Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-15

ed disaster.
At Alexandria, Ind, what is intended
to be the largest window glass factory
in the United States, was located by
the Union Glass Company, of Indiana,
on the 2nd.
-Four train robbers were captured by
officers at Malta, Mont, on the 3rd.
They are charged with holding up the
Great Northern train near that station
last Tuesday.
The House OF Representatives of
South Carolina on the 2nd elected John
S. Withers, of Chester, reading clerk,
after a contest among eight candidates
lasting two days.
The London Daily Telegraph an
nOunces that William Waldorf Aston
has taken Cliveden, the Duke of West
minister's seat, for five months, from
December to April.
1t is said that union of the three
largest houses in Boston dealing III
glass is proposed, the concerns interest
ed being Hill, Turner & Co, Lambert
Bros. and r. Sherburne.
At Deadwood, S. D., another big min
ing deal was closed by the transfer of
Il claims by the Florence Gold and
Silver Mining company to the Welcome
Mining and Milling Company.
The Fish Pressed Brick companys
works on East 9Th avenue, Columbus,
Ohio, were destroyed by fire on the md
with Il loss of $4,000. An insurance
of $4,000 is carried on the property.
European steamers sailing from New
York will take out $1,600,000 gold, as
follows: Heidelbach, IcEelheimer q
Co., 100000; Lazard, Freres and
Ladenburg, Thalman & Co, 100000
each.
Mayor Gleason, of Long Island City,
has been indicted by the grand jury,
with the other School Commissioners.
The charge is illegal payments in con-
nection with the First ward public
school.
The Michigan Salt Company has adj
vanced the price of salt 10 cents a
barrel, fine salt being quoted at 60
cents. The company has 100000 bar
rels less Oh hand at this date than one
year ago.
Harry Iaudenslager, 81 years old, on
the 3rd confessed to the Springfield
(Ohio) police the murder of four per
sons, twenty years ago. 1t is believed
the man is crazy, but the police will
investigate.
The investigation into the matter of
alleged discrimination in freight rates
by the Missouri Pacific in favor of the
Hutchinson salt combine has been drop
ped by the Federal grand jury, at
Omaha, Neb.
In the case Of John KOccis, who has
been on trial at Trenton, Y. j., for 5
days for shooting his mistress, Mary
Magolis, July 8 last, the jury on the
Bird. brought in a verdict of murder i'll
the first degree.
A certificate of incorporation of the
Maryland Theft Insurance Company
was filed for record at Annapolis on
the 3rd. The object of the company Is
to protect subscribers from thefts The
capital stock is 100000.
1t is charged that the recent failure
fraudulent, and the courts have been
asked TO investigate. The firm owes
100000 and the assets have disappear
ed.
4 hundred coal miners, employed ut
the CerillOS mine ut Santa Fe, \. NJ,
have gone out on a strike because or
dered to work on a tonnage basis
They assert the vein is too narrow for
them to make wages at the rate offer
ed.
Two hundred Hebrews in Buffalo, n
Y, have submitted to the mayor Il peti-
ton reciting that certain distressing 0c-
currences are Of frequent repetition
and invoked the aid and suggestions
of the mayor that they may be RENE
died
There was a bill introduced on the
3rd III the Alabama Legislature pro-
Viding for an annuity Of $500 year
for Mrs. Davis, widow of jefferson
Davis, during her life. 1t met with
much favor and will undoubtedly be
passed.
At New York the fire on the 2nd
caused the death of Michael Doyle,
who leaped from a third story win
dow, and the injury of Willie Doyle,
Felix Murray and his daughter, Annie.
All others escaped with the assistance
of tiremen.
Orders have been issued by the Navy
Department detaching Commodore j.
s. Skeritt from command of the Wash
ingtOn nayy-yard and ordering him to
assume charge Of the Pacific station
about January 1 next.
Irene Newmaa, who was serving 4
long term in the MARYLAND Penitentiary
for the murder of Martha E. Gordon,
May ,, 1884, has been pardoned by
Governor Brown. She had made
known Il plot formed by number Of
prisoners to escape.
Two strangers known as Joseph Ross
and Joseph Craft, claiming to hail
from Armstrong county, Pa, are held
to the grand jury at Vandalia, Ill, for
obtaining money under false pretenses
by means of checks drawn upon n
bank in BrookviIle, Pa.
The members of the Norfolk and
Portsmouth cotton exchange have hand
ed to the secretary of the exchange