Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE.

Ex-senator Rollins, of New Hampshire.
July 3lst, from the effects of q shock sus-
tanned Saturday last. Aged, GA years.
The session Of the senate committee on
| irrigation is being held at st. Paul, Mann
town, Glendhve, Billings and BoZeman.
Rhe viii of the late Charlemange Tower,
OF philadelphia, leaves the entire estate IN
trust for the widow and five children. No
publlc behests are made. The estate IS
valued at about twenty million dollars.
Andrew G. Drumm, who had full charge of
the cattle commission business OF A. DruInnl
q Co. at the stock yards, Kansas City, has
disappeared and his accounts are reported TO
be short to the amount of $4,000 to $4,000.
A suit has at last been entered against the
south Fork Fishing Club for damages for
| breaking of the South Fork dam above
JOhnstown May 81. Andrew Carnega is one
| of the defendants.
Moses W. Clay, who has served a portion
of nine years sentence in the Kansas pen
itentiary for swindling Matthias Spnlog, the
Wyandotte Indian millionaire, out OF $780,
coo, has been granted q writ of habeas cor
pus, and released on $500 bail.
Martin Burke, the suspected murderer of
DR.. Cronin, has been remanded for extra
dation. This settles the case at Winnipeg,
and Burke will be taken back to Chicago as
soon as the formailities with the federal
young man giving the name of William
Blinkner, who was arrested a few days ago
at St Louis on the charge of stealing two
certified checks for 500 on the German Saw
ings Bank, told the prosecuting attorney
that he was son of General Franz Siegel of
New York.
The Boston Coal and Mining Company has
purchased 1883 acres of coal land near
Leavenworth, Kan, and will begin the
sinking of mine with an incorporated
capital stock Of 100000. Four companies
are at present operating in the Leaven-
worth coal fields.
John Atkins, manager of the Rocky
Mountain News, at Denver, who was as
saulted by "Soapy" Smith recently, will
soon be out of danger. Smith has been
arrested. The assault grew out of the bitter
warfare which the News has waged on the
saloon and confidence men,
Forest fires have been prevailing in Mon
tana for a week. From Helena west, north
and south a great black cloud of smoke hangs
over the country, and for six days the sun
has not been able to pierce the darkness.
The damage for each day the fire con tinues
is estimated at half a million dollars
The relief commission at Johnstown, Pa,
has reported the financial part of its work.
1t has received from all sources $685., 4l4.46,
and has expended $40 go, leaving 81, 3d.
or Sc. Additional funds are expected,
which viii raise the fund, to 81 ,602, sol 80.
The next distribution will be made about
Sept. l,
Kansas City on the Santa Fe train recently,
was seized with cramps of the facial mus
Giles, closely resembling loclljaw. doctor
succeeded in restoring the girls face to its
normal condition. The girl was an invete-
rate gum chewer, even going to sleep with
the gum In her mouth.
The Wholesale Groceries Association of the
United States will be completed at Newport,
X. l., Aug. l. Ninety per cent of the whole
sale dealers of the country are members.
The object of the association is mutual pro-
lection and to compel manufacturers to
which they now handle without profit.
George G. Hayden, formerly OF Bangor,
Me-, died in st. Louis, alone and, was sup
posed, bachelor and leaving estate
of 100000. The only heirs found were
Winslow man A new claimant has now
appeared in the person of a Chicago woman,
who says she is Hayden's daughter by
divorced wife.
John Rose, one of the wealthiest men IN
Eastern Kentucky, but a notorious desper-
ado, was killed by parties unknown at Clay
| City, Ky, July p. 1t is supposed he had
| offended some one who feared his prowess
but had him slain. He had been the leader
| of the Rose faction in the war of races in
| that section for several years, and is said to
have killed five men.
| July 2lst the American Express Line made
it's first run on the Montana Central Road,
opsting Wells, Fargo & Co. Employees of the
IRtter company had their treasure boxes on
| trains at the hour of starting, but employees
| of the railroad, acting under Instructions
| threw the safes off and compelled the mes
| sengers to leave also unless they paid their
| fare Wells, Fargo & Co. will sue the
Montana Central.
| CharIemagne Tower, the capitalist, mine
| owner, railroad director and lawyer, died
| July 25th at his summer residence in Water
vile, N. Y, of paralysis, at the age of eighty
one years. He took prominent part in the
construction of the Northern Pacific Rail
roau acquired and developed the famous
iron deposits of the VermiliOn range in Mn
| nesota, and in 1887 sold his interests in that
! quarter to a syndicate for Sc, 000,0 600.
A party of explorers unearthed a number
| of human skeletons buried at Chalk Bluff
| ten miles east of Yankton, D. IT, on the 25th.
Fifty skulls and 200 headless skeletons were
found probably the remains of white people,
| children and adults. Doubtlessly they have
| been buried forty or fifty years. They might
| have been immigrants bound for California
| in 1913, who were murdered by Indians, or
else Indians of some tribe at war with the
| Sioux.
Three cattle and horse thieves, members
of notorious band of MeXicans who have
| committed many depredations around
| -. n t,I,ItItt O. -; ~ ct,, - - = .S = y ~
| and imprisoned in a vacant house near
| Kelly, n. NJ. Before the capture the thieves,
! battle, during which their leader and
| Deputy Lowens were shot dead. A party of
| cowboys afterwards hanged the prisoners,
| and Kidding their bodies with bullets.
border tragedy occurred July Both in
| the town of Lexington, in the Oklahoma
! country. F. S, Jones, a cattle man, and
| Henry Simmons, marshal of the town, had a
| dispute over some cattle. Jones used threat
| ening language toward the marshal, and the
! latter attempted to arrest him. Jones had a
Winchester in his hands, and as Simmons
returned the fire. Both fell but continued
shooting. When the smoke of the battle
cleared away, two dead men were found.
s suit was begun Wednesday, July Is, In
the United States Circuit Court at Boston,
| by the Pullman Palace Car Company against
the Boston Il Albany Railroad and Wagner
| Sleeping Car Company upon patent for She
completed Vestibule. The former litigation
| related only to part of the vestibule, but
the Pullman Company obtained patent in
May for the completed veStibule and uDor,
the patent the present suit is based. The
patent is OF great Importance and If suS-
tanned will give the Pullman Company sole
| right to manufacture and use the vestibule.
District of Wilson County, Tenn, have
| banded for the purpose of driving Mormon
elders and converts from that county. This
| action has been taken on account of the con
duct of the Mormons on a recent occasion
While the Rev John Barrett, a Baptist
preacher, was holding services in WetmOre's
/ SchOOl-hOuSe, in the Twenty-third District
ne was interrupted by some of the Mormon
converts present who asked him questions
aud then became inSultin gan their language
| Members of the congregation made q move
Mormons jumped out of the window and
dared them TO come out and fight.
1t is reported that a deal has been closed
between owners of lots in West Duluth
Mimi, and the Iron Car Company OF New
York the owners of the patents and makers
of the new iron tubular FRI ght, coal, and ore
cars which have lately come into use sc
generally on Eastern roads, by which adj the
cars of that company for the West North
| west and Southwest are to be manufactured
heEe by the Minnesota Car Company. By The