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

Panama bribe-takers are scored by the
Acknowledgements.
Between fifty and sixty Chinese pi
rates were killed by natives.
Mrs Clariss;l Fairchild, widow of the
late Supreme Judge Fairchild, of Arkan-
saS is dead.
A big street railroad company has
been organized by Cleveland and New
York capitalists at Columbus Ohio.
Frank Colbert, the most illustrious
nd wealthiest member of the Chicka
Jaw tribe OF Indians is dead.
Ex-cOngressman BIount starts for
laval on secret mission for the gov
erDment.
Trouble between France and the Vat
lean arises over the appointment of a
primate in Africa.
The New York police mde a raid on
the pool rooms on the 18th, closing sey-
eral and arresting a score or more of
the occupants
Canadian engineers are to join with
Americans in a survey of the boundary
OF Alaska.
NJ. Burgeois has reassumed the office
of French minister of justice.
1t is proposed to form a permanent
law and order league in New Jersey in
order to enforce the laws regarding
gambling on horse races
At Philadelphia, Pa. Henry Glass and
Company, dealers in and shippers of
hogs, have made an assignment. The
liabilities are $4,000 or more; assets
unknown.
Appointees Of Gov. Shortlidge on the
North Dakota agricultural board are
not recognized by the old board.
William McAdOO is nominated for as
sistant secretary of the navy and Ed
ward b. Whitney assistant attorney gen
eral
The Albemarle hotel sold on the 10th
IN New Y ok under the hammer. brought
$1,2OS,OOO
arrested at Ashland or q charge OF adul-
terry, were found guilty and sentenced
10 two and four months respectively
III The county jail.
The Redpath Bros manufacturing
Company of Boston, a boot and shoe
Irm failed yesterday. Liabilities, $780,
coo
The Rev. Sam Jones once married
daughter, Anie c., has remarked Will
lam {. Graham at Crtersville, Ga.
Levi Ritter a well known lawyer of
Indianapolis died on the 18th of eX-
hausion. He was born in Hendricks
county i'll 1929.
Bishop John NJ. Brown, of the Afr1-
can Methodist Episcopal church, is ly-
ing very Ill at his residence. 1924 Rhode
island avenue Washington.
The democrats of Juneau county will
not mold any convention to nominate a
county judge for the reason that the
call for Judge Grote is so largely signed
that they will file paper of nomina-
ton with the county clerk.
At st. Louis, the Owens Printing Com
pany made an assignment Monday to
w. II. McClain, for the benefit of
creditors. The assigned effects consist
vi a. EcboSh VI SoouS dlltl CIldllGlS. IL
leasehold, machinery, printing presses,
etc, all valued at $4,000; liabilities
about the same.
At Cleveland, O., DR.. Cass Hamlin has
been found not guilty of the murder of
Mrs. Betsy Smith. She died from the
effects of morphine, and Dr. Hamlin.
who attended her, was a beneficiary
atnI hn,. .,,-1,, 1, \
Smith was addicted to the use of the
drug
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the MINIS and Treasury offices
during the week ended March II was
$422,9OO; for the corresponding period
OF last year, 1881 1893. The shipment
of fractional silver coin from the LIST
to the 18th instant aggregated $264,-
27O.5O.
III. ii. GOldwaite, travelling salesman,
accddently shot and killed his sister-in-
Law, Miss Hattie Pischon, at Fort
Wayne, Ind. He had just cleaned his
revolver and was carelessly showing
its workings to the inmates of the room
when it was discharged
the Newfoundland sealing fleet has
sailed from St Johns, n. F., to prose
cute the seal fishery for the season of
1893. The fleet numbers twenty-one
steamers; nineteen will cruise in the
Atlantic and bays on the east coast
and two in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
An attempted suicide and murder
took place on the 18th at Kittie Places
house, Detroit, Mich. Joseph Esser. %
years of age, shot and seriously injured
Annie Shea, aged 2S, an inmate of
the place. He then placed the revolver
to his right ear and blew his brains out
Serafino Delcarlo, the demented Itali-
an who shot Mr. Barter, of Charlotte.
and Brakeman E. A. Pember on Mich
igan Central train near Battle Creek,
Mich, on the Oh, committed Slicnde
in the county Jail some time during the
night of the 10th by hanging himself
to the iron frame of the window
The heirs of the estate of the late
John Reynolds Of South Bend. Ind,
have come to an agreement whereby
the promised contest for his S1,0OO,0O0
worth of property viii be withdrawn.
William and Samuel Conrad of New
Albany, Ind, We're arrested on the15th
charged with being parricides. 1t is al
legged that they killed their father, John
Conrad, by beating his brains out with