Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-28

Hall Opera company, says that the
company closed its season at New
Haven Saturday night and did not dis
band, as has been reported. The com
pany is now rehearsing u new opera
| in New York
| Joseph Mead and his son Frank
while driving across the track of the
! Long Island at Rockville Centre, L. l.,
We're struck by a passenger train. Mr.
Mead was killed and his son badly cut
on the head. The horse was also killed.
Mrs. Lillian Parrot, of Chicago, is
under treatment for insanity at Kansas
City. She was stricken while nursing
her sister, Mrs. IOgocia Christopher,
of Caldwell, Colo. Another sister and
a brother also show signs of mental
! weakness
! Two train robbers ADOPTED novel
plan 10 rob the passengers on a Santa
Fe train near Guthrie Monday night
AS soon as the train started they went
through each car and collected fares,
taking every amount rendered them
and giving no change.
United States Senator Irby made a
spectacle of himself while drunk at
Columbia, S. c., yesterday, by driving
through the streets with both feet
thrust through the windows of hack
and threatening the driver with a
pistol He will be given a taste of
police court justice.
The recent elections in Havana to
renew half the provincial deputies re-
suited in the return of twenty-five re-
formists, eighteen autonomists, ten an
ti-reformiSts and one Indefinite. Forty
deputies are in favor of the reforms
proposed by the Spanish minister of
colonies and ten are against them.
A Philadelphia concern imported
last year number. of lacemakers, who
came as firSt-clasS cabin passengers, in
order to avoid examination as suspec-
ted immigrants. Now the girls are out
of work during a shut down, and are
glad to inform against their importer
in order 10 be sent back to England
free.
The case Of Banker Gage, Of Clinton,
Iowa, arrested some days ago on a
charge of improper conduct toward
Miss Anna BursOn, of Washington, D.
c., has been continued Gage still de-
MES any improperly and says offers
of a compromise on financial basis
have been made.
At Fairbury Ill, John w. Thompson,
aged eighty-one.-At Taylorville, H.,
Mrs. Annis Long, aged one hundred
and tWo.-At Rockton, H., J. w. Dean,
aged eighty-eight.- LoganspOrt, Ind,
William Seweier, aged seventy-three.
AT Boston, William NJ. Thayer, night
editor of the Boston Post.
In Dedham, Mass, the case against
Mrs. Anna Marion Makepeace for man
slaughter, in the shooting Of her
husband, Clarence E. Makepeace, at
Avon September ,25. 1891, was nOlle
pressed yesterday by the District At
tOrney because there is no new evil
dence in her case nor possibility Of any
being obtained.
The British ship st. Monan, Captain
McGarry, from Tacoma March 81,
which arrived at Queenstown Sunday,
Reports udNiHS eHcOuuleIeu IL HuIIlcdue
Oh August %, during which the vessel
was damaged Two of her seamen
were washed overheard and drowned
and another seaman was SO badly
injured that he subsequently died.
Obituary.: At Bay City, Mich, Judge
Alert Miller, aged eighty threat
Brazil, Ind, David Buchanan.-At Up
per Sandusky, Ohio, Rev. A. c..
Clemens, aged seventy-two-At Racine,
Wis, Fred Bose, aged fifty -nine.-At
Buffalo, John Robinson, for twenty
five years an official of the Lake Shore
Railroad, aged siXty-one.