Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-13

cept.
George r. Richardson was sentenced
at Roseburg, Ore. TO eight years i'm
prisonment for attempting to wreck
Southern Pacific passenger train
March 80.
J. W. Grouse was drowned in Shell
rock river near Cedar Rapids, La. II
is thought he had been kicked by
horse and rendered senseless before
drowning.
The Borden sisters have received
large photograph Of the jury before
whom Miss Lizzie was tried and ac
Quilted, and it has been placed in their
parlor
The secretary of war has decided to
send the corps of West Point cadets to
Chicago. The cadets new in camp will
strike tents August Is and proceed to
the worlds fair.
The marriage of Fred II. Leonard
and Mrs. Rice, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
has been declared invalid on the ground
that Leonard was mentally incompe-
tent when it was contracted.
AS the result Of a conference be-
tween Speaker Crisp and Secretary
Carlisle it is asserted Mr.. Bland will
not be chairman Of the coinage COM
mittee in the next congress.
The dispute between Cincinnati and
Chicago over the possession Of litcher
Parrot has been settled. The Ohio
town gains the prize.
The steamer EIba and William Balls
collided off the east coast If England
and both went to the bottom. The
crews were saved.
The gold reserve has increased to
500 400, 793 and the cash balance is
$123, 22S,966, a condition which is
pleasing to treasury officials.
Commodore Samuel Lockwood, who
when IL years old, died at Flushing.
Ex-City Clerk George w. Stage,
who absconded with $4,000 Of the
funds of gainesville, Ohio, was captur-
ed in Denver.
William Harmon, a convicted train
robber, on his way to the penitentiary,
leaped from a train near Fort Smith
and was killed.
Striking shovelers and teamsters in
Indianapolis visited various points
where men were at work and coerced
them into joining their ranks.
| Henry SOhl was shot and killed by
Christina Scheibler a pretty 1S-year-
old cigarette girl, at her home 62S East
Ninth street, New York City. She did
not know the pistol was loaded.
Two mounted brigands visited the
home of Don Pedro Olivia, situated in
PalaciOs, in the District of Santo Do
mingo, Cuba, and carried off his son, 6
years old, demanding as a ransom
$1,000.
The friends of Rose Coghlan now ad-
nit that she is the wife of John T.
Sullivan, who has been playing leading
roles in her company for several sea-
sons. It is stated that the marriage
took place in Jersey City some time ago.
This years vintage in South Africa
will be below the average, but it is
thought by connoisseurs that the
quality of the wines will prove to be
superior.
Frederick Jackson has postponed his
arctic expedition until next year owing
to difficulty and delays in securing a
suitable ship for penetrating the ice
south of Franz Josef Land.
The condition of British corps is
shown by special reports in the Times
to be very unsatisfactory, the summing
up being that the crops as a whole
are below the condition they were last
year in England and Wales"
The Ceylon Observer is advocating
the annexation by India of Ceylon as
measure of economy, but the Ceylon
Times opposes the scheme.
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle
and Secretary of the Navy Herbert
participated in the ceremonies attend
ing the reception of the Columbus
caravals in Chicago July Z.
Owing to the financial situation the
confederate unVeiling, which had been
has been postponed until Sept. 16 and
set for July 20 at Birmingham, Ala,
II.
| Lucius L. Hubbard, of Houghton, has
been elected state geologist by the
Michigan board of geological survey.
He will succeed Dr. NJ. E. Wadsworth
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, granted
! a requtsition from Governor Altgeld of
Illinois, for William Trenner, who
wanted at Hiland, Madison county, for
DEMONSTRATING.
Obituary: At Santa Barbara, Cal,
George Drew Barrymore, the actress.
AT ShaWneetown, ILL.,, DR.. e. c.. Col
vard.-At Woodstock, ILL.,, William AL
1en.-At LaPorte, Ind, Miss NJ. E.
Sweet.-At London, William Cook, the
billiardiSt.
Governor Altgeld's action in pardon
ing Fielder, Neebe and Schwab was
approved by the socialist congress in
Chicago, and is was resolved to put
national ticket in the field every presi-
dental year.
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