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at Fitzgerald's temple. The blade did
not penetrate but crushed the skull.

at Fitzgerald's temple The blade did
not penetrate but crushed the skull.
Andrew B. Rogers, one of the oldest
residents of New York, died suddenly
this Dorning in the Bedford Street
Methodist church. He had been an act
i've member of the church since 1864
and for many years head of the large
class which meets in the church buildin.
for prayer every Sunday morning.
Over forty-seven million tickets have
been sold on the New York and Brook
Ign bridge during the year 1895. In
round numbers, 10000 persons use the
railroad on the bridge daily. Over 1000
vehicles cross the roadways, and the
total receipts from the traffic of the
great structure amount to about $500
every day.
A sensational suicide occurred at
Beaver, Utah. Fred White discoverer
of the Rob Roy mine, and at one time
very wealthy. took morphine. In a let
ter he called down curses on those who
had robbed him. He also desired that
his heart should be punctured two or
three times in order that death might
be certain. He had horror of being
buried alive.
Nine. Modjeska, in promising to act
for the Armenian relief fund, bids gem
erous Americans to remember Poland.
Harold Land alias Duncan Summers,
director of a female band at Creston, Ia,
has been bound over for abducting two
sisters from st. Paul.
James McShane U4iberaD was elect
ed to the place made vacant by the elc-
walton of Judge Curran from the Mon
treal Federal Parliament to the bench.
Santa Claus caught fire during an
entertainment at the Presbyterian
church at Peoria, Ill.,, created a panic
among the children and almost set the
church on fire.
The Austrian minister has detached
Guided in the Pittsburg Austro- Hungar-
ian consulate and has added it to the
Chicago consuPs territory.
james Rood and his sster-in-law,
Miss Martha Thomas of Owosso. Mich.
have been arrested, charged with leaving
child On neighbours doorstep during
a cold night, Gripping it for life.
The home of Thomas F. Cakes, ex-
president of the Northern Pacific, at
Orienta, n. Y, was entered while serv-
ants were at an early mass and property
worth thousands of dollars taken.
Associate Justice Brewer, who has
been spending several weeks at San
Antonio, Tex, left suddenly for Wash
ington This Strengthens the belief that
he has been offered place on the Vene-
Zuelan boundary commission.
The Jury at Ell Rene, Ok. in the
Eugene Hays case. charged with killing
Constable James Doss last March, has
returned verdict of guilty of man
slaughter in the first degree. This is the
first conviction in Canadian county for
murder.
An unknown incendiary set fire to
thirty-tive barrels of coal oil on the side
walk near J. II. Walkers grocery at
Rockport, Ind. The barrels burst and
the flames completely enveloped the adj
joining buildings. The loss is $4,000
with insurance of $4,000.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
ALFRED ELY BEACH PASSES AWAY
Famous Editor of the Scientific American
Dies of Pneumonia.

Famous Editor of the Scientific American
Dies of Pneumonia.
New York, Jan. 2.-Alfred Ely Beach,
editor of the Scientific American, died
at his home in this city today of pneu-
monia.
Mr.. Beach was born in Springfield,
Mass, in 1926. He was the son of Mo-
ses Y Beach. When he was 20 years
old he formed a partnership with Orson
D. Mum. and they became the proprie-
tors of the Scientific American, which
was at that time the only weekly jour
nal of it's kind in the country. During
nearly fifty years. Mr.. Beach was active
in the editorship of the Scientific Amer
lean and in the direction of the extensive
patent business of the firm. He had a
faculty for mechanics and all branches
of science.
Among Mr.. Beach's earlier inventions
was a typewriting machine, which was
exhibited in the Crystal Palace eXhibi-
ton in London and the Seaman Institute
exhibition in this city from 1852 until
1862. It received the gold medal of the
institute as one of the most ingenious
and perfect inventions then exhibited.
The machine had the keyboard, the pot
of type bars and the ink ribbon, the
spacing bar, the paper moved by the
keys, ETC., all now in general use.
Mr.. Beach, soon after the close of the
war, founded the Beach institute at
Savannah, for the education of freed
men. He had always been noted for
his private charities.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
ROAST IN TIE RUINS.
Fireworks Explosion i'm st. Louis
Causes Ten Frightful
Fatalities.

