Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-09


''She looked up at him with charming
innocence.
Because, sir. they have brass faces.
and she laughed such a low, sweet little
laugh that | Snorted right out and the
New Yorker fairly rln away.
STRAY SPARKS
At Carlisle. Pa. Martin GriswileF, ex-
deputy sheriff, eX-register and ex-inter-
nal revenue collector and q leading pol
itician, has been arrested by a Chicago
detective. charged with bigamy and ia
ken to that city.
In the trial at Boston Of A. ?. Potter,
president of the bankrupt Maverick
bank, for alleged false certifcation,
Judge Putnam decided that the govern
ment must prove a knowledge and IN
tent on Potter's part
Paul Du Chaillu, the African eXplor-
er, was presented by the American Geo
graphical Society of New York with a
handsome silver loving cup in common
Grafton of the twenty-tifth anniversary
of his return from Africa.
The Canada estimates for the ensuing
year contain appropriations of $3.50, 200
for canals. The items include the fol-
lowing: Sault Ste. Marie canal, 81 .9O6,-
OOO; Soulanges canal, S1,0OO,0OO; st
Lawrence river and canals, $3.50, 600:
Cornwall canal, $4,000.
No news has been received as to the
whereabouts of Paymaster Theodore
Hill, of the New Jersey and New York
railroad, who mysteriously disappeared
from the New York offices of the COM
pany on the morning Of the 3Oth His
accounts are straight and no money is
missing.
Charles Wells, commonly known as
Monte Carlo Wells, was again brought
up at Bow Street court in London to
answer the charges of swindling, but
was remande on the ground that he
was remanded on the ground that he
The will Of the late General Butler
has been filed in the Middlesex Probate
court at East Cambridge, Mass. 1t bears
the date of 1854, with a codicn added
in 1862 All his estate, real and person
al, is left to relatives, including a wife
and mother since deceased
Secretary RuSk says that pleuro-pnerl-
mOnia is raging among cattle i'll Canada,
and has issued an order that all cattle
imported from Canada shall be held in
quarantine ninety days and must be
entered at the port OF Buffalo, n. Y
Two families living in the fiat building
4,311 Evans avenue, Chicago, were as
phyXiated by water gas this morning.
The fight between Billy Ernest and
Charles McCarty at the Ariel club, Phil
adelphia, tonight, ended in the fifth
round with both men clinched in the
middle of the ring.
Henry w. Cannon, president of the
Chase National Bank of New York, and
Senator Jones, of Nevada, delegates to
the international monetary conference
held in Brussels, arrived at New York
on the steamship La Gascogne from
HaVre. They expressed themselves as
well satisfied with the result of the
conference.
The Secretary Of the Treasury sent
TO the House ON the LIST estimates of
appropriations for defraying the ex-
penses Of collecting the revenues from
customs for the fiscal year ending June
so, 1894, amounting to 81, 392, 400. The
estimate for the port of New York is
S2,213.667; Philadelphia, $685., 2SO, and
Baltimore, $247, 1897.
A Faribault, Mimi, woman got SO
mad at her husband that she died in
giving him a bit of her mind Her
husband slept soundly while the storm
lasted and only awoke when she broke
into unexpected silence.
One of the most striking pictures of
this years summer exhibition at the
British Royal academy will be a vision
Of the last judgment by Sir Frederick
Leighton. 1t is founded on the words
Of st. John the Divine: "And the sea
gave up the dead that We're in it,
The picture is said to be an original and
powerful study painted in a style diff
ferent to a very considerable exten
from that which has been associated
with Leighton's name until recent
years.