Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-10-12
CONDENSED NEWS.

The strike of switchmen at Memphis
has been declared off.
George i. Hewitt, wholesale liquor
dealer at Boston, has failed for $4,000.
Bi-MetaGists in convention at st.
Louis considered Il report favoring free
coinage.
Twelve business houses We're burned
at Fulton, Ark, causing loss of
100000.
It is thought the administration will
force an issue on the repeal bill early
next week.
Fire at Fulton, Ark, destroyed a
dozen business houses and caused q loss
of $4,000
1t is reported in London that Patrick
Egan and Patrick Ford are re-organ-
izing the Clan-na-G Gael.
Harrison r. Thornton, a missionary,
formerly of Auburn, Me-. was killed by
the Indians in Alaska.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
worker, has induced over 600 persons
to sign the pledge at Tuscola, La.
Robert Jones IS been arrested at
Terre Haute for tempting to pass
forged check on Chicago bank.
Hogan, Ga, wa devastated by cy-
clone yesterday. George Barnett was
killed and seven others injured.
Dr. West, charged with the murder
OF Miss Addie Gilmour at San Fran
cisco, is held without bail for trial.
1t is thought the Fire and Marine
bank of Milwaukee will secure $1,000
900 and again resume business.
Twelve thousand angry Moors have
surrounded the garrison ut Mellllla, and
the situation is growing very critical.
Widows of the cold storage ware
house fire victims have demanded that
the relief funds be divided at once.
In the Kansas supreme court it was
agreed that the Symms grocery case
should go over to the December term.
Several persons were I'M ured by the
wreck of Il flyer on the Hudson
River road near Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
Through the connivance of friends six
deSperadoeS managed to escape from
the county Jail at Bowling Green Ohio.
Mrs. Minnie COlligan, of Aurora,
H., fell through a trap i'll the kitchen
DOR into the cstern and was drowned.
Oscar Darnell, of Jamestown, Ind,
shot and stabbed Miss Tillie Major and
then killed himself. Jealousy caused 1t.
A bill has been introduced in con-
ygress to make contractors ON public
buildings liable to mechanics lien law.
A sturgeon weighing 755 pounds and
measuring IL feet inches i'll length
VAS been caught in the Columbia river.
One of the StauntOn, Ind, young men
arrested for attempted train Wreckins
, has confessed, duplicating many others.
Cincinnati officers have arrested Il
gang Of eight youthful burglars, who
have committed many robberies of late.
John AckieSon was instantly killed
and his brother Thomas seriously In
iured by Il train near Bulgar Station,
Pa.
An uprising of natives is reported
III Alaska against the whites. Several
missionaries are said to have been kill
eT,
.<otice of withdrawal from the West
ern Passenger association by the Union
. Pacific has been suspended until Oct.
IA.
According to DR.. Richard Won kauff-
.oann the per capita tax in the United
States is exceeded by only one cOun-
try-FTance.
1t is estimated that 1000 persons
were killed and property worth $780,
600 destroyed by the recent gulf storm
in Louisiana.
Rev. Father Rademacher has been
Installed as bishop of the Fort Wayne,
Ind, diocese. The ceremonies we're
largely attended.
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan, has intro
duced in the house Il bill approprlatlnS
$4,000 for public building at Battle
Creek, Mich.
Mrs. Dr. w. T. Bull, who was Mrs.
James 6. Blaine Jr., was severely in
jured by being thrown from carriage
at New York.
Coal is getting so scarce in England,
owing to the miners strikes there, that
dealers are arranging to import cargoes
from Pennsylvania.
The Choctaw council has conva ssed
the vote cast in the Indian Territory
last August and declared the Locke
ticket elected.
The jury failed to agree in the trial
of George Lewis at Mexico, Mo, for the
murder of his sweetheartS father. Ii
was his third trial.
The resignation of Charles f. Wen
neker, internal revenue collector fol
the St. Louis district, has been received
by Secretary Carlysie.
John W. Rodgers, night agent of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway al
Fayette, Mo-, was robbed by three men
of $44 and his watch.
Masked robbers invaded the depot al
Divide Station, Colo, the terminus OF
the Cripple Creek stage line, last night
and robbed the strong box of $3.50 be
longing to the Wells-Fargo Express
company.
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