St. Louis, Mo-, Jan. 3.-With de-
tonation that was heard across the river
the fireworks stock of Detwiler & Street,
Greenfield, n j., firm, stored in the
rear of 300 North Second street, ex-
ploded this afternoon. -Four persons are
dead, six missing, two fatally injured
and thirty-two seriously hurt. Adjoin-
ing buildings were crushed like paper
boxes, and in their fall carried scores
of inmates down with the ruin. Win
dows were broken for blocks around,
and the air was filed with powder
smoke, sparks and flying debris. Two
other explosions followed the first in
rapid succession, completing the work OF
death and destruction. In addition Il
property loss of 100000 was entailed by
fire.
The dead are:
ALBERT CHEMELIR, laborer, Excel
sior Iron and Wire works.
FRANK NIEHAUS, porter, Leyison &
Blythe Manufacturing company.
PAUL HAUPTNER, laborer, Excelsior
ALAYs SCHNEIDS, died in hospital.
The missing:
NORMAN MACARTHUR, foreman Excel
sior Iron and Wire works.
L. LAY. shipping clerk, Excelsior works:
CHARLIE AXIOM, teamster, Excelsior
works
JOSEPH CAvORECK. ...
The fatally injured:
CHARLES E. AMOS, letter carrier, inter-
nally injured.
Thirty-one others received less serious
injuries, caused mostly by falling glass
and bricks
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
CLOSE OF A STRANGE CAREER.
Death at Chicago of John B. Blair
Painted War PanoramaS.

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 2.-The year was
scarce half day old when strange life
ended one that was in many respects
extraordinary. If to be successful, ia
nous and wealthy and to outlast all
these is to live an extraordinary life,
such was the one laid down by joan B.
Blair yesterday morning in one Of the
wards for the senile and the insane in
the home for incurables at Fifty-sixth
and Ellis avenue.
Half century ago he was a famous
painter, as is attested by his portrait of
President Taylor now hanging in the
white house gallery Then he turned to
the field of invention and turned out
silk bag gas balloon, such as aeronauts
use today. Fifty years ago he invented
bicycle made on the same lines as the
safety bicycle of today. He added half
a million dollars to the wealth of e.
Faber, the pencil manufacturer, by in
venting the rubber tip for pencils. He
also was the first artist to paint an i'm
mense war panorama. But he was not
thrifty and for couple of years has been
supported by friend. He was born in
1900
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persons unknown" was the verdict.

persons unknown" was the verdict.
And SO the matter was allowed to rest.
The deceased had no relations to insist
upon further investigation, and the gem
era1 opinion seemed to be that all inquiry
would be of no avail. 1t had probably
been drunken brawl; and even if there
had been any witnesses to it, feeling OF
loyalty would prevent them from saying
what they knew would ruin fellow
soldier. They would indeed be apt to
look only too leniently on a crime that,
though so fatal in its results, had yet been
accidental, and not the fruit of malice.
Yet his death had been a great shock
to the whole regiment, and the sympathy
felt was shown by the number of those
who followed him to the cemetery. Most
of the officers were present-among them
the Colonel and the Adjutant-and just
as the service began the wife and daugh-
ter of the quartermaster came up quietly
and stood beside the grave. Mrs. Knox
was darkly dressed, though not actually
in black, out of regard to the melancholy
occasion; but Jane was in rigid mourn
ing, and her pale face looked the whittier
by contrast with her sable gown.
The quartermaster was not with them;
and when the funeral rites were ended
Stephen Prinsep moved toward them with
the intention of seeing them home. But
Jane, with gesture of repugnance that
he could not understand, still less &C
count for, shrunk back behind her mother
and drew her quickly away.
For moment their eyes had met, and
the Colonel stood inert, utterly incapable
of speech or action, transfxed by the look
of fear strangely mingled with contempt
that she had cast upon him.
When he recovered himself, she and
her mother were out of sight, and the
troops moving noisily away reminded him
that there was no reason he should re-
main behind.
(To be continued)
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THERE WAS A DISTINCTION.
And the Hitherto Moral Young Man
Got the Heaviest Sentence.

