Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-05-11
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y. II. Grove. manager for the Ar
mour Packing company at Clinton, Ia,
pleaded guilty to selling oleomargarine
col0red to represent butter and paid a
fine of 500 and costs, the maximum pen
ally.
Because her parents would not let
her marry the man of her choice, Louise
Dean, aged II, of Wabash. Ind. swal-
lowed a teaspoOnful of poison. Prompt
use of stomach pump may save her
lite.
The Prince of Wales gave dinner
party at which were present all of the
ambassadors of foreign powers in Lon
don, the ministers in the government
many eXministers, the archbishop of
Canterbury, Field Marshal Viscount
Wolseley and other prominent person
ages.
Suits involving an aggregate of about
s.. 100000 will be commenced in the fed
eral court AT Sioux City, Ia. by the as
ISOLATION of grain dealers in Northwest
ern Iowa against several railway com
panies to recover that amount of over
charges alleged to have been made by
the roads during the last few years on
grain shipments from Northwestern
Iowa points to Chicago
The British fruit steamer which went
ashore off Highland light was the For
est Holme from Mediterranean ports
She was fioated without damage
The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern Railway company was held in the
Offices of the company in Cleveland. The
report shows net earnings of $6,447, $50.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe In
dams OF Oklahoma are greatly incensed
against their agent, Capt. A. Il. Wood
son of the Fifth cavalry, and at an in
dignation meeting just held by all the
chiefs and prominent members of the
tribes decided to give him thirty days
notice to leave the reservation.
Assistant General Manager 2. p.
Shelby Of the Great Northern has sent
his resignation to President Hill. So far
as known there has been no friction and
Mr.. Shelby leaves of his own accord.
-Horatio w. Stocker has been ap-
pointed temporary receiver by Justice
Andrews of the Supreme court for the
New York Mining exchange. The pro-
ceedings are brought by a majority of
the directors for voluntary dissolution Of
the corporation.
Employees of cotton mills in Alabama
have Detitioned Gov. Oates to stop the
construction of a cotton mill on the con-
Wet farm near Montgomery. asserting
their wages too low already, will be fur
Their reduced by competition with convict
labor.
1t is said that the Spanish govern
ment has declined the Popes mediation
in Cuban affairs, on the ground that
the acceptance would be tantamount to
recognizing Americas right to interfere.
Miss Edie Mccain and Miss Rena
Vinton of Chicago, members of the
Monte Carlo Girl Comedy company
were overcome by escaping gas in the
Phoenix hotel at Benton Harbor. Mich,
and are still in critical condition
Two of the most notorious pickpock-
cts and knockout drop" men that ever
claimed New York for their home were
arrested in Washington. They are
D. Stevens, alias Gallagher. and Frank
Lewis, alias Harry Armstead, alias
':Sheeny" Lewis, alias Mansfield.
-McEwan Bros & Co.'S sawmill mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire at
Bay City, Mich. Fifteen hundred cords
of slabs west of the mill were destroyed.
The entire department was called out
anG the fire got under control. Had
there been a high wind the mill and a
million feet of lumber would have been
destroyed.
The students of the Ohio Wesleyan
university at Delaware, o., went on
a grand strike at chapel time. Chapel
is held at the close of the last recitation
hour at 4:3O o'clock, and when this
time came almost all Of the 1000 stu
dents gathered at the chapel entrance
and then deliberately went away.
The Lea Lea company of New York,
the new Chinese laundry company, will
at once open in Boston its fight against
the Six companies of San Francisco, the
concern supposed to control nearly all
the Chinese laundries in the country
Already cut of 10 per cent. in laundry
prices has been made and a bigger cut
is promised.
The industrial exhibition in the Mu-
nicipal park at Treptow was opened by
Emperor William. His majesty was ac-
companied by the Empress.
Half a dozen insurance companies
have begun suit against Lyon county,
Ia, to recover on $92,32O of bonds issued
by the county and afterward repudiated
on the ground that they were in excess Of
the legal limit.
e. P. Ames, who was appointed re-
ceiver for the East Chicago Qnd) Iron
and Steel company, has been discharged
ployes, amounting to $4,000 The
works will be started at once.
The German Lutheran synod of Mis-
souri,. embracing nearly every state in
the Union and Canada, is in session at
Fort Wayne, Ind. The meeting will last
ten days. About 600 delegates are pres
ent
Edward X. Bethel, member of the
'Hoodman Blind" company now playing
at the Grand Opera house, Boston, at
tempted to shoot his wife, member of
the William HI. Crane company, which
is now playing in Hartford, Conn.
The Carmelite order i'll Mexico is to
be reformed and a new provincial is COM
ing from Spain, when the question of the
ordination of the men of Indian blood
as members of the order will be taken
up. The statutes Of this order forbid
this practice.
The steamer Alki, which has arrived
at San francisco, rescued two sealers off
the Alaskan coast. The men had been
caught in a binding snowstorm and
were driven about in a small canoe for
six days and six nights.
The will Of the late Il. A. Massey,
the millionaire manufacturer of agricult-
ural implements of Toronto, Ont, was
probated at Cleveland. He left amounts
ranging from $25,00O to 100000 to
about twenty educational institutions and
asylums.
DIR. d. A. Austin, an old resident Of
NIuskingum county, o., prominently
identified with the abolition movement