Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-27

Der of the Toledo, Ohio, city council
charged with bribery, the jury was out
about an hour and returned a verdict
of guilty. This is the first of the seven
cases and means a conviction in all of
them.
Francis G. Hewitt, city weigher in
the New York cUstom-house, has been
arrested and admitted to bail in the
sum Of $4,000 on a charge of having
bribed ex-United States Assistant
Weigher E. w. Simonds, to make false
returns OF weights of sugars.
The authorities at jamestown, n. Y,
are investigating a case wherein a
yonug woman, Miss LeOnora Waggoner
of Buffalo, was permitted to die of
typhoid fever without a physician be
ing called in. Her parents We're adj
Eerents Of the faith cure idea
Tommy Warren, the ex-featherweight
pugiIistic champion, attempted to kill
a young gambler named Root in a low
resort in Waco, Tex, Sunday morning.
He shot wide Of his mark, however,
and the bullet from his pistol killed
Clement Stovel, a cOlored man.
At Portsmouth, Ohio, Saturday, two
boilers in the rolling mill Of the Bur
CESS steel and Iron works exploded.
Richard Fleming and George Bressler
were killed, twelve others are seriously
and some probably fatally injured, and
a score are more or less injured.
At Logansport, Ind, David Hum
phrey, proprietor of a secondhand
store, shot and killed Shorty Stevenson,
a caulker, Sunday morning. Steven
son was drunk and attempted to break
into Humphreys place. Humphrey
shot him with a shotgun through the
window.
Sunday afternoon two boys, aged 8
and 10, sons of J. II. Oates of Des
Moines, Iowa, were run over by an
electric car and instantly killed. The
youngest was decapitated and the other
shockingly mutilated. Che elder boy
/ was struck while trying to save the
younger.
Sunday night at Wheeling, W. Va,
Robert Belleyille, a peddler, well known
among mill men in Virginia and west
ern Pennsylvania, QuarTeled with Will
! lam BaylesS, a mailer, over the nailer's
strike. Belleville assaulted Bayless,
fractured his skull and inflicted fatal
| injuries. Belleville has been arrested.
The Roman Catholic church in Dan
bury, CT, was robbed early Monday
morning and six golden chaIices were
taken by the thieves. Other valuable
! property from the affairs is also miss
ing. The chalices alone were valued at
over $1,000. The police are working
on the case, but have no clew to the
burglars
| A bronze monument of Alexander
Won Humboldt was unveiled in Hum
! boldt Park, Chicago, Sunday, in the
| presence of 10000 people. A parade
( of German societies preceded the I'M
yelling and several speeches were
made. The monument is the gift of F.
]. Denis, Of Chicago, to the Germans
of the city.
In addition to the Greek minister to
| ROunanla, who was recalled because
Of the ROumanian governments seiz-
/ IRE of an enormous fortune which was
/ left by q Greek merchant for the pro
motion of husbandry and manufacture
! in Greece, all the Greek diplomats and
| consulS in ROumania have been sum
! mOned to leave their posts.
| The Ottawa correspondent of the
Empire government Organ) announces
officially the resignation from the cab
met of Hon. Edgar Dewdeny, minister
Of the interior, to accept the lieutenant
gOvemOrship of British Columbia, and
the calling of L. NJ. DAILY, NJ. P, for
Selllirl1 to his place in the ministry.
Mr.. DAILY was sworn in Monday.
Harry HigginbOtham, of Chicago,
son of the worlds fair president, had
q narrow escape from death in tussIe
with a bear a few days ago while hunt
ing in Colorado. He had shot the bear
! and supposed it dead, but while view
ing his prize it sprang up and knocked
! him senseless. Two hours later he re-
! covered to find himself badly bitten
and scratched and the bear dead be-
side him.