Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
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Otto Montgomery, aged II, was
drowned while bathing in Lebanon.
Ind.
E. B. Foster, assistant postmaster at
Hudson, Mich, has confessed to appro-
priating 500 of the government
money.
A son of thomas Magure of Spring
field, Ill, was killed in wreck on the
ST. Louis, Alton 81 Springfield road at
Waverly, II.
Gov. Hovey of Indiana has paroled
Sylvester Bassett, subject to his good
behavior. He was serving an eighteen
year term in the penitentiarv for muir
dering his brother three years ago
A three-day session of the fifteenth
annual African Methodist Episcopal
Sunday-school conference of Michigan
came to a close in Adrian. Reports
showed gratifying increase in the
development of denominations Sun
day schools.
San Francisco was shaken by slight
harm was done.
Gotlieb Muenter, living near Month
cello, Ill, was gored to death by vic
ious bull
During a thunderstorm at Aulne,
Kan, Miss Pinkie Cochran was killed
by lightning.
Fr3nk Bennett, a brakeman on the
Chicago, st. Paul & Kansas City rail
way, was killed at Des Moines by con-
tact with an electric-light wire.
Prof. Walter Koenig, the German
music teacher who eloped from Wa bash,
Ind, with one of his pretty girl pupils,
Grace Forney, has been arrested at
Upton.
Allen W. Swan is travelling from
New Bedford, Mass, to California on
bicycle. He is due in San Francisco
Sept. 16, and one week later he is to
marry an heiress.
The manufacturers of Youngstown.
Warren, Girard, and Niles have decided
to close their mills Tuesday if the nine
hour clause is insisted upon by the
employees.
The bodies of the nineteen sailors
who were drowned in the great storm
at Samoa were buried at Mare island,
California. Saturday.
The Texas Supreme court has rem
dered decision in the famous rail way
case from Valrude county brought by
Attorney now Gov. HOgg.
The question was whether, under the
constitution of 1876, the IA ilroads were
entitled to land grants on account of
sidings and switches. The Supreme
court holds that such grants should not
be made, and the State will recover
5000, 600 acres to which patents have
been improperly issued.
The ST. Louis & San Francisco rail-
ways $50, OOO, 900 mortgage was filed in
the office of the recorder Of deeds in ST.
Louis. The mortgage covers all the
property o. the company, and the Mer-
camille Trust company of New York is
the mortgage in trust for the bond
holders. The instrument covers a
period of 100 years to October, 1890, the
rate of interest specified being per
cent. 1t is the last act of preparation
for the issuing of the $50, 900, 600 bonded
interest on the road.
Royal Frisbey of Sparland, H., was
killed by two men supposed to be James
Carver and G. w. Culver.
Jack Reed, one OF Iowa s most motor
ious crooks, died al The poor house at
Eldora and was buried in the potter's
field.
Emperor Francis Joseph has sent
message to Queen Victoria expressing
great satisfaction with the visit which
he recently made = 80 British squad
ron at Fiume, and ash, be said, en-
abled MIN to give new proof of the en-
tente cordiale existing between Austria
and England.
The will of the late Senator McDon-
aid has been probated. The bulk of
his property is left to Mrs. Mcdonald.
His watch and law library are given to
c. T. Mcdonald, and the rest of his
property is disposed under the laws of
descent.
George Brown. the Chicago & Alton
engineer. injured in the Williamsville
collision week ago, died at Blooming.
ton. Ill