Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-17
CONDENSED NEWS.


Charles Hoyt, the playwrite, has been
elected to the New Hampshire Assem-
bly,.
In a political riot at Hemstead, Texas,
Charles King and C. Mcconnell We're
shot and killed.
The Porter Boiler company of Chicago
has failed, with assets of $4,000 and
liabilities of 100000.
\. q J. Levy, wholesale dealer in
clothing at New York, failed for S11O
600. with $4,000 liabilities.
August Weiss has been arrested in
Chicago, for having in his possession
large number of Anarchist circulars and
red flags.
Mrs Mckee is to remain at the White
House presiding in her mothers stead.
Russell Harrison and his wife will also
live there.
a deadlock is now pending in the
Hawaiin legislature, caused by the new
cabinet appointed by the queen being in
the minority.
Following close ON the heels of demo-
cratic victory, the American Tin Plate
factory in Elwood, Ind, shut down with
out assigning any cause.
J. Doyle and wife, from Davenport,
Ia, were found dead in bed at the In
ternatiOnal hotel, San Francisco. They
had been asphyXiated by gas.
Four persons were burned alive in q
wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul road at OttumWa, Iowa.
Several others seriously injured.
Hon. Andrew D. White, the new
American minister to Russia, has been
given an audience by the car. He has
also been received by the czarina.
Ole Christensen, a notorious burglar
known as ''Ole the Slasher," has been
arrested in Chicago. He has recently
committed a score of burglaries.
Cincinnati holds the record for rail
road justice. A man broke into a store
in the morning and before night was in
IL CELL beginning five years sentence
for his crime
The Hamburg senate proposes to widen
and deepen the river Elbe at the point
known as Koelfeth. The work will cost
10000 marks, which will be raised Oh
a municipal loan.
The republicans will have a majority
of tWenty-eight, and perhaps thirty-tWo
i'll the Minnesota legislature on joint
ballot, thus placing Senator Davis re
election beyond doubt
The situation in the general strike is
unchanged at New Orleans. The fact
that the cotton labOrerS are still at work
is regarded as a sign of weakness on
the part of the strikers.
DR.. J. w. PARCELS, a prominent physi-
clan, shot and fatally wounded City
Marshal Levi Watson at Westfield, ILL.,
PARCELS was under the influence of
liquor. He is under arrest.
D. e. Sibley, one of the oldest and
largest operators on the Chicago board
of trade, closed out his spreads Wednes-
day. He has been carrying about l, 900,
600 Bushels of grain He will meet all
liabilities
Levy and company's printing and
book-binding establishment at Indian
apOlis, Ind, was damaged by fire and
water Thursday morning to the extent
of 100000. Building and stock are
fully insured.
Mr.. Mccormick, foreign commissioner
of the Chicago Columbian exposition,
has resigned his post, owing to the Ill
health of his wife, with whom he has
been obliged to remain on the continent
since summer.
Among the passengers arriving in San
Francisco on the Gaelic from China
Wednesday night, were United States
Minister DENLY from Hong Kong,
Marquis Rudini, and eX-AIinister Paul
Neumann Of Honolulu.
The unsuitable steam launch recently
launched at the New York navy yard
has made its second trial trip through
Hell Gate. 1t has been named the
TurnabOut, rs it can turn completely
around within its length.
Samuel Wilson. resident of Cham
paign, ILL.,, was killed Tuesday night at
midnight while going to his home Oh
SiSth street. He had attempted to resent
an insult offered by a stranger, who shot
him through the heart and escaped,
thus far avoiding arrest.
DR.. Won Holebin, formerly German
minister to Japan, but who was trans
ferred to Washington as the represent
alive of the imperial government in the
place of the late Count Arco Valley, is
en- route for New York from Berlin.
Before sailing, he had an interview
with the emperor.
Mrs. Bridget Murphy, aged eighty
years, was found murdered in her bed
Wednesday at Green Castle, Ind. Her
skull was crushed and nails had been
driven into each temple Her house
had been ranSaclIed and plundered. She
lived alone and was thought to have
money secreted in her house.
A London lady of extreme age and
eccentric manners recently died after
leaving a bequest of $1,000 per year
for the maintenance of a pet parrot
and a farther sum of $1,000 for a cage
for it. AS her relatives were cut off
without cent, they will try to upset
the will and wiring the parrots neck.
Negotiations for the purchase of the
Pratt &Whitney Fine Tool works at
Hartford, Ct.,by an English syndicate
have been practically completed, and
the plant will be in the control of the
within a short time. The
terms of the purchase were S2.5OO.OOO.