Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-24
CONDENSED NEWS.


Satolli.
f. Z. Johnson, farmer, was killed
by his team running away at Oakland,
Ill.
A young railroad man named Wilken-
son, aged 20, was killed in switching
at Quincy, Ill.
Mrs. E. J. Schumann, 81 years old,
died at a Presbyterian sOciable at
Sedalia, Mo.
The Gilbert car works in Troy, n.
Y, were seized by the sheriff.
Cholera is reported present in a
military camp at Brueck, three miles
from Vienna.
Yung Yu, Chinese minister to this
country, to succeed Tsui, has arrived
in San Francisco.
Government troops have taken pos
session of Buenos Ayres. The city is
under martial law.
Keller & Jennings carriage factory
at Rochester, n. Y, was partially
burned. Loss 100000.
The wheat crop in England is the
poorest that has been harvested in
years.
Twenty-one elevators near Fairbury,
ILL.,, were closed by the sheriff.
The report that Queen Victoria had
been stricken with paralysis is denied
in London.
The Coatesworth grain elevator,
nearly empty, at Buffalo. burned.
Loss is $4,000.
The schedules of Louis T. Menage of
Minneapolis show $4,379, 2O8 assets and
$1,3O9727 liabilities.
The Great Northern and Northern
Pacific decided to restore rates to the
basis prevailing last February
Thomas f. Cakes, Henry G. Payne
and Henry G. Rouse were appointed
receivers for the Northern Pacific rail
road.
Fred Lemerand, Il young man, drop
ped dead at Monroe, Mich, from burst
ing a blood vessel.
Amos Bachman was accidentally
shot and killed at Niles, Mich, by Har-
ry Glenn, Il companion.
Gus Wuppers, aged "a, while setting
an iron cornice at Davenport, Iowa,
fell thirty-tive feet and was killed.
Stutz & Sons general store at Mid
dleton, Ind, was entered by masked
burglars and robbed of $500 worth of
merchandise.
Mrs. Trabue, wife of S. h. j. Trabue,
retired lawyer and politician, was in
stantly killed in Il runaway accident
near Frankfort, Ky.
The farmers of Warren and Hender-
son counties, Illinois, held harvest
home picnic at Biggsville. NJ. J.
Dougherty, of Galesburg, spoke.
Eight masked men boarded a New
Orleans Pacific train at Mansfield
Junction, La, and relieved the passeng-
ers of their valuables.
Burglars took 5000 worth of dia-
monds from the summer cottage of
Miss Helen Taber at ASbury Park,
n. j.
A cyclone and rainstorm visited the
vicinity of PaWnee, Neb. Much pro-
perty was damaged and two persons
killed.
James Wilson, Il stakeholder, de,
clares the Total Abstinence Life AS
sociation is insolvent and has applied
for receiver.
Unable to appeal case which had
been decided against her, Mrs. Ella NJ
nixon called down curses on Judge
Dunne's head, in Chicago.
w. B. Keep, solicitor of the North
western road, wants divorce from his
wife for cruelty. The bill has diSap-
Deared from the files.
The Armour and Art institute, Chi
cago, Joined hands to establish
school of architecture which shall not
have superior.
According to the weekly report of
the weather bureau many states still
suffer from drought, while others
have been but partially relieved.
Judge John z. Allison, of Sioux
City, has declined to be candidate
for governor on the democratic
ticket.
A Washington dispatch says Con
make statement regarding the Pol
lard suit.
Disastrous floods are prevailing in
northern Hungary. The town of
Turke has been flooded and twenty
persons drowned.
DR.. d. V. Howard, of Macon, Mo-,
was shot dead by the wife of his
brother-in-law. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
The sheriff of Upton county, Ind,
has unearthed plot whereby the
county Jail was to have been blown
up with dynamite, and Col. Armstrong;
defaulting county treasurer, rescued
from the prison. The conspirators
have been arrested.
The farmers near Bloomington, ILL.,,
learning that the elevators in which
their wheat is stored were TO be seized
by the sheriff, broke into the elevators
and carried off 10000 bushels of their
grain.
A clair 0yant and his wife were
arrested in Minneapolis. being wanted
in many cities where they are charged
with various offenses.
James Howard, supposed to be one
Of the bank robbers who secured
5000 from Merchants National
bank messenger, st. Paul. was arrest
ed.
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