Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15

HTeSLS are cdUu1OdIeS 1Or oleCuOu TO
the German Reichstag in Metz, Then
vile, Sorrebruck, FOrbach, Mulhausen
and Strausburg.
Joseph Carreiro is under arrest at
Fall River, Mass, for the murder Of
Bertha Mansfield, found dead in the
street a week ago.
A battle occurred at Pineville, Ky,
during a democratic caucus, and Levi
Hoskins and John Jones were killed
and two others wounded.
A farmer named Eddy, his wife and
daughter were murdered at Beach
Woods, Ont, by three burglars, sup
posed to be from the states.
Bishop Joyce, of the NJ. E. church,
was the guest Of a cOlored minister at
Holston, Tenn, and now a color line
war is being waged against him.
Dr. Elderkin accidentally caused the
death of Mrs. Cotton at Chautauqua.
n. Y, and committed suicide with NOR
phine hypodermically injected.
Furniture manufactures Of Cincin-
natl, some seventy in number, have
shut down, owing to the demand OF
their WOrkmen for a nine-hour day.
Fred Sargent shot and killed his wife
in a fit of jealousy at Battle Greek
and tried unsuccessfully to take lis
own life by cutting his throat
Edward Webster, young clergyman
from Chicago, has been sentenced tC
one year in prison for burglarizing the
Methodist parsonage at Valparaiso
Ind.
The steel steamer Corsica ran down
and sunk an unknown schooner on Lake
Huron and all on board were drowned
The Corsica was badly damaged.
The explosion of a bomb in a cafe
at Alais, France, wrecked the build
ing and caused the serious injury Of
two persons.
Two inches of rain fell in Kansas
where Rainmaker Jewell is operating
No rain had previously fallen for sew
eral months.
James M. Reed and wife were drown
ed at Bakersfield, Cal, while bathing
Reed lost his life in attempting tt
save his wife.
Two colored girls quarreled at Omaha
and Annie Brown hurled a lighted
lamp at Belinda Arnold. The Arnold
girl was fatally burned.
The Carnegie Land company, OF
Johnson City, Tenn, has fail ii. The
assets, consisting of notes, are $5OO,OOO
an, the liabilities 100000.
Chinese highbinders attacked Franz
Wong and Charley Lum, agents OF
Chinese Six companies, at Sparta
Wash, and nearly killed them.
In tenement-house fire at 1873 Eas1
Forty-third street, New York city
William Bente, his wife, sister, niece
and a boarder named Pugsley lost theil
lives.
William Moore, a millionaire wooler
goods manufacturer, is plaintiff at Sioux
Falls, S. D., in a suit against his wife
Mana, for divorce. He alleges deser
ton.
The American Bell Telephone com
pany has been granted a preliminary
injunction against the McKeesport
"hone company for infringement OF
patent.
w. III. Lyman, of Buffalo, has shown
himself to be the champion camera
tiend. While two boys We're drowning
in the lagoon at the worlds fair Mr.
Lyman took snap after snap Of the
scene. The boys were finally rescued
by two gondolas.
George Walters and his daughter Mel
lie jumped from trestle near Charles
ton, Ill, to get out of the way of a
Glover Leaf train. The girl was killed
and Walters seriously injured.
The Austrian training ship Fr1nds-
berg is at New York and will remain
about twentyseven days, during which
time the students will be taken in de
tachments to the worlds fair.
The new German ambassador to
Washington is Baron Won Saurma
Jeltsch, envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipOtentiary for Prussia at the
court of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg.
DR.. Graves will probably escape fur
thur prosecution for the alleged muir
der Of Mrs. Bameby, the county com
missioners at Denver having refused
to vote money to pay for bringing wit
nesses from New England.
Justice Bradley has ruled that courts
have the right to inquire as to the
sutficiency Of the cause of removal of
government employees under the civil
service act.
A stock train and the cannon BALI
on the Iron Mountain road collided
at Poplar Bluff, Mo. The engines and
cars Immediately behind them were
piled in a promiscuous heap, and up
wards of 100 head of valuable live
stock was killed. The loss will reach
$4,000.
Charles Beceau, an employee of the
French commission fell from a scaffold
in the transportation building, Chi
cago, to the floor, a distance of thirty
feet. There was a broken rib and the
temple bone was splintered, but the
injuries are not considered fatal.
Charley Thompson, a policeman, was
shot while attempting to arrest Ed
Smith and Aft Swinford at Shelbyville,
Ind, for fast driving. They were f.
nally Overpowered.
Clara Wagner, 5 years old, was
drowned in the river near Detroit. Her
13-year-old aunt, Lottie Dengemans,
was drowned in attempting to save the
other girls life.
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