Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-10

fatalities, but the meeting was broken
up.
At Louisville. Ky, Albert Wing kill
ed his wife Miriam in Il brOthel Tues
day night, and escaped. Both belong
ed to prominent families. but the wO-
man went astray and the man was
sent to the penitentiary for killing a
man.
Officers from the United Indian
reservation in Utah. express consider
able anxiety ut the temporary removal
from Fort Duchesne of a portion of
the United States troop. 1t is said the
Indians are now indulging in drunken
orgies
Unknown persons visited the stock
farm of d. Z. Simon. near Valparaiso,
Ind, Tuesday night, knocked the horns
off of his fine Jersey COW. drove a sick
horse through a barbed-wire fence, and
turned the other stock into the public
highway.
Preliminary steps towards the organi-
cation of a naval militia have been
taken in Pennsylvania and Vermont
| There are laready eight states with
properly equipped and creditable naval
forces organized in conformity with the
national law.
Canadian cattle shippers are much
excited over the report that the Eng
| lish board Of agriculture has ordered
1900 head of CATTLE landed at Dundee
from Canada. to be slaughtered, on
account of the existence of pleuro-
pneumonia among them.
Two men entered the house of Henry
Stuhan. a farmer living near Lincoln,
Ill, Tuesday night and at the point of
a revolver demanded $1,000, Which the
farmer had placed in safe at his
fathers hOnc. Before accomplishing
their purpose the robbers were frighten-
ed away, and made good their escape
Tuesday afternoon two men robbed
Cashier Baird, of the Ford County
bank, at Spearville, Kan, of $4,000.
AS the robbers ran out Of the bank
and jumped into their saddles a party
of hunters came along, and hearing Of
the robbery opened fire on them. Many
shots were exchanged but the robbers
managed to- escape. A large reward is
! offered for their capture.
! Suit has been brought by Vice-PreSi-
| dent Levi 2. Morton, John II. Wyman
and John G.. Richardson, executors in
/ the superior court of New York to de-
eide the construction Of certain clauses
in the viii of Lizzie III. Perkins. The
| estate is worth $127, 900. There are a
number of odd requests of wearing
| apparel and jewelTy and queer pro
isions in the will which make the bust
ness of the executors difficult.
| Anticipating the large volume of mail
/ and the value of quick transmission
| during the worlds fair, the United
| States Rapid Transit company of Chi
| cago, has submitted the details of an
! elevated road to the post office de-
| partment at Washington. The plan
is to erect this system between the ex-
j position grounds and the post office,
and by means of an electric cable
| placed high enough to clear all build
| ings along the route, attain a speed or
200 miles a minute.
At Detroit, Mich, the United States
I custom department seized 800 pounds
| of struggled opium, valued at $1,000,
and arrested a man giving the name Of
A. ]. Morrison. The stuff was brought
: across the river Tuesday night in two
| large trunks and was being checked
! at the Michigan Central depot when the
seizure was made. The seizure is the
most valuable one of opium since the
taking Of 600 cans by InspectoN Me
Donough about four years ago, al
though in that instance the one hav-
ing it managed to give the officers the
slip.