Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-17

The Barron county bank at Rlce
Lake, Wis, assigned.
Oklahoma Statehood convention is
in session at FL Reno.
American sealing vessels report Ill
success off the japanese coast.
The last session Of the Illinois legis-
iature was held at cost of $312,S29.
The Madison Square bank at New
York has failed.
Brooklyn is unable to pay firemen's
salaries.
The mother Of Senator Jones, of Ne
yada died at Santa Monica, Cal.
John Beck, married, 80 years old,
committed suicide while respondent at
Rossville, Ill.
Richard Katie, wanted at Eudora,
Kas., for highway robbery, was ar
rested in Bolton, Mo.
John H. Copeland poisoned himself
with laudanum at East st. Louis be-
cause of ill-health and died.
Little Willie Finn, aged 9 years, who
was SO fearfully injured by his insane
father at st. Louis, is dead.
William Harrison, aged 80 years, a
cousin Of the ex-president, is in the
county poor-house at Denver, Col.
In a fire at Ada, o., the 4-year-old
daughter of David De Witt was crem-
sted and her mother fatally burned.
The Sedalia Evening Bazoo, pub
lished by J. West Goodwin, the oldest
paper in central Missouri, went to the
wall.
Alfred Packer, the man-eater, under
a cumulative sentence of eighty years
in Denver, is said to have gone insane.
The treasury cash balance continues
to decline and the gold reserve may
be drawn on for current expenditures.
Robert II. Coleman, the Pennsyl-
vania iron king, has made an assign
ment. His liabilities will approximate
$3,5O0,OOO.
George W. Perth, of Milwaukee, has
beeA appointed reading clerk Of the
United States senate.
Derby, Ind, was almost destroyed
by fire, which caused a total loss of
$4,000.
Two persons have died of yellow fe-
We. at Pensacola, Fla, and everybody
WHO can do so is leaving the city.
The international socialist congress
at Zurich has approved the establish
inert of an eight-hour working day.
John w Mackay has been success
fully operated upon at New York for
the removal of the yermiform appen-
dix.
Herman Brendel, son of prominent
Galena, ILL.,, merchant, has disappeared.
1t is feared that he was either drown
ed or murdered.
While the doors of the jail at Find,
lay. O., were open the prisoners made
n break for liberty and all escaped.
The village of Snow Hill, Md,
burned Only two stores and a few
dwellings were saved. The loss is
bout 100000.
Checks marked payable through
the clearing house." are coming into
u, as current money in Philadelphia.
5Chn Meister, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
shit his wife and hanged himself re-
Gently.
Ute Indians are off the reservation
near Durango, Col, threatening trou-
BILE.
& cloudburst washed away several
city and railroad bridges at Pueblo,
Col, today.
San Francisco felt two heavy earth
quake shocks Wednesday morning. No
buildings fell.
Stevens Point has deposited with
the state treasurer $4,000 for a bonus
for the new state normal school.
Lafayette Young, editor of The Eve
ning Capital Rep.) of Des Moines, is
a candidate for governor of Iowa.
Farnham, Allen & Co., commission
merchants at Columbus, Wis, as
signed. Liabilities $4,000.
Directors of the Lehigh Valley road
have dissolved .nn lease to the Read
ing company be Sc of default on bills
due.
Commissioners will be appointed by
Gov. Lewellirg 20 solicit seed wheat
or money for the destitute farmers of
western Kansas.
Whitecaps took Mrs. Elijah Dalton,
OF Borden, Ind, from the home of her
husband and administered a whipping
with hickory switches.
At the meeting of cordage manufact-
.7rerS in New York it was decided to
at once form a mutual protective as
ISOLATION"
Deputy Sheriff Samuel Erb, of La
Grange, Ind, was ambushed and killed
by a party of tramps suspected of
burglary.
Harvey Johns and Simon Reynolds
have confessed that they removed the
rail from the Wabash tracks near At
lanta, Mo.
A receiver has been named for the
Hamilton Loan and Trust company at
New York. The assets and liabilities
are each 100000.
Ernest LacoNe is under arrest at
Joliet, charged with assaulting and
numbering the girl Ellen Byron.
Lynching is threatened.
General passenger agents Of eastern
liLes have recommended an advance in
n IL