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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
FLEEING BOY ELUDEs HUNT.
Kidnapping Hinted At In Case of
Wealthy Virginia Boy.


Trace of Stephen Putney, Jr., son of
one of the wealthiest men in Richmond,
Va, has been found in Kansas City, but
according to information received by the
st. Louis police he escaped from the
room where he was discovered. He is
thought to have been kidnapped while
attending the st. Louis exposition. Lang
horne Putney, half-brother of the miss
ing boy, went to Kansas City to take up
the search. 1t is stated, however, that
Langhorne Putney has received letter
telling him that his brother would re-
turn if he followed certain directions and
dropped a package containing $4,000 at
a certain place. Chief of Police kiely
Of st. Louis declined to discuss the case
further than to say that he was positive
that the boy was not being held for
ransom. Mr.. Putney, when seen before
departing, declared that he had not re-
ceiyed a demand for a ransom.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Chicago

Co., says:
Bank deposits and clearinghouse r.
changes are largely ahead of tboso.
year ago, and for the first time IN :
cal history both simultaneously rAco,,
their greatest volume. While ofao.
statements disclose ample cash =.
sources, there are indications ,t..
money is now working into better pon
eral demand, and the discount RI,
soon may advance from its praso,.
minimum.
Trade has fully sustained recent :,
vorable developments. Heavy dists
button of manufactures continued On,
freight tonnage gained but while n.
weather was good for shopping il bap
too mild for satisfactory disposith,
Of seasonable retail wares. Wholesso
shipments Of staples and holiday line,
to interior points made a good agra
gate.
Late buying has been we'll main
tanned for the country, and city mg
chants bought more freely, most of TIA
demands including dry goods, MILL
merry, mems furnishings, Woolens and
food products. Demand for ievplT
silverware and smokers articles Show.
ed a moderate gain. Orders for uss
sentiments were Of limited extent, but
discounting Of bills purchased was fire.
quent and mercantile collections zen.
orally were reasonably prompt
Operations in grain were Influenced
by poor outside buying and heavy Ar
gentine shipments. Forwarding from
this port was only 2,e74,327 bushels al
decrease of 81 per cent as comparel
with corresponding week last ypar
Values suffered a sharp decline corn
being weakest and closing 5 cents 4
| bushel under a week ago. Provisions
were in fair request, but produces
made liberal offerings and quotations
ruled slightly under last weeks Re
ceipts Of live stock, 301,O head, fell
considerably short of those year ago
Sheep brought an advance of Is cents
hundredweight, while hogs and
choice beeves both declined 20 cents
Failures reported in Chicago district
numbered twenty-five, against twenty
two last week and thirty four year
ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
CITIZENS ROUT ROBBERS.

Aroused by Explosion, They Go to Res
cue of Bank.
Determined citizens reused from their
beds by the sound Of an explosion in the
vaults of the Bank of Wabash, Wabash,
Neb., routed q pair Of bandits at 3
o'clock the other morning and saved the
cash box from being looted. Two rob-
bers blew off the outside door of the safe
and laid second blast to open the vault.
The citizens, headed by Postmaster
Brown, opened fire and a running fight
ensued. The robbers escaped near Weep
ing Water. They secured no money.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
OIL KING BUYING UP A TOWN.
Rockefeller Takes This Means of Driv-
ing Out a Liquor Dealer.

Rockefeller Takes This Means OF Dr1V-
ing Out a Liquor Dealer.
John d. Rockefeller is buying up the
town of Briggsville, n. Y, in order to
GUST q liquor dealer named j. Melin,
whose tavern is obnoxious to the oil king,
being on the road to his Westchester
county mansion. Rockefeller tried to buy
Melin's property but failed. He chen
tried to get Melin's license revoked. So
far Melin has beaten him. When Mr..
Rockefeller realized he could not GUST
Melin he made new move, that of tax
ing Melin's business away from him.
That is what many believe is his princi-
pal reason for buying UP Briggsville. f
Mr. Rockefeller buys the land and there
are no people to patronize Melin, why
there is nothing for Melin to do but
close out at Rockefeller's price. Mr..
Rockefelers recent purchases have had
their effect on Melin already, his bust
ness is dwndling away and those who
frequent his place say that he is losing
money.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Find Mummies in a Cave.

Miners have broken into cavern con-
tanning two dozen mummies near Silver
City, N. M. Buried with the mummies
were stone weapons and instruments,
showing that they belonged to a prehis-
toric race. The mummies were appar-
emily about 5 feet tall in life Their
heads were small and their arms long.
The cave was about 100 feet below the
surface of the earth.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
WOOSTER BANK CLOSED.
National Institution Posts Notice that
1t Will Go Into Liuuidation.

