Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-05
--LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

MARTIN FARQUAR UPPER, the En-
glish author, is dead.
THE insurance on property destroyed by
the great fire at Lynn, Mass, amounts to
s2,774,050
THERE is young giantess SIX feet eight
inches high, said absolutely to be only II
years old, on exhibition in London. She is
a Don Cossack.
THE Santa Cruz Athletic Club has tele-
graphed John l.. Sullivan that it will
give $40, 900 for finish fight between
him and Peter Jackson, the fight to take
place on the beach near Santa Cruz.
SHEBoYGAN, Wis.-The Rev. John
Jacob Hoffman, the Lutheran minister of
lawsuit fame, has secured judgment for
$3.50 against twelve of his former congre-
cation who evicted him. The case was
tried at West Bend, and nine of the de-
PENDANTS were found guilty.
LYNN, Ma.s.-The board of assessors
made an official statement of the valuation
placed upon the burned property this year,
placing the figures at 81 900, 500 and the
number of buildings burned at $50.
MONROE, Wis.-At the county farm is
man with his neck broken He is con-
scious but cannot move muscle of his
body. Will power is completely cut off
from the forces which it naturally would
govern and control There is no hope of
his recovery, yet he cannot die; he has lain
In this condition over two months.
IT is curious fact that the late Colonel
Goodloe, of Kentucky, had presentiment
of approaching death When he was
offered the Russian mission he found that
he could not afford to accept the place.
He said at the time to an intimate
friend II wish ] could go. have a feel
ing that if | stay in Kentucky won't live
year.
DENvER.-The entire herd of cat
tie of nearly fifteen thousand head be-
longing to Ex-senator Dorsey, in northern
New Mexico, are advertised to be sold
under a mortgage and sale at Clayton,
New Mexico, December I'd, to satisfy a
pomissory note given to George R. Swal-
low for $54, 080, together with interest
amounting to SO, 300 and costs and ex-
penses of sale.
FINDLAY, O.-Notice has been served by
all railway lines entering this city that
hereafter all oil for shipment must be de-
| livered at freight houses In barrels. This
is construed as blow at independent re-
fners and in the interest of the Standard
Oil Company, which transports nearly all
its oil by pipe line, with which it is claim
ed Independent refners can not compete
except by the use of tank-cars.
CHICAGo.-H. w. Bidgood, cashier OF
the n. G.. Frederiksen Land company, has
been arrested on charge of conspiracy with
his employers In defrauding ex-Gov. John
A. Rice and others, of Wisconsin. Fred
eriksen would have been arrested had he
not he'd He is supposed to be en- route
for Europe with his family, and the police
have been warned to look out for him The
charge involves $2,000,000 Ex-Gov
Rice loses 100000 and r. Nunnemacher,
of the Merchants Exchange bank, Mil
waukee, $4,000.
While in Milwaukee, ex-Gov. Rice wa;
offered 10 per cent. yearly on all money
loaned by an agent of the Frederiksen com
pany who mentioned Rudolph Nunne
macher as a reference of the firms stand
ing. Mr.. Nunnemacher assured Mr.. Rice
that the firm was thoroughly reliable, anC
the ex-governor advanced money, receiv
ing first mortgages on farm lands of un
| questioned title, the mortgages at first be
ing accompanied by full abstract O.
title. After three months the mortgage
began to be sent in advance to the alb
stracts, and finally no abstracts were sen
whatever The loans became larger, bu
no suspicion of crookedness was aroused
until two months ago, when T. G.. Cowie
Mr. Rice's son-in-aw, as the western agen
of the firm, purchased Santa Fe railroad
tract of land for $25, 900, belonging to thu
Maxwell Land Company. The firm sold thu
land for Sc an acre, retaining all owe
$125.
August Olson, of Perley, Wis, is in thu
hole to the extent of 1896. This was il
payment for part of the 10000 acre trac
Frederiksen operated in Polk county, Wis
consin.