Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27


France will blockade the River Me-
nom unless Siam pays 100000 francs
and makes other concessions in forty
eight hours.
Judge Tuley at Chicago has appoint
ed a receiver for the Great Western
Wire works which has authorized capital
of 100000. 1t was shown that the
company was hopelessly insolvent.
Failing to get his share of the pro-
ceeds, Contractor Flynn exposed
plan to swindIe Cincinnati.
Officers at NATION, H., say Charles
Miller, who shot May Mock, was MUIR
dered and thrown into the water.
Wrenn, of Chicago, is now out of
the Boston tennis tourney. Foote,
Chace, Stevens or Hall may be win
ner.
Bonds have been filed by The four
men held to the grand jury for the
cold storage warehouse disaster.
Seven banks close at Denver, but
will be able to pay depositors in time.
The worst is over.
Governor LeWelling, of Kansas, will
try to induce foreign nations to trade
direct via the gulf of Mexico.
The Pennsylvania is reducing ex-
penses and new work is being aban-
doned. Operating expenses are being
cut down.
A one-way rate to Chicago is now
considered as inevitable. Southern
and western lines are making the move.
Adult, who was arrested in Chicago
for defrauding the AustrO-Hungarian
bank, has been sentenced at Vienna
to six years Imprisonment.
Suit has been brought at New York
to foreclose a S1,5OO,OO0 mortgage
against the D. c. Guengling, Jr., Brew
ing company.
The British steamer Blue Jacket,
IN Marseilles, arrived at Cardiff
with cholera on board, and was ordered
in quarantine.
For lack Of evidence Rioter Schot-
isch was discharged by Joliet jury.
Other drainage canal arrests expect
to be freed.
C. L. Morn, one of the largest manu-
facturers Of Indiana lumber, shut down
his mills at Plymouth for an indefinite
eriod. - III.
Leon Smith, p years old, who forged
paper to the extent of $4,000, was
sentenced at Grand Rapids, Mich, to
eight years imprisonment.
Two miners were poisoned at Casey
vile, Ind, by beer drawn from a key
which contained a huge copperhcai
snake. Both men died.
J. L. X. Paine, of Washington, d. c.,
leaped from the roof of his house
while temporarily insane, and was
killed. He leaves an estate of $1,000
600.
Mrs Alice DoXsee of Bloomington,
H., committed suicide at BellefoWer,
ILL.,, by taking digitalis. The death Of
her daughter had unbalanced her
mind.
John T. Poole, formerly manager Of
the Grand Opera house, New York,
and later of Niblo's garden, died from
dropsy.
John @. Mcconnell, a morocco and
cotton manufacturer, assigned at Phil
adelphia; liabilities $500, 900, assets over
100000.
Five hundred thousand ounces Of
silver and 100000 Mexican dollars
have been shipped to Europe on the
North German Lloyd steamship Spree.
The epidemic of typhoid fever at
honwood, Mich, has numbered fifty
deaths out of some four hundred eases,
and is now abating somewhat.
Miss Kate Murray, Of Nashville,
Tenn, daughter of Major Mcclure, of
that city, who disappeared three weeks
ago, has been found at Indianapolis.
The tug Charles G. Mcdonald was
burned between Bay City and Saginaw.
The captain and others on board had
to jump overheard to save tlcir I've s.
Mrs. Sarah Stoner, of Brunswick,
Mo, who was injured III a Baltimore
and Ohio wreck last October, has sued
the company for $4,000 at Laporte,
Ind.
By the giving way of the second
floor of the Fayette county, KY, Jail
John Irksine, white and Dave Williams,
colored, who were repairing the prison,
were fatally injured.
While the family of Theo. Launer,
of Jacksonville, Ill.,, was absent from
home a thief entered and stole con-
siderable money. He also attempted
to assault a daughter who was alone
in the house.
A. M. Rogers, a travelling salesman
for a Chicago shoe house, was fogged
at Coeburn, Va, by a mob because he
was alleged to have insulted the daugh-
ter of the railroad agent at that place.
A cable car jumped the track on a
line at Cincinnati. The gripman, John
Dietrich, was thrown to the ground
and fatally injured. Several passengers
were hurt
Justice w. L. Smith, of the supreme
court of New York, and Miss Jessie
Gonzales, of Elmira, n. Y, were mar
ried in the Marylebone Congregational
church at DondOn.
At Portland Ore, the United States
grand jury returned sixteen indictments
against parties alleged to have been
connected with the smuggling of opium