The doors of the Wooster, Ohio, Ma
tional bank were not opened the other
day. The following notice was posted:
'"This bank closed by order of directors,
to go into voluntary liquidation" Presi-
dent L. P. Ohliger was absent from the
city and no statement as to the cause of
the closing could be obtained. A fnan-
cial statement issued by the bank in
September showed deposits to be $751;
600, loans and discounts 1851 900. cash
on hand $4,000, due from banks $4,000
and bonds $4,000. The capital stock
WAS 100000
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Will Drop Sn1oot Fight.

Despite appeals made by women's
clubs, the w. c. t. u, and religious
bodies and church societies, it is the pres
ent intention Of the Senate committee on
privileges and elections to recommend
that Reed Smoot be allowed to retain his
seat in the Senate
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
President at the Exposition.

President Roosevelt gave an exhibition
of whirlwind sightseeing at the ST. Louis
fair, doing the exposition in eight
hours. He inspected the exhibits, visit
ed the officials in the several foreign
buildings, reviewed troops and attended
banquet at the Tyrolean Alps. His
wife and Miss Alice Roosevelt accom-
panied them. The party was given a cor
dial reception everywhere.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Woman Murdered in Woods.

The body of Mrs. Emma Brigham.
bearing evidence which the police say in
dicates most brutal murder, was found
partly covered with brush and leaves in
the woods not far from the home in
which Mrs. Brigham lived with her aged
mother in Leicester, Mass. Three tramps
have been arrested.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Naval School Near Chicago,

After long and bitter fight the au-
thorities at Washington decided in favor
of the Lake Bluff, ILL.,, site for naval
training school, much of the credit for
Chicago's triumph being due to business
men who gave time and money to aid
the project.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

United States min
lister to China, who
is soon to resign his
post at Pekin, and
few women of rank
have played as i'm
portant a part in
shaping the desti-
MES of an empire as
Mrs. Conger. The
latter is directly re-
sponsible for the re-
cent action of the
Dowager Empress
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
BOY LOST AT FAIR IS FOUND.
Claims He Was Abducted and Enlisted
in the Army.

Stephen Putney, Jr., son of a wealthy
Richmond, Va, manufacturer, who dis
appeared several days ago while visiting
the fine arts building at the worlds fair,
returned the other day to the Hamilton
Hotel in st. Louis, where his brother,
Langhorne Putney, is stopping. 1t is
claimed the youth, who is 16 years old,
was drugged and abducted by three men,
and remembered nothing until he found
himself in Kansas City. Being ashamed
to appeal to his family, he enlisted in the
army, giving his age as q years. His
brother will attempt to secure his dis
charge from the army.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Five Italians Die in Fire.

Five Italians persisted in a fire which
destroyed the old Noble grain warehouse
at North Bend, Pa, where sixty or more
italian railroad laborers have been sleep.
ing. One of them was washing pair of
overalls in pail Of gasoline when a
spark from his pipe fell into the pail.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Swallows Poison at Cell Door.

Mrs. Julia McGraw, wife of a Menife
County farmer, was arrested near Mari
ba, Ky, charged with poisoning Mrs.
Martha Yocum, aged 65, and three wom-
en- named Bolts last August. AS Mrs.
McGraw was being placed in a cell she
attempted suicide by swallowing digitalis.
A physician was summoned, and after
hard work succeeded in saving the wom-
ans life
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Nebraska Bank Goes Under.

The Elkhorn Valley Bank in ONeill,
Neb., failed to open for business the
other day and its president and cashier
could not be found in the city. The af-
fairs of the bank, according to a state
ment given to the press by the wife of
Bernard McGreeyy, the president, are in
a bad condition. Cashier Patrick Hager-
ty, it is alleged overdrew his account in
large amounts
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
"Commonwea1" Army Leader Fails.

General Jacob S. Coxey, Of Mount
Vernon, Ohio, celebrated as the leader
of the "commonweal'' army, has filed a
personal petition in bankruptcy in the
United States Court in Columbus. His
liabilities are given as 1921, 900. His
assets consist of 1850 shares of stock in
the Coxey Steel and Silica Sand Com
pany and an unsecured note for $11, 600.
The Coxey Steel and Silica Sand Com
pany is now in the hands of a receiver.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

The money, amounting to $4,000, of
which the Placer County Bank in Au-
burn, Cal, was robbed last May has been
found in a cowshed of the Weber place.
1t was buried in an old fve-pound lard
can. Adolph Weber, who is under arrest
Oh the charge of numbering his parents,
brother and sister, has been formally
charged with having also held up the
bank
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

former postmaster at Dunkirk, and his
bondsmen to recover $2,492 alleged to
have been illegally paid to John A. Link
for services in the postoffice which it was
claimed he had never performed, directed
the jury to find verdict for the govern
ment for the full amount and interest
against Nagle
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Stolen levels Are Returned.