Got the Heaviest sentence.
When Lawyer Charles w. Brooke
practiced at the bar in Philadelphia
years ago he one day was called upon
to defend a man in the United States
district court before Justice CadWalla-
der for counterfeiting. Mr.. Brooke's
client was young man who had never
before been charged with crime. His
companion was a well-known counter
feiter, who had served a term OF i'm
prisenment. Both men were convicted.
When they were brought to the bar for
sentence the old offender was the first
to hear the judgment of the court. JUS
tice Cadwallader, who was an old
school gentleman of punctilious polite
ness, said, in a mild tone: 'Mr. Jones,
you have been convicted, unfortunate
ly for yourself, of the crime Of coun-
terfeiting Very justly, Mr.. Jones,
the law prescribes severe penalty for
the offense for which you have so I'M
fortunately been found guilty. It be-
comes my duty, Mr.. Jones, under the
law, to pass sentence upon you, and
therefore, under the circumstances and
in considerati ton Of your having upon a
previous occasion been found guilty Of
a similar offense, sentence you to the
term of twelve years imprisonment"
Jones stepped back, and Mr.. Brooke's
client took his place at the bar ''Your
honor" said Mr.. Brooke, II would like
to call the attention of the court to the
fact that this young man has never be-
fore been convicted of crime, and
has always, up to the present, borne
a most excellent character" every
good, Mr.. Brooke, very good,' said the
Justice. Then to the prisoner: young
man, you have doubtless heard the re-
marks that addressed to your partner
in this offense. It is unnecessary that I
should, therefore, repeat them to you.
1t becomes my painful duty to sentence
YOU now, and I will likewise send you
to prison for the term Of twelve years"
"But, your honor" protested Mr..
Brooke, ''my client has never been con-
yicted before, and has had an excellent
reputation. There surely should be
some distinction between his punish
ment and that Of the other man, who is
an old offender" ''Ah, that is quite
true, Mr.. Brooke" said the justice. II
thank you for reminding me of it. There
ought to be a difference surely, and
there shall be. Mr.. Clerk, make the
sentence for Jones sixteen years in
stead of twelve. Thank you again, Mr..
Brooke, for reminding me Of what I
oyerlooked.''- New York World.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
PERILS OF EXITING"
A Philadelphia Real Estate Agent
Draws Too Many Bank


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 3.-The Sole
itors' Loan and Trust company of this
city, of which Richard W. Clay is presi-
dent, made an assignment today to Col.
[. Dewitt Cuyler, one of the directors,
and e. 3. Morry of the Girard Trust
company. The trouble came through the
/ outside operations of J. j. Ritter, who
had charge of the company's real estate
! department. He is said to have hOated
series of drafts in the Tradesmen's
National bank of this city for New
York man.
Two weeks ago President Clay of the
trust company gave the Tradesman's
| bank a bond of S15O,0O0 to indemnify
it against loss. This bond was given
without the knowledge of the directors
and when the board learned OF 1t they
repudiated the action of their president
and in view of the circumstances DECIDED
to make an assignment in order to learn
the true condition of the company. An
examination of the books shows that the
assets are all right.
The Solicitors Loan & Trust company
has assets of about $1,2O0,OOO, most of
which is tied up in Western mortgages;
1t was founded in 1886 with a full paid
capital of $o0O,0O0. It's stock recent
ly dropped about $40 a share.
Il. Dewitt Cuyler stated that Mr..
Ritter was using his own money in his
was unable to say in view of this state
ment why President Clay gave the $780,
900 bond to the Tradesmen's bank.
After the board of directors had re-
pudiated the bond the Tradesmen's bank
threatened to bring suit to recover the
money. and this, the assignees state,
was what caused the assignment. 1t
was stated at the office of the trust com
pany today that Mr.. Ritter is i'll at his
home in this city Neither he nor Presi-
dent Clay could be seen.
Former Cashier j. A. Mckee of the
Tradesmens National bank is said to
have cashed Ritter's drafts for 100000.
In consequence of his connection with
the latter's speculations he was recent
ly compelled to resign. Ritter is lying
at the point of death. The meeting at
which the directors decided to repudlate
the action of their president was held
on Sunday last. The revelations have
created a sensation in financial circles.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
The Deadly Railroad Mortgage.

