Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-08

window at Springfield, Ohio, forty feet.
Instead ct striking the ground he
struck bicycle, thereby saving mis- life.
The health Of Mrs Harrison IS a cause
! of great anxiety to the president, and
her family and friends generally. The
! month at Loon Lake has apparently
done her no good.
| City Treasurer Helfrich. Of Ogden.
! Utah, is alleged to be short $4,000 i'll
! his accounts, and his books have been
turned over to the city auditor for an
j Investigation.
! The Winnipeg board of trade refuses
! to send delegates to the Grand Forks
reciprocity convention because Presi-
cent Harrison issued his retaliatory
proclamation.
The steamers Temper and Martin of
the NeWburg & Albany line, collided
at Saugerties Point in the Hudson river
Tuesday The Temper sank, but no
! lives were lost.
Turkey has explained that Missionary
Bartlett's house in Asia Minor was
burned as a result of his servants care
lessness, and Moslem fanatics had
nothing to do with it.
A jury at Lewiston, H., has decided
that w. J. Lowell, who sued the Bur
lingtOn road for $4,000 damages for
injuries received, has not sufficient
grounds for his suit.
Six men who were at Homestead on
the 9th Of July, the day the Pinkertons
were forced to surrender, were arrested
Monday charged with conspiracy and
aggravated assault.
Ray Beatty and Dick Bidwcll, charg-
ed with eXtorting money by means Of
threatening letters, pleaded guilty at
Ottunwa, Iowa, Friday and will do
time at Fort Madison.
Robbers entered the house Of Charles
Dembreskie at ShamOIIin, Pa, bound
and gagged the inmates and left with
$500. A neighbor, who interferred,
was shot, but will recover.
Baron Roger de Seilliere, eldest
brother Of the more famous Baron Ray
mond lie SeilIicre and of the Princess
Sagan, died at Newport, r. l., Thus
udy. lie WAS UGd1 mute.
At Springfield, ILL.,, Saturday, a gravel
bank caved in on eight children on the
north side, and instantly killed Mary
Remsberg, 10 years old, and seriously
, injured Johnnie Baumgardner.
A disastrous feed has occurred at
GratZ, Austria. Many buildings, includ-
ing three mills, two factories, and sew.
era1 dwellings,, were swept away, and
a dozen persons lost their lives.
! Five persons were seriously injured at
a fire in New York Saturday morning
which destroyed several stores on Woos
| ter street. The loss on goods and
: building is placed at $4,000.
At the corn fair which opened in vi
emma Tuesday, the president of the
Corn Exchange declared that American
competition had taken all the profit
from corn growing in Europe.
Mr.. Selvis, a Chicago druggist, is &C
cused of selling brandy and other Ii
, quOrs under the guise of soda water
7 He cannot be found, but Francis Spen
Ger, his partner, is under arrest.
. Two men named Miller and Francis
l arrested by Decatur, Ill, officers, arc be
heved TO be the thieves who robbed 81
= many houses in that section. Burglars
s tools were found in their possession.
Benjamin Broken, at Cincinnati, wa,
: killed Friday, being stabbed by Morris
r Golden. The men had been spending
the night in carousing and both were
intoxicated when the killing took place
, The Penn Iron company, at Lancas
ter, Pa, started work Monday morning
after two months idleness, giving EN-
: ployment to 800 men. The puddlers &C
ceqt Il reduction from 81 to $3.50
ton
! The Mexico Creamery company, O
: Peru, Ind, has suspended operations
: lis debts amount to several thousan,
dollars as the company WAS never III
cOrpOrated the stockholders are person
> ally liable,
4 John n. Gardner, an expert counter
feiter of Sugar Lake, Mo, is under al
+ rest ut st. Joseph. By the use of chem
a icals Gardner has been raising 50 silye
= 4 tCL ItIitttISS 10 t2AO- ne uSeu Oils Oh I1
I Webster series
/ Walter NJ. Bedea, aged : of Tabl
:, Rock, Neb., was opposed in his 1uatrinl
e onial intentions by his parents and il
desperation took a large dose of lauda
= mum. He was at last accounts in a pre-
l., caIioJS condition.
A Berlin bunker named Rrolxa .,Dt
two guides who We're accompanying
:, hun fell over a precipice while ascend
= | ing Mount Griyola in the Aosta valley
= Italy, and all three were dashed t.
death ON the rocks.
AT a conference Of the federal state:
: of Germany in Berlin, Saturday, it wa,
reported that not d single case OF
Asiatic cholera had developed in thu
: | capital, and that Hamburg was the only
, pOpU' 0us city stricken.
Edward Finn, of Hillsboro. Ill, {
, brother Of the express agent who was
4 killed near StubbIefield in a collision
{ on the Nandalia railroad last May, has
begun a damage suit against the Van
dalia company for $1,000.
Judge James Mcmillan Shafter died
; in San Francisco Monday night of dia.
betes at the age of seventy-six years
: He was native OF Vermont and had
, been member of the legislatures OF