Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-31

J0nn A. EaUOn, TOT many years
.cading democrat of Kansas and re-
Gently defeated for the United States
district attorneyship, has declared his
intention to leave the democratic party
and go with the populists.
A letter found in a bottle near Otse
60. Mich. says that the writer murder
ed the Bordens at Fall River, Mass. 1t
is signed Max O'Reilly and gives IN
alleged description of how the murder
was committed.
Minnesota's treasury is empty and
the treasurer is unable to pay the salar
les of state officers. The state has
plenty Of funds, but they are tied up in
the eleven banks which have suspend
ed in st. Paul and Minneapolis.
During a fight between non-union and
union men at the Lockhart iron and
steel cOmpany's plant at CHARTERS, Pa,
to-day Charles Snyder. a non-union
man, shot Joseph Brownhill, striker,
in the shoulder. The wound is serious.
Snyder is under arrest.
Heirs of Norman w KittSOn, the st.
Paul millionaire, charge James J. Hill
and the st, Paul Trust company with
delaying settlement and attempting to
wreck the estate in order to reap large
profits in the way Of executors fees.
Twenty-fOur hundred bottles of beer
that had been seized from a cellar in
the town of Downs were cracked at
Osborne, in northwestern Kansas, in
the presence of 100 people and the
contents poured into a ravine.
Henry L. Spring, who claims to be a
Chicago real estate man, has been try
ing to touch George Gould for a loan
of $25. He was SO persistent that the
New York police had to give him a
nights lodging at the TOmbs.
st. Louis authorities propose to me-
mOrialiZe congress to prevent the build
ing of the drainage canal by which, it
is claimed, the Mississippi, where st.
Louis gets it's drinking water, will be-
come polluted with Chicago sewage.
Creditors of the Hercules Iron Works
company have reOrganized the com
pany and will remove the works from
Chicago to Aurora. The failure Of the
corporation was caused by the burning
of it's cOId-StOrage warehouse at the
worlds fair grounds.
John Gill Meyers, of Oakland, ILL.,,
the ravisher of his StepdaughterS, is
still at large, although supposed to be
surrounded by posse of farmers, on
n mil lsiu
he has escaped and left the state.
Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago,
is to wed Miss Annie Howard, of New
Orleans, next month. The bride elect
is % years old and is reputed to be
worth 100000. Her father, Char
ley" Howard, deceased, made $2OOOO,-
900 out of the Louisiana lottery.
Fire at Waukegan caused a loss of
$50 900, on which there is an insurance
of $4,000. The losses are: L. d. War
rem, flour mill; George Meakins, bill
lizard hall; Macarthur Macarthur, livery
stable; G. Linebach, hotel, and the
dwellings of l.. D. Warren, James
! Leoman, Lorenzo Hinkston, III. J. Sly
| field, f. Kendall, Miss Maloney and L.
! d. Warren.
Obituary: At Galesburg, Ill, Uncle
Ben" Churchill, aged one hundred and
! two.-At Sterling, Ill, Mrs. Jabez War
ner, aged ninety nine.-At MascOutah
ILL.,, George G.. EiSenmayer, aged
sevent- three.
The weekly crop report issued at
/ Washington, reports that the crops in
| the central states are in a favorable
condition. The drought in the New
England and Middle Atlantic states
has been broken. Crops in the extreme
northwest were slightly damaged by
frosts. The grape crop damaged by
frosts. The grape crop Of California
will be the largest that has ever been
known.