Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-23

bound east from Buffalo are said to be
open for a dicker, which, with SO little
grain to catch at present, is insignificant
1t is announced that Henry S. Ives
the young Napoleon of finance, is the
principal hacker of the new line which
is to be built some time this year be-
tween Detroit and Toledo, and which
will be useed as a feeder by the Penn
sylyania and other roads not having ac-
cess to Detroit, Mich.
Benjamin Lundy, one Of the oldest
and wealthieSt residents on the Canadi-
an frontier, is dead at Palatka, Fla,
where he had an orange grove He
was so years old, and estimated to be
worth 100000. From his father came
the name of the famous battle ground
of Lundy'S lane.
At Baltimore, Md, the five-story build
ing corner Wells and Light streets oc-
cupied by Matthai Ingram & Company,
for the manufacture of tin and japanned
ware, was almost entirely destroyed by
fire on the 18th with it's contents. Loss
100000, covered by insurance.
Large sales of lands for coffee grow
ing are reported from the states of
Vera Cruz and OaXaca, Mex, where
both natives and foreigners are buying
extensively, many Americans being in
Guided among the buyers. OaXaca will
have a very large coffee crop this year,
and the new crop is selling at $26 to
SGT per quintal.
At San Antonio, Tex, Gen. Wheaton
is in receipt Of information from Fort
Ringgold advising him that six other
revolutionists named Jesus SandOval
Chico SecundinO Ramirez, Juan NAL
donadO, Procupio Sandoval, Bias Ybanos
and Juan Guerra, surrendered to the
troops on the 10Th, and have been plac-
ed in jail
III. O. Havemeyer, of the Sugar Com
pany, says: Il know nothing in refer
ence to any injunction to restrain the
payment of the dividend on the COM
mon stock. There is no good reason
for such Injunction"
The Cincinnati lodge of Elks on the
afternoon of the 18th performed the
solemn funeral service for their brother
Elk, Luke SchOolcraft, the comedian,
who died on the 10Th. The body was
sent to Boston at 6 O'clock. A delega-
ton of the New York lodge of Elks will
board the train at Albany, N. Y, and
will accompany the body to Boston.
In the Minnesota House the Jacob
son bill compelling railroads to trans
fer cars from one line to another at
Junction points without additional char
ges was adopted with the further pro-
vision that the first railroad could haul
the car to it's destination by a round
about route if it so desired, provided
the rate be the same as by the direct
line.
The Secretary of War has ordered the
Eleventh Regiment of cavalry of the
Mexican army to make a march through
the very heart of the turbulent Yaqui
Indian country. Besides the danger of
being completely eXterminated by In
dams, the regiment must make one of
the longest and most difficult marches
ever undertaken in Mexico.
A decapitated miners body was found
in a ditch near Negaunee, Mich, on the
10th and his head was found fifty feet
away. He was identified as Victor
Hangar, aged u years. His head had
whether suicide or murder was behind
it is not known.
Joseph f. Pritchard, the sporting wri-
ter who is under Indictment. in the St
Clair County Court charged with biga-
my, has been delivered up by his bonds
men, and is now confined in the county
Jail at Mascoutah. Pritchard it is
claimed, has Il wife in Milwaukee and
one in st. Louis.
At Hamilton, Ont, Kaspar Ostler, an
employee of the Hamilton Screw Works,
has completed an immense wood carving
representing the landing of Christopher
Columbus on American soil. Ostler has
been employed on the work for seven
hours a day for the past seven months
All the details of the carving are his
torically correct in every particular.
At Exeter, n. H, fire broke out in
the Exeter Cotton Mills about 4 o'clock
the morning of the 18th. 1t started in
the basement and burned up through
the building, destroying the engine
room and the older part of the mill,
which was destroyed once before. The
new part of the mill was saved. The
fire was controlled at 9:3O o'clock. Loss
estimated at S25OOOO
At st. Louis the three men, Henry
Kaiser, Jacob Heinz and Charles Nc
Donnell, who were arrested as the foot
pads who assaulted and robbed Edwin
E. Brown, of Chicago about two weeks
ago, and who died from the effects of
the assault, have been identified by two
colored women, Carrie Chapman and
Bette Robinson, who witnessed the
attack.
Representative Irwin, a Populist mem
Der of the Nebraska Legislature, has
prepared a resolution for introduction
in the House at the earliest opportunity
providing for the appointment of a COM
mittee to draft articles of Impeachment
against the different State officers COM
plfsing the Board Of Public Lands
and Buildings.