The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Prince Fushimi's jewelry
from his apartments at the buckingham
Club in st. Louis is intensified by the
announcement that he had recovered the
lost articles before his departure for
Philadelphia. One of his suite, who oc-
cupicd room adjoining the princes bed
room, found the gems lying on a table in
his anartment
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Negroes ESCAPE from Fire.

Thirty negroes, men, women and chill
dren, penned in on the second and third
floors of burning Morgan street lodging
house in st. Louis, saved themselves
from death by jumping from windows
into tarpaulins held by firemen, by CROP
ing their way to the street down smoke
and fame filled stairways and by climb
ing through scuttle to the roof and
thence to adjoining buildings, to be taken
down by fremen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Amateur Robber Is Caught.

William Holden, farm hand, during
the noon hour Tuesday entered the
Platte Valley Bank in Platte Center,
Neb., demanded the banks cash and, on
the refusal of Cashier Barney Schroeder
to surrender it, shot the latter in the
breast, inficting a serious but not fatal
wound. He escaped in buggy without
securing any money, was pursued and
captured by Sheriff Carrig after he had
fred at his pursuers
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Thieves Prey on Mikado,s Cousin.

Prince Sananru Fushimi, a cousin of
the Mikado of Japan, who is visiting the
worlds fair in st. Louis, has been the
victim of robbers. While the prince and
his suite were out on the exposition
grounds burglars entered his apartments
at the Buckingham Club and stole jewels
valued at So 600
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
White BOYS Shoot Neoroa.

Three colored school boys, ranging If
age from 13 to 16 years, were shot by
white boys at Twenty-frst and Main
streets, Little Rock, Ark, as they were
returning home from school. No reason
is given for the shooting.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Crew of Seventeen Perish.

The Swedish steamer Burg from
Grimsby, England, with a cargo, foun-
dered at the entrance of Arko sound.
The entire crew, numbering seventeen
men, persisted. 1t is believed the vessl
grounded and that her boilers exploded.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Mormons Have Iowa Church Re,1

Charles W. Irish of Nevada has dis
covered in the tithing house in Salt Lake
City famous bell that over fifty years
ago was transferred from the old capitol
OF Iowa, in Iowa City, to the tower of
the Presbyterian church. from which it
was missing the morning after a band
OF Mormons, westward bound, passed
through the city. Mr.. Irish will try to
have Utah return the bell to Iowa.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

A. f. Jaurett, formerly of Chicago, the
American newspaper man ordered to
leave Venezuela by President Castro be-
cause he opposed government policies.
sailed for Porto Rico, and the represent
ative of the American government at
Caracas is investigating the expulsion.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
II Perish in Black Sea.

The Greek steamer Elpis, long over
due, now is regarded as lost. It is he
Eeved she sank in a recent gale in the
Black Sea and that her entire crew and
a number of passengers were lost, a total
of seventy-seven persons.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Sees Increase in Crime.

Startling increase in crime in the
United States is shown by s. s. Mcclure,
who attributes grave conditions to the
misrule of criminal oligarchy," general
disregard of the law and failure to en-
force the statutes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
One Dead, Three Are Hurt.

One man is dead, three are in a hos
pital suffering from burns and lacera-
lions and several others are less serious
~ hurt as the result of an explosion in
the generating house of the Consolidated
Gas Company's plant in New York City.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
German Treaty Signed.

The American-German arbitration
treaty was signed Tuesday at the State
Department in Washington by Secretary
Hay and Baron Sternberg, the German
ambassador. 1t IS identical with the
American-French treaty.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

James O'Bricn died in Toledo as the
result of treatment by the N-ray. He
had a growth upon his lip, which was
treated by the N-ray. The treatment
was so painful that O'Brien lost his rea-
son and was taken to the Toledo State
Hospital where he died.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Washington Bank in Troub,e

The Big Bend National Bank of
Davenport, Wash, has been closed bv
order of the Comptroller of the Chr
rency. The failure is laid to losses IN
leans made to mining companies in which
the bank officials are interested
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Rewarded for Kind Act.

DR.. c. A. Flower of Kittanning. Pa.
who befriended Hindu boy at the Chi
cago worlds fair, has been discovered by
the youth, now a wealthy prince, and has
been given $10,0UJ and life position as
q reward.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
One Killed, Fourteen Hurt.

One man was killed outright and four
teen other passengers were injured, some
of them seriously. in a Bellefontaine
street car that jumped the track and
overturned in st. Louis.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
HatfieIds i'm Auother Feud.

The Hatfelds, the noted mountaineers
OF West Virginia, whose feud with the
McCoys lasted nearly thirty years and
cost the lives of forty persons, are wag-
Ing fierce vendetta with the Duty fam
uy, and two already have been slain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Disappears from shiD M S.

