Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-23

the crew were rescued.
w. F, Putnam, president of the
Lexington, Ky, water works COM
pany, has been arrested in Exeter,
Mass, for embezzling $4,000 from
the National Granite bank, of which
he is president.
Colonel D. B. Henderson. congress
man, now at his home in Dubuque, Ia,
is suffering such pain in his ampu-
tated leg that he has asked the sur
geOn to make another amputatlon
above the knee.
4 Pole employed at S. 2. Shaw's
brick yard in the town oil Hamden,
Conn, fatally stabbed Oliver Abel
fellow workman, in an alteration
which followed a wedding at John
Jessie's house in that town.
The jury in the case of Frank Porter
/ field, the defaulting cashier of the
! Commercial National bank, who has
been on trial in the federal court at
Nashville, Tenn, for the past week,
failed to agree and Were discharged.
StonewaH J. De France of Detroit,
! is to be tried at Kalamazoo, Mich, for
forgery, and 4 Chicago detective has
orders to wait at Kalamazoo until he
either gets De France, or until the
! fellow is convicted OF his job there.
Mr. Gladstone has appointed Profess
or Ingram ByWater to succeed the late
Professor JoWett as master of BalliOl
college, Oxford University. Professor
! Bywater has a reputation rs a Greek
, scholar.
Rubdnstein has refused another offer
of $125,OOO for fifty rcitals in the
United States, but he says he is will
ing to go to America and conduct the
sacred operas. Moses, and Christus, if
Mr.. Abbey will mount them.
The government of San Salvador
has issued a decree imposing an annual
tax of $4,000 on shipping houses in
La Libertad and AcajultO. The mer-
chants are alarmed on account of it,
and some of them declare they will
close rather than submit.
The Cunard steamer Pavonia, which
arrived in Queenstown from Boston
had a stormy passage. For four days
the passengers We're kept below deck.
High seas swept over the steamer,
and one of them carried away twenty
feet of her bulwarks.
The engagement is announced of
Nellie Lisa Bass, only child and heir
ess of Barton Burton, of the brewing
company Of Bass & Co., of Burton on
Trent, to Bruce Baille, a Scotch land
owner.
At the Catholic university the re-
port that Monsignor Satolli, the papal
ablegate, would be raised to the digni.
ty of the cardinalate was denied as
without foundation. No such news has
arrived from Rome and none is eX.
pected.
Ben Hyams, a London book maker,
who had been attending the Liverpool
autumn race meeting, was drugged at
leading Liverpool hotel and robbed
of $4,000. An investigation has dis,
J, closed a long series of similar rObberies
of sportsmen at the Scarborough, Man
chester and DOncaster race meetings.
DR.. Emile Jamais, a member of the
chamber of deputies for the department
of Gard, died at Paris from an attack
Of erysipelas. He was born at Algues-
Wives, November 10. 1856. He publish
ed several political works.
A report issued by the collector of
customs at Calcutta shows that the
trade of that port with Germany dur
ing the past five years has increased
threefold. The trade with England de-
creased from 65 per cent. of the whole
trade to 81 per cent.
Richard OvertOn, a farmer near
Beardstown, ILL.,, was done out of ST.
600 by sharps who lured him to Spring
fed, where they drew the money out
Of bank and bet on a sure thing.
Claims aggregating $1,OOO,OOO have
been forwarded to Ottawa by collector
Of customs Milne, on behalf of the
British Columbia sealers. and will be
presented against the United States
government under the arbitrage az
rangement.
While the Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland was giving an entertain
ment at Brownsover hall, her residence
at Rugby, England, burglars entered
the house and stole a quantity Of the
visitors jewelry. The thieves escaped.
The San Francisco jury in the case
of Jockey Dick Ward, the boy who
killed a stable boy named Keller with
d pitch-fork, brought in a verdict of
murder in the Trst degree and fixed
the punishment at imprisonment for
life.
A boiler explosion occurred at the
works of the American STRAW board
and paper mills, at Piqua, Ohio. No
one was killed, but Fireman Ira
Grimes, John Galloway and Will Bick-
neil were seriously injured. The loss
ON building and machinery is about
$4,000.
Henry Duve, a leading merchant Of
st. Joseph, Mo, left his office to make
collections That night, on Lake Con-
trary, a boat was found with DIVES
coat in it, He had no business near
the lake, and it is believed that he was
enticed there and murdered for his
money.
John Clark one of the trio of bur
glars who killed Madame Wright the
wealthy employment agent, while rob
bling her in uer office at Kansas City,
2 September 8, was found guilty of MUIR
der in the first degree. Harry Jones
and John A. Bartchey, accOmplices in
tha murder will he trip1 at the next