Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-23
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ing merely to hold him for the government
officials
John c. Rice. general manager of the
Elue jay Mining company, has caused the
arrest at Denver of John II. Roger ana
\. Wilson King. two brokers who figured
in the Blue Jay deal charging them with
embezzlement.
The Business Mems league of st.
Louis has established a bureau of in
formation to supplement the work of
the committee in. finding accommoda-
ti0nS for the delegates and visitors to st.
Louis during the Republican convention
and also during the Populst and BIZ
metallic convention in July.
John Jones, who is wanted by Gov.
Altgeld for kicking Mrs. Susan Menden-
hall to death while he was town marshal
of Anna, H.. has been arrested in ST.
Louis.
life insurance companies have APP
plled for an injunction restraining the
state superintendent of insurance of Mis-
souri, from leyying the 2 per cent. tax as
sessed by a recent law.
North Dakota promises to add to it's
products by becoming 4 tea-growing state.
Commissioner of Agriculture Laughlin
has discovered that colony of twenty
Russian families in Mercer county raised
tea last year from Seed obtained from
Russia.
The Michigan Salt association organ
lied with capital stock of $150000 and
with headquarters at Saginaw, Bay City
and Manistee, has filed articles of in
corporation. The company will control
many of the most productive salt wells
in the state.
The papers in the city of Mexico de-
clare that the ties between the MeXicans
and Spaniards tighten daily and that
MeXlcOS position makes her naturally
the vanguard against Yankee encroach-
ment upon Latin America"
Earl Richard, residing a few miles
west of Toronto, has become raving
maniac from attending religious revival
services. He believes the Lord COM
manded him to kill his wife and child,
and he, came very near doing it.
Gov. Drake of Iowa has received
from Secretary Herbert of the navy an
invitation to be present at the launching
of the battleship Iowa. Miss Mary Lord
the same time invited to christen the
ship.
Judge Gaynor of the Supreme court
in Brooklyn granted the application of
William Gordon, a taxpayer, for an in
junction to restrain the East River
bridge commission from purchasing the
franchise of the East River Bridge com
pany, better known as the Uhlmann
franchise.
-1TOI. OdlNlu 1uOuldS, pTOlGSSOE Ol
German in the University of Michigan.
has been made the choice of the trustees
of Columbia university to fill the chair
of Germanic languages and literature,
which has been vacant since the death
of Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.
The steamship Bermuda. recently
seized by the federal government while
attempting to leave New York harbor
on a supposed flibustering expedition in
Cuba, and afterward released, Lett her
anchorage in the upper bay and pro-
ceeded to sea. She cleared yesterday for
Vera Cruz
1t is stated that the reorganization
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad can
be effected without any assessment upon
the common stock. The main features
of the plan are reduction in operating
expenses, the ultimate floating of the
new floating debt securities, and to take
I'D such receivers certificates as must
be issued before any reorganization can
be effected.
IS. J. Spaulding, secretary and treas
urer of the state board of pharmacy
commissioners of Iowa, was arrested at
Des Moines. being short $4,000 in his
accounts. He has no property, and the
state will lose the money. He had been
specializing on the board of trade for
some time and had been heavy loser.
One of the most extraordinary calls
AuONH Ill \uC u1olO1y VI C1AC NOAOAStdO
Mining, Stock exchange was that at
Denver, when the Blue Jay, listed
Cripple Greek prospect that has been
on the board but little over two weeks
made the remarkable jump, point by
point, from 615 cents a share to 2714.
--Ex-Fire Marshal Benjamin Lewis
and Assistant Fire Marshal Rice of
of conspiracy. 1t is reported that inN
dictments were also found against
Hirschkopf, the alleged frebug. who is
now in the Tombs awaiting trial. and
against a former detective of the Brook
lyn police department.
Daniel B. Mccoy, division super
intendent of the New York Central rail
road is in California on a tour of in
spection over the Central Pacific and
Union Pacific roads. Mccoy has been
sent West by the Yanderbilts to in
! spect in order that they might act in
telligently were a public sale Of them
declared by the government
John Green, a variety actor and clog
dancer recently of Chicago, returned to
his home at ST. Joseph, Mo-, and quar-
relied with his wife over the attentions
paid her by neighbor. Armed with
a brick, he beat the woman into insensi-
bility. Physicians found the skull had
been fractured and believe she Will die.
Green escaped to Kansas City.
The apartments of Representative
Grove L. Johnson of California at the
Cochran hotel, Washington, were en-
tered by professional sneak thieves while
he and his family were at dinner and
money, jewels and securities valued in all
at $4,000 were stolen.
Detroit and Michigan is to be the
scene of one of the liveliest circus wars
on record the coming season. James A.
Bailey is determined to drive the Ring
ling Bros. out of the territory by making
it so improbable for them that they
cannot afford to come here. To accom-
plish this he will fight them with two
shows-the consolidated Forepaugh- SELLS
Bros circus and menagerie and the Buff
falo Bill Wild West.
"A man who has been identified as A.
II. Holmes, the famous bank swindler,
was arrested in the st. Paul (Minn.)
National bank by detectives Of the Pink
erton agency. It had been suspected
that he was working in collision with
an alleged commission broker in Min
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