Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-10-19


at Wuerzburg for having violated his
oath Of allegiance by advocating social
ism, has been discharged by the court.
the charges not being proven.
A mail boat plying between Rousay
and May in the Orkney islands was
upset in a squat Tuesday and the
two boatmen, a woman, and three
children were drowned.
During an exhibition at New York,
Kennedy, the strong man, lifted three
Life Guard horses with their riders
fully accoutered, their combined
weight being nearly 1000 pounds.
Abraham Bloom, alas Max Gold
stein, one of the ringleaders in the riot
at Walhalla Hall, New York, was sen
fenced to two years Imprisonment at
hand labor in the state prison.
The Jura-SimplOn Railway company
has contracted with the Brand COM
pany, of Hamburg, and Locher & Co.,
Of Zurich, to cut a tunnel through the
Simplon, at a cost of over f4,0OO,O0O.
It is announced that Baron B. f.
Grundebaum, an Austrian nObleman,
is to marry an American heiress, Miss
Lille Sherman, daughter of we'll
known horse breeder of Lexington, Ky.
The inventory of the estate of {. J.
Moss, the millionaire railroad con-
tractor, who died recently, was filed
at ST. Louis, and foots up a total of
Sc, S0S552, aside from his real estate
holdings, which are extensive.
William Queen, an undertaken, 76
years old, was -assoed, gagged, and
fearfully dubbed in his barn at Can
ton, Mo, by strange negro. His
wounds are fatal. The negro escaped,
and no motive is known for the crime.
4 special Waterman of the Santa Fe
railroad, Michael McMenemin, Jr.,
was shot at Kansas City by an I'M
known man. The man had attempted
to set fire to Santa Fe freight car.
He escaped.
A censorship of all telegraphic matter
sent from Hamburg concerning cholera
is declared by the Hamburg authori-
ties. The director of kilograms is en-
powered to demand verifcation of al
the telegraphed statements.
Obituary: At Tarrytown, n. Y,
Timothy G. Eastman, the great cattle
exporter, aged seventy-two.-At Cum
mings, n. D., Carl Rourke, the largest
man in the United States, weighing
$40 pounds
Fire at Des Moines, Iowa, destroyed
the Layman cOld-storage warehouse,
Frederick Fields wholesale boot and
shoe house and the Merchants Trans
fer company's office. The total -oss is
100000.
Three masked men bound Robert S.
Bennett, a Clayton, ILL., farmer, and
covering the wife and son and hired
girl with revolvers, ransacked the
house Then they compelled the wo-
men to cook them a good supper and
departed.
There were 231 900 ounces of silver
offered for sac to the treasury de-
partment Thursday at prices ranging
from IA to IS cents an ounce, all of
which was declined and 1880 cents
rendered.
The weekly crop and weather bull
letinS which have been issued by the
weather bureau of the agricultural de-
partment will be discontinued for q
time, most of the crops being now
harvested. a monthly bulletin will be
issued during the winter.
Iowa has been given thirty days
to file an answer to the motion of
Attorney General Moloney of IL, look
ing to the vacation of the order by the
commissioners on the boundary be-
tween the Hawkeye state and Illinois.
Chief Justice Fuller rendered the de-
cision today.
An epidemic of diphtheria prevails
in Wataga, near Galesburg. II. The
schools are closed. Five new cases de-
veloped yesterday. 1t is feared the
water in the school well has been
contaminated.
Gilman and Barnes, of Detroit,
through their Windsor attorneys, have
made an assignment of their hotel
Des-C hree-S hos-Ka affairs at Fighting
Island to B. T. Berry, of Detroit.
Apart from the mortgages, which ag-
gregate 100000, there is an indebt-
edness of $4,000.
A band of Circassian brigands at
tackled a train near Nigoto, Trans
Caucasia, and killed three guards. The
baggage car, which contained a chest
of money for the Batoum garrison,
was plundered. Several passengers
were maltreated and robbed. -Four of
the brigandS are said to have been
shot.
A committee of citizens from Gushing
and ingalls, appeared at the United
States marsha-'s office at Guthrie, Ok,
Wednesday and demanded protection
for themselves and their property, as
the Dalton gang have threatened to
have revenge on every citizen who
aided the officers at the Ingall battle
Il month ago.
A desperate fight has taken place be-
tween deputy United States marsha-s
and the Woodland gang of outlaws
near Fifty-two Spring, on the line be
tween the Greek and Seminole nations.
There were four desperadoes, Joe
Pierce, Sam Woodland, Lon Tompson,
and George Sofky, in the party against
two deputies. Joe Pierce was killed
and all the other outlaws wounded.
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