Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-20
port the populists in the legislative
trouble last January.

OBITUARY: AT Stfat1Ord, Conn.,, Cal
vim Curtis, the artist.-At New York,
| Octayia Alien, at one time leading
lady for BOOth.-At Baltimore, DR..
David Harlan, aged eighty-for.
Jones & Laughlin, of Pittsburg, sign
ed the amalgamated scale, the work
ingmen accepting reduction of s to Is
per cent.
| Gen. Russ, of San Antonio, Tex, was
awarded S529, 941. D in his suit against
| Count Telfener, of Italy. The suit IS
on an old land deal.
The steam steel shear of the Chicago
Shipbuilding company lifted the Baker
submarine boat from the Calumet riyeG
yesterday and placed it on dry land.
The boat weighs eighty tons. The lift
was made rapidly.
| Notorious as prosecutor of saloon
keepers, Herbert Gale, of Cedar Rapids,
has been indicted as a half owner of
| one.
| The federal authorities at Portland,
Ore, have filed additional hbels against
the steamer Hayden Republic for SNUG
Cling opium.
The town of Luckey, O., was partly
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000; in
surance, $4,000. The fire was in the
, business district.
Henry Fleming, the negro who stabb-
! ed Mr.. Minchee to death at Columbus
Miss, was taken from Jail by a mob
and hanged.
| l.. Foster, travelling salesman fol
Foley Il Co., of Chicago, committed
suicide at WinOna, MINI. Financial
embarrassment was the cause.
! j. L. Blair, a prominent attorney OF
! st. Louis, called eX-COngressman Glover
liar Blair was knocked down. The
trouble resulted from a law suit.
The remains of the Kreider family OF
/ six persons, murdered at CandO, n. D..
were buried at Lancaster, Pa, 5000
persons attending the funeral.
Mormon missionaries in Hanover
county, Va, have made many converts
and now the PrOtestantS are organizing
to drive them out of the county.
, Chicago and Peoria trains of the Big
l
Great confusion was caused among the
passengers, but no one was hurt.
The Orangemen of Canada celebrated
the anniversary of the battle Of the
BOyne in Il more enthusiastic manner
than usual. No trouble occurred.
At Saginaw, Mich, Henry Bradley
was taken into custody, charged with
having shot and killed Miss Jane Mar
shall at Warwick, Ont, March 10
1889.
Charles Birker, wanted at Findlay
o., for the murder of Annie Sails, three
weeks ago, was arrested at Columbia
Pa.
According to the last report of the
interstate commerce commission, 2,26t
railway employees were killed during
the year.
PoSmaSter-Genera BisSell has decid
ed to abandon the three sizes of pOSta.
cards now in use, and to substitute
one size for both single and reply
cards.
Although $1,000 and car loads of pro
visions have been sent to Pomeroy, Ia.
people made dependent by the tornado
there are suffering for food.
The Terre Haute, Ind, car works are
in an assignee's hands. The liabilities
are $4,000 and the assets S6uOVOu
The company employees 800 men.
An engine ran into herd of steers
at st. Joseph, Mo-, and after killing ter
/ steers was derailed. The engineer
jumped and was badly injured.
Baumberger, the murderer of the SIX
Kreiders in North Dakota, was takeI
to Devils Lake and thence to Grand
Forks for safekeeping. He narrowly
escaped lynching and made a full con
fesSion.
The Colorado silver convention has
issued d statement declaring that the
depreciation OF silver has been caused
by Il conspiracy, with England back j
it, and demanding free coinage in place
Of the Sherman act.
Princeton, Ind, was visited by a fire
which destroyed nearly the entire city
over fifty business houses and Il large
number of residences We're burned
The loss is estimated at S25O,OOO. Al
unknown man was burned to death.
Secretary Herbert has accepted the
resignation of Commodore Wilson as
chief constructor of the navy and ap
pointed Constructor Philip Hichborn to
succeed him. Commodore Wilson re-
signed on account of ill-health.
OF the many failures and financial
collapSes during the last three months
not single failure of dry goods house
has been reported throughout the coun-
, try.
Pensioners numbering 1850 have
been suspended up to date under Sec
rotary Hoke Smiths recent ruling.
| The citizens of Manawa have voted
! to build a new school building to cost
not less than $4,000.
| IOTtI