Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-12-01
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A I0.year-old girl was found by the
police Of New York stupeied. with whisky.
Col. Blanton Duncan. at Los Angeles
CAL, withdrew his, 100000 damage suit
against the. Associated Press for libel
Daniel r. Kennedy of Lynn, Mass, who
was supposed to have been murdered in
Portland, Me-, has turned. up alive.
The Venezuelan arbitration court has
received over 1900 documents, in English,
Spanish and Dutch, covering four CEN
turies.
A conference Of PROMINENT New York
Democrats has. been called to take steps
to- perfect an organization in opposition to
Tammany.
English newspapers continue to discuss
Interestingly the result of the elections in
the United States in it's relation to terri
torial expansion.
It is believed by many well-informed
persons in Manila that conflict between
the Americans and the Filipinos is ulti~
mately unavoidable.
The critical political and military situa-
ton in Europe has caused a sharp adj
vance in prices of provisions in all the
markets of the world.
Two Havana editors have been sent to
Jail by Captain General Blanco for pub
fishing a rabid anti-American article in
defiance of the censor.
The streets of Havana are being patroll-
ed by Spanish regulars in anticipation of
an outbreak by Cuban volunteers. whoa
have not yet been paid.
In the Rogue district in Cuba heavy
floods have ruined sugar cane and fruit
crops which have just been planted for the
first time in three years.
At North Grafton, Mass, posse of cit
liens surrounded three burglars who had
broken into the postoffice and captured
two and killed one of them.
Scientific societies of St. Petersburg,
Russia, are preparing to give Thomas A.
Edison, the American inventor brilliant
reception when he arrives.
The steamer Arnold, recently arrived at
Seattle, brought fifty-two sacks of mail,
which had been accommodating at st. Mi
chaePs, Alaska, for a year.
]. w. Stewart Of the Sixteenth nfan-
try, who safely passed through the severe
battles in Cuba, was fatally assaulted IN
Louisville saloon by unknown thugs.
Twenty business men and bankers of
Wichita, Kan, have perfected plans to IN
corporate a company for the purpose OF
building telephone system in that city.
Lord Salisbury, at an after dinner
speech at Guild Hall, warned the English
people to be ready for any emergency.
Rendered in plain English that means
war.
Lord Seymore and Col. Briscoe of the
British army have inspected the forts ana
military works around Halifax, and e1,
tensive improvements have been ordereu
to be made at once.
The big guns of our battleships are ex,
pensive. The 13-inch guns require Z4V
pounds of powder, and the cost of one dls-
charge, using an armor-piercing shcll, d"
estimated at $500.
Thirty French reserve warships nave
been ordered into commission and all u
the navy yards of France are rushlnS
preparations for war. All Of the coast oe
lenses of the country are in state u
readiness.
A negro lynched two years ago at Mays.
field, S. c., for murder is said to have Ien
a written statement, which has just peen
found, confessing that he murdered INC
Voolfolk family, for which Thomas
Voolfolk, the eldest son, was hanseo'
protesting his innocence
At Philadelphia, Mrs. John Mc6anan,
after hours of anxious waiting fOf ne4
husband to return home, dreamed tnas
she saw him enter the. house Win n.'
head badly cut and swathed in bandases1
Twelve hours later her husbind enteie1
the house just as she saw him III n Ia
dream, suffering from terrible Noun Us
How he was injured or how he got " 'i'
home he was unable to tell.
John Hays, who discovered the liC "
copper deposits along the south shore y.
Lake Superior, celebrated his nlne,s
fourth birthday in Cleveland, ONO H., sn
other day. In the early forties he la Iions
at Copper Harbor, and with two lhuia oe
as guides went on foot to MllWauHoSt7
prospecting as he went. 1t was III
that he opened the first mines.
Nikola Tesla has invented an appai"' ~
by means of which electrical po"el
high pressure can be conveyed tnou9" an.
of miles through the air and utlllRzeu +be
mercially. The system is to convey t tb
current to a great elevation, Wnele 1uct.
rarefied atmosphere is capable Oh col 1'iced.
ing freely the particular current prouu also
Then TO maintain a second terminal
Mt a great elevation, where the cui ths
can he collected and conveyed 10
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