Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-02

i Harbor. Her crew was rescued.
Samuel Tullis and Mrs. Rhoda Short
ridge We're indicted by the grand jury
at Newcastle, Ind, for the murder of
| William Shortridge last November.
Shorridge's body was recently examin-
ed and traces of arsenical poisoning
/ found.
The Augusta, Gibson and Sanderson-
! vile Narrow-gauge Railroad was sold at
receivers sale at Augusta, Ga, and pur-
chased by the New York Central Trust
! company, representing the bondholders.
! The report that the Chicago & North
western Railway company had fully de-
cided to elevate it's terminal tracks at
Chicago at an enormous outlay to a
height of Is feet above the street level
| proves to be in the main unfounded
In attempting to drive across the
track of the Ohio Southern Railroad
neaTDF'ruitdale, Ohio, on the 22d, Cap
tain James G. Crawford and his son
William, aged II, were run down and
Instantly killed. The horse was also
killed and the buggy demolished.
Mr.. Tucker, ofVirginia, offered in the
house on the 22d a resolution requesting
the president to lay before the house
the prpOSed treaty with the HaWiian
Islands, and rquested that it be printed
in the Record. Objection was made TO
the latter request.
James Hudson, postmaster at Pratts
vile, n. Y, became insane anticipating
the loss of his office and threatened to
Kill certain democrats whom he blamed
for impending political misfortune.
Senior Guzman, minister to this cotin-
| try from Nicaragua, has received d tele-
gram from the Minister for Foreign
Affairs denying the rumor that the coun-
try is in a terrible financial crisis and
that the banks are closed and are in
liquidation.
At New York the Manhattan Athletic
house doors We're closed and locked on
the 22nd by a receiver in behalf Of
creditors to the amount, it is said of
nearly S1,OOO,OOO, whom the club are
unable to pay. The building will be adj
vertised for sale to settle claims.
Z. i. Mcclure, of the General Execu-
tive committee of tn knights of Labor,
on th 22nd denied the truth Of the report
that an amalgamation Of the Federal ton
OF Labor with the knights was immi-
nent
The large hominy mill of the Hudnut
company of Terra Haute, located at
Mount Vernon, Ind, was totally de-
stroyed by fire early on the Goth. The
less is about 100000, fully insured.
The tire was started D.. " 'p' -'''A& W.
combustion in one of the warero~ nii'
S. G. Hastings, the first Chief Justice
of the Supreme court of California and
founder of Hastings Law College, a
branch of the state University, is dead.
He had lived in California since 1S49,
and amassed fortune OF several million
dollars there.
At Galesburg, ILL.,, 100 boiler-wipers
and helpers, of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad, struck on the Dist
for th Increase of wages from $1.4Q to
S1.S0 per day. The company offered
them $50 per day, which was refused.
Their places will be filed with the new
men.
Coils 2. Huntington, one of the di~
rectors of the United States and Brazil
Mail Steamship company, says the
stockholders must go deep into their
pockets if the line is to be continued in
operation. 1t is in d very bad financial
condition.
At Phoenix, Ariz., word has just beer
received of the systematic theft of valrl-
able ore from the famous Bonanza mine
in the Harquahala Mountains, the rich
est gold mine in the world. Mexican
worlmen carried out nightly in dinner
pals five to eight pounds of ore worth
Sc a pound
The family of f, Y, Rocgafellow,
whose private bank failed at Wilkes
barre, Pa, recently, will, if any more
suits are instituted, make an effort to
have a commission in lunacy appointed
to adjudge him insane.
At Harrisburg, Pa, the Farmers
Bank, Peter X. Boyd, president, has
closed it's doors pending an investigation
w Stitlc superintendent 1Alu lllD-
haar. 1t is believed that the depositors
viii be paid in full, but the stockhold-
ers may lose 40 per cent of their stock
In the Dominion Parliament at Otto
wa, Ont, petition has been presented
signed by 10000 members of Patrons OF
Industry, an organization of Canadian
farmers, asking that coal oil, binder
Irvine and corn be placed on the free
list.
The news that the Cambridge and Ok
ford crews had accepted the invitation
Of Chicago to row at the Worlds Fair
next summer has not changed the atti-
tude of Yale in the matter. Capt Ives
says that the crew will not go to Chi
cago under any circumstances, He
further says that the invitation has been
declined because it is believed that
professionals will be encountered.
York newspaper man, Is dead. During
Nathan D. Urner, an old-time New
the compilation by Horace Greeley Of
the first volume Of his work The
Great American Conflict" Mr.. Urner
served as his private secretary and aid
ed him materially
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