Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-30
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Arthur j. Goodwin, VINO has a record
as a defaulter and a bigamist, has been
charge of defaultng on March /. 1895.
with $3.50, which he had collected for
the Continental Oil company of Cripple
Creek. whose agent he was.
Sir Donald A. Smith, Mr.. Dickey
and Mr.. Josjardins, members of the Do
minion House Of Commons. vino We're
appointed to confer with the Manitoba
government with a view of reaching d
settlement of the existing Manitoba
school question, have arrived Ut Winn-
pes.
The postponed race for the Ogden
Goelet-James Gordon Bennett cup was
decided at Cannes. Light airs prevailed
and the Satanita led while a fair breeze
was blowing, with the Ailsa second.
Both these yachts, however, were soon
becalmed and the Britannia drifted
around the course and won.
The G.. n. Nelson Lumber company
has sold all its interests ut Cloquet
Mimi, and in the adjoining county for
S4,00O,O00, the buyers being the Freder-
lex Weyerhauser interests. The sale
includes a saw mill capacity of 12j, 000,-
900 feet annually, vast tracts of timber
and iron lands and a railroad.
The two physicians appointed by the
probate court to inquire into the sanity
of Miss Henrietta Sparrow. who is the sis
ter of wealthy citizen of Lansing, Mich,
found after nearly two months OF I'M
ceasing investigation. that Miss Sparrow
is afflicted with paranoia, and upon their
recommendation the court promptly adj
judged her insane.
A majority of the newspapers in
Madrid print pessimistic comment upon
the Cuban discussion at Washington and
point to the fact that three senators upon
the joint committee have distinguished
themselves by showing i'll will for Spain.
These newspapers claim that this is not
a reasSuring symptom and urge the gov
eminent to prepare for every eventuality.
AT Macon, Ga, Warren CriswelI con-
fessed to having removed the rail that
caused the wrecking of the two trains
were killed. Criswell duplicates Tom
Shaw The detectives at work on the
case say they have positive proof that the
men entered into the plot to get rid of
their wives and at the same time collect
damages from the railroad company.
AT a masquerade ball at Muncie,
Ind, sneakthief in the guise of q
woman entered the ladies' cloakroom and
stole over twenty-five pocketbooks, con-
tanning an aggregate sum of nearly S1OO
ID. w. Bigoney has been appointed
auditor of disbursements of the Erie
Railroad company, vice n. S. Rutter, re-
signed Mr.. BigOney is well known IN
Cleveland and other Western points.
The schedule of assets and labii-
ties of Patrick II. Kelly, the prominent
politician who failed at st. Paul recently
were filed in court. laolltles 1907 up
sos. S:337 and the assets are about half.
The Midway Deposit bank at Lexing-
ton, Ky, one of the best business insti-
tutions in Central Kentucky, is in troub-
lie. and W. M. Ship, cashier, and w. &.
Stone, k-keeper, have been discharged
pending an investigation of the troubles.
-Consul-General Williams has made
two applications to the encouragement
of Cuba for information as to the case
of Walter Dygart, citizen of Illinois,
arrested by the Spanish officials for COM
plicity in the rebellion, but has received
no response.
The J. II. Seiberling company, manu-
facturers of the Empire mowers, reap
ers and binders, made an assignment at
Akron, O. The failure was preclpitated
by an attachment for $4,000 in favor
of the First National bank of Ravenna.
The liabilities will reach S25O,OOO.
A mortgage has been filed at Phoe-
nix, Ariz., conveying to the Farmers
Loan and Trust company Of New York
the forty miles of trackage of the Ma
RIGA, Phoenix & Salt River Valley rolling
stock, etc. in security for a loan of $780,,
900 in thirty-year bonds bearing 5 per
cent interest.
Arthur Mcbride, aged Z, was uncon-
scious for fourteen hours, and came near
dying at Muncie, Ind, as the result of
excessive cigarette smoking. He was in
unconscious. His condition is critical.
William Henry Vieland, a young Eng
lishman, committed suicide at his lodg-
ings in Kansas City, Mo, because he
was out of money. Vieland had lived a
life of dissipation since he left his home
in in-Furness, England, in 1888
and was disinherited by his family
Marshal Farmer left Cedar Rapids.
Ia, to secure the arrest of Detective
Hemphill at Findlay, O., on the charge
of enticing Goldie Neighbor from the
home Of her father in Linn county, Ia.
The child is now with her mother, the
wife of a prominent attorney at Findlay.
The most important decision handed
down by the court of appeals from the
public point of view was that the state
of Missouri has complete jurisdiction
over the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
where those rivers form the boundary
line of the state, SO that the state would
have jurisdiction over gambling or IL
legal whisky selling on a boat.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York from Europe was Mrs. e.
p. Deacon, divorced wife of Edward
Parker Deacon, who in Paris four years
ago shot and killed Emile Abeille, whom
he found i'll his Wife's apartments.
The war department is about to IS
sue its annual prepared by the military
information division on organization,
armament and military progress. Owing
to the limitations imposed by the new
printing act, but 1000 copies of the
publication can be issued.
Rev DR.. John A. Brooks, who has
accepted the call to the West London
tabernacle, preached his farewell sermon
at the Auditorium in Memphis Tenn.
The address was from an American Pro
tectiye association standpoint, yiciously
attacking the Roman Catholics for dab
bling in politics.
There is a lively row in the congrega
ton Of the new fremont temple Il Bap
fist church in Boston 1t is because the
pastor, Rev. George G. Lorimer, is a
Knight Templar. An effort is being
made to deny to him the right to par
take of the sacrament because he is Il
member of Il secret society.
The civil service commission has an
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