Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-10-26

the Upper Michigan Brewing company
at Iron Mountain, Michigan. Liabili-
ties, $4,000; assets, 100000.
Agents Of an English syndicate have
located at EmpOria for the purpose of
dealing in Kansas farms and promOt-
ing immigration from England.
EX-Internal Revenue Collector James
II. Stone, has been nominated for con-
greSs by the republicans Of the First
Michigan district, 10 succeed the late
Logan J. Chapman,
Webster Flanagan, customs collector
at FL Paso, Texas, has been indicted
on charge Of conspiring to defraud
the government by passing sheep over
the border free of duty.
John NJ Adler, dealer in shoes ut
New York, made an assignment Liza
bi1ities are between $4,000 and 500
OO0; nominal assets about the same.
The steamship NIarseilles, belong
ing to the French Commercial line and
bound from Antwerp for New Orleans,
is reported lost at sea The passengers
sci Of the same line.
The treasury department at Washing
ton has notified the dominion of Cana
da authorities that fresh or frozen fish.
caught in Canadian fresh waters will
be admitted into the United States free
when caught with nets O other devices
owned by citizens of the United States.
At Leflore, [. T., John Carney shot
and instantly killed Handy Lef1Ore, a
ChOctaW lawyer. Carney is i Jones
man and Lefore was Il Locke man,
both parties being fuII-blO0ded Chloe
Jaws. Killings among the ChOctaWS
are becoming quite numerous of late
The five Poles arrested at Philadel
phia on the charge of being ringleaders
in an alleged conspiracy to defraud
the National F'raternal union of Cncin-
natl by feigning Sickness have been
committed for trial. Other arrests will
be made.
The fifth game of the chess match
! between DR. Tarrasog and Tschigorn
was played at St Petersburg. The
| German crack opened with a Ruy
Lopez and Won after u moves.
! A petition has been filed in the cir
cult court at New Albany Ky, praying
that receiver be appointed for the
New Albany Steam Forge and Rolling
Mill company. 1t is alleged that the
company is insolyent
The criminal libel suit against DR..
George T. Lewis has been dismissed at
Wichita. The suit was brought by
Colonel II. w. Lewis, president Of the
international Loan and Trust company
now in the hands of a receiver.
J. NJ. McGehee, an old citizen of
Pine Bluff, Ark, was found dead in
the road, his body covered with a
score Of wounds. He was last seen with
a quack doctor named T. J. Scott, with
whom he had been quarreling. The
doctor has disappeared.
Obituary. At London, Charles Bell
) Birch, the sculptor, aged siXty-one.-At
Vienna, Princess Ypsilanti.-At Dan
bury, Conn, eX-State Treasurer Freder-
lex Seymour, aged eighty Eight. Al
Providence, r. l., William S. Nichol
son, aged SlAIy.
John Neal, a seaman on the United
States ship Independence, committed
suicide at the Mare Island navy-yard
because he was punished for overstay
ing leave. He was the man who dashed
Admiral Farrag gut to the rigging during
the fight in Mobile bay.
!, The sheriff has received an execution
for $4,000 against Calonberg & Vau
pei, piano manufa cturerS, at 333 anC
335 West Thirty-siXth street, and 5:
!, West Forty-SecOnd street, New York
in favor Of Emma r. MerSchrod, on 1
note.
The trial of Emma Wood for the
shooting and killing of Lew Brown
well-knOwn sporting man, on the
= at Newark yesterday. The murdered
man and Emma Wood had lived to-
gether as man and wife.
The president has written a letter
} to President HiginbOtham, of the
| worlds Columbian exposition, express
inc his regrets that he and Mrs. Cleve
land are unable to accept the invita-
tations recently rendered them to visit
the worlds fair before it is perma
nently closed.
A Pennsylvania miner "OunI f.0t
in a cavity in a lump of coal broksl
by him. He placed the frog n an an
. tight pan. At first it showed no sign>
of life, but after being in the pa = l.. II
six hours it began to move about A..
ter ten hours eXpOEurA 20 the iSh
it was as lively as any modern speci
men. In size the frog is much larger
than the ordinary pond frog, and the
color of the skin is brilliant. 1t weighs
about three-quarters of a pound.
A Wabash train was thrown down
a SiX-foot embankment near Nameoki
by spreading rails. Thirty persons
were injured, those most seriously hurt
being: Mrs. NJ. Davis, Taylorville, Ill.
Miss Lou Dunn, Mrs. w. Frame, st
Louis; Mrs Lottie V. Henry, Coffey.
/ vile, Kan. J. B. Hunter Nevada City
), Cal; Mrs. Mary Moore, ST. Louis; c. G
Palmer, San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. Han
nah Rogers, st. Louis
Five men were killed, five others
seriously injured, two fatally, and the
business portion Of Emington, Ill, de
sroyed by the premature explosion of
fifty pounds Of dynamite, which was
being prepared for blasting in a town
we'll. The dead are: Chris, Fred and