It is said that the late Samuel J..
Tilden was the inventor Of the modern
railway mortgage, with all it's deadly
possibilities of foreclosure, receiver
ship, lawyers quarrels and general
wreck and disaster. It was diaboi-
cal invention. 1t has made the for
tunes Of thousands Of lawyers and has
proved the undoing Of many thousands
of stockholders and bondholders. The
lawyers have pudding when the rail
road gets into the hands Of receivers.
The comptroller of one Of the great
transcontinental lines, now run by a
United States District Court, told me
lately in New York that it had cost the
past year 100000 more to operate the
line under the receivership than it
would have cost had it been run in the
regular way by a board Of directors.
The lawyers got most Of this big lot
Of money. A lawyer told me in Mil
-waukee the other day that there is no
law whatever authorizing court to
operate railroad and that the practice
has grown up during recent years with
out any sort of statutory provisions
regulating it. A judge now takes
railroad, appoints receivers, requires
them to account to him, issues orders to
buy rails and locomotives, to construct
new roadbeds and bridges, to make or
abandon leases, to pay interest or not
to pay interest on bonds, and practical
" absorbs in his own person all the
functions of president, directors, audi
tor, treasurer and general manager.
He is only a lawyer raised to the bench
and he knows nothing about railroad
ing, but he runs the road year after
year with the absolute authority of
czar.-Chicago Tmes-Herald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
QUARTERS FOR TIE COMMISSION.
May be Located with the Bureau OF
American Republics.

Washington, D. c., Jan. "A search
is being made for quarters for the Vene
zuela commission and it is probable that
in the end it will be located in the build
ing at the corner of Pennsylvania ave
nue. and Madison place now occupied by
the bureau Of American republics. 1t
is not believed the work of the commits
sion will be sensibly delayed by the fact
that Justice Brewer is obliged to finish
the term in the Supreme court before
giving it all of his attention. A vast
deal of preparatory work must be done
and this will easily occupy all of tie
time for six or eight weeks at least.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
TRUCE AT ZEITOUN.
Porte Orders a Suspension of Hos
tilities Pending an InVes-
tigatiOn.

Constantinople, Jan. 3.-The Turkish
government has ordered the commander
of the Turkish forces surrounding lei
toun to suspend Eostilities pending the
negotiate which the representatives Of
the powers have entered into in order
to bring about the surrender Of the lei
tounls The amba ssadors have given
their respective consuls at Aleppo full
liberty Of action in regard TO the steps
which they may think necessary to take
to prevail upon the insurgents to surren-
dor
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BIG OUTPUT OF FLOUR.

Nearly 1000, 900 Barrels Ground at the
Head of the Lakes.
Duluth, Mimi, Jan. g. Special. THE
mills at the head of the lake ground
3.5O8,O3 barrels Of flour last year and
shipped 1854 ,O93, of which 1,066, 337
were for export. Rail receipts from in
terror points were 100000. The pro-
duction shows an increase of nearly 75O,.
600 above 1894, while the rail receipts
were about that much smaller.
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Russ;a Promised No support.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 3.-A semi-oflicial
denial was made today of the announce
ment made in the Neue Freie Presse of
Vienna on December 30 in a dispatch
from this city saying that Russia and
France had actually promised diplomatic
support to the United States in the Vene
zuelan question and that Russia Wa.
prepared to facilitate the United States
loan with her own gold reserve.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09

Silk hats have a muslin body as
basis From two to six thicknesses of
muslin are employed for the brim and
one or two for the top and sides.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
EUGENE FIELDS ESTATE IN COURT
Letters of Administration Granted to the
Widow of the Poet.

