Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Fires And Casualties.

Fires And Casualties.
DYLLEs Touring mills at Leavenworth,
Kas., we're bHrned, at loss of 100000
insured for $4,000.
EIGHT business houses as Black Jack,
Tex, went up in flames Saturday night
(Loss $4,000, and at Muscatine, Iowa,
collar factory was burned.
By an ex plosion in squib factory at
Plymouth, Pa, nine girls we're burned to
death and thirteen others seriously in
jared.
FOLDS d GBIEFITHs, dealers in carpets
at Minneapolis have assigned. liabilities
are placed at 100000 and assets at $75,-
600. TIE firm was over twelve years old.
SEVERAL persons were injured at the
Casino toboggan slide, at Brooklyn, n. Y,
last night by she falling of the elevator
car.
WILLIAM NJ. DWIGHT d Co., lumber
dealers and planning mill owners, sus-
pended business at Detroit Tuesday, at
ter fling a mortgage for $4,000 for the
benefit OF their creditors.
Folds & Grifiths, deal
ers in carpets etc, assigned to-day. Lii
firm has been in business here for twelve
years.
A BLAST of five tons of powder was
shot off at one of the duarries at Granite
vile, Mo, and enough granite was blown
| out 10 keep 500 men ten years IL working
it up.
FIRE destroyed 100000 worth of prop
erty at 1880 R~ndO phi street at Chicago,
Friday night. Three men were injured
in collision between two re-engines In
responding to the alarm.
1T a fire at $50 Broadway, Milwaukee
eleven iremen were buried in the base
ment of the building by the falling of the
floors. One of them, Ed. Neumenn, was
killed, and it is feared that some Of the
others will die.
| M1NEEAPoLIs. = The Journals Ovation,
ma, Minnesota, special says: The village
of Blooming Prairie was almost wiped
out by fire Wednesday morning, the
total loss is $4,000. The insurance is
| $4,000.
A BOY and girl, the children of En-
uest Young, living near Battle Greek,
Mich, were burned to death Monday
| The house had been LETT in charge of the
children in the parents absence, and was
discovered on fire by neighbors.
MRS. IDA MoCAU1EY killed her two little
children and herself at 220 Irving avenue
Chicago, Sunday morning, by inhaling
gas. Remorse at the death of her hus-
band, whom she shot and killed in fl
of jealousy year ago, is supposed &c
| have been the cause.
| A DEFECTIVE wheel caused the wreck OF
g Grand Trunk passenger train near st
Georgia, Ontario. Eleven passengers
accident occurred on a bridge over the
Grand river. The bridge was a hundred
feet high, and the coaches we're precipi-
! tated into the stream beneath.
AN incendiary fire Monday morning il
the tenement house No. 129 Eldridge
street, New York, caused panic among
the occupants, many jumping from the
windows IN their night clothes, and al
escaping without receiving serious I'M ur
les. It is reported that two floors of the
structure mad been saturated with kero'
sene.
CANAJoHABIE, n. Y.-Mrs. Frank Leslie
has sold to ". j. Arkell, of the Judge
her weekly illustrated papers, both
English and German. The transfers
will be made May 1st. Mrs. Leslie viii
retain and personally direct her Other
publications. Arken refuses to state tht
price paid. He says the policy OF the
weekly Will remain the same, aggressive
and independent.