Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-06-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Louis Devin- arrested in Chicago for
| forging checks in ST. Joseph. Mich. has
| been bound over to the circuit court
The Saturday Review of London an
Iounces that Lord Llandaff will succeed
Lord Dufferin as British ambassador at
| Paris
Late Cummings. the alleged house
| burner and bigamist. who escaped Jail
| at Kokema. Ind, last Sunday, was
caught at Quincy. o.. after hot chase.
j. Il. Mulligan of Yonkers, n. Y.
has been elected supreme dictator of
the Supreme lodge knights of Honor,
in session at Louisville. Ky.
The roads of the central passen-
ger committee have agreed to rate os
one fare for the round trip for the meet
ing Of the Order of Elks, which will
be held in Cincinnati
Elk Mayor Hugh J. Grant of New
, York has been made Il defendant in an
action for 100000 damages for SANDER,
102 Fulton street The action grows
out of a game of poker in the Narragan-
sctt club. West Fifty-sourth street.
when Mr.. Kahn lost, he says, the snug
sum of $4,000.
Gen. r. H. Kirkmore Whitley is
dead. aged SO. Gen Whiteley was born
ut Cambridge, Md. and graduated at
w
had been a soldier i'll three wars-the
Seminole in Florida. the Mexican and
the Civil He was retired in 1915 with
the rank of major general.
Charles +. Blancke manager of the
Pabst brewery bottling establishment in
New York city, was i'll court on Il sum-
mons ordering him to explain how it
was that boxes of other breweries and
bottlers We're found in his place. with
the name of the Pabst Brewing company
branded in. He said he was ignor-
ant of the affair and had the case adj
journed
Mrs Jacob Pickett is dead. the ~
suit of a fright. Mr.. and Mrs. Pickett
moved few days ago into an old cot
tage south of Greensburg. Ind, which
had been vacant for some time. On the
first night some fishermen. not knowing
the hut was occupied. tried to get in.
The woman, having heard that the house
| was haunted. went into Mysteries, from
which she never recovered.
The Grand Rapids 4 Indiana rail
| way system exclusive of the Muskegon
branch and the land grant was sold at
Grand Rapids. Mich. at auction Oh an
order of the United States court as
prayed for by the second mortgage bond
| holders. The decree was for S3,O0O.ON
and interest The only bid was by
representative of the Pennsylvania Rail-
|
| the second mortgage.
! In consequence of the indignities to
which German officers have been sub
| jected recently by the Chinese soldiers
! they We're detailed to train, eliminating
| in the murder of one of the Germans by
the bodyguard of the viceroy of Nankin,
many Of these officers have left Nankin.
The German centrists have decided
| to revive the bill to repeal the antl-.Jesult
| laws. 1t is believed they will obtain ma
| jority enough to induce the government
| to take action.
The military information division Of
the war department has just issued Il
compilation of "Notes on organization,
| ornaments and military progress" en-
bodying all obtainable information from
abroad touching the years developments
in the science of war.
| A Vancouver syndicate has just COM
| pleted negotiations for the purchase Of
ten rich claims accidentally discovered
i'll Cayuse Greek in the Lillooet district
| by halfbreed while hunting mountain
sheep few days ago.
| -VicePresident Stevenson and daugh-
ters will go to Chapel Hill, N. c.. where
the Vice-President is to address the uni
versity students.
| w. X. Cochrane, a well-known news
paper man of st. Paul, was married to
Miss Nan Foley, daughter of Thomas
Foley, the billiard expert.
| The Prince of Wales cutter Britain
MIA won the race for the larger yachts
in the Harwich regatta today of the
Royal Harwich Yacht club.
The Kaiser conducted a rehearsal of
the German musicians before they left
Berlin for Moscow to furnish the music
during the fetes which the German am
| bassador gives to their Russian majes-
ties. The Kaiser altered the tune of one
of the pianoforte pieces, and then ex-
| pressed supreme satisfa ction.