Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-12
CONDENSED NEWS.

Striking coal miners LII Germany are
riOtOus.
Ten new cases Of typhus fever were
Tuesday in New York City.
The North and South Dakota legis-
latures have organized.
A man has been arrested in st. Louis
for great mining fraud.
An eleven-year-old boy is on trial for
murder in Pittsburg.
August Kamer, a dairyman Of Jemer-
sonville, Ind, was gored fatally by a
COW.
B. and II. Berger, Of Malvern, Ark,
have failed; liabilities, $4,000; assets,
unknown.
Upper social circles in st. Louis are
agitated by a scandal which leads to a
probably fatal shooting.
The Dominion government has refus-
ed to punish sealers for poaching III
Behring sea
Ex-Detective King, of Minneapolis,
and a democratic politician engage in
shooting atfray
A Minnesota farmer is charged with
frightfully maltreating a boy, who is
dying in consequence.
Bert Casper and Stanley Wallace, Is
and 8 respectively, fell through the ice
near Nyac1, n. Y, and were drowned.
The output of silver of Aspen, Col,
mines for 1892 reached 6, 1O1, JOG ounces,
as against 100000 ounces for the year
1891.
The pope has founded an apostolic
Vicariate in British Honduras and has
appointed Monsignor S. di Pietro to the
Office.
Panama has assured this government
that, while she will adopt strict Quaran-
tine regulations, her ports will not be
closed.
Forty-four members Of congress will
go to the Sandwich islands in May. The
precise object is unknown.
The democrats organize the Montana
legislature with the help of a pOpulist
member, and will probably elect a
senator.
Milo Tomlinson, u wealthy horseman,
of Charlottesville, Ind, two weeks ago
killed himself by putting a bullet through
his brain.
At Binghampton, n. Y, the works of
the Bayless Paper company have been
burned. Loss, $60,0O0; insurance, $780,
600.
! w. L. Challis, father-in-law of the
late John A. Martin, of AtchisOn, Kan.
failed on the Sd for $135,OOO. It is said
that most Of his creditors have been Sc,
cured.
I Caldwell & Peterson's Corrugatin2
works, Wheeling, W. Va, were destroy
ed by fire on the 3D. Estimated loss
100000, of which Caldwell & Peterson
lose $4,000 and are insured for $40,
600.
! E. Il. IL. Lyman, of New York, has
; transmitted to the city of Northampton
Mass, the deed of an academy OF
music built by him last year at a cost
of over 100000. His family came FROM
that city.
Mr.. Gladstone has sent out a care
expressing his gratitude to his friends
throughout the world who sent him con
gratulatory letters and kilograms on his
birthday.
The car has given orders that relief
works be started in the distressed dis
tricts forthwith for the benefit of those
suffering from the effects of the fam
inc
| Mayor Gleason, of Long island City
refuses to vacate the office, although
Mr.. Sanford claims to have been elect
ed. The contest will be fought out il
the courts.
/ Thomas Nelson, mayor Of Cape Charles
City, Va, has abScOnded after squan
dering about $4,000 church and trus
funds placed in his hands for safe keep
ing.
The Traction company of Philadel
phia has won its trolley suits in the SUI
preme court. This decision means tina
all the lines in the city can use the
trolley.
1t is said that the records for New
circles that NJ. Cambon, the presen
French ambassador to Spain, will sue
coed NJ. Washington as French ambas
sadOr to Great Britain.
1t is said that the records TO New
York City are in constant danger Of
destruction by mice, because money
enough has not been appropriated tC
insure their proper protection.
1t is feared that John Daley was
Smothered in the hold Of the steamer
| TeutOnic, before she sailed from New
York recently. Daley assiste in load
ing the vessel, and is missing.
John A. Chishold, who has resided al
Salt Lake, Utah, for two months, com
mitted suiside by taking laudanum. His
parents live in Boston.
A Chicago detective says that Tascott
did not kill Mr.. Smell, and that the real
murderers are in Chicago and furnish
: TascOtt money to keep away.
! Five young men Of st. Clair, Mich.
while attempting to cross the st. ClaiI
river in a small boat Monday evening,
/ were surrounded by floating ice, and
their boat capsized. When rescued they
were nearly frozen.
In Pennsylvania in December there
were AL oil wells bored, of which 81
were dry. The new production was l.,
. hslT lSs In 10 | inn oil ~