cOln-
pany has selected Walter Macmillan,
local freight agent at Detroit, to succeed
John Crampton, who died in Chicago,
as general Eastern freight agent with
headquarters att Buffalo.
Mrs. Abbie Jacobs of Elwood, Ind,
who filed a suit for divorce, makes start
ling charges against her husband. She
swears that he. beat her so hard over the
head as to make her deaf. She asks for
alimony and heavy damages.
Germany HAS signed an agreement
with the CHILEAN government under
which she agrees to accept G15, 900 in
settlement of all claims advanced by
German subjects WHO suffered loss or
wrong during the revolution of 1891 in
Chill.
Judge Richard III. Clark, one of the
most eminent judges on the superior
court bench in Georgia, was found dead
in his roOln at his hotel at Atlanta. For
more than half a century he has been
prominent among the foremost men of
Georgia
AT his laboratory in New York Dr.
William T. Morton, who has been con-