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


bandits in the Usage country.
J. w. Smith, a murderer, was lynch
ed at Dunsmuir, Cal, Friday. He
thanked the crowd for doing it.
A railway commerce congress will be
held in Chicago next June. 1t will be
an auxiliary of the worlds fair.
At Jackson, Miss, Friday Officer Ed
Gordiu shot and fatally wounded
James Head, q notorious character.
A Polish Immigrant was sent to the
insane asylum at Indianapolis because
he could not speak the English lang
uage.
Ellie E. Wyatt, IL years old, was
given a verdict against a Kansas City
street railroad for $4,000 for the loss
of q leg.
Mrs. Annie Working was given a
judgment of 81 200 against john G..
earn of Peru, Ind, for defamation of
character
Thomas Jones, clerk of Campbell
county, Kentucky is charged with the
embezzlement of So, 701 from collection
of licenses.
Six leaders of the Homestead strike
were arrested on the charge of treason,
i. E., open rebellion against the State
of Pennsylvania.
By a collision on the Easton and
Amboy railroad at Hamden, Pa En-
gineer J. Wertheiser was killed. The
road is biOckaded.
of Russianyille, Ind, has made an as
signment. Liabilities, $4,000; assets
sufficient to pay the debts.
Anti-Parnellites address Il manifesto
to friends in the United States, in
which they express confidence in the
passage of the home rule bill.
to the real estate congress at Buffalo,
n. Y. One result is a $40 round trip
between st. Paul and Chicago
The Swedish Baptist general con-
ference held its session at Oakland,
Neb 2. o. Peterson of st. Paul,
preached The opening sermon.
The situation with regard to the
cholera in New York is 50 reassurins
that the health department will issue
no more bulletins on the subject
Gen. Carl Muller, the last surviving
German officer who took part in the
battle of Waterloo, died Friday i'll
Hanover. He was ninety-nme years
old.
The last New York weekly bank
state ment shows Il reserve decrease
392 400 in excess of the % per cent
rule.
At Rome, Ga, Friday, Lord Walter
S. Beresford, alias Sidney Lascelles,
the noted English forger, was sentenc-
ed to six years hard labor in the peni-
Tertiary,
A disastrous fire broke out in the
Nickel Plate freight yards in Chicago,
destroying forty car loads of nerchan-
disc The loss is estimated to exceed
100000.
Lee Ellington. 10 years old, tied to
his wrist the halter of a horse he was
leading to water in Kansas City, Mo.
The animal ran away and dragged the
boy to death.
A number of German army officers
started from Berlin for Vienna on
horseback Saturday morning in race
that is being conducted under govern
ment supervision.
The Hungarian budget for 1898 has
been completed. 1t shows a slight sur
plus, the revenue being placed at 1885,
Asa, 265, 500 forms.
Great Britain is disposed to resent
promptly the encroachments of a Bel
GUM expedition on the Upper Nile
territory, which is designated as with
in the British sphere"
Yates Thompson has sold the Lon
don Pail Mall Gazette to Mr.. Kneigh-
ley, a member of the National Liberal
club. 1t is rumored that the paper
will become liberalunionist in politics.
The South Carolina republicans put
an electoral ticket in the field, but
made no nominations for state offices.
They adopted vigorous resolution on
the subject of free ballot and a fair
count
During his visit to Chicago at the
time of the dedication of the worlds
fair buildings, in October, President
/, Harrison will be the guest of Harlow
n. Higinbotham, president of the ex-
position.
The boiler of a thresher exploded in
Indiana, Pa, on the premises of Coun-
ty Commissioner Rankin. Harry Myer,
aged II, was blown to pieces, and
Aaron. John and Frank Gromley We're
injured.
1t is reported that the state of Louis
lana lost hundreds of thousands of dol
lars during the reconstruction period
through fraud in the matter of the di-
rect tax refunded by the federal gov
j eminent
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