Miss Elizabeth Henkle of Wakefield
Mass, is believed to have committed
suicide at sea. She was a passenger on
the steamer Princess Anne, from New
York, but when the steamer reached Nor
folk, Va, she was missing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
10000 Starving to Dee+h

Ten thousand Sassuns are starving To
death in the Mush district of Armenia
So reports United States Consul Norton
at Harput to the State Department The
district was recently swept by Kurdish
hordes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Blow Up Bank and Get So. ooo

A number of men blew up and prac-
tically DESTROYED the building of the
Southern Maryland Savings Bank in Ia
Plata, Md, robbing it of $4,000. The
robbers made their escape after cutting
the telegraph and telephone wires.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

Henry Hall, an English chemist, has
presented claim against Mrs. r. J. C.
Walker of Philadelphia, daughter of the
tate William Weightman, alleging that
ne IS the discoverer of product from
PERUVIAN bark through which large
'otlts We're made by her father.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Anglo-Russian Agreement.

The text of the Anglo-Russian agree
ment on the North Sea affair has been
made public in London and the morning
papers criticise it because no punishment
is provided for those guilty of the at
tack.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
ThirtN-fiVe Are Injured.

Thirty-fye persons were injured by the
derailment of passenger train No. on
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad a mile
east of Columbus Miss.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
SAYS HE DID MURDER
YOUTH CONFESSES KILLING
SOUTH DAKOTA STOCKMAN.

Two Brothers Implicated with Hmm
Most Cold B1ooded Crime-Rockefeller
Buys Town in Order to Close Up a
Saloon.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Russians Repu1se Jananese-

Kuropatkin reports an engagement
with the japanese at the Shakhe River
during blizzard and fog, in which, it is
said, the Japanese were repulsed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Ohio Trolley Car Cut in Two.

Sixteen persons were injured in a col
lision between a fast south-bound train
on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Road
and a trolley car on the Northern Ohio
Traction Line, near Bedford, Ohio. The
electric car was cut completely in two
and the wreckage thrown sixty or sew
enty feet to one side.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Must Return Fraud Money.

In the United States District Court
In Buffalo Judge Hazel, in the case Of
the government against Fred G. Nagle,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
Three Children Killed in an Hour.

One child was killed and two others
fatally injured within an hour the other
day in McKeesport, Pa. Mary Wardak,
aged 10, was decapitated by a street car;
Thomas Cavanaugh, aged u, was fatal
~ shot by 13-year-old John Sheehan,
while they were playing hunters, and the
ambulance, hurrying to the hospital with
young Cavanaugh, picked up Oscar Nord-
Quist, aged 10, who had fallen under a
train.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
RETlRES FROM PEkIN.

Minister Conger and Wife to Return
Home from China.
Few diplomatic careers of recent years
have been as adventurous and pictur-
esaue as that Of Edwin H. Conger
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02
HAzERS USE ELECTRICITY.
Imitation of Death Chair Said to Be
Employed in Torturing Students.

Imitation OF Death Chair Said to BE
Employed in Torturing Students.
The San Francisco Examiner tells a
story of hazing practiced by students of
the Hopkins Institute of Art in that city,
which in one case, it is said, resulted in
serious injury to the youthful victim. A
student named A. T. De Rome was
strapped to a chair with metal seat, it
is said, and an electric current was
turned on the chair. AS result, accord
ing to the story, De Romes body has
been paralyzed from the hips downward.
Other cases of mistreatnent of new stu
dents by the upper classmen are mar
rated in connection with initiation cere-
monies
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

Bradstreet's weekly
report on trade cOndt
tons Throughout Tho
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-02

The weekly review
Of Chicago trade. nrs
lished by R. G. Dun =
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-16
THE CANAL BUILDERS LIFE.
Hints to Young Americans Who Would
Go To Panama-some Social Les.
sons on the Isthmus.

In few months time, at fartherest,
hundreds II not thousands. OF
Americans will be going down to the
lsthmus OF Panama TO complete the
digging OF the De Lessepsditch. Many
other Americans will follow them to
take advantage of the numerous
commercial opportunities which will
arise through the opening OF the canal.
The Americans who go down there
will meet with very hearty vel.
come In Panamanian society, bat the
etiquette of that society viii bother
them at hrst unless they are given
a few pointers" by men who know.
Ii has been truly said social customs
In Columbia are largely the reverse of
AN that obtain with the Auglosaxon
races.
The green American would natural.
N settle down in his home and wait
for people 10 cali on him. He might
wait until doomsday, SO FAR as the
Panamanians We're concerned. His
proper course is TO send around his
cards to the families ne wishes To call
ON him Within a few days they will
all call The obligation is absolutely
binding on them, but they need not
pay a second cali unless they wish to
cultivate the mans acquaintance.
there is hardly any informal cali
'ns' Il Is considered bad taste anless
you know the Amily intimately You
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-02-16
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