Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-04
NEWS.

strikers is S1,OO0,OOO.
Troops are still guarding the con-
Wet miners at Tracy City, Tenn.
Russell Bros, New York printers,
have failed, owing $50, 1000.
The bank of Wilmot at Wilmot, S. D.,
has failed. The debts are $4,000.
Cotton in Louisiana has been greatly
injured by the recent cold spell and
frost.
The volunteer militia of Delaware
will disband for lack of an appropria-
ton.
Striking boilermakers at Boston have
carried their point and will return to
work.
Over 43O delegates attended the
Trans Mississippi congress at Ogden,
Utah.
A large number of Lagonda, o., bank
notes, denomination of So, have been
counterfeited.
The wife of James Baggs, a railroad
iaborer, was found murdered at Leav
enworth, Kas.
Twelve thousand miners in the Pitts
an increase in pay.
At Philadelphia $50 Cinnamon regis
tered in one day under the provisions
of the Geary law.
The works of the Hydraulic Water
company, of Grand Rapids, Mich, are
in the hands of the sheriff.
Buildings were damaged at Indepen-
1ence, Mo-, and Beeton, Mo-, by q
cyclone No lives were lost.
G. z. Huntington, OF the Southern
Pacific road, has bought the Fuene coal
mines in Mexico, for 100000.
Dr. McVicker, of Philadelphia, de-
clines to become bishop of the EpiscO-
pal Diocese of Massachusetts.
G. w. Welton, of Lewiston, ILL.,, has
been arrested for the abduction of Or
pha Kelso, a 13-year-old girl.
A store building was blown down at
Paxton, Ind, and Mrs. Wolf was struck
by a brick and fatally injured.
Frank p. Frey, treasurer of Mound
City Camp, Modern Woodmen, of Joliet,
is said to be short in his accounts 81 200.
General Patrick A. Collins entered up
on his duties as Consul General at Lon
don, Saturday.
Ex-Governor Gray was banqueted at
indianapolis, Oh the eve of his depart
ure for Mexico as American minister.
The Woonsocket Rubber company
voted to go in the rubber trust, known
as the United States Rubber company.
Nine Christine Kicking Pfaff has Sc
cured divoce at Sioux Falls, S. D.,
from her husband. The latter is the
son of Henry Pfaff, the Boston tinan-
cier.
Navajo Indians in San Jose county,
made for troops. One white man has
been killed.
The jury disagreed at Lafayette, Ind,
in the case of L. J. Clark, charged with
taking part in the riot against eX-Priest
Rudolph.
Burglars secured 81 900 from the safe
of the Canada Lumber company at
Snow Road, Ont, and then escaped ON
hand car.
James Parkinson, assistant secretary
of the Big -Four mine at Centralia, Ill,
was instantly killed by a switch engine
at that place.
A mob tried John Peterson, a negro
charged with criminal assault, and
hanged him. The lynching took place
at Denmark, S. G.
IL Sioux City, Ia, the police raided
Sunday night dances and made twenty
six arrests Fines were imposed for
unlawful assembly.
Lew Murphy, a well-knOWn citizen
and business man of Lagro, Ind, has
gone insane from drinking whisky after
taking the Kelley cure.
Henry Willard is about to send an
expedition to South America at his own
expense. What Willard means to do
with the results is not known.
Wheat speculation caused the failure
Of the Mcconnell Il Mcguire company
of Moscow, Idaho. Gov. Mcconnell is
at the head of the concern.
Gas in an oil refinery at Lima, O.,
took fire and fatally burned Richard
Nerbyke and Isaac Monroe. The lat
ter's eyes were burned out.
d. d. Id CIVIC, SNIuuluS pcOplc Ill
the east in the guise of a priest, was
sent to Blackwell's Island from New
York for a term of three months.
The boiler of the Smith stone crush
ing plant at Carey, o., blew up, fatally
injuring Engineer Jacob Wonder and
doing much damage to property.
Three New York murderers-J. L..
Osmond, J. G. Burchell and Matthew
Johnson-have been sentenced to die
by electricity the week of June u.
1t is said that Gov. Flower has de-
cided to commute the sentence of Car
Isle w. Harris, under sentence of death
for the murder of his young wife.
Mrs. Benjamin Thompson, of Kelso,
Tenn, entered her burning dwelling to
save her child, and persisted. The child
had been rescued without the mothers
knowledge.
AT a largely attended meeting of re
preventative democrats of st. Louis, it
was decided to contest the recent city
election on the grounds of frauds in
South st. Louis.
The rice crop for 1892 was the great
est ever grown in this country, and is
estimated at 225,OOO,OOO pounds The
largest before known was that of 1850,
estimated at 215,313, 497 pounds. The
Top Of 1891 was but about 100000
pounds. The years consumption in
his country is about 25O,O0O,0OO pounds,
so that d 600 600 NAV still ha imnor-tad