Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-01

has been mentioned for the Office Of
commissioner of pensions.
Six violators of the election law in
Missouri have been indicted by the
grand jury now in session.
A man was arrested in ST. Paul for
attempting to swindle large number
Of people with bogus checks.
An Italian in New York has applied to
the police for protection from the dread
ed Malta and tells a srang story.
A colliery at Centralia, Pa, caved in
burying ten workmen. Two men have
been taken out very badly injured.
Ella Colby, in st. Paul has made a
confession in the celebrated dream"
case wherein a 81, 900 bill was stolen
A cyclone struck Harrison, Ark, L
ing five residents, Wounding many 9th
ers, and damaging property and stock.
William Cleveland, cousin to Presi-
dcnt-clect Cleveland, died from typhoid
pneumonia at his home in Sellersburg,
Ind, yesterday.
j. G. Moore, business manager of the
Richmond Qnd) Daily Independent,
has fed the country. He is wanted for
embezzlement.
Mrs. Theodore w. Phenney, wife of a
wealthy resident of Chicago and who
was fearfully burned on Wednesday in
Newport, r. l., is dead.
Edison General Electric company has
brought suit against the Sawyer-Man
Electric company in New York, on the
charge of infringement.
Mrs. Betsy Hagen, the first white-Wo-
man settler in northwest Wisconsin,
died Wednesday, aged IA years, at her
home in GrantSburg, Wis.
Mrs. Horatio E. Burchard, the wife
of the eX-editor of the United States
mint, died after a short illness at her
home in Freeport, Ill.
Encarnacion Cara, brother of the
famous filibuster Catarino Cara, has
been released from the San Antonio
(Tex,) jail on $1,000 bond.
At n ratification of Cleveland'S cleo
ton in Alexandria, Ind, on the 18th,
a shooting affair occurred in which five
persons were badly injured.
The Victorian government at Mel
bourne has decided to prosecute the
directors of several companies there
that have collapsed recently.
An organization called 'The Industri-
al Legion of the United States" was
formed to carry out the measures EN-
bodied in the PopuIist platform.
Judge Mcconnell, at Fargo, n. D.,
sets aside a divorce granted eX-Pay-
master YOrke, of the navy, who now
finds himself the possessor of two
wives.
/ State Treasurer Donald W. Balm of
| North Carolina is dead. Mr.. Balm was
grand secretary of the Masons, having
been elected in 1867 to succeed his
| father.
A portion of the Washington Park
J hotel in Cincinnati collapsed on the
, 18th, burying several persons in the
debris, but all escaped with slight
b, uses.
| The president appoints J. II. Grear
| of Iowa, assistant secretary of the
treasury and William NJ. Stone Of the
same state commissioner of the general
! land Office
! c. II. Davidson of the well known
Canadian nursery firm has been arrest
ed in Mexico charged with obtaining
/ $4,000 from the Bank of Hamilton, at
! Toronto, by means of forgeries.
! Vandals have painted the tombStones
/ of all the veterans in the Wilbur ceme-
! terry, Martinsville, Ind, with red paint.
| Great excitement has thus been occas-
| stoned among the townspeople.
Forty-three indictments have been
found in the Federal court at Jackson,
Miss, against as many members Of
the coffin trust, recently formed in that
state. They raised the price of collins.
During a dance at Charlottesville,
| Ind, a bloody battle occurred between
| Charles Taylor and the three Davis
brothers. Scantlings were the Wcap-
on used and Taylor was fatally wound
! ed.
| II. D. Loucks of South Dakota is
elected president of the National Far
mers' Alliance. G. W. Macune with
; draws from the order because it has
become the tail to the third party
kite
! There is a prospect of the cotton
strike in England being settled The
| operators are willing to consent to d
temporary reduction of wages concur
rent with placing the mills on short
time.
The celebrated Twohig will contest
in Texas has been settled by compro-
mise. After administrators fees We're
paid of the 100000 remaining, the
| church receives 100000 and the heirs
the remainder.
G. B. Renter, a young man of former
high social standing, in Waco, Tex,
stole all the cows belonging to resi-
dents in the town Of Mart, twenty
| miles distant. He will now serve five
years in the penitentiary.