Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-13

lament, the liberal candidate was elect
ed, but by a largely reduced majority
on account of the temperance question
and pledges of the liberal
A natural gas explosion in the
| Church # Christ at Tiffin, Ohio. Fri
day evening. blew out one gable and
| one side of the edifce. J. P.Childs,
| who had entered the church to light
| it for prayer-meeting was injured so
| badly that he may not recover.
BY the explosion of the boiler of
| locomotive on the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburgh railroad, near Grove
Summit, Pa, the engineer, Levi Wise.
and the fireman, Charles Flynn, We're
| killed, their bodies being blow to
| pieces.
Mrs. james Pike, who lives across
the river from Gallipolis, Ohio, be-
| came incensed at a remark made by
her ne:ghbor, Charles Bippers, and talk
ing a shot gun, went TO his house and
killed his two children, who were play
| ing in the front yard. She has been
! arrested.
| The strike of telegraph operators on
! the Cedar Rapids 4 Northern was de
clared off Saturday. The company
agreed to recognize the Order of Rail
way Telegraphers, and the men will
return to work. Wages will be con
sidered later.
Lord Roseberry has announced to
the East Africa company that the
| British government consents to the
evacuation of Uganda, but that the
withdrawal must not take place Tor
three months, in consideration of which
the government will give the company
! financial assistance.
At a meeting of the British cabinet
Friday the Irish eviction question was
considered and the ministers are in
clined to adopt the recommendation of
| Secretary Morley that a money grant
| be made for the relief of eyicted ten
ants pending the report of the Royal
| Commission of Inquiry.
The department of state is informed
! by the Chinese minister that there is
nothing in the certificates found upon
! the Chi1laman recently arrested in De
troit for being unlawfully in the United
| States, to show that the society issu-
ing them had such an object in view
as the murder of the emperor of China.
| The Adelphia theater, of Baltimore,
| sometimes known as the Mud theater,
! is to be razed to make way for mod
ern building. 1t was the first theater
in the United States illuminated with
gas, and was opened December 8, 1922,
In it the elder Booth, Macready, Ed
| muud Kean, Hackett and Nine. Celeste
appeared.
The American Fire Insurance Lloyds
has just been organized by Beecher,
| Schenck & Co. of New York. Que
hundred business men of the United
States have made individual deposits
of $4,000, creating an initial fund of
+! 100000, which has been deposited in
| trust companies and banks for the pro-
lection of policy-hOlders.
Hector Jonathan Cremieux, the not
ed French dramatic author, committed
suicide Friday by shooting himself III
the head with q revolver. CremieuN
was born in Paris November 10, 1923.
Among his noted productions have been
'Orphee aux BUFFERS" with music by
Offenbach, which was produced in
1856; ''Yoie Sacree," 1859; FONT DIES
Soupirs," in 1862, and La Belle Pou-
le"
Announcement is made of the death
of Sebastian Charles Girard, the French
painter, III his 74th year. Girard was
born in Paris 10 1919. He entered the
School of Arts in 1888. He visited
this country i'll connection with the eN-
petition to the Marquis islands III
1SE}-f7 and was one of the art COM
mission led by Prince Napoleon. He
! was decorated with the legion of honor
in 1917.
-Four powder mills ut SchaghticOke,
\. Y, blew W Friday evening. The
Drst explosion was caused by powder
clogging up in the wheel mill. A huge
timber was carried $50 feet and struck
the press mill, causing the second eN-
ploSiOn, which set off the powder III
the corning mill and the supply mill,
fifty feet distant Not a veStage OF
the mill remains AS the explosion oc-
CURED after working hours nobody
was injured. The loss viii be over
$4,000,
A suit by the state Of Illinois against
Henry Hilton, representing the old
house of A. T. Stewart & Co. of New
York, to recover $11,911 % taxes on
personal property, with interest from
1882, has been pending for about eight
years. 1t was side-tracked in 1885, but
! was restored to the supreme court
calender Friday on motion Of defend
ants, who wish to close up the case
Defendants say they stopped doing
business in Chicago long before the tax
was imposed, and they pay taxes on
100000 on personal property in this
state.