Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-21

greSs, President Cleveland has called
4 halt in the execution of the Geary
law against unregistered Chinese
Two hundred Italian miners whose
pay day had been passed, started a
riot at Beading, near Pittsburg, and
twenty-eight were arrested.
The Montreal presbytery has found
Professor Campbell guilty on the first
count of libel for heresy. The vote
was twenty-one to thirteen.
Ex-senator Ingalls, will not run for
governor Of Kansas, but says he will
contest with Senator leffer for the
United States senate in 1896.
B. II. Miller, Jr., of Milwaukee, has
declined the professorship Of English
and American law at the Imperial
Japanese University, at Toxic.
A certificate of Incorporation of L.
Waterbury & Co., has been filed in
Jersey City. This is the first step to-
ward the reorganization of the cOrdage
trust.
The United States cruiser Columbia
has developed a speed of BIB knots
an hour. This exceeds the speed Of
any other fighting or merchant vessel
afioat.
Nelson, Matter q Co., furniture manu-
facturerS at Grand Rapids, have filed
mortgages aggregating $212,24 The
company has a large amount tied up in
worlds fair hotels.
Judge Briggs, at Sullivan, Ind, has
discharged Receiver Grammar, of the
Evansville and Terra Haute Road, and
returned the property to the company.
Little children of Frank Paygenpohl,
of Iowa City, Iowa, were playing with
an old shotgun. The piece was dis
charged, killing a little girl.
Nat Mckee, farmer, was killed and
Jim Crutchfield, negro, terribly burned
by the explosion OF the boiler of a
portable engine at Hopkinsville, Ky.
| At Grinnell, Iowa, stranger called
the cashier of a savings bank to the
door while his confederate stole $500
from the counter. Both escaped.
| Samuel Lamb, eX-sheriff Of the Indi-
ana supreme court, and for several
years in the United States detective
service, dropped dead at Richmond,
| Ind.
! Chicago and Milwaukee breweries
will, it is said, show a surplus of $780,
coo for the year, after paying fixed
! charges.
Major Tom Breckenridge, president
of a national bank in Austin. Tex,
was fined so for keeping coal oil in
large quantities in the fire limits of
the city and paid his fine in nickles.
John G. T. Powall, ex-sheriff of
Creme county ILL.,, after an absence of
ten days, was found wandering near
Jerseyville, and soon died. He lost
his mind worrying over financial
affairs.
| Major John L. Hayes, formerly
qualtermaSter on General Nelson A.
Miles staff, who was made a maniac
! and an epileptic by a blow received
) in Chicago a year ago, has had his
mind restored by trepanning and will
! recover.
| Henri Newman y Co., dealers in
clothers' supplies at New York, with a
branch in Chicago, have been granted
an extension by their creditors The
firms statement shows assets of s.,
Abe and liabilities of 81, 60. 500.
| In the Potter trial at Boston several
witnesses were examined to show the
course OF business of the Maverick
bank and to proveI that the president
was aware of the transactions on which
he stands indicated.
Frederick l.. Ames, son of Oliver
Ames, brother Of Cakes Ames, of
Credit Mobilier notoriety, died on Il
steamer entering New York. He was
in sixty railroads.
Helen Leonard, otherwise Lillian
Russell, has begun suit at New York
to have her marriage to Teddy Solo
mon, with whom she eloped to Europe
in 1854, declared void on the ground
that he was already married at the
time.
e. Nj. Donaldson, the Kansas bank
president, alleged to be a defaulter for
100000, is now in Puebla, Mexico.
He declares that he is not a defaulter.
and says the failure Of the bank was
due to the unwise mana cement of the
directors.
Catholics of Fairbault, Mimi, have
decided that the celebrated FairbauIt
school plan is "A failure and have asked
the board Of education to remove the
two Protestant teachers from the Cath
olic school. AS a result the Protest
ant children will be withdrawn from
the school, which will hereafter be
conducted as a parochial institution.
Charles de LeSsepS, who was SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment at
Paris for completely in the Panama
canal scandal, has been released from
prison. The sentence was set aside on
appeal to the court of cessation, which
decided that the prosecution had not
been inaugrated within the time set
by the law.
The national convention Of boards of
trade, at Washington, adopted resolu-
lions urging the senate to speedily re-
peal the Sherman silver purchase act,
and elected these officers: President,
Ex-Governor E. o. Standard, of Mis-
souri,; secretary, r. Richie, of Cleve-
land: second secretary Frank s Card