Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-18


but no serious damage was done.
Eighteen passengers We're injured in
the wreck near Denver Tuesday. Mrs.
Roberts anG Mrs. Eddington may die.
Ira T. Powers, furniture dealer of
Portland, Ore. has made an assign
mrnt. Assets, $12S,OOO; liabilities &c.
600
Willis G. Cranner, of South Bend,
Ind, and Miss Lydia A. Bickell were
married at the home of the bride III
EIkhart, Ind.
Thomas Burke, alias the milwaukee
Kid" escaped from Hyde Park, Ill
inois Jail by jumping from a second
story window.
Cholera is decreasing in tho Crimea
and Caucasus districts owing to cooler
weather, but in Moscow the plague is
on the increase.
Mrs. Frank Snyder, of Schiessinser-
vile. WIS, WIS struck by 4 st. Paul
passenger train and instantly killed.
She was fifty-eight years old.
The twentieth annual convention of
the National Association Of Union ex-
Prisoners of War will be held in Wash
ingtOn during Grand Army week.
Ample satisfaction has been given
the Swiss government by the Maryland
authorities for the arrest of DR.. George,
a legation attache at Washington.
Fac SMILES of thirty-seven of the
best preserved Aztec idols in the mu-
scum of the City of Mexico, have been
made for exhibition at the worlds fair.
The general strike of nearly all tie
trades unions in New York city against
the Building Material Dealers assoccia-
ton is now regarded as entirely ended.
At WilkesbaTe, Pa, Thursday eiglg-
teen young women took the black veil
and entered the Mallinkrodt convent as
nuns, while three others took the
vows as noyitiates.
Rain fell all over Kansas Thursday.
Reports from all points as far west as
the Colorado line and north to Nebraska
state that bounteous showers fell and
will save the corn crop.
Rev. j. G. TAFT, the republican nomi-
nee for lieutenant governor of Nebraska
is ineligible. He is an Englishnlan, and
he failed to take out his naturalization
papers until Il year ago.
In a fire in New Bedford, Mass
tenement two infant children of Louis
Duperis and their mother were fatally
burned, and another woman named
LeVeqUe was badly burned.
The navy department has decided to
send the cruiser Newark and the gun
boat Bennington to Genoa, Italy, to
represent the United States in the
Columbus celebration there.
It is reported that MI. Deacon, who
killed M. Abeille, was offered his lib
erty at cnce if he would leave France
and not bring his divorce suit to trial,
but preferred to remain in prison.
jelly manufacturers of the United
States and Canada are said to have
formed a combination for the reguIa-
ton of prices and output; capital
stock, $1,000,000.
In its answer Tiled Thursday in New
York to charges of violations of the iu-
teI'state commerce law, the New York
and Texas Steamship company denied
the accusations in toto, and courted Il
full investigation.
The forty-two stocknen imprisoned
at Cheyenne, Wyo., for completely in
{Ir In al
with ''Rustlers" have been released in
bail of $4,000 each until Aug. %, when
they will be tried for murder.
In the house of commons Thursday
the motion of mo confidence" in the
conservative government of Lord Sal
isbury was carried by a vote of $50 to
80, thus bringing on the expected
change Of admins tration.
Petrino, the Italian murderer SEN
fenced to hang next November at New
Haven, Conn, has made seven futile
attempts at suicide, the last one being
Wednesday, when he tried to poison
himself with nicotine saved from his
pipe.
Bob JOrdOn, Il negro prisoner, while
being brought to Camden, Ark, for
Judgment in jail, was taken from the
officers by a party of masked men and
shot to death. He had insulted a
white woman.
The French forces have begun hos
tilities against the Dahomeyans. Every
point on the coast held by the Dahom-
evans, including the town of Whydah,
was bOmbarded. Abomey and Kalavy
were also bombarded.
Sweinforth, the Messiah. is about to
leave Rockford. I'll. 1t is understood
that he entered into negotiations with
some property owners a few miles
south of KeolzJIk for the purchase of a
large tract of land along the Missouri
boundary.
The body of Charles ". Riggiu, the
sailor who was killed by the mob in
Valparaiso several months ago, has
arrived in New York in charge of
United States Consul McCreery. The
remains of the dead sailor will be
taken to Philadelphia, where funeral
services will be held
Charles A. Leach, the manager of
the International Telegram company,
died in New York Friday. Mr., Leach