Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22

At New York an explosion Of gas &C. |
CURED on the morning Of the 10th in !
the one-story brick building owned BY
the New York Central railroad at One
Hundred and Fifty-siXth street and
Sheridan avenue. Peter McCabe, who
worked In the place was burned to
death.
At New York Judge Ingraham heard
arguments on the 10th on the applica
ton Of the United States Express com
pany for an Injunction restraining the
American Express company from max
ing any contract for express business
south of the line of Boston & Albany
railroad. Decision reserved.
The steamship State OF Alabama,
which has arrived at New York from
Bremen, had on board a consignment
of rags, which has been collected in q
district in which cholera was prevalent
during the past summer. The federal
authorities will not permit the landing
Of the rags.
A loaded freight train on the Missouri
( Pacific was thrown from the track and
over an embankment twenty feet high
by the spreading of the rails at Little
Blue, Mo. Brakeman Oglesby was
| caught under the wreck and so badly
crushed that he viii die. The rest of
the crew jumped and escaped serious
injuries.
At New York while putting to sea on
the 10th the steamship La Bretagne
crushed into the new dock at the foot Of
Franglin street, completely demolishing
the pier and doing a damage of $4,000.
| The La Bretagne has two big holes in
her bow. Her steering apparatus was
out of ordur and the pilot had no control.
She was t0wed to her dock.
| A band Of Cara revOlutiOniStS crossed
from the Texas side of the river at La
redo, Tex, into Mexico, and routed two
companies of Mexican cavalry. Several
were killed. achievements have gone
fro Nueva Laredo, and the United
States government has ordered two COM
panies to pursue the bandits on the
American side. Cara was not in the
party.
J Congressman J. W. Bailey, Of the fifth
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Of the present congress, and is believed
to be the youngest of the next one. He
is native Mississippian, tall and
straight as an arrow, has a handsome,
Intellectual face, and is 4 natural ora
tor Of the Patrick Henry style. His
district is by no means the largest in
Texas, but you could drop several of
| the smaller states of the union into it
and they would not crowd each other
much.
At Kansas City, Benjamin Copen-
haven and Thomas hewitt, county judges
of st. Clair county, were fined by
Judge Phillips for contempt of court
Saturday for not issuing orders for
special tax levy to take up bonds issued
to the TebO * NeOShO railroad, which
runs, on paper, right through their coun-
ty. Three aldermen OF Lathrop. Mo.
I'll. II. Freeman, William Mellow and NJ
A. Golf, were also fined for the same
offense.
1t is reported rnat detectives in the
employ OF the Carnegies have discover
ed Il plot to poison non-uniOn men en-
plOyed in the steel works at Homestead.
Members of the Amalgamated assccia-
ton and officials of other labor organi-
cations are said to be implicated 1t is
two months ago since the first sus-
picion was entertained that the people
were poisoned. AS a result Of the al
legged plot, it is said that thirty or more
persons lost their lives, while scores are
still suffering in hospitals and at their
homes from the effects of the drug
Robert J. Beatty has been arrested in
Louisville charged with poisoning sew
eral of the nOn-uniOn men
Ex-Empress Frederick Of Germany
with her youngest daughter. had an
unfortunate experience with the police
Of Venice few weeks ago. She was
living ut one Of the principal hotels
along the Grand canal. Leaving her
apartments one afternoon for walk.
she and the princess took a little dog
along. Contrary to the Venice rcgula-
A dog catcher happened to pass them,
and despite the protests OF the royal
ladies', insisted upon taking the pet to
the station house. The eX-empress and
the princess followed him thither. The
man in charge recognized them at once,
however. and with profuse apologies,
they were allowed to depart with the
unDluzzled animal.