Widow of the Poet.
Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 3.-Letters of adj
ministration upon the estate of Eugene
Field were granted yesterday to the
widow by Judge okhaohlsaat;; The sao estate
scheduled as personal property. The
realty. however, is subject to a large
mortgage. which leaves small equity
to the estate. 1t was announced that
the estate would be kept intact for the
benefit of the children. The copyrights
of the books of the poet will ais" "evert
to the widow
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
THE ST. LOUIS DISASTER.

F1IeWorks Explosion ResuIted IN Ten
Fatalit es.
ST Louis. Mo, Jan. 3-Work on the
ruins caused by the explosion of fire.
works yesterday has been vigorously
prosecuted since 10 o'clock this morning
with the result Of finding two more dead
bodies This makes the number of
dead six. There are still four more
men missing and search will be contin-
ued until they are found.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
STARS AND STRIPES AS A GUARD.

AMETican C01HPHHy 10 TIHhE the Flag
Over It Machines in Cuba
Richmond, Va, Jan. 3.-The Rousack
Machine company has written to the fac
tories III Cuba operating their cigarette
machines to place a United States flag
over every machine, with card attached
stating that the machine is the property
of the Bousacks OF Virginia, u. S. A..
and that any damage done to it will
have To he mai for
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
Three Men Killed

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec 31.-A terrific
boiler explosion, by which three men
were killed, occurred at the Law colliery
at Avoca, small mining town twelve
miles from here, this morning. The ex-
plosion is supposed to have been caused
by low water in the boiler.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-01-09
BELGIAN STATESMAN DEAD.

III. Frere-Orban Had Been in the Cabi-
net Half Century.
Brussels, Jan. IN. Hubert Joseph
Walther Frere-Orban, the distinguished
Belgian stateman, who, with short in
tervals, has been cabinet minister for
nearly half century, and who has twice
been president of the council Of ministers,
is dead. aged "a years
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CHAPTER xyIy

md ulnpn: calculated the Hon. Barry.
ano made no other remark.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-04-23

Burns are absolutely painless when De-
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applied. This statement is true. A
perfect remedy for skin diseases, chapped
pands and lips, and never fails to cure
hiles. FRANK Smith.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-04-23
Condensed Testimony.

Chas. H. Hood, broker and manufac-
turer's agent, Columbus, Ohio, certlties
that DR.. Kings New Discovery has no
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cry. b. F. Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass,
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-04-23

A little Ill, then a little pill. The III is
gone the pill has won. DeWitt's Little
Early Risers the little pills that cure
great ills. FRANK SMITH.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-04-23

which the doctor alleges was a libel
told the story of a coroner's inquest over
the body of Mrs. Jesse H~itchings, at
Sanborn, at which time it says the cor
oner's jury found the facts to be that
the woman's death was the direct result
of an operation performed by the plain
tiff in this action, and holding the doc
tor guilty of the charge, in thai the
treatment was unnecessary and was ig-
norantly and negligently done. 1t says
DR.. Traer was a travelling doctor who
had been holding forth at Sanborn Civ
ing lectures or phrenology. The doctor,
according to his custom, had been Civ
ing free examinations of the heads OF a
limited number Of persons from his au-
dience. and among those VAS Mrs.
Hitchings. The story says he told her
after an examination that she was suf-
fering from a severe female trouble,
and it would be necessary for her to
have an operation performed. This he
claimed to have discovered by a simple
examination of the head. He prevailed
on her to call at his Office the neXt day,
where she vent accompanied by another
woman. Mrs. Hltchings still persisted
that nothing was wrong With her and
that she vas feeling In the best Of
health. However, the doctor was de-
termined to proceed with the operation,
which was done in such q bungling man
ner that for several days after the poor
woman suffered terrible agonies, and
finally died. Prior to her death, the
account alleges, she